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A crostini cracker has been dipped into oven baked burrata dip and is being pulled away from the baking dish. The fresh mozzarella is stretching from the baking dish to the cracker.
A bottle of persimmon simple syrup sits on a countertop. There are whole and cut persimmons in the frame of the photo as well.
Garnishing a blackberry basil cocktail with a lime wheel.
Two glass cups filled with layers of yogurt and pistachio granola sit on a wooden tray next to a large jar of granola. Sunlight streams in, highlighting a green-tiled background and a vase with leafy stems.
A hand sifts powdered sugar over strawberry lemon bars, each square dessert topped with red jelly on a white plate, with lemons and more bars in the background.
A bottle of lemon honey simple syrup sits on a wooden cutting board surrounded by lemons and honey.
Profile photo of Lindsey Neumayer, head culinary content creator at A Recipe for Fun blog.

Hi! I’m Lindsey. 👋🏻

Whether you’re hosting a festive holiday dinner party for 12 or throwing yourself a Tuesday night “me party” of 1, every day deserves to be celebrated!

Since 2022, I’ve helped tens of thousands of readers discover their passion for cooking.

At A Recipe For Fun, I break down the flavor-building techniques that make recipes unforgettable—explained step-by-step in every post.

It’s the educator in me. 🤓

Think of cult classics like candy corn turned into a simple syrup!

Iced lattes are good, but strawberry iced lattes are great.

Everybody loves a mojito, but when’s the last time you’ve been wowed by a tropical passion fruit mojito?!

🔎 you can find me…

wrangling my semi-sweet pup, Gnocchi, surfing grocery store ads for inspo, feeding (and maybe whispering sweet nothings to) my sourdough starter.

🗑 my toxic traits…

Forgetting to label my creations in the fridge, buying too much produce and freezing it right before it spoils, and neglecting to label that spinach I froze right before it went bad…(thanks, ADHD)

🤩 I can’t get enough…

cheese, trash tv, categorizing and color-coding everything, and connecting on social media–seriously, hit me up, and let’s be BFFs! 🥰

🙋🏻‍♀️ get to know me!

  • Cooking and baking is a core part of who I am.

    I first learned to cook and bake from my Italian-immigrant grandmother, whose family came to America from Calabria.

    I grew up with a dad who baked fresh bread regularly. My mom was always that one mom bringing homemade snacks to the classroom.

  • I break down steps so you actually get it.

    I’ve worked at Global Fortune 500 companies (like Walt Disney World + national bank firms) in the field of training and development.

    I’ve created, implemented, and facilitated training programs for thousands of individuals. In total, I have over 15 years of experience in teaching, training, and education.

  • I studied at a culinary college in Central Florida’s tourism hub.

    I am a classically trained baking and pastry student from a culinary college that partners with leaders in the Central Florida tourism industry.

    It’s where I learned professional-quality flavor-building straight from the source!

  • I understand the science (and art) of balancing flavors in beverages.

    I am a BarSmarts professional who is driven to understand the ins and outs of cocktail recipes & ingredients.

    I’ve got over 10 years of experience mixing up drinks.

  • I make complex concepts click.

    I’m a former top-rated educator where I specialized in teaching critical and creative thinking skills in the 8th largest school district in the nation.

    I’ve got nearly a decade of experience teaching students how to cultivate their curiosity!

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Yes! I work full-time creating culinary content. But, no matter how hard I try, I cannot escape my passion for education! 🤗

Luckily, cooking and education come together perfectly with the art of food blogging, especially when I’m teaching home cooks how to build incredible flavor!

Yup!

Everything you see on the blog (and on my social media) is shot on my iPhone Pro or my Sony a7iii camera. 📸

Okay….SETTLE IN…. 😅

Cooking and baking have always been a part of my life, from the moment my Italian grandmother taught me how to bake her world-famous cinnamon rolls. As a young teen, I cooked for myself and my family. After high school, I got a few jobs in local (and famous) Central Florida restaurants and later enrolled in baking and pastry school in Orlando, Florida. 👩🏻‍🍳

I loved pastry school (cookie class, anyone?!), but I wasn’t certain I wanted a career in a hotel or restaurant, which were the two tracks available in the internship programs for my Pastry degree.

One of my favorite professors (Hi, Chef Mackie! 👋🏻) used to run a bed and breakfast in Vermont. She shared that teaching the art of pastry was a viable career path, and something clicked for me. 💡 I ended up becoming a teacher and………worked in our local school district for nearly 10 years. 😬 I got swept up in my passion for working with students with learning exceptionalities, as someone with ADHD myself!

In my time as a teacher, I started a Disney blog as an outlet for fun. I loved it so much, that it inspired me to follow the fun and work at Disney full-time. I did so many things at Disney, from facilitating field trips in Magic Kingdom to assisting real estate agents with the sale of multi-million dollar homes in an actual neighborhood inside Walt Disney World. But then…the pandemic hit. 😳

I went back to school and got a Graduate Certification in Instructional Design. After graduating (again!) I got a job as an instructional designer creating courses for a Fortune 500 company. While it was the perfect work-from-home gig combining multiple passions of mine, something else was calling me…

I decided it was time to go all-in on my dream of making food blogging my career, because food has always been a constant in my life! 😛

💼 work with me

I currently have super limited availability for brand work and partnerships with new clients. However, any images on my site are available for licensing!

Here are some ways we can work together:

  • licensing individual images/videos for marketing use
  • freelance food photography/videography
  • sponsored blog posts

Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] !

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