Love creating scratch-made recipes at home? You’re about to have a whole lot more fun. 😉
Hi! I’m Lindsey. 👋🏻
I share scratch-made, creative, entertaining recipes for people who love staying inspired in the kitchen.
Since 2022, A Recipe For Fun has been a place where readers can learn about using seasonal ingredients in cocktails, mocktails, and more!
I’ve helped tens of thousands of readers uncover their passion for mixing up a homemade batch of fun.
Serving up fresh & flavorful recipes, from breakfast to happy hour, that inspire, educate, and innovate.
At A Recipe For Fun, I aim to entertain you with a variety of recipes, from classic cocktails to reimagined twists…with a *bit* of reason behind the recipe. Sorry, it’s the educator in me. 🤓
Get to know me…
I first learned to cook and bake from my live-in-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.
Translation: Cooking and baking is a core part of who I am.
I am a BarSmarts professional who is driven to understand the ins and outs of cocktail recipes & ingredients, with over 10 years of experience mixing up drinks.
Translation: I know what makes a drink recipe work well.
I am a classically trained baking and pastry student from a culinary college that partners with leaders in the Central Florida tourism industry.
Translation: I learned the ins and outs of baking and pastry arts from some of the best culinary professors in a top tourism destination.
I’m a former top-rated educator with nearly a decade of experience teaching critical and creative thinking skills in the 8th largest school district in the nation.
Translation: I make learning fun & interesting!
I’ve worked at Global Fortune 500 companies (like Walt Disney World) in the field of training and development. I’ve created, implemented, and facilitated training programs for thousands of individuals over the last 7 years. In total, I have over 15 years of experience in teaching, training, and education.
Translation: I know how to explain a step-by-step process to get the desired result!
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- freelance food photography/videography
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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! 😛
Yes! As of June 2024, 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!
When I’m not dreaming up new recipes or scouring cookbooks and grocery stores for inspiration, I’m out playing at Walt Disney World or sitting at home cuddling my sweet & salty pup, Gnocchi. 🐶
I love to read and learn, reorganize and redecorate our home, pick up a new craft, or zone out with my Nintendo Switch. Any Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley fans out there?!
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…
I have ADHD, so I can move quickly from project to project! Usually, that means I’m 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…
🤩 I can’t get enough…
cheese, trash tv, color-coding and categorizing everything, and connecting on social media–seriously, hit me up, and let’s be BFFs! 🥰