Hi!!! Welcome to my crazy awesome (or just plain crazy) corner of the internet where I’ve been creating and sharing recipes for the past 15+ years. I’m so glad you’re here!
Around here we’re all about making veggies fun and delicious. Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, or of the T-Rex variety, there’s something for everyone here.
My tested and perfected recipes range from light and healthy to excitingly indulgent.
With so many food blogs that focus on sweets and meats, this little blog of mine is here to shift gears and give vegetables their much deserved time in the spotlight. Instead of planning our plates around carbs and proteins, let’s start our grand plans for mealtime with veggies as the star!
There’s something super satisfying about planning an entire dish around a fresh from the garden zucchini or an ultra-ripe bunch farmer’s market tomatoes. Around here, produce reigns supreme!
Some dishes will be gloriously vegetarian while some will surely satisfy that voracious T-Rex in our lives, but they’ll all start with produce. I’ll be whipping up recipes that are so totally tasty that you won’t think twice about eating your veggies.
Even better? You’ll start to crave them!
As for me? I’m a Boston-born, South Florida-raised veggie addict. I recently moved from sunny Pensacola, Florida to the spicy not-so-little Dallas Ft. Worth Metroplex in the heart of Texas.
My husband calls me bird, my friends call me Jenn, and pretty much everyone else calls me crazy, but that’s to be expected when you whip out your camera every time food is present.
Or so I’m told.
Fun Facts
- The game Hungry Hungry Hippo is based on a true story. My story, obviously.
- It’s always Halloween in my soul.
- I love every vegetable on the face of this earth with one lone exception: olives. If given the choice between eating an olive and eating sand, I’ll insist you pass me a shovel.
- I can’t fold a fitted sheet. I’ve thrown myself at the mercy of Martha Stewart and simply can’t hang. Please refrain from looking inside by linen closets. In a fit of rage, I balled up all my fitted sheets, tossed them inside the closet, and ran.
- When I procrastinate on sharing new recipes, it’s because the book I’m reading is SO SO GOOD that I can’t put it down. This happens a lot. Forgive me!
Past Work and eDUCATION
I studied at Florida State University and graduated with a B.S. in Dietetics and Human Sciences. Go Noles! Early on I was an avid art major, but the nutrition field was calling me and I quickly changed majors after falling in love with the wonderful world of food.
During and after college I worked at the Department of Education in Tallahassee with the amazing team in charge of Florida’s School Lunch and Breakfast program. Public health became a passion of mine and when we moved to Pensacola, I began working as a nutrition educator for WIC and the Florida Department of Health.
When the military moved us once again, to the middle of nowhere this time, I thought it would be fun to keep creating the recipes and resources that I did for my awesome WIC clients and started Peas and Crayons. Documenting my adventures in the kitchen was so flipping fun! Before I knew it, I was in deep! I love creating recipes and dreaming up fun new ways to give veggies the star status they deserve.
Work With Me
Peas and Crayons is a veggie-centric food blog that makes vegetables fun and delicious! There’s something for everyone here with an assortment of vegetarian, vegan, and omnivore options. Recipes range from light and healthy to excitingly indulgent and highlight fresh produce with help from pantry and freezer staples. Each recipe is colorful, delicious, and guaranteed to stop your scroll on Pinterest and Instagram!
I’m available for recipe development, food photography, product photography, and much more. My portfolio can be found HERE. Contact me and let’s make something magical!
Contact
Feel free to to drop me a note, ask a question, or just say hello! I love hearing from you! I can be reached at [email protected].
