Life Thru A Lynz

I’m not having an existential crisis (at the moment), but I’m going to use this first post to explain why I decided to start this blog. Allow me to introduce myself! I’m Lynsey, but I’m also known as Lynz to my friends and Z to my family. I’m from Texas and I’ve lived in a few different parts of Texas. That will be important later. Two of my favorite things are food and travelling, and that’s what brought me here!

My Cooking Journey

I have been cooking for a long time, but I had to REALLY start learning to cook and some of the science behind cooking and baking when I became a vegan as a teenager. And this was LONG before so many of the vegan convenience foods today existed. Except Oreos. And thank goodness Uncrustables had recently become a thing because I ate one of those EVERY DAY for lunch my senior year of high school.

I was a vegan for 3-4 years and then switched to being a vegetarian in college because it was difficult to be a vegan living in college dorms in Arkansas. I stayed vegetarian (with a few trips back to veganism) until about 2018. So that’s when I started learning to cook meat. But animal products are still a small part of my overall diet.

Bake!

I have also loved to bake a lot and I’ve learned vegan baking and gluten free baking, but within the past several years, especially as so many of us have come to be obsessed with a certain baking series from across the pond, I’ve become a lot more serious with developing my baking skills. Some have told me that I should sell some of my creations! And while I think working in a bakery would be fun, I also don’t think I have the energy to do that and make it profitable. So I thought: put it on the internet!

Some of the things I do want to emphasize in my content are an abundance of plants, an attempt to use more natural sources of sugar (and less of it when I can), and also be mindful that the ingredients I’m using can be easily found. Remember how I mentioned I’ve lived in several areas of Texas? Moving from a massive metropolitan area to a VERY rural part of the state was a huge culture shock, and I have had to learn that there are some ingredients that would be great to have, but are not always possible to obtain. Some I can get through the internet, but there’s usually a higher price for that than being able to grab it from a store nearby.

Plans For This Space:

• Sweet and savory recipes from me
• Kid-friendly recipes from my niece (Sophie’s Showcase)
• Recipe & other food reviews from my nephew (JD’s Judgments)
• Food and cooking-related discussions (equipment, tools, methods, etc.)
• Travel-related food discussions (reviews, reports, regrets, etc.)