Hi! I’m Allyson, your friendly neighborhood dinner improvisor. I’m here learning along with you as we improve our cooking skills and our life skills at the same time.

Recipe Optional is mostly a food blog where I share my favorite recipes with some tips and tricks to make them your own. It is my sincere belief that you don’t need a Betty Crocker Bible to be a good cook, just some trust in your instincts and a willingness to experiment. You’ll notice my recipes don’t have a lot of strict measurements, and I encourage you to play around with them! Share your experiments in the comments with how they turned out!

Recipe Optional is also a little bit a life blog. I enjoy writing bits of poetry and stories, and I’ll share them here from time to time, but I will abso-fruit-ly not bombard you with paragraphs on paragraphs of stories that would make Hallmark jealous. I hope you read them and get something out of them. If you do, feel free to leave a comment. If you don’t, feel free to scroll on by.

To reach me directly to recommend a discussion topic/lesson learned/recipe, please do so either in the comments or at [email protected]

Thanks for reading!
Allyson