About

Hello and Happy New Year! I am Lauren, the Food Puzzler. I absolutely love food, especially when I’m cooking to share it with family and friends.

Why Food Puzzler? It seemed like the best way to describe my approach to food. As a Culinary Arts instructor, I had to find ways to make lessons interesting to myriad teenage students and, over repeated lessons daily and quarterly, to me. I often created actual puzzles and games towards that end which I hope to share soon.

I also wanted to make recipes for these lessons that would include nutritious ingredients, but still have flavors appealing to not only these teens, but to the family and friends who act as my taste testers. I saw what I was doing like putting together puzzle pieces. Sometimes it works…other times not so much 😉

Welcome to my page! I hope that you enjoy the recipes and ideas.