About A Menu for You
Our focus is to create restaurant worthy recipes you’ll want to add to your weekly rotation!
When you’re planning dinner or having guests over, we’d love your first thought to be “I know the perfect website to find the best recipes for tonight!”
What You’ll Find Here
Elevated Weeknight Meals — We don’t do basic or boring here! From Miso Cod to Parmesan Chicken with Tomato Confit to Spaghetti with Walnuts and Anchovies – you’ll find recipes that use high quality, seasonal ingredients along with plenty of fresh herbs and spices.
Ingredients that Shine – Every recipe brings out the best in each and every ingredient. Whether the recipe is a simple roast chicken, a roasted vegetable or a more elaborate dish like coq au vin, every ingredient is used thoughtfully and with the purpose of creating a dish you’ll want to make on repeat.
Step by Step Instructions – each recipe is tested multiple times and is written with instructions to help you replicate it in your own kitchen. The instructions are written with you in mind and include notes on star ingredients, easy substitutions and swaps, and lots of photos to help you make the recipe.
Pro Tips – every recipe has pro tips — everything from how to prep, reasons behind the process (like why toasting nuts is important!), how to use special tools and more.
Work with Me
Brands and publications: If your product is something that benefits the home cook and elevates the cooking experience, feel free to contact me about video, photography, or recipe development.
Let’s Hang Out!
Come join the community and follow along on Instagram and TikTok! You’ll see me in action as I test recipes, drink a ridiculous amount of coffee, share cooking tips and navigate life as an empty nester!
Join the Community
Every Friday you’ll receive an email with the latest recipes, cooking tips, and menus for special occasions. And once a month you’ll get a bonus email with my current favorite finds – it could be a new spice or kitchen gadget, book I’m reading or show I’m watching, or a recap of a trip I took…….you never know what might show up in the bonus email!
Sign up here and you’ll never wonder what to cook for dinner again!
Hi! I’m Lisa!
Welcome to my little corner of the internet!
I started this website almost 10 years ago (I seriously can’t believe it’s been that long!) because my kids were getting older, and my days of volunteering in the classroom and carpooling were coming to an end. I wanted to create something purely for me that would take my mind off the fact I was getting closer and closer to becoming an empty nester.
Cooking has always been my love language and the kitchen has always been my happy place. I used to pretend I had my own cooking show when I was little. I’d stand on a stool on my tippy toes and demonstrate how to make the perfect pb&j. But I learned the most about cooking from my godmother. She was French and taught me how to make the creamiest scrambled eggs, how to whip egg whites to make the perfect soufflé, and how to make coq au vin. Which, incidentally, was one of the very first things I made for my husband when we were dating.
As much as I love cooking, I also love traveling and many of my recipes are inspired by meals at favorite restaurants and also new-to-me restaurants. It’s fun to recreate dishes I’ve eaten on vacation and relive that memory over again with each bite! I think it’s truly amazing how food is able to invoke memories while also creating new ones. Just the smell of a certain cheese, the taste of a particular ingredient can take you right back in time.
My love of cooking, sharing recipes and wanting to inspire other home cooks is what led me to create A Menu for You. I still can’t believe I get to cook and eat for a living! How cool!! It’s truly a “pinch me” moment!
When I’m not in the kitchen cooking, testing recipes and doing an ungodly amount of dishes (definitely my least favorite part of being a food blogger!), you can find me walking my sweet rescue pup, Chloe, drinking a latte (iced latte if it’s hot outside), reading my latest romantasy book, watching Real Housewives, planning my next trip to Paris or FaceTiming my kids!
A little more about me
I’ve been married 30 years and we have 2 kids who have spread their wings and flown the coop. Being an empty nester has definitely taken some getting used to, but I think I’m finally hitting my stride!
My hubby and I live in the PNW with our cute, adorable and very energetic rescue pup. Before living in the PNW we lived in CA, where I was born and raised (in LA!) and, this California girl still loves sunshine, beaches and iced lattes!
BUT…..I’ve fallen in love with the seasons, all the gorgeous trees, being surrounded by mountains and living near a lake. Although, I’d trade in my life here for a pied-à -terre in Paris!
