Hi! Welcome to our Crowded Kitchen.
We're Beth and Lexi , a mother-daughter duo based in southeast Michigan.
The recipes you'll find here are inspired by seasonal ingredients, travel, and our family. You'll find a little something for everyone here – simple appetizers, hearty dinners, refreshing cocktails, indulgent desserts, homemade snacks, and so much more!
How we got started
In November 2017, we decided to launch Crowded Kitchen after over two years of sharing our photography and plant-based recipes on Instagram. Over the last few years, Crowded Kitchen has grown into a full-time business that we're lucky enough to work on together!
Our family is close-knit and there's nothing we love more than a delicious, collaborative family meal, hence the origin of "Crowded Kitchen".
One of our main goals in sharing recipes here is to reflect how our family comes together around the dinner table, despite multiple dietary requirements and preferences. We know that our situation is not unique, with some family members being vegan, gluten free, vegetarian, nut free and more.
We strive to make our recipes inclusive to all diets, but still taste absolutely delicious! We never sacrifice flavor and spend countless hours testing and retesting recipes to make sure they'll work for your family, too.
We work best as a team, with my mom (Beth) covering all of our recipe development, while I (Lexi) style, photograph and bring the recipes to life here on the blog.
We both live in southeast Michigan and spend several days a week together, making a huge mess of our kitchen and studio and sampling a whole lot of delicious food in the process.
We particularly love sharing quick, easy, yet flavorful and memorable weeknight dinner recipes, but we also share a whole lots of delicious desserts, cocktails and holiday recipes, too! In short, we're definitely not picky at all, and we very much believe in balance, moderation and quality when it comes to food.
The key to a balanced diet is a salad in one hand and cookies in the other...right?!
We're so glad you're here! If you have questions about a recipe, ideas for an upcoming post, or just want to say hi, please feel free to reach out on Instagram, Facebook or by email at any time.
Lifestyle photography: Nathaniel Smith