If you’re always in the mood to discover a new food blogger who will inspire you to take your cooking skills to the next level, Jessica Merchant deserves a spot on your Instagram feed. The mastermind behind the food blog Home Sweet Eats is constantly sharing delicious recipes with the world and she’s not afraid of making a mess in the kitchen.
Merchant doesn’t have a traditional cooking background and she embarked on her journey as a food blogger because she’s “seriously passionately, inexplicably in love with food.” One of her biggest muses was her maternal grandmother, and she started blogging shortly after she passed away.
“I am totally self-taught/mom-taught/grandma-taught and have no formal culinary training, just tons of mess-ups in the kitchen. I test most of my recipes at least once, but by no means claim to be a culinary genius,” explains Merchant on her blog.
Merchant lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband and two children, and she now does recipe development, blogging, and freelance food writing full-time.
If you’re wondering what happens to all the delicious dishes she shares on her blog, don’t despair. Sometimes she makes upwards of six recipes a day and they never go to waste because she either eats them with her family or makes them for dinner parties.
