Lisa is the founder of Simple Joy. Lisa, is a self taught cook and avid lover of all things food, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For the last 10 years Lisa has been reading cookbooks, experimenting in the kitchen, and learning everything she possibly can about cooking. The result has been the ability to create recipes, both classics and new twists, that readers fall in love with and make with ease. Lisa loves not only providing delicious and easy recipes, but also giving the why behind what we are doing in the kitchen. She gets such great joy in sharing my love for food.
Lisa has been featured in many media outlets. These outlets include Country Living, Real Simple, Today, Parade, Good Housekeeping, Buzzfeed, Delish, Elle, and many others.
Prior to becoming a food creator, Lisa was a social worker. She received her master’s in social work from the University of Milwaukee and worked in child welfare.
Lisa is the mom to four amazing kids: Gavin, Elliot, Quinn, and Piper. Gavin, Quinn, and Piper are happy, amazing kids she loves spending time with.
Her husband, Nathan, is her partner in life and in business. He is her rock in more ways than one and supports all of her crazy dreams.
Lisa and Nathan lost their second child, Elliot, when he was 8 days old. If you want to know more about Elliot, you can read it here. If you want to read more of Lisa’s experience of grief, you can read this post.
Diane Peck says
What is an easy brown sugar fudge that is creamy?
I’m so sorry, Diane, I don’t have a brown sugar fudge recipe.
Donna says
have you heard of rasberry fudge
I’m sorry, I haven’t.
Diane says
I’m looking for Maple fudge, do you have a recipe?
I’m so sorry I don’t.
Sheena says
I have made Raspberry Fudge. I have used dries raspberry’s and and a couple of drops of Raspberry flavor I buy from Michaels Craft Store. you can also make cranberry fudge with dried cranberries. (Dries fruit from the bulk barn).
Helen Lewis says
I want to make fudge for christmas gifts as I’s on a very low income and fudge is easy and afardable to make, is there any way you could send me all the rercipes in an e-mail, I’ve tried a few of your recipes all delishous’ thank you
Hi Helen! Unfortunately, I don’t have an easy way to email you each fudge recipe. Each one has a link though and you can go to those recipes and copy and paste them into an email and send them to yourself for easy keeping.