About Homemade Food Junkie Team
A Mother-Daughter Story Since 2014
We’re Diane Williams and Kayti Lavergne, the mother-daughter team who founded Homemade Food Junkie in 2014. What began as a place to share the recipes we cooked for our families gradually grew into a long-running food blog and creative family business.
Our Cooking Philosophy
Our recipes and tutorials are built for real home kitchens. We focus on clear instructions, reliable results, practical techniques, and from-scratch food that home cooks can confidently prepare for their families—from sourdough and everyday meals to seasonal cooking, preservation, homemade drinks, and entertaining.
Meet the Creators
Meet Diane
Diane Williams is the co-founder of Homemade Food Junkie and the primary editor and publisher of the blog today. She develops recipes, writes many of the in-depth tutorials, and manages the day-to-day publishing work that keeps the site organized and growing.
Over the years Diane has developed many recipes for the blog, often inspired by the produce grown in the family garden. Her cooking frequently focuses on turning seasonal harvests into practical meals, preserving fresh ingredients, and helping home cooks understand the techniques behind successful recipes.
Since 2018, Diane has developed much of the blog’s sourdough content. Her sourdough posts focus on helping home bakers understand fermentation, proofing, shaping, and troubleshooting common bread challenges through detailed tutorials and practical baking guidance.
Diane also oversees the organization and ongoing development of the blog, working behind the scenes to maintain the recipe archive, improve site structure, and ensure the content remains helpful and up to date for readers.
Meet Kayti
Kayti Lavergne is the co-founder of Homemade Food Junkie and a driving force behind the blog’s growth from its earliest days. What began as a collaboration between a young mother and her mom sharing recipes online gradually became a long-running food blog and creative food brand.
Over the years, Kayti has developed many recipes for the site, particularly desserts, cupcakes, appetizers, cocktails, and party foods designed to be festive, approachable, and achievable in a home kitchen.
Today Kayti leads the social media side of Homemade Food Junkie. She connects with readers through recipe reels, cooking videos, and behind-the-scenes content across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube.
Kayti and her husband, Brian, also operate a professional media company that produces recipe videos and longer-form cooking content for the brand. Read Our Media kit here. She remains closely involved in recipe development, creative direction, community growth, and the business side of Homemade Food Junkie.
How We Develop and Test Recipes
Every recipe on Homemade Food Junkie is developed and tested in our own home kitchens with everyday cooks in mind. We focus on clear instructions, dependable results, and practical guidance, and we continue reviewing and improving our content as needed. Learn more about how we develop, test, and maintain our recipes in our Editorial Policy and Recipe Testing Process.
Gardening and Seasonal Cooking
Gardening has always been part of the Homemade Food Junkie story. Growing our own ingredients naturally led to experimenting in the kitchen with fresh produce, seasonal cooking, and ways to preserve the harvest.
Diane writes much of the gardening content connected to the blog and often develops recipes inspired by ingredients grown in the garden.
Diane’s husband Dave is a devoted organic gardener who enjoys testing growing methods and building practical raised-bed garden systems that support the kitchen.
We grow a good deal of what we eat from our organic garden and Greenhouse. We freeze and put by our extra produce for winter cooking.
Our Family Story
Homemade Food Junkie grew out of a life centered around family, gardening, and cooking at home.
Diane and her husband Dave lived on their small rural property for almost 40 years, raising their five children with a strong connection to home cooking, gardening, and farm life.
During those years the family garden, home-raised animals, and hands-on learning through 4-H projects shaped much of the food culture that later inspired the blog. The children raised pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits, and other animals while learning responsibility, business skills, and respect for the land.
Those experiences continue to influence the way food is approached at Homemade Food Junkie today — cooking from scratch, valuing real ingredients, and sharing practical food knowledge with the next generation.
Our Community
Homemade Food Junkie has grown into a vibrant cooking community across several platforms where readers discover recipes, share their results, and connect with us about food.
Today our community includes:
- Instagram — over 223,000 followers
- Facebook — more than 261,000 followers
- Pinterest — active recipe inspiration and discovery platform
- TikTok — over 78,000 followers
- YouTube — a growing channel featuring recipe videos and cooking demonstrations
These platforms allow us to share recipes, connect with readers in real time, and bring Homemade Food Junkie recipes to kitchens around the world.
Our Commitment
Homemade Food Junkie has been sharing recipes and kitchen guidance since 2014. We continue to cook, test, photograph, and update our content so readers can rely on the recipes and information we publish.
Contact Us
We appreciate your recipe ratings, shares, and comments on our articles.
Email us at:
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We enjoy hearing from our readers and value the ideas, questions, and conversations that help make Homemade Food Junkie better.
Explore Our Recipes
If you’re new to Homemade Food Junkie, here are a few great places to start:
- Sourdough Bread and Baking
- Appetizers and Party Food
- Blackstone Recipes
- Drinks and Cocktails
- Desserts and Baking
- Wild Game Recipes: Pheasant, Venison, Moose & Rabbit (Easy Wild Game Dinners)
- Weeknight Dinners: Easy Skillet, One-Pot, Sheet Pan + Slow Cooker Meals• Garden and Seasonal Cooking
