Hiya, I’m Bethany!
Make Healthy Recipes is where I share the dinners that actually get made in our house on a busy weeknight: real food, short ingredient lists, and as little prep and pot-watching as possible. A lot of them go straight into a 9×13 dish and look after themselves in the oven while I run after the kiddos.
I’m a mum of two, so dinner has to work around school runs, nap times and whoever’s refusing vegetables that week. Every recipe here is tested in our kitchen and eaten at our table. If it’s fussy, it doesn’t make the cut.
I’ve been writing recipes here since 2019, and I hold an NCFE Certificate in Understanding Nutrition and Health. That shapes how I build meals: plenty of veg, real ingredients, nothing complicated.
I’m from Glasgow, Scotland, and live in Newcastle, England now. After studying classical violin at Edinburgh Napier, I spent my 20s in Austin, Texas, teaching violin and playing in a band called Magical Spacecat (as well as 100 other bands!). Besides the violin, I enjoy playing the ukulele and the saw. Yes, the saw.
My partner Dimitris is Greek, and we spend part of every summer on Lesvos, where the family home has grapevines, lemon trees and a fish market down the road. That’s where the occasional Greek recipe on here comes from.
When I’m not cooking, I’m snuggling my kids, lifting weights or drinking far too much tea.
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