About Amy, the Fearless Homemaker
Welcome to Fearless Homemaker! I’m Amy, + I started this blog in 2010 to chronicle my journey teaching myself about homemaking: cooking, baking, crafting, + hosting parties. I live in Nashville, Tennessee with my wonderful architect husband (who I married in a surprise wedding in 2011), our happy little toddler daughter, + our lovable black + white spotted rescue dog.
I was raised in Boston + moved to Tennessee about 15 years ago to attend Vanderbilt University, where I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish + Art History. I was so charmed by the South + this amazing city that once I graduated, I decided to make Nashville my permanent home. Since then, I have also received my Master’s Degree in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. I have an amazing job that I love, as a coordinator for Cultural Care Au Pair, the USA’s largest au pair/nanny exchange program. It allows me to combine my love of cultural exchange + travel with my education in language + psychology, + work with incredibly interesting people + families from all over the world.
When I’m not being a homemaker, or working on au pair-related things, you can find me drinking tea, reading, practicing yoga, traveling, or grabbing a fabulous meal out with friends.
I hope you enjoy following my homemaking adventures! For more updates + pictures, you can follow me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, + Pinterest. And feel free to email me at amy@fearlesshomemaker.com with questions or comments.
Cheers!
Amy
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love the blog!!!!
Amy, I love the blog. I am going to follow it daily. Keep the great recipes coming!
HI Amy,
Loved reading your blog! We have many of the same interests… Alcohol, crafts, animal (rescue), low meat eating and of course, coordinating au pairs for host families! Maybe you will be the one to finally teach me to cook!
Good luck!
Karin
Cute pics!!! Great site!!
I’m so glad I found this blog! It is so adorable!
Could it really be that you’ve only been at this blog for a month? You’re a natural, to say the least!
Amy – LOVE your Blog. I too am a bit of a foodie and love to cook. I belong to 2 cooking clubs and whenI feel stressed, cooking helps me unwind. Of course wine doesn’t hurt either!
Ames!! Love this! I feel like I’m listening to you tell me stories while I’m reading!
Seriously love this Amy!! I will be blog stalking you from here on out
Hey Amy, I stumbled on your website from Vivek’s food blog. I was wondering if you have any red wine vinegar mother. I need a mother!
BTW, I too am from the Boston area, have worked for 10 years in Phila (also went to Villanova and PennState State College), and have been in Nashville for about 12 years now. I love Boston and Phila, but not the winters. It is Nov in Nashville, and I am wearing shorts!
hey lannae, i’m so glad we connected via vivek (who is great, by the way). sadly, i do not have any mother of vinegar – are you trying to make your own vinegar? how cool! i so agree with you on the weather – today’s going to be gorgeous in nashville + i’m breaking out my shorts, too!
Yes, I am going to try and make vinegar. I got a crock with as spigot, I got a couple bottles of good red wine with about 1/2 – 1 cup of wine left, and am ready to feed a blob of bacteria called mother. I just can’t drink that much, so we never finish a bottle of wine, and I don’t want to waste the wine, so vinegar was what I thought. I have made my own vanilla extract (started in Sept 2005), and it is really powerful stuff now, and it just takes time. I want to try vinegar, herb vinegar, etc too, and I figure with a good mother, it is just a matter of time.
Amy!
Just wanted to say that you are a natural at this! I have seen sooo many cooking/crafting blogs, which are just plain bad, but yours is awesome. I always make sure to read your posts…always such great ideas! I think you definitely have something here…so, when you make it as the next Martha/Rachael Ray, make sure you give Dedham a little shout-out.
Best,
Lauren
aww, thank you! that means so much to me. + if i ever become the next martha, i will make it rain candy over dedham. ha! i know you make gorgeous cards — let me know if you ever want to partner up for a giveaway!!
Thanks for linking up to Mostly Made By You! I love finding fellow Nashville Bloggers – Following you now!
Danielle
Amy, so I started my red wine vinegar on March 20. I will see how it rolls! If it works out, in 3-6 months I should have vinegar mother to spare! I can’t wait!
rock on! can’t wait to hear how it turns out – keep me updated!
Hi Amy! Thanks for stopping by my blog. I can’t wait to read more of yours…you take beautiful pictures and make incredibly creative recipes, from what I can tell!
It’s so interesting that you work for an au pair program. I ended up interviewing many au pairs during my fieldwork for my Anthropology M.A. (they worked through a different program, but still very cool!)
Take care!
Emma
good to connect with you! i’m so glad i found your blog – that sweet + spicy tofu is definitely calling out to me. + how cool that you’ve worked with au pairs, too! i’ve been doing this job for a little over 2 years + just love it! also, it gives me the opportunity to practice my spanish + french. =)
You are adorable. And I can already see that you are one of “those” bloggers who have awesome photography skills haha! I’m already jealous!! 😉
if you’re trying to make me feel good … it’s working! my photography skills have definitely improved over the last few months, but i’ve still got a looong way to go. it’s been such a fun learning process, though!
I just spent the past few hours of a rainy Labor Day reading your blog posts, and I love them all. The recipes are so unique, the photos are fantastic, and I love the crafts you throw in from time-to-time. I am definitely looking forward to reading more!
you are so sweet! so glad you found a good use for a rainy holiday + i can’t wait to connect with you more. =)
Hi Amy! I’m a Nashville blogger too!
Are you on pinterest? If so, what’s your profile link? I’d love to follow you there! Mine is http://pinterest.com/dialkrista/ LOVE your blog!
yay! i love meeting other bloggers, especially the nashville ones! i’m on pinterest at http://pinterest.com/amydonovan =) i’ll look for you on there, too!
Hi Amy,
Your friend Jessica R. (I think you went to school together) told me about your blog. I’m so excited to check it out! I love to cook, entertain and decorate and can’t wait to see all your ideas!
Michele
awesome! i know exactly who you’re talking about + i’m glad she connected us. can’t wait to check out your blog, too. welcome!
Love that apron! Thanks for stopping by my blog
looking forward to following along!
aww, thanks so much Julie! looking forward to connecting, both through our blogs + on twitter!
So, I was strolling your blog (trying to see who is enjoying my cookies
) when I saw you where you work. I have a Brazilian friend who is currently an au pair through your company! She is up in New Jersey, so you probably don’t know her, but it is one of those “It’s a Small World!” moments. (Yes, I now have the song in my head. Oops.) Very cool! (Actually, it is because of your company that I have my husband… my friend was an au pair through you guys, introduced me to a boy in Brazil who needed help with English, and well, the rest is history. It is her little sister who is in NJ right now. Crazy, huh?!)
how awesome is that?! i work with au pairs + families all over the country, so there’s a chance i would actually know her or her host family. such a small world! + i’m so happy to hear that my company played at least a tiny role in helping you meet your husband – that is just the coolest thing ever! love it! =)
I just found your site through another blog and subscribed to your feed. Can’t wait to see what else you’re making!
Hi Amy!!!!
We have a lot in common. I am a food blogger here in Houston and also just started as working as a salesperson for Cultural Care. My sales manager Shelley gave me your link. I will be following. Nice to meet you.
Wendy
Hi Amy – thanks for the post comments on my blog
I am a new blogger so going to enjoy following each other blogs. Are you still in Nashville? One of my sister’s live in Nashville and there are SO many good eats – that is all we do when we visit is EAT!
You are so welcome – you have lots of tasty-looking stuff on your blog! And yes, I still live in Nashville, for 12 years now. There are tons of great eats here for sure! =)
Just stumbled upon your blog and I am so glad I did. Love your recipes and your beautiful photos!
I just stumbled across your blog and think it’s so cute! That’s really cool that you lived in Nashville for awhile—I’ve been dying to go there (hear it’s got an awesome food scene)! Cheers : )
-Hayley
The food scene here is awesome, Hayley! You’ll have to let me know when you’re in town so I can give you some recommendations. =)
what a beautiful intro and I am going to be visiting it more often because its such a genuine and cool space to hang out and read about your posts!
Hi Amy – I just discovered your blog and I really enjoy it. The recipes are awesome and pretty original. Keep up the good work! Thanks!
Some of the most incredible chefs are self-taught. I love your blog intro and am tickled to start reading it regularly!
Amy,
Loved the blog and the recipes. Amy you sound like an amazing person and someone I would like to follow just to stay up on what’s new in the food area. JoAnn Gay, Maryland
Thank you so much for your kind words, JoAnn. Hope you enjoying looking around my blog!
You are awesome. I wish you lived in Seattle and were single … not that I know, but i guess you have the coolest boyfriend.
Matt
Can I just say what a relief to find someone who actually knows what theyre talking about on the internet.
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Hi Amy!
Texas de Brazil has launched their awe inspiring continuous service concept within Nashville Tennessee for the first time as one of the restaurant giants 34 locations. So what’s the difference in this dining experience?
You enter the restaurant and have no idea what you are about to experience. You are promptly and gracefully seated at your table. Are reservations required? No, they are not. It is an experience like none other found in Nashville and anyone, at any time, if in the West End neighborhood of the city can be a part of it, and simply flip a small round card found on their table from red to green for the magic to begin. The moment you do, the experience begins with handsome servers decked in Brazilian attire breezing by your table in an exquisitely timed wave. Each server dons a selection of meat, medium rare on a skewer, to be slid off gracefully on to your plate with the knife dancing by the meat’s side. You watch in awe as it becomes a dance between diner and server that you will not find anywhere else in all of Nashville.
The conversation flows as you make your way to the salad bar, however this is far from any ordinary salad bar. With 50-60 fresh gourmet items, the salad area is seemingly everything one’s heart could desire, aside from the finely seasoned meats gracefully zig zagging the fine dining room. You stop and happily choose from delectable slices of manchego cheese, hearty stalks asparagus, fresh mozzarella balls, sushi options, Brazilian potato salad, olives and much more. Allow one of the in-house wine connoisseurs to select the perfect wine pairing or sip on Texas de Brazil’s freshly made signature cocktail, the Caipirinha. My personal favorite is the coconut flavored but I urge you to try the original, passion fruit or mango as well.
Texas de Brazil is doing Brazilian fare like no other at their new Nashville location. So much so that we would love to invite you to review the restaurant’s sensationally seasoned selection and all that comes with the experience. We also have recipes that you could try out on your blog and post after however we definitely would love for you to dine and review first.
We would like to invite you and a guest to dine at the Texas de Brazil Nashville location complimentary for restaurant review purposes as well as a promotion for your readers. We think your readers would absolutely enjoy hearing more about the restaurant from your point of view and are accepting media rsvp’s between now and December 21st2014. Please email your date and time of requested reservation and also your expected media placement date after visit in order to secure your time. Please see the website at http://www.texasdebrazil.com .
Warm regards,
Monique Tatum | Chief Executive Officer | BPMPR | O: 877.841.7244 ext 704 | E: mtatum@bpm-pr.com http://www.beautifulplanning.com/
Love your recipe for the chicken tikka. Do you have any more crockpot recipes ? Would love to try some.
I’m so glad you like it, Frances! Here’s a link to all my crockpot recipes – there are 15 up right now + more coming! http://www.fearlesshomemaker.com/category/cooking/crock-pot-slow-cooker/ – make sure you click the “previous entries” link at the bottom of the page to see them all!
My daughter and I made your watermelon ice cream cake for a pool party – thanks for the great recipe. I’m also from Massachusetts ( Dedham) and was reminiscing about the Friendly’s Wattamelon roll.
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