Molly LaFontaine of Plum Branch Home holding her sourdough lemon cookies
Molly LaFontaine of Plum Branch Home

Hey, I’m Molly!

I’m a faith-driven wife sharing my simple, wholesome, from-scratch recipes to help you serve God by loving your family, friends, and community.

I’ve always shown my love through feeding people, and that’s what I hope to pass on to you. Making a meal or baking bread is more than preparing food. It’s about taking care of the people around you. It’s a way of serving your family and the Lord!

My Story

I’ve been in the kitchen my entire life and have been creating recipes for as long as I can remember. As a little girl, I would help my mom on a stool before I was tall enough to reach the countertops. I learned so much from watching her! My childhood was full of watching cooking shows and reading cookbooks cover to cover.

Fast forward to college, where I started my first blog in 2020 after becoming certified as a holistic nutritionist. Around this time, I started swapping premade foods for homemade and began intentionally seeking out better ingredients for our kitchen.

A few years later, I decided not to renew my certification so I could focus more on my vocation as a wife at home.

That’s when, one day, I realized I had dozens of recipes I had created, all written on scrap paper stuffed in our junk drawer. Some traveled with me from the farmhouse I grew up in, to our college apartment, and all the way to Tennessee.

Looking back, I know it was the Holy Spirit prompting me, but I felt a strong call to start this blog to share those recipes with the world rather than keeping them stuffed in a junk drawer.

This journey led me to where I am now, using my knowledge of nutrition, cooking, baking, homemaking, and entrepreneurship to create and grow Plum Branch Home, and I’m still learning along the way!

From one wife to another—one woman to another, one daughter to another, one sister to another—these recipes are shared from my home to yours to help you love the people you love most!

About My Recipes

My recipes here on the blog are created, tested, and loved in our home—never made with AI.

I truly believe good food is made from scratch with wholesome ingredients and simple steps.

When you make your favorites at home with real food, you can enjoy them without worrying about harmful ingredients, hidden additives and unwanted preservatives.

My husband, Tyler, and I cherish every recipe on PBH. If we don’t love a new creation, it doesn’t go on the blog.

We ensure every recipe is just right before sharing it with the world! After all, we use them in our own home, so they better be good—haha!

freshly made and assembled southern banana pudding
freshly cooked and tossed baked general tso's chicken

Thanks for stopping by! I’m so glad you’re here, stay awhile!

Fun Facts About Me

favorite food

fried chicken

where I’m from

Indiana

Where I live

Tennessee

Favorite thing to do

spending time with my husband

favorite podcast

The Lila Rose Show

favorite thing to bake

sourdough cinnamon rolls

favorite memory

marrying my high school sweetheart at age 20

most important thing

my faith

FAQ

I love to recommend my zesty sheet pan chicken and potatoes for busy nights! This is my go-to when life gets busy or overwhelming. I love being able to throw it together and do something else while it bakes.

Swapping ingredients for more wholesome options is a process. You don’t have to do it all at once! I’m still finding better options as I go and swapping them out when I can. Do what you can with the budget you have and what works best for your family.

With that being said, I highly recommend these swaps first:

  • white sugar for raw cane sugar
  • table salt for fine sea salt
  • all-purpose flour for unbleached organic all-purpose flour
  • vegetable oil/canola oil for avocado oil
  • white rice for brown rice (organic is best)
  • margarine for stick butter made with only cream and salt

We all have those nights when we’re feeling tired and all we want to do is order takeout. On those nights, my go-to is homemade chili soup or mini meatloaves. They’re both super simple to make and taste delicious!

My husband and I absolutely love making teriyaki banh mi sandwiches, homemade sourdough pizza with our favorite toppings, and oven-baked general tso chicken with rice for date nights at home!

I recommend making sourdough pizza dough! It’s super easy to mix up, and the fermenting process is simple. Also, if it doesn’t turn out as good as you hope, which is common when first starting sourdough, you can use it to make flatbread pizza!

I’ve started a tradition where I make a special breakfast each weekend, for Saturday and Sunday. It’s usually something with sourdough, and I make enough on Friday for both days. We absolutely love sourdough everything bagelssourdough English muffins, and sourdough crescent rolls.