Creating a Deliciously Fun Life
Food • Creativity • Healing • Adventure • Reinvention
Welcome! I'm Tré Taylor—a writer, singer-songwriter, creator, foodie, traveler, and lifelong student of transformation.
I believe there's almost always another way.
Through stories, science, creativity, practical wisdom, and a healthy dose of love, music, food, art, and fun, I help people discover new possibilities for living well—even when life doesn't go according to plan.
My passion is connecting ideas that move us from helplessness to hope, from hope to possibility, and from possibility to a life that feels healthier, wealthier, more meaningful, and joyfully authentic.
A few years ago, I hit pause on hustle culture and began rebuilding my life from the ground up. What started as survival slowly became something much more beautiful—a journey of curiosity, healing, resilience, and discovering what truly matters.
Today I share recipes, stories, creative projects, adventures, practical tools, and the lessons I'm learning along the way.
Whether you're here because you're reinventing your life, looking for inspiration, curious about the future, or simply searching for one good idea that helps today feel a little lighter, I hope you leave with more possibilities than you had when you arrived.
Pull up a chair. The traveling table is always open.
With love, music, food, art, fun... and the belief that there is another way.
— Tré Taylor, September 2026
Boozy French Apple Rum Rose Cinnamon Rolls
Breakfast for Pirates
Arrr! Baked especially for the Manor Pirates of Pacifica , Fogfest 2026 and celebrated at Winters Tavern, these boozy French Apple Rum Rose Cinnamon Rolls be Executive Chef Bleep the Tattoo’s official autumn equinox breakfast for pirates—soft, buttery, apple-cinnamon roses soaked in glorious spiced rum.
The recipe is here by popular demand, straight from The Nomad Kitchen—and consider this yer first delicious warning: Bleep’s new cooking show, Deliciously Fun Life, is coming soon. Keep yer apples thin, yer butter soft, and somebody please keep an eye on the rum. 🏴☠️🌹🥃
I Saw the Future, and It Smelled Like Rum Roses
🌹Read about it here🌹
Scooby-Doo S’mores Crunch Balls
Sometimes you just need a ball of joy.
This week, while I was away pet-sitting, two windows were smashed out of my van. It was a rough reminder of how quickly life can turn sideways—but so many wonderful people stepped forward to help me get through it. And somewhere between dealing with broken glass and getting back on my feet, I decided we needed something delicious.
Halloween is coming. I love Scooby-Doo. I had marshmallows. Clearly, there was only one reasonable thing to do.
Meet my Scooby-Doo S’mores Crunch Balls—part s’more, part Rice Krispy treat and one gloriously gooey, crunchy handful of happiness. They’re packed with dark chocolate, graham crackers, marshmallows, crispy rice cereal and a secret little hit of cinnamon crunch from Scooby-Doo cereal. I rolled them into big, beautiful balls, tucked them into the freezer, and somehow a difficult week tasted considerably better.
Jazz Scat. Cool Cat. Scooby Dooby Doo! 🎷🐾🍫
🍎HOLIDAY HOME BREW🍏
Sparkling Spiced Hard Cider
It’s the holiday season, and if you’re thinking about brewing something special for the holidays, now is the perfect time to get started. A beautiful holiday stout beer is always fun, but one of the easiest and most delicious homebrews you can make is sparkling hard cider. This Holiday Sparkling Spiced Hard Cider is festive, dry and fragrant, wonderfully fizzy, and surprisingly simple to make at home.
I’ve spent plenty of time around serious home brewers — the wonderfully scientific, slightly mad sort of people who make you feel like you need a prescription just to sit at their pirate bar — and some of the best cider I’ve ever tasted has been homemade. Once you learn the basics, you can play with spices, pomegranate, different fruits, sweetness, and fermentation time to create something completely your own. This is one of my favorite recipes to teach because it’s easy, affordable, festive, and absolutely wonderful for holiday gatherings and special occasions.
If you’ve never tried making hard naturally fermented dry hard cider before, this is a delicious place to begin.
🍋🫐 A Fresh Sip for the Holiday Season 🥂✨
As the Autumn Equinox arrives, The Nomad Kitchen is raising a glass to the season with our homemade Wild Berry Balsamic Cordial—fresh berries, Meyer lemon, vanilla, brown sugar and balsamic simmered into one deliciously rich cocktail and mocktail concentrate. Give the Wild Berry Balsamic Cordial — As a Homemade Gift!
Discover six beautiful drinks—three zero-proof mocktails and three cocktails—including a sparkling berry drink for the kids that's our homemade answer to the Shirley Temple. Fresh, festive, giftable and made for everyone at the holiday table.
Come make something delicious with us. 🍓🫐🍋✨
The Nomad Kitchen with Tré Taylor
tretaylor.com
I CAME BACK DIFFERENT
✨Coming Out of the Cosmic Closet✨
For eight years now, I have lived in my van like a monk with excellent lipstick—quietly healing, rebuilding my life and trying to find language for an experience that changed me from the inside out.
💗 From The Nomad Kitchen: A Little Love for Dolly💗
This Labor Day weekend brought two new recipes to The Nomad Kitchen, inspired by one of my favorite humans and greatest musical influences, the incomparable Dolly Parton. I got my hands on a box of her Sweet Cornbread & Muffin Mix and, naturally, I had to fluff it up—with creamed corn, sharp cheddar and a little extra love. The result was ridiculously moist, tender cornbread and the sweetest little muffins. Dolly's music, humor, generosity, courage and enormous heart have inspired me both personally and musically, and although she will be deeply missed, what she gave the world will live on forever.
So put on your favorite Dolly song, turn up the oven and make something delicious in her honor.
And because good cornbread deserves something fabulous melting on top, we also made Ginger-Vanilla Whipped Honey Butter—creamy butter whipped with gorgeous ginger honey, pure vanilla and a touch of salt. 🍯🐝 It's an easy, affordable little luxury to make for yourself and an especially lovely homemade gift when you need something thoughtful without spending a fortune. Slather it over warm cornbread, muffins, biscuits, toast or anything that could use a little sweetness. Come discover both new recipes, their stories and a little celebration of the beautiful Dolly Parton at The Nomad Kitchen. Live a Deliciously Fun Life—with Love • Music • Food • Art • Fun. 💗 — Tré Taylor |
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🌿 I Am the Safe Place🌿
What if healing isn't about becoming tougher, fearless or impossible to trigger?
What if it's about creating enough room inside yourself that fear doesn't get to make every decision?
In my newest essay, I share one of the biggest realizations of my own reinvention: I didn't become harder. I became harder to destabilize.
This is a story about solitude, nervous-system regulation, boundaries, self-worth, love, laughter and the strange little steel chrysalis that helped me discover something I had spent a lifetime looking for outside myself.
I know where home is now.
And perhaps the most beautiful part is that finding yourself doesn't mean shutting everyone else out.
It means you can finally open the door without disappearing when somebody walks through it.
🐾 Surf, Sunshine & Wagging Tails! 🌊
I had the joy of attending the 10th Anniversary World Dog Surfing Championships at beautiful Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica, California, and it was every bit as magical as you'd imagine.
From first-time surfers like the amazing Golden Retriever Moxie to seasoned wave-riding champions, the beach was filled with incredible dogs, cheering families, and nonstop smiles.
I captured some of my favorite moments to share with fellow dog lovers—proof that sometimes the happiest place on Earth is where paws meet the Pacific! 🏄♂️🐶
Ever tried getting in or out of a wetsuit
without looking like you're wrestling an octopus?
If you've surfed the chilly waters of Northern California, you already know the struggle! After years of van life and writing from the beach, I've witnessed more than a few unforgettable parking-lot wardrobe acrobatics—equal parts athletic event and comedy show.
"Cowabunga Neoprene Bro" is my lighthearted salute to every surfer who's hopped, wiggled, rolled, and laughed their way into a wetsuit, and to the incredible surf dogs who prove that catching waves is always better with a wagging tail.
Hang ten, enjoy the laughs, and remember... sometimes the funniest part of surfing happens before you even reach the water! 🏄♂️🐾
