For Mattapoisett resident Jennifer Adams a real passion for writing about food started in Boston’s North End nearly ten years ago.

Adams, who graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor’s in English and a minor in technical writing, working as a waitress in the city’s “Little Italy,” was an “A ha” experience.

While working a restaurant event, she met a publisher, began freelancing and soon took to the blogosphere.

In 2005 Adams, who works full-time for in marketing for a wine and spirits distribution company in Somerville, launched “Palate-to-pen,” a “how-to” guide for food and drink recipes.

Soon after she began working in the North End, Adams said she began traveling to New York every six weeks to take classes at the Institute of Culinary Education while also working as a freelance food journalist.

There, she learned how to combine her favorite elements of cooking, starting with the basic ingredients.

“It’s wonderful to take ingredients that look a certain way and show how you bring them together by changing appearance and creating a flavor,” Adams said.

“It’s really the romantic formula for me in creating the recipe. I have an analytical mind and a creative mind which come together really well. It’s a place where my technical and creative major collide.”

Some recipes Adams develops from scratch, others she borrows from friends and some she recalls from her childhood in California.

“As it went on it became more about writing recipes and seeing where it fit in everyday life and in relation with other people,” she said.

“Whether I write about a sangria recipe or one of my mother’s recipes, it’s about how food and recipes play out in relationships.”

Blogging has become a way to flex her creative muscle and keep her writing fresh she said.

Over a year ago, her fiancée opened the Bitter End Lounge in Fairhaven.

This soon gave way for a second blog, “My life with bartender,” chronicling the start-up of the business with a few cocktail recipes thrown in.

“It really came from a bystander view as I witnessed everything that goes into making that business from scratch,” she said.

And then there were three.

Two months ago, Adams and her fiancée welcomed a son, Kai, whose impending arrival prompted the launch of her third blog, “40 weeks to life…my journal into mumhood.”

“I wanted to write letters documenting each week to the baby and to myself because it passes so quickly and you sometimes forget the details,” Adams said. “I didn’t want to lose that.”

Each blog is a creative outlet, which sometimes gives way to new pursuits she said.

“What came out of Palate-to-pen was that I discovered new passions and one is photography,” Adams said.

“I really enjoy food photography and I’d love to so something down the road that combines both words and photographs.”

After taking a class at the New England School of Photography in Boston, Adams said she started to incorporate her photographs into her blogs.

“The beauty of having a blog is that you can turn it into what you want to be at that moment,” she said.

“For me, now it’s more about the lens than the words. I want to keep the blogs going. It would be a failure to me to let them die out now.”

Adams said she is toying with the idea of blending all of her favorite things – food, wine, photography, and of course, motherhood – into a book.

For now, she says blogging encourages her to develop new ideas.

“It’s a great way to journal everything that’s going on in my mind,” she said.

“If I go to the market and see something I can create with, that’s great. If I go to a friend’s house and see something, that’s great too. It’s all about the inspiration for me.”