{"id":9847,"date":"2015-01-10T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=9847"},"modified":"2015-01-10T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:34:13","slug":"new-years-resolution-for-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/new-years-resolution-for-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s resolution for my blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking for a way to jeuge up my blog for the new year. I’ve been blogging since 2006, on two platforms, blogger<\/a> and Word Press. My brother decided to stop blogging<\/a> at a similar juncture, but in fact, he’s back<\/a>. I started looking at other food blogs that I like, particularly Heidi Swanson’s 101 Cookbooks<\/a> and Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen<\/a>. Heidi recently posted some advice on how to maintain a long term blog<\/a>, the\u00a0 key piece of which – to me at least – is to try to write something good once a week. Smitten’s Deb does more like twice a week, but what both writers do is feature a recipe with every post.<\/p>\n

I thought, ah ha, I can do that. I installed a new word press, and set up Deb’s Lunch … at the counter<\/a>. The metaphor being that you come to Deb’s Lunch, and sit down at the counter, and something tasty is served up. I thought, ok, each week I will keep track, and then write about – and photograph – a dish that I’ve either cooked or eaten, and include the recipe, and my recipe experiments. Which is a great aim, but unfortunately, the difference between me and Heidi and Deb P. is that I have a day job, and food photography just sucks under kitchen lights at night. Heidi has a kitchen where she does most of her photos, with white marble counter tops, and corner windows where she can arrange food in great light<\/a>. She’s got a studio<\/a> for her mail order shop Quitokeeto<\/a>, that also seems to have great light. Deb is the master of the process photo<\/a>, series of images showing the process of the dish from ingredients to completion. Even when I’m home cooking in daylight, I get too caught up – I’m afraid I’ll ruin the food by stopping to photograph it. And sometimes I just forget – I eat up, or serve up, whatever it is before I shoot it.<\/p>\n

For example, this week, I’ve been eating oatmeal for work breakfasts, and roasted beets and egg, and rice pudding. I thought maybe I’d write about the roasted vegetable salad<\/a> I had on Tuesday for lunch at work, but it was too mushy and jumbled. I had an almost life-changing realization, that instead of boiling over oatmeal in the work microwave, and eating underdone oats, I could cook the oatmeal at home, and then take it to work in a nice glass microwaveable container. I’ve been cooking the oats with dates, and enjoying them with a blob of local Greek yogurt<\/a>, and one day, some jam, but didn’t capture any part of that process. The yogurt has a cream top that is just yummy with the oatmeal & dates. My creamy rice pudding recipe is a compilation of a couple, and deserves to be written up, and I even packed a dish of it, and some beets and egg, for my drive to Chicago yesterday. But by the time I got here, it was too dark and late for a good picture, and I figured I might as well eat. So all I’ve got is empties.<\/p>\n

Oh, well, I’ll keep trying.<\/p>\n

\"Empty<\/a>

Empty containers & cups that once held beets and egg, rice pudding, and coffee<\/p><\/div>\n

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