Food blogs!

[BlackAffronted]

Post yours here so I can admire them :)

jensfoodandphotos.blogspot.co.uk/

[AnnieWinehouse]

Yours is lovely! I have been following it.

Mine still needs a bit of work I think, as yet I haven't told anyone in RL about it!

Scrummy Suppers & Quirky Cakes

[BlackAffronted]

Cant find a follow button for your blog, but I am now folowing you on Twitter :)

Having a read through your blog!

[AnnieWinehouse]

Ooh you wouldn't believe how excited I am to have my first comment! Thank you!! I'm not sure how you follow a blog, I tend to copy the URL onto the Reading list in the dashboard, if that makes sense?

Looking forward to more posts!

[BaronessOrczy]

Morning Annie, I blog about food and all sorts of things - will check out your blog now! //www.applepiewithwensleydale.wordpress.com

[BlackAffronted]

I think I follow you already Baroness :)

[BlackAffronted]

Annie, you can add a gadhet to your blog so people just have to click a button to follow you, there is one on my blog? It shows who else is following me.

[NettoSuperstar]

I'm umming and ahhing over starting one.
The problems are

1. My camera is terrible, so my food doesn't look great, everything comes out so dark.
   
2. My home isn't very nice, I don't have anywhere good to take photos, even if I had a decent camera (and a friend has offered me a loan of hers)
   

I live in temporary accommodation, so I could wait till I move, but I've no idea when that will be, and I want one now!

But, I don't want people to think I'm a crap cook based on terrible photos/unattractive location and then not bother to read it.

I am just a family cook, albeit quite adventurous at times, but I want what I make to look good, and inspire people to try it, and they aren't going to when it looks like someone shat on a plate in a bedsit.

[BlackAffronted]

Netto, just get yourself a plain tablecloth, and just cover up & take your photos :) You are far more adventurous than me, Id love to follow your blog!

[NettoSuperstar]

The problem with that is, my table is currently at the end of my bed covered in clothes.
Nowhere else for it to go, and the light in my room is terrible.
The best I can get, is my kitchen bench, or the bookshelf in my living room, but still everything looks so dark.
Admittedly, I don't bother to present anything, as it's just going on FB.
I think I need to borrow the camera, and I can maybe stage something that looks half decent if I can take a good photo.

[AnnieWinehouse]

Thanks BlackAffronted I've got a button now and you are my first 'member'.

Netto, go for it! Just play around with settings/flash on camera, I'm sure you'll find a way.

Baroness I'm following you too, lovely blog

[NettoSuperstar]

I think I might go for it then.
I've been going through my photos, and some aren't too bad, plus I have tried some interesting dishes recently which I'd love to share.
Now I just need to know where to start!

[BlackAffronted]

Would you like to do a guest post on my blog first? or just dive right in with your own?

[NettoSuperstar]

I'd like to do one on yours first, just not sure what to blog.
I'm doing a Japanese meal on Friday, but part of it is katsu, which you've already blogged, obviously since you gave me the recipe!
Also got a whole stuffed trout recipe to try which might look good?
I want it to fit in with family food, which your blog is, but a little bit interesting. I thought the trout might fit the bill, so long as it's not a disaster of course.

Thanks for letting me have a go though.
A food blog is what I want more than anything, well that and a pink range cooker and a kiwi Le Creuset casserole

[BlackAffronted]

Ohh the trout sounds good! I think I would try that out.

[NettoSuperstar]

Reduced in Morrisons!
We love fish, and DD adores when it looks like fish.
I'll keep that in mind to do a guest blog then. I've chosen a recipe, just need sides to go with it.
Probably Saturday night.

[BlackAffronted]

Great stuff, look forward to seeing it

[Seabright]

My blog isn't a food blog, but I do post recipes amongst other stuff; does that count?

[BlackAffronted]

Yep :)

[RecipeJunkie]

Mine's mostly a food blog with other bits and pieces thrown in. Life has been getting in the way recently but i'll be back to read yours Annie - and here's my latest post - my take on an old Good Food mag recipe for pizza pie which saved us from ny total lack of desire to cook anything yesterday...

[AnnieWinehouse]

RJ I've been following yours, it's really good, I enjoy it. I really like your background photo too, it was one of the ones I would have copied if I could (I haven't!)

[RecipeJunkie]

why thank you Annie - i have had a mooch round yours - like it! am now following you on twitter too - @RecipeJunkie27

Blackaffronted - what's your twitter thingy? I am trying to get better on twitter and I thought I saw your twitter ID on your blog earlier but have been back and can't find it (I want to follow).

[Seabright]

Recipe Junkie: Thanks for commenting, have followed you on twitter too! I'm @Pershilla

[AnnieWinehouse]

Following you too now RJ and Seabright.

I'm not quite ready to tweet my blogs yet though, I haven't told anyone in RL about it yet. Think I need it to be funnier or better somehow yet.
DH asked me last night who I was writing to, but I haven't shown him yet...
Soon... maybe!

Off to Sainsburys now, going to a chocolate cake!

Thanks for all your support.

[BlackAffronted]

Im @missjenipenni on twitter :)

[BlackAffronted]

Not sure why my twitter name disappeared from my blog