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There is an increase in Facebook Pages and Blogs where people create a recipe page and then steal (sometimes on purpose, sometimes not knowing any better) photos and write the recipe out and then give no credit usually pretending the recipe is their own. They get traffic from it and often make money from it as well. While some still have blogging as a hobby the majority of us rely on it as a source of income. In fact between my Tablespoon job and writing this blog it is my full time job. One blog post to write takes about 30 minutes - up to who knows how long to write. Deciding what recipe to make. Creating that recipe. Making that recipe. Photographing that recipe. Photo editing that recipe. And then doing all the social media that comes with letting people know hey I have a new recipe up. I really do spend a good 30-40 hours a week working on my blog. I know clearly I should have a better blog for the amount of effort I put in. :D I never started blogging to make money. Back … [Read more...]

A little something for my readers….

So while I do get lovely email asking about my sex life, the number one question that come via email is do you have an easier way to print your recipes? And before the answer was always no. The other question is do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to? That answer remains no. I seriously have enough trouble figuring out what to put on this blog let alone come up with a newsletter, which would be called Baking from a Crappy Apartment Kitchen. :) Which is what I would like the title of my Food Network show to be. ;) But in all seriousness you will all be excited to learn that thanks to RECIpage you can now print my recipes. Well right now 22 of them. But eventually all of them once the arm is feeling better to sit at a computer and put them all in. And you can Pin them…there’s a button. You can Tweet them…there’s a button. And you can Facebook them…there’s a button. Lots of options (email, text!). But the most important being the ability to print them. If you look … [Read more...]