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You’ll discover on the homepage there are some new options, together with a part of reader favorites (which may be referred to as the hottest recipes) and one other part of MY favorites. As a result of, guess what, I’ve very sturdy opinions about which recipes fall into ones I can eat for the remainder of endlessly. 🙂

The recipes in these sections will change each week or so to maintain the concepts recent!

And for you weekly menu followers, it’s nonetheless there at the backside! The one change is combining Saturday and Sunday into one “weekend” day.

Recipe Format

One in every of the most notable modifications is that the recipe card is trying a bit totally different! This enchancment is being rolled out one-by-one to guarantee the utmost high quality management in switching over all the recipes to the new format.

I’ve over 2,000 recipes dwelling right here, so it’s going to take a sizzling minute to get it finished, however you’ll begin seeing a new format to the recipes as they get up to date.

Outdated fashion:

New fashion:

Once more, not all the recipes are in the new format but, however they’ll be there quickly(ish). All of the identical options are nonetheless right here PLUS a few new ones!

(In case you are searching for the Save to Prepear button on the new format, it’s getting added in the present day!)

Vitamin Details

After tons of of you requested (begged, pleaded, threatened) for it, I lastly caved and added vitamin details to the new recipe format.

I by no means deliberate to embody vitamin details, as a result of even the greatest vitamin calculator might be off a little, AND, I’m a huge believer and proponent of intuitive consuming vs calorie counting, so I don’t take a look at vitamin details myself.

Nonetheless, I do know a lot of you depend on them for counting carbohydrates (shout out to all my Kind 1 Diabetes households on the market!) and plenty of of you DO monitor vitamin details to your meals, and I do know it’s vital to you!

So take into account this my present to you. 🙂

I’m not going to lie, it pains me to add vitamin details to recipes like donuts, however I’ll simply take a lot of deep breaths and hope nobody writes me hate mail as a result of they came upon through my weblog that donuts truly aren’t well being meals and so they really feel like their complete life is a lie.

*Should you don’t see vitamin details on a recipe but, it’s as a result of that recipe nonetheless wants to be transformed to the new format. Working as onerous as I can to get this finished!

Print Picture

I get that, like, solely three 1/2 of us are nonetheless printing recipes these days (I’m a die onerous recipe printer-outer), however for our superior print group, now you can choose whether or not to print the recipe photograph or not.

This has been a lengthy requested characteristic, and I’m excited to roll it out!

Weight Measures

I’ve included weight measures in ounces on all my baking recipes for a number of years, however lots of the outdated recipes don’t have weight measures.

Utilizing weight measures and a kitchen scale is an superior means to degree up your baking recreation in the kitchen! Plus, it helps recipes be much more foolproof since many people measure flour, sugar, and many others in a different way when utilizing a measuring cup.

As I convert all my recipes to a new format, I can be including weight measures to ALL my baking recipes – even the tremendous outdated ones languishing in the cobwebby dungeons of the archives.

In the previous, I’ve used OUNCES for all weight measures on my recipes. I did this largely as a result of I used to be extremely influenced by America’s Check Kitchen after I first began running a blog, and so they use ounces as an alternative of grams. Nonetheless, I’ve gotten many, many, many confused questions over the years when readers see issues like: 1 cup of flour = 5 ounces.

Many individuals affiliate 1 cup = eight ounces, which is true if we’re speaking fluid ounces. However 1 cup can equal a lot of various weight measurements relying on the ingredient.

To assist clear up any confusion, I’m changing all my weight measures to grams, which is a extra broadly accepted and correct methodology for weighing elements. And naturally, I’ll nonetheless proceed to use cup measures as properly.

I do know this will trigger a few of you consternation. These of you, like me, who’ve gotten so used to setting your kitchen scale to ounces. However I promise, in the long term, that is the higher means. Thanks to your persistence as I roll this out!

Critiques

I’ve mentioned this earlier than, nevertheless it bears saying once more: it means SO a lot to me if you take the time to go away an trustworthy, unsolicited evaluate on any recipe on the web site.

These opinions assist me as I proceed this endeavor of meals running a blog (and as I create and take a look at many extra recipes), nevertheless it additionally helps give reputability to my recipes, in addition to helps my content material present up in google searches.

So THANK YOU to all of you who go away scores and opinions. I respect each certainly one of them! (Sure, even the ones who constructively and properly say why they didn’t get pleasure from a recipe for no matter purpose.)

In the new recipe format, there are a number of methods to go away a ranking or a evaluate. A ranking is simply choosing a star quantity with out leaving a remark. And a evaluate is a star ranking + a remark.

1) Underneath the title of the recipe, you possibly can choose a variety of stars to charge the recipe (with out leaving a remark – though if you choose three stars or decrease, it would routinely ask you to go away a remark so I can study from the worthwhile suggestions!).

2) Down at the prime of the remark thread, you possibly can go away a remark and choose a variety of stars to charge the recipe there. Or you possibly can go away a remark with out choosing a star ranking.

Search

I’m nonetheless engaged on bettering the search operate to return the most related outcomes, however for now the greatest outcomes will pop up as you kind in your search standards and anticipate the dropdown field to load.

That is enabled on cellular and desktop.

A Few Final Notes

There are a few extra design modifications which are sort of enjoyable: maintain your eye out for the What to Serve With This field on predominant dish posts in addition to cute FAQ containers to reply the mostly requested questions (and save time studying by way of the remark thread).

Thanks to your persistence as I proceed to replace recipes and roll out a few of the remaining modifications!

One fast word about adverts: you guys, I do know adverts are annoying. I don’t like them a lot, both. However adverts are sort of a needed evil as they’re the income supply that pays my payments and permits me to proceed supplying you with my absolute best tried-and-true recipes.

As my weblog has grown exponentially in site visitors over the final decade+, it has was a full-time enterprise, and it requires a lot of behind-the-scenes work to stick with it and working.

I believe lengthy and onerous about advert placement and the quantity of adverts that seem. There isn’t any magic formulation. And I do know lots of you are feeling such as you’d make totally different choices for those who had been in my sneakers.

However please take a second to be considerate as you decide or situation criticism. All of the items of the running a blog puzzle add up to an insane quantity of labor and prices related to hosting, design, contract workers, audits, plugins and extra. I’m working solely about 1/2 of the adverts obtainable to me so as to maintain the consumer expertise pretty optimistic.

With this redesign, I’m tweaking a few issues ad-wise (and making an attempt to remove some problematic adverts which have popped up – I apologize for these; thanks to these of you who convey them to my consideration).

Okay, I believe that’s it!!

I respect you and your kindness, loyalty, and persistence! I’m excited for these web site modifications and hope that you’re, too! Thanks for being right here, you guys.