start a food blog.

I’ve spent today creating a template for my blog. It’s taken all afternoon because I started in Blogger, then switched to Wordpress, then had to import the whole lot into a new domain name – phew!

I’m quite happy with it as a starting point, although I am certain that it will evolve fairly drastically over time. One of my happy finds was a website called Platial, which allows you to create a customised map (very much like Googlemaps)and place it on your blog. Now I just need to write something pertinent – currently thinking of 1 or 2 posts per week max.

In terms of completing this goal, I guess that I will consider it completed when I have launched with 20 entries and have some meaningful stats. I’d love to post it here, but I don’t really want to create a linktrail to all my personal goals.

I initially wanted to start a food club, but realistically that’s going to be too time-consuming if I want to tackle all the other areas on my list.

Instead, I’m going to set up a food blog which is dedicated to my local area. I very much doubt that it will get a huge amount of traffic, but it will be an interesting exercise and crystallise my personal experience.

I want to create a food/cooking blog because I think it would be nice to share recipes with people from all over the world and if there was one thing that could unite the world FOOD would be it … And in recent years I have taken pictures of a whole of food that I have made and those made by others in the family and then there are those which are store bought. I have collected tons of pictures and looking through my Picasa2 (yes folks I have discovered FINALLY the wonderful world of Picasa2 by Google and learning to use it everyday) I find that it would be fun to create a blog specifically for food. It would definitely be a visual feast. (Don’t forget the drool bucket I tell myself)…

Another reason I wanted to do this was so I can have recipes from my current blogs imported to the food blogs for easy retrieval. Trust me sometimes the new recipes that I try I just blog about them and throw the piece of paper away which obviously causes me a lot of hassle when I want to try the recipe again and sometimes it takes forever to look for it on my blog seeing I cover a wide spectrum of topics in my blogs.

So I hope to start a blog soon and it will all be about food – recipes, pictures and not just mine – from friends , recipe books and the many searches I have done and recipes I have collected from the various sites online. Once ive done this goal ill post the link if anyone’s curious what kind of foods satisfies the pallets of the groovy island girl and her fellow islanders ….

www.mezzelicious.blogspot.com

I just did this a few days ago. http://pinayfoodie.wordpress.com

I have a food blog, it’s at:

http://purplechef.blogspot.com

I wish I had the time to a recipe up on my blog daily.

It’s more a review and food blog based in London, done with a friend. You can see it at foodpluslife.blogspot.com