We actually have 4 spotlights today, rolled into one! I’m happy to be featuring the sisters from Favorite Family Recipes in today’s Blogger Ten. I can’t remember when I was first introduced to their site – but I think it was when I heard about their cookbook on a local tv show. I love all of their family friendly meal ideas and their blog always leaves me hungry! I’m glad to be sharing them with you today!
Favorite Family Recipes started out as a way for us sisters to swap our favorite recipes. Turns out, there were other people out there who wanted to get in on our recipes too! We are always happy to share our recipes whether they are recipes that have been passed down through our family or new recipes that we have created or tried. None of us are fancy, professional chefs by any stretch of the imagination. We just love tasty, home-cooked food that is easy to prepare and that will put smiles on our hungry families faces.
What inspired you to first start writing your blog?
We come from a family full of amazing cooks that love to share recipes. In the past, we would call each other to get recipes or send out emails but it was getting to be too time consuming and completely disorganized. By the time I went to college I had a binder full of random recipe scribblings and loose recipe cards… it was a disaster. I finally got up the courage to type up and print out all the recipes so they were legible and easy to find – but I quickly found out that the recipe sharing process is never-ending! Everyone is always coming up with new recipes or digging up old recipes! It was getting to be a headache trying to organize and categorize all the new recipes so we researched a different option… a blog. A blog provided a way we could post recipes as we tried them and if someone in the family wanted the recipe they could just quickly look it up online! Everything was all in one place, plus, the recipes were categorized, searchable, and printable. We love sharing our recipes with everyone but it is still truly an archive of our family’s favorite recipes. We use it and keep it going today for the same reason as day one!
What kinds of posts are your favorite to write? What do your readers seem to like the most?
Parmesan Baked Potato Halves
I love writing all kinds of posts. Probably the copycat ones are my favorite though. I LOVE it when I can crack the recipe code of a restaurant recipe! I get on the blog as fast as I can to share it with everyone because I just know there are people out there who are as excited as I am for a new copycat recipe! As it turns out, they are some of our most popular posts! Maybe our readers can sense how excited I get about them or something. Our readers have also enjoyed some of our most simple recipes.. recipes that we assumed everyone knew already! Our #1 recipe to date is the Parmesan Baked Potato Halves. It is such an easy recipe but everyone is going crazy over it! (Erica)
What is your favorite recipe posted on your blog?
Erica: Café Rio Chicken Tortilla Soup
Emily: Chicken in Basil Cream
Elise: Coconut Cream Cake
Echo: Nothing Bundt Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cake
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