Today is July 1st, which marks five years since I started this blog. Five. In blog terms that means I have been around since the time of the dinosaurs. In real world terms, this is a really dedicated hobby. I started blogging for a bunch of reasons, but mostly because I was doing some web design at work and wanted a sandbox to play around in. I never dreamed that five years later this would be such a major part of my life and a driving force for my business. Part of that is my work, but mostly that is because of you guys. How do I say thank you for that?
Want to see something funny? I was hunting through my old photos from 2009, before I actually started blogging, right about when I was thinking about starting a blog, and had an idea that food blogging would become the thing (<< and I wasn’t wrong about that). Back then Pioneer Woman was the only food blogger I knew about and assumed the field was wide open. Ha! Now I laugh.
Anyway. My perception of the times told me that old fashioned Betty Crocker foods with a modern twist were popular (I think I might have been watching too much Sandra Lee). Want to see what I thought I could deliver?
1. BAM.
2. Horf!
3. BAM. We have come a long way, baby.
FYI that was my grandmother’s chicken noodle kugel, aka: Midwest in a Pot. Don’t forget the pretzels on top! Possibly the grossest, least healthy, but strangely delicious thing ever. I want you to know I have served this to people in real life who have loved it. LOVED IT. But yeah, how that translates to the internet…yeah. Nope. This wasn’t something I served more than once a year, so what made me think it would be a great way to launch a food blog, I don’t know. But you can see why that never got off the ground. Also, I thought was a really good product photo. And at the time, it probably was. I have certainly leveled up my photography game since then, but so has the blogosphere. Video is the new frontier. I suspect folks will be filming home movies in 3D before the decade is up. Hoverboards can’t be far behind…
Welp. A year post hood kugel, I started this site, AND IT GOT OFF THE GROUND. It got off the ground, spread its little wings, and carried me into a new and exciting adventure. Six years past noodle kugel, and nearly 1,000 posts later (not one of them involving an ugly casserole recipe), the adventure continues. I am so glad you are here to enjoy it with me.
Happy birthday to us!