It was one year ago today that I announced the beginning of this blog to my Facebook friends. We’ve come a long way since that first post about Danish Puffs. 
Do you remember those days? It was me with a basic plan, a camera I wasn’t sure how to use, and no real knowledge about how to blog.
Just for fun, let’s get into stats.
I have published 121 Recipes to my blog:
10 Bread Recipes
4 Breakfast Recipes
40 Dessert Recipes
2 Drink Recipes
27 Main Dish Recipes
4 Preserving Recipes
1 Sauce Recipes
30 Side Dish Recipes
3 Snack Recipes
9 Worst Recipes:
- Egg Foo Yung
- Sweet and Sour Bean Combo
- Peach Cottage Cheese Loaf
- Popcorn Balls (just because I have lots of other recipes and no one really ate these)
- Zippy Beet Salad
- Swedish Ham Balls
- Cornmeal Scrapple
- Hamburger Dinner Mix (I would do this again with proper seasoning, but not as the recipe stands)
- Banana Cream Sponge Cookies
Top 11 favorite recipes:
- Kringla-I asked my family which recipe was their favorite. This was everyone’s first answer.
- Hot Chicken Salad-My husband’s new favorite meal.
- Apple Walnut Cookies-These are delicious even after sitting the freezer for months.
- Bread and Butter Pickles-These are the best bread and butter pickles I’ve eaten.
- Banana Bread-It’s classic for a very good reason.
- Whiskey Slush-Could I count this as a make ahead freezer meal?
- Cherry Meringue Pie-This might be better than lemon meringue.
- Darned Good Candy-I’m feeling like I should be making a batch again.
- Tropical Delight Salad-There had be a Jell-O recipe on the list and this was my oldest’s favorite
- Sour Cream Lima Beans-I’ve determined that most anything baked in sour cream is good, but bacon makes it even better.
- Hot Brandy Sauce-Thinking about it makes my mouth water.
Number of groundhogs:
1, 2,0,4,3,2,1,2,3,2 (It’s a long story)
Backlog of recipes: 51
Yep. I have 51 recipes that I’ve made that I haven’t shared yet. The list keeps growing. There are still a lot of recipes to make.
Best Commenters:
- Marilyn (My mom). She really is amazing
- Sheryl, awesome blogger and author of A Hundred Years Ago
- Jen Devers, supportive friend.
- Silver Screenings. You already know I think she’s great.
- Diane Perry. A great aunt.
Upcoming:
There are more recipes to publish. I’m contemplating the idea of an eBook or a series of cookbooks. I’m debating recipe contests. I have pins to create for Pinterest.
Finally, I’d like to thank everyone for being so supportive of this little project of mine. A special thanks to everyone that has helped sample the food. If anyone has sampled the recipes and would like to tell me what they think of them, please don’t hesitate to comment (Erika). I’d love to see what you are up to in the kitchen.
My comments made it to the blog didn’t they? I swear they did. I blame Jason if they didn’t, just because.
We can blame Jason all you want. I have no problems with that. I can’t tell you how many don’t make it because I don’t know. My mom does a lot of typing and then forgetting to hit “submit”.
I’m impressed. You also forgot to talk about how much you have learned about running a website and hosting and DNS and all that fun stuff.
I assumed that was a given.
Happy Blogiversary! You’ve accomplished a lot over the past year. It’s interesting to see which were the best and worst recipes. I’m looking forward to more wonderful posts during the next year.
Sheryl, I hope to oblige with more wonderful recipes. It’s birthday season coming up around here, so expect birthday desserts.
One year?! You seem like such a blogging pro that I thought you’d been around much longer.
Anyway, congrats on your first wonderful year, and I hope there are many more years to come. I love the ideas you’re cooking up for the future. 🙂
A pro? That is quite a compliment. I mostly feel like a hack.
HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY!! (officially in your comments) You are one of my favorite people! This is a great blog and I love seeing how you have grown. I look forward to you continuing because I know you have a very bright future!! Love you!!
Thanks, Jen!!! I have been working on my achieves and making sure they are up to my present standards. I appreciate all of your support. You are awesome!