What’s new around here?
You may have noticed a few changes around the site, but in case you didn’t, I thought I’d point them out. I finally joined the Flickr bandwagon. So, now all my photos have a link to that photo uploaded in Flickr (at least the new ones do; I’m probably not going to go back and add all the photos from the archives). In some cases, the Flickr picture may be bigger, if I cropped it down to use on the site, so you may see a little something extra. Also, sometimes I want to add more pictures than I have room for, so you may see a few more pictures of the dish if you click through to its set on Flickr.
I’ve also added an animated link to my photostream over —-> on the right sidebar. There, you might get a sneak peek of what’s coming up before it’s posted here, or you might catch a picture of us doing something other than eating or going somewhere other than the kitchen.
I’ve also recently joined twitter. You can follow me @mwelting or see my profile here. Be forewarned though — I post pretty sporadically (mostly about what I’m eating, of course), so don’t expect too much.
Finally, I’ve been using this cool site springpad that I found via The Kitchn, and I’ve been meaning to tell you about it. It has ways to organize all kinds of things, but I use it mostly for recipes and meal planning. It has a feature where it can automatically read in recipes from the web (though this can be finicky) and puts them in a database for you. You can also type or copy in recipes yourself. You can then use their weekly meal planner to drag and drop meals onto days:
It then even has features to make a grocery list for you out of the ingredients lists from those recipes.
It’s all free, at least for now. My biggest complaint is that there doesn’t seem to be a good way to import and export. I’m conscious that a beta site like this could disappear at any time, so I wish I could export a backup copy of my recipes. As it is, I’m just not really depending on it as a way to store stuff, but am using it as sort of an additional tool. I’ve been wanting some kind of integrated menu planner and grocery list maker for a while, so I’m really excited about it from that perspective. Play around with it, and let us know what you find in the comments!
