What We Cook: Need Some Help Posting on this Blog?

Our Cookbook Blog

Our Cookbook ~ What We Cook, is a compilation of every recipe we (Janice and Carissa) cook - recipes from our cookbook collections, our recipe boxes, and our heads! We set up this blog for friends and family who have our cookbook to let them see pictures we post of the recipes in the book, and also for us to note any corrections, revisions, or additions to What We Cook. We encourage people who are cooking our recipes to let us know how the recipes turn out and any suggestions they might want to make.

In addition, we will be sharing some of our new recipes (along with pictures) that are not in our cookbook. We hope you will help us out and test recipes and give us your comments.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Need Some Help Posting on this Blog?

We received this email, and thought we would share it on the blog...

I can not find the place to just send a message on the blog.

Tommy and I have been trying your recipes- Pesto Tomato Soup, Chicken Spaghetti, and today we are trying the Lasagna. They have all been wonderful. I also share them with a girl from work and she thinks the same thing I do, she loves recipes that have been tried and passed down. Thanks for putting this book together. We will be trying new recipes weekly.

Thanks again,

Trish James

Hello Trish and Tommy! (Tommy is Janice's dad, and Carissa's grandfather!)--Thanks so much for your comments! You are encouraging to us! We thought others might need help with posting, so we are making this a posting tutorial! Hope this answers your questions:.

1. Anyone can comment on a posting. Simply look at the end of any "post" and you will see the word "comments." Click on that word and a box will come up for you to add your comment. Write your comment, then just click "publish your comment" at the end of the form.

2.To be able to write a posting on this blog, you first must become a blog author...this is done by responding to the invitation you have been sent by us...you will just click on a link in the invitation, and sign in, and you will be an author, ready to make a posting! If anyone needs another invitation, email Carissa or Janice, and we will send out the author invite to you again, no problem.

3. Once you are an author, after you sign in each time, a tan bar at the top of the blog will have the words "New Post" on the right. Click that, and another box will come up for you to put a post on. If you have a comment unrelated to another post, you can just put that comment on New Post. Just be sure to write some kind of title on your post. If you are writing about a recipe you have made, put the recipe title and page number in the title area.

4. Don't worry that you will mess anything up...if your posting needs to be edited or changed up in any way to fit the format, Carissa or Janice can go in and fix it up for you even after it is posted.

5. One more thing--if you are not getting email updates when something new is written on the blog, then click on "Subscribe Via Email" (top left hand) and put in your email address...and you will get emails to look at the blog for something new on it!