Intro to Pinterest for my Foodie Friends

Adding a Pin

You do not need to be a blogger to benefit from Pinterest. This introduction to Pinterest is intended for anyone who is interested in organizing their internet finds in an easy to find format. Have you ever discovered something on the internet and then couldn’t find it a week later when you needed it? Have you [...]

Intro to StumbleUpon for My Foodie Friends and Linky

Saturday Blogging at Premeditated Leftovers Blogging Tips Blogging Resources

To those of you receiving this by email: I am sorry! Occasionally on Saturdays, I write incredibly long and boring posts about blogging (and social media) for other food bloggers. If you subscribe for the recipes, then let me recommend my Traditional Toffee post. It has been stumbledUpon over 11,ooo times in 36 hours, so it is [...]

Gallery of Favorites 9/16

Chopped Salad with Blackberries

April of The 21st Century Housewife and I would like to welcome you to our weekend blog hop: Gallery of Favorites! The Gallery of Favorites is a place for you to feature favorite posts from your own blog. Although April and I both spend a lot of our time writing about food, we do have [...]

How to Make Superfine/Caster Sugar

How to Make Superfine Sugar Caster Sugar

Sometimes a recipe will call for superfine or caster sugar. When you go to the store you will also find this sugar called ultrafine sugar, baking sugar, and/or castor sugar. But it isn’t anything special and you don’t need to pay a premium price for it because it is easy to make yourself. All you need is [...]

Who Stole the Cookies…

Who stole the cookies

Did you see the Shrewsbury Cakes I made yesterday? The ones for which I made distilled rose water last week just so I could make these cookies? The ones I piped with Decorating Icing and topped with Candied Flowers? The cookies that I was going to bring to a picnic at the Shakespeare Festival? Who do you [...]

Surviving a Blog Crash and Other Resources

Saturday Blogging at Premeditated Leftovers Blogging Tips Blogging Resources

I was planning on sharing a few blogging resources with you yesterday, but I crashed my site. So before I share the tips, I am going to share my experience and how it was resolved. First I should tell you that I am not a techie. I wanted to move to WordPress and have a self-hosted blog for [...]

Welcome to the New Premeditated Leftovers

Premeditated Leftover has been redesigned (640x421)

Welcome to the newly redesigned Premeditated Leftovers! I am grateful to Angie Vinez of Blessed Beyond Words for redesigning my blog, moving it to WordPress, and integrating my other blogs (One Determined Gardener, Gluten-Free Flavor Full, and Covert Teaching) into the new site.  Angie also designed my Facebook welcome page and my twitter page.  I still have [...]

Saturday Blogging: A Few Resources to Increase Productivity

As a mommy blogger it is important to remember that you actually have to have a life or you won’t have anything to blog about. The problem is that as your blog grows it takes up more and more of your time. If you aren’t careful you can end up stuck behind a computer believing [...]

Intro to Twitter for My #Foodie Friends

Did I promise last week not to write another ridiculously long post? I’m sorry, I unintentionally lied! I really had no idea I had so much to say about twitter. This is a compilation of questions I have answered about twitter in emails to friends. Twitter is an effective way to quickly get your posts [...]

Saturday Blogging – Recipe and Photo Copyrights

First off I want to make sure you know that I am not a lawyer or a professional blogger. I am just a food blogger sharing what I have learned with my fellow foodies. I also want to apologize in advance; this is going to be rather long and boring if you are not a [...]