At the beginning of the year I was seriously considering whether to stop blogging altogether, but I plodded along, and here I am, still cooking and posting recipes and snippets of our family life.
I'm always amazed that someone is reading my ramblings, and I'm eternally grateful to all my blog readers for coming back.
At the end of the year I usually look at the stats for my posts written through the year, to see which posts have received the most pageviews. My food and drink, book and toy reviews do quite well, with Grossery Gang Yucky Mart post taking the laurels of the most read non-recipe post.
Being a foodie blog, I'm curious to find out which of my recipe posts got the most interest.
And so here are my top ten most popular recipe posts of 2016:
No.10 Fruit & nut chocolate shards with popping candy
chocolate desserts are usually popular with readers (and with me too. I'm a chocoholic through and through)
No.9
Haggis sausage rolls were cooked to celebrate Burns Night, and proved to be well-received by my audience.
No.8
Strawberries with Pimm's - it wasn't much of a recipe, more of a recipe suggestion. It's one of my personal favourite food photos of 2016, as it reminds me of summer.
No.7
Roasted Tomato and Garlic Borlotti Beans Hummus was a quick and easy hummus recipe.
No.6
Slow dough: Real Bread by Chris Young and Earl Grey tea loaf appeared quite recently, but managed to reach no.6 position. It was a delicious loaf, and I must bake it again soon.
No.5
Marmalade cookies - who doesn't like cookies?! Easy to bake, always welcome with a cup of tea or coffee.
No.4
Reuben sandwich made it to no.4. You can't beat a good old classic sandwich.
no.3
Italian recipes are often in demand, judging by the stats of my blog through the years.
Aubergine parmigiana is another classic recipe which has loads of fans.
No.2
Crabbie's Raspberry delight cocktail recipe proved to be popular on the run to Christmas, and propelled it to no.2.
And Ta Da... no.1 was a total surprise for me, as it's quite a recent post, having appeared just over a month ago:
Plaice in tomato saffron sauce recipe achieved the highest score of the year, and I'm not quite sure why. It was a tasty meal, but if I had to pick my most favourite recipe of the year, it would have probably been some dessert.
I'm wishing you all a very happy new year! And thank you again for reading my blog!
I always love your foodie photos - as beautiful as they are tasty :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cheryl! Here's to another year of blogging for both of us!
DeleteI love reading your ramblings :) Don't stop please :)
ReplyDeleteYou're most kind, Fede! Wishing you a happy new year!
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