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Welcome to our thirteenth Podcast at Recipe This and welcome to our latest cooking tips Podcast.

It is that time of year when we are all heading away in search of the summer sun. We of course don’t need to as we live in Portugal’s Algarve so there is certainly no shortage of lovely warm weather. But just like most people it is lovely to get away so we have decided to head to Spain for a couple of weeks.

Though, the biggest reason for going, well apart from wanting to get away from it all, is the lure of the Spanish tapas. You see I am a huge Spanish food fan and as I can be in the most famous part of Spain for tapas in 6 hours why not?

But at the same time I am always one for saving money so I will be sharing with you how to cut down on the eating out costs and how to get amazing value for money. We will be going for two weeks and we plan to document our summer adventure in the sun.

So back your suitcases and come on an adventure to Spain and back with us!

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Introduction – I will be sharing with you the shock horror of how much money we spent on food on our first holiday in the sun. This was of course 11 years ago and I have matured a bit since then!

* The Holiday Flats – Discover how growing up in the holiday trade and the influence of lots of frugal grandma like figures has made me think twice about how I plan out this holiday.

* Spain In 2016 – Learn our six step rule to save money on our holiday food in 2016 and how we are going to do things differently.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Cooking Tips FM 013:

TripAdvisor.com

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Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 013.

There has been a lot of talk over the last couple of months about an update on Instagram. The sort that could see social media mangers and food bloggers concerned that they were going to have an update similar to what has previously happened on Facebook.

For those of you that don’t remember Facebook put an update together so that the majority of the time your updates would be seen a lot less and it would have a big effect on your traffic unless you were paying for Facebook Ads.

Well people waited and the Instagram update finally came along. But unlike with Facebook it means that those that put an effort into their hashtags and general updates have the opportunity to go viral and that you have the chance to see a huge climb in your traffic.

This of course is something that we welcome and since then we have noticed that we are either staying the same on updates or getting extra traffic.

So if like many, if your traffic has gone down, your likes or your comments then have a listen to this Podcast and it will explain how much better things can be for you and your brand.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Introduction  – Whether you are new to Instagram or want to improve on your current set up then this section is worth a listen.

* Starting Your Social Media – Look at what you need to do first and how you can kickstart your Instagram account.

* Your Blog Posts – Everything you should do with every blog post in order to get yourself noticed on Instagram and to build your social brand.

* What Else Should You Be Doing – Here we look at the other things you should be doing on Instagram and how we got our own daily routine in place.

* Food Blogging Q&A – In this section I will talk about how the Instagram update shouldn’t affect you and what to do if it has.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 013:

Unfollowers

Instagram

Recipe This On Twitter

Recipe This – Latest Blog Posts

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Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 013.

There has been a lot of talk over the last couple of months about an update on Instagram. The sort that could see social media mangers and food bloggers concerned that they were going to have an update similar to what has previously happened on Facebook.

For those of you that don’t remember Facebook put an update together so that the majority of the time your updates would be seen a lot less and it would have a big effect on your traffic unless you were paying for Facebook Ads.

Well people waited and the Instagram update finally came along. But unlike with Facebook it means that those that put an effort into their hashtags and general updates have the opportunity to go viral and that you have the chance to see a huge climb in your traffic.

This of course is something that we welcome and since then we have noticed that we are either staying the same on updates or getting extra traffic.

So if like many, if your traffic has gone down, your likes or your comments then have a listen to this Podcast and it will explain how much better things can be for you and your brand.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Introduction  – Whether you are new to Instagram or want to improve on your current set up then this section is worth a listen.

* Starting Your Social Media – Look at what you need to do first and how you can kickstart your Instagram account.

* Your Blog Posts – Everything you should do with every blog post in order to get yourself noticed on Instagram and to build your social brand.

* What Else Should You Be Doing – Here we look at the other things you should be doing on Instagram and how we got our own daily routine in place.

* Food Blogging Q&A – In this section I will talk about how the Instagram update shouldn’t affect you and what to do if it has.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 013:

Unfollowers

Instagram

Recipe This On Twitter

Recipe This – Latest Blog Posts

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Welcome to our twelfth Podcast at Recipe This and welcome to our latest cooking tips Podcast.

In this Podcast we are talking about international cooking. You know that feeling when you read a recipe from a different country and you’re scratching your head because you don’t understand a word of it.

Flour has a different name, sugar has a different name and then they measure things totally different. Oh and they have names for herbs that you’ve never heard of before!

Well this has been me many times over the years and I am sure I have not been alone with this one. If it wasn’t for watching Friends I still wouldn’t know what an egg plant was and I am sure when I talk about a zucchini to people that I pronounce it all wrong.

I have American family so I have never really had much of an excuse. But I still struggle from time to time with the basic things such as measuring conversions and basic ingredients that go in baked goods.

So this Podcast is dedicated to people on both sides of the Atlantic that want to understand international cooking more and learn what those strange measurements actually mean.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Introduction – I will be sharing with you my knowledge of American cooking especially the funny little stories of when the cultural measuring system came into place. Oh and discover what sneaky joke we played on Kyle when we were in Boston.

* The Top 20 Common Cooking Words – Discover the cooking words that we should all know. These are a life saver if you are cooking and you’re trying to source the ingredients for a recipe you want to try out.

* Measurements – I will be sharing with you some simple measurements so that you will never get stuck again on that foreign recipe.

* What I Hate About Foreign Recipes – In the final chapter of the Podcast I will be having a mini rant and sharing with you the worst thing for cooking with a recipe from a different country.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Cooking Tips FM 012:

* Jamie Oliver Blog

* BBC Food

* BBC Good Food

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Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 012.

I want to talk today about niche domination. The idea that in your niche people would think of a keyword and think of you and ONLY YOU. It is something that you would normally only associate with a top celebrity or someone that can afford to pay for a big PR firm to do the work for you.

But with the power of blogs and social media you can dominate without the huge price tag. You can develop the “be everywhere” philiosophy and be all over the internet with your blog. Build up your blog in the long term and see excellent long term results.

Carrying on with just social media and blogging can bring you traffic but by following a “be everywhere” system you can expect to be there two years quicker than you would expect. You can have a blog that is still in its toddler steps that is doing better than blogs have been around for five years. Just imagine the potential that you are creating for yourself with a few moderations to your current workload.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Understanding niches – Discover how to get your head around micro niches and even if you don’t have a niche on your site how you can still follow a micro niche rule.

* Starting With Social Media – Starting the campaign with social media we will show you how to dominate Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and all the other important social media channels.

* Blog Outreach – Understanding blog outreach and how you can use blog outreach to build your blog.

* More ideas – we will also be covering lots of other areas so that you can create niche domination and literally be everywhere

* Food Blogging Q&A – In this section I will talk about how using the systems mentioned in this Podcast to increase traffic and to improve traffic if it is staying the same.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 012:

* RiteTag

* Recipe This Income Reports

* Buzz Sumo

* Hootsuite

* Twitter

* Facebook

* Pinterest

* Google+

* Instagram

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Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 012.

I want to talk today about niche domination. The idea that in your niche people would think of a keyword and think of you and ONLY YOU. It is something that you would normally only associate with a top celebrity or someone that can afford to pay for a big PR firm to do the work for you.

But with the power of blogs and social media you can dominate without the huge price tag. You can develop the “be everywhere” philiosophy and be all over the internet with your blog. Build up your blog in the long term and see excellent long term results.

Carrying on with just social media and blogging can bring you traffic but by following a “be everywhere” system you can expect to be there two years quicker than you would expect. You can have a blog that is still in its toddler steps that is doing better than blogs have been around for five years. Just imagine the potential that you are creating for yourself with a few moderations to your current workload.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Understanding niches – Discover how to get your head around micro niches and even if you don’t have a niche on your site how you can still follow a micro niche rule.

* Starting With Social Media – Starting the campaign with social media we will show you how to dominate Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and all the other important social media channels.

* Blog Outreach – Understanding blog outreach and how you can use blog outreach to build your blog.

* More ideas – we will also be covering lots of other areas so that you can create niche domination and literally be everywhere

* Food Blogging Q&A – In this section I will talk about how using the systems mentioned in this Podcast to increase traffic and to improve traffic if it is staying the same.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 012:

* RiteTag

* Recipe This Income Reports

* Buzz Sumo

* Hootsuite

* Twitter

* Facebook

* Pinterest

* Google+

* Instagram

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Welcome to our eleventh Podcast at Recipe This and welcome to our latest cooking tips Podcast.

This Podcast is going to be completely different to what you’re used to and involves my teenage boy in the kitchen making noodles. This is the same teenage son that a year ago I asked him to make some pasta and he burnt my pan because he forgot to cook it with water in the pan!

So I was certainly in for a challenge. I challenged him to watch me, copy me and then change a recipe to suit his own food needs and this is what we ended up with:

It is very important to be teaching our kids about cooking with us. In the old days you would be taught quite a lot at school and nowadays this is not happening and it is our responsibility to teach them instead.

If we could work with them and teach them 10 different dishes to make, by the time they leave home they will know enough to be able to take care of themselves. Otherwise they could soon end up leaving home living off baked beans and other processed foods. Alternatively they could end up like I did and have way too many takeaways.

Through just one hour in the kitchen with my son I taught him how to make a stir fry and several different ways with the same ingredients. As you can see below:

 

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Introduction – I will be starting by sharing with you the inspiration behind this Podcast and how something simple is all they need in order to learn about cooking.

* The Cooking Competition – Kids love a competition and this gets them thinking about food a lot more. It also allowed me to show him the difference between what could be achieved with processed foods to what you can make yourself.

* Copying My Example – Next on the agenda was to copy my example and to show him how easy it was to learn how to cook noodles.

* Being Creative – In the final chapter of the Podcast we talk about him being creative and changing part of the recipe to suit his own favourite foods.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Cooking Tips FM 010

* Pot Noodle

* CTFM Podcasts

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Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 011.

When you are a food blogger you will often consider social media to be Pinterest & Facebook. That will be it and that will be the end of your social media campaign. This is mainly because Facebook & Pinterest are so easy to drive traffic with or it could be a time thing.

But from someone like me that has been on Twitter for 7 years and have used it to build and grow a lot of different blogs I wanted to share with you what Twitter could mean if you are in the food blogging niche.

How you can build a following on Twitter, how you can increase your brand with Twitter but best of all how I can do it all on less than 5 minutes work a day. We all have 5 minutes that we can spare and compared to the time and effort that goes into something like Pinterest, it is 5 minutes worth investing in.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Twitter is quick – I did the maths and my time spent on Twitter is less than 5 minutes a day plus some easy outsourcing.

* Twitter action plan – You would be amazed by how little is involved to build up a Twitter machine. In this chapter I will talk you through everything you need to do for a fully functioning brand on Twitter.

* Twitter tools – There are some amazing tools for running your Twitter campaign. Some of them you have to pay for but the majority are FREE.

* What You Shouldn’t Be Doing – I am probably stating the obvious here but these are the things you shouldn’t be doing on your Twitter account.

* Food Blogging Q&A – In this section I will talk about whether or not Twitter is worth bothering with at all and how the social media sites stand in regards to importance.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 011:

* Unfollowers.com

* RiteTag

* Tweriod

* Click To Tweet

* Hootsuite

* Twitter

* Facebook

* Pinterest

* Google+

* Tumblr

* Instagram

* Linkedin

* How To Outsource On Your Food Blog

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Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 011.

When you are a food blogger you will often consider social media to be Pinterest & Facebook. That will be it and that will be the end of your social media campaign. This is mainly because Facebook & Pinterest are so easy to drive traffic with or it could be a time thing.

But from someone like me that has been on Twitter for 7 years and have used it to build and grow a lot of different blogs I wanted to share with you what Twitter could mean if you are in the food blogging niche.

How you can build a following on Twitter, how you can increase your brand with Twitter but best of all how I can do it all on less than 5 minutes work a day. We all have 5 minutes that we can spare and compared to the time and effort that goes into something like Pinterest, it is 5 minutes worth investing in.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Twitter is quick – I did the maths and my time spent on Twitter is less than 5 minutes a day plus some easy outsourcing.

* Twitter action plan – You would be amazed by how little is involved to build up a Twitter machine. In this chapter I will talk you through everything you need to do for a fully functioning brand on Twitter.

* Twitter tools – There are some amazing tools for running your Twitter campaign. Some of them you have to pay for but the majority are FREE.

* What You Shouldn’t Be Doing – I am probably stating the obvious here but these are the things you shouldn’t be doing on your Twitter account.

* Food Blogging Q&A – In this section I will talk about whether or not Twitter is worth bothering with at all and how the social media sites stand in regards to importance.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 011:

* Unfollowers.com

* RiteTag

* Tweriod

* Click To Tweet

* Hootsuite

* Twitter

* Facebook

* Pinterest

* Google+

* Tumblr

* Instagram

* Linkedin

* How To Outsource On Your Food Blog

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Welcome to our tenth Podcast at Recipe This and welcome to our latest cooking tips Podcast.

I quit processed foods this time last year. I gave up on my love for freezer bought fishfingers, chicken dippers, ready meals, baked beans and so much more. This led to me being the healthiest I have ever been. All that added salt, sugar or fat that had been added to my food without my knowledge was now gone.

And a new era started.

But when you have had processed foods for more than 30 years it is a strange change to have. You have been used to a certain type of food and then you no longer have it. But it also opens your eyes to what amazing food there is out there and how avoiding the brands big and exciting TV adverts can change your life.

It can also make such a difference to your kids and teach them a new way of eating. Just think when it takes just 3 minutes to make your kids a pasta sauce, a salad dressing, a homemade yoghurt or to put chicken and vegetables on for dinner, then why would you eat processed.

In this Podcast I will be sharing with you everything you need to know if you want your kids to quit the processed foods and live a much healthier life.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Introduction – I will share with you what processed foods I was fed as a child and what a challenge it was to drop my processed food intake by nearly 95%.

* Processed foods = brands – This is where you can learn exactly why brands have such a big role in processed foods and the job that you have in weaning your kids off them.

* What are processed foods? – Learn all about processed foods and the shock of finding out that a lot more foods are processed than you think!

* What should you replace processed food with? In this I will be sharing my favourite swaps and how delicious they are and really not that time consuming.

* What processed foods do we still have? Well we never quite ditched it all and kept a few things. These are the things that we recommend you should keep. Or to stop yourself from being deprived stick to 3-4 products that you wont ban from your pantry.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Cooking Tips FM 010

* Our month of one pot 30 minute meals

* 3 minute alfredo sauce

* Spanish Chicken

* Apple Chips

* Chocolate Chip Cookies

* Recipe This On Pinterest

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