Magic With Gadgets

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Welcome to our fifth Podcast at Recipe This and we are honoured to having you listening to what we have to say!

The theme for Podcast #5 is broccoli and we have lots to share with you today. In fact we are so into broccoli in this Podcast that we have 14 different recipes that you can try out at home where broccoli is the main focus.

I have loved broccoli since I was a child and it is just perfect for giving your body a boost. We get through about 4-5 kilos of broccoli per week and because of this we are rarely ill. Also with it being so cheap to buy fresh from the supermarket or from the local market it is the perfect choice.

But you are probably thinking that for a vegetable that is a large amount, but when you are having it with most meals and also have a soft spot for broccoli soup then you can soon get through it.

The best bit about this particular Podcast has been the research. Being able to look at how good broccoli really is for you and how it can help you. Plus educating ourselves about lots of new fresh ideas for cooking with it. We even have a pizza recipe with broccoli in it and if you can’t get your kids eating their broccoli if you put it on a deep pan pizza I am sure they will be begging you to make it for them!

[Tweet “CT FM 005: The Ultimate Guide To Broccoli #cookingtips #broccoli #healthypodcast :)”]

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Cooking Tips – Have you ever wanted to learn more about the benefits of broccoli but had never got around to asking? Well everything is answered in this section.

* Family Cooking Time – Do you want to get your kids involved in the kitchen? If so this section is perfect as it gives ideas of great recipes that you can cook with them.

* Family Healthy Eating – If you want to be eating healthy as a family then you’ll love our family healthy eating chapter. With some great recipes that will make your kids forget that they are eating healthy, it will just be delicious home cooked food to them.

* Frugal Family Cooking – So you want to eat healthy but you don’t want it to break the bank? Then if that is the case you’ll love our frugal recipes.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Cooking Tips FM 005:

* Russell Hobbs Food Steamer

* Broccoli Chicken Casserole

* Bacon & Broccoli Salad

* Broccoli, Spinach & Feta Pizza

* Broccoli & Cheese Mashed Potatoes

* Broccoli Soufflés

* Broccoli Mac & Cheese Salad

* Healthy Broccoli Pasta

* Broccoli Apple Pasta Bowls

* Maple Glazed Salmon With Broccoli

* Deconstructed Broccoli Gratin Soup

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Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 005.

You often hear blogs saying that they can’t wait until they get traffic or their blog is a few years old so that they can start working with brands. But that statement is certainly one of the past. Nowadays with how popular blogging is to brands and how much they love to be endorsed on social media, the mr nobody can come along and get free products in exchange for reviews even if they have zero traffic.

I went after brands before my site even had content offering brands the chance to be the first reviews on my site. They sent out kitchen gadgets to me before I even had chance to think about it! It was literally that quick!

Working with brands is fun and it is amazing how many different products you end up getting the chance to check out. When I look at what is in my kitchen cupboards I smile and think that my kitchen looks very typical of a food blogger.

I have funny shaped kids pasta in the cupboard, BBQ rub for summer from a BBQ specialist in the US, a slow cooker from Lakeland, a Juicer from Germany, an ice cream maker from Italy, sturdy kitchen pans from Holland and a huge supply of general kitchen items.

[Tweet “Food Blogging FM 005: The Art Of Working With Brands #foodblogging #bloggingin2016 #blogging”]

Its fun and in this Podcast we will be showing you how to connect with these brands. How to get them to send you products, how it works, how to be organised, what to ask for and so much more.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Monetising Your Blog – How you can make money back off the products even though you have not been paid for the initial review. Very interesting if you are a new blog and want to earn money with little or no traffic.

* Building Traffic To Your Blog – Learn exactly how to use the brand products to grow your traffic. How you will get more social media shares and better SEO positions.

* Techy Chit Chat – I will share with you the stages of working with brands. From what products to target to what to say. You will realise that if you are organised it is really easy to achieve.

* Food Blogging Q&A – In this section I will run through what you have the potential of charging for your reviews. This is going to be your target once you have 30,000 monthly page views or greater. So if your traffic is zero you know what to aim for first.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 005:

* A Small Cheese In Provence Review

* The Ultimate Guide To Getting Brands To Send You Products

* How To Create A Recipe Ebook Every Month (using recycled content)

* Kindle Direct Publishing

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Welcome to our fourth Podcast at Recipe This and we are honoured to having you listening to what we have to say!

The theme for this week’s foodie Podcast came together after I read a Facebook update insulting the food of the country I am from. It basically called a Brit obnoxious by an American food blogger because they made a mistake about a name of a dish and just because the person pointed this out to them it had turned into world war three.

As food bloggers this is something that can often happen to people and shouldn’t result in some crazy bitching just because you’re not willing to admit fault. I later saw another recipe on the persons blog that was a lot worse and really shouldn’t be associated with English cooking. But it is not my responsibility to point this out and its not something I particularly care about.

(note I later blocked the blogger from my activity on Facebook because she turned it into a hateful rant at Brits)

[Tweet “CT FM 004: Food Culture & Favourite Cuisine #podcast #favouritefood”]

But it got me thinking about culture and the different cuisines of the world and how often we just try to reinvent recipes that we just don’t get and how we should be embracing culture and enjoying the food of the world!

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Cooking Tips – Giving you a taste of the best of British here is Dominic with his amazing roast potatoes. These are so delicious that my cousin was still asking about the recipe a year later!

* Family Cooking Time – I am taking you back to my British roots with my Grandad and his amazing homemade fishcakes. They are full of flavour and so simple you wont even need a measuring devise.

* Family Healthy Eating – We are talking about making little steps into foreign food so that you can learn it one step at a time rather than trying to take it all on at once and then ending up failing.

* Frugal Family Cooking – My favourite takeaway cheat meal for just $4 each. Now this is my absolute favourite and no matter what age you are, you will love this!

Links & Resources Mentioned In Cooking Tips FM 002:

* Five Ingredient Fisherman Fishcakes

* Chinese Kebabs & Rice

* The Ultimate Airfryer Burgers

* Kebab Grill Review

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Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 004.

You will often hear bloggers (not just food bloggers) talking about a 12 month content plan. This is their time to produce their best content and spend a year getting lots of it out. Promoting it as they go it allows themselves the opportunity to build up their traffic over the first year and get a good readership started.

The speed you achieve this in depends greatly on the amount of quality content that you get out. Many stick to five a week, some seven a week and a few once or twice a week. The choice is yours. But what you have to appreciate is that whatever you do you must stick to it and build up a site that is full of your personality.

In this Podcast I will be sharing with you my content plan for the first 12 months and why it is important to have one if you plan on building up a business via your blog.

[Tweet “Food Blogging FM 004: The One Year Content Plan #podcast #foodblogging”]

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Monetising Your Blog – In this section I will going through what income streams you should have in your first year of your blog. What they should entail and why traffic isn’t the main factor with these simple income streams.

* Building Traffic To Your Blog – Traffic is hard work at the start of a food blog, but this is how you should be generating traffic and how working on these on a daily basis can lead to a lot of regular traffic.

* Techy Chit Chat – Dominic will be chatting to you in this Podcast about Plugins. I have to grit my teeth a lot of the time at all these Plugins that people are paying for that they simply don’t need. He will be showing you what you do need so you don’t waste any money.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 004:

* Our Kindle Ebooks

* Draft2Digital

* Soup Maker Recipes Category

* Soup Machine Recipe Ebook On the Kindle

* Aweber

* How To Get Brands To Send You Products

* Click To Tweet

* Genesis Simple Share

* Pinterest Pin It Button

* Simple Social Icons

* The 3 stages to completing SEO on your recipe posts

* Taste Spotting

* DishFolio

* Healthy Aperture

* Food Gawker

* Oh My Veggies

* My Recipe Magic

* Delishogram

* Finding Vegan

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Welcome to our third Podcast at Recipe This and we are honoured to having you listening to what we have to say!

We are dedicating this Podcast to going frugal. To eating on a budget, to eating amazing meals for less and enjoying your food.

You don’t have to spend a lot of money in order to enjoy great food you just need to make the best out of what you have got.

I must admit that I used to waste food and we used to end up throwing food in the bin just because we had forgotten to eat it or had eaten out more than planned. This is like throwing money down the toilet and shouldn’t be happening. Yet billions of food ends up in waste fills every year.

[Tweet “CT FM 003: Feeding Your Family For A Fiver #cookingtips #podcast”]

Not only are we going to show you how to save money with your grocery shopping but also show you what our favourite frugal meals are and I bet you wont believe they are frugal because they are that nice.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Cooking Tips – Let us share with you how to cook cheap and what to do when you have hardly any money left for groceries. This is a real eye opener and great for if you want to save up for something.

* Family Cooking Time – We will be sharing with you our favourite frugal meaty meal to have on a Saturday night while watching television. This is a really good one for beating the takeaway and keeping your money in your wallet.

* Family Healthy Eating – This week we will be sharing with you our top 5 family meals that you can cook at home that will save you a small fortune. All of these are family favourites and your kids will love you if you serve them this for dinner.

* Frugal Family Cooking – For the frugal section this week we are talking all about finding one product in the grocery department and spreading it out over several meals.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Cooking Tips FM 002:

* Pumpkin & Garlic Soup

* Meatloaf Recipe

* Party Meatballs Recipe

* Thai Vegetable Curry

* Sausage Casserole

* Lakeland slow cooker review

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Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 003.

It is hard to believe (even saying it on here) that it is more than 7 years since my very first blog. Blogging back then was so different than it is now. Yes it was still about the content, but the way you included images and the way you marketed a blog post was so different.

Back in the old days you could post a blog with a terrible image and then talk about it on forums and it would send a surge of traffic through to your site and would often put a few subscribers on your mailing list at the same time. Then you would also post a few articles to article directories and this would also add to your traffic.

It was a time when there was a lot less competition and it was a lot easier to manipulate the search engines.

But at the same time there wasn’t social media like there is today. That is unless you wanted to market your business on My Space!!!!

[Tweet “Food Blogging FM 003: Food Blogging In 2016 #podcast #foodblogging”]

So in this Podcast it is all about talking about the differences and making sure that you are marketing your business for 2016.

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Monetising Your Blog – I will be sharing with you what were the best income streams in 2008 and what are the best in 2016. They may have changed but the main sources of income are still the same.

* Building Traffic To Your Blog – Discover what the main sources of traffic was in 2008 and what drives my traffic in 2016 with my ten main sources of traffic.

* Techy Chit Chat – Dominic will be chatting to you in this Podcast about how things have changed since 2008 and what it was like for him building the first blog, compared to building them now in 2016.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 003:

* Google Adsense

* Our Coaching Service

* Food Gawker

* Oh My Veggies

* Taste Spotting

* Pinterest

* Twitter

* Studiopress/Genesis Framework

* Daily Dish Theme By StudioPress

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Welcome to our second Podcast at Recipe This and we are honoured to having you listening to what we have to say!

We wanted to create a Podcast where we can share our healthy eating and cooking tips with others that want to be healthy, but have not quite found their way yet. Or you might cook already but you’re looking for ways to save money or you want to introduce your kids to new things.

I have to confess first that I am no saint. I am sat here typing this up from my home office and it is lunch time and I am having lunch as I type. The lunch is not healthy – I have a slice of bread with Dominic’s homemade chicken liver pate on top, a banana and 10g of milk chocolate. But in the old days there would have been butter on cheap white bread, a packet of crisps and a lot more chocolate.

Away from my unhealthy lunch I have 6 kilos of diced pumpkin in my fridge, endless other vegetables, eggs, fruit and loads of meat. And all these vegetables will be gone in the next few days.

I am all for the bad in moderation and making sure our healthy lifestyle is full of goodness. And this is what this weeks Podcast is all about – eating healthy as a family and finally ditching the diet.

[Tweet “CT FM 002: How To Eat Healthy With Your Kids #podcast”]

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Cooking Tips – Dominic will be talking you through how to chop up a chicken and you’re probably wondering why this is so important? Well if you want to save money and eat healthy you need those diced chickens.

* Family Cooking Time – If you get kids involved in cooking with you then they will learn and they will want to eat healthy. This is what we did with our son.

* Family Healthy Eating – If you want to eat healthy as a family start with these meals. They are all simple to make and will make eating easy!

* Frugal Family Cooking – You can eat well and do it on the cheap. This is my favourite all time way of eating meat everyday but the cheap way to do it.

Links & Resources Mentioned In Cooking Tips FM 002:

* How To Chop Up A Chicken

* Meatloaf Recipe

* Party Meatballs Recipe

* Thai Vegetable Curry

* Sausage Casserole

* Morphy Richards Soup Maker Review

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Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 002.

Isn’t it really exciting when you start a new blog? Especially when you get your first visitors to your site! And then all of a sudden you want to monetise it as you realise that you might actually be able to make some money from your blog. You are getting a little traffic and not a lot to get approved on the high end advertising sites. So Adsense just seems like a good option.

I remember when we first opened an Adsense account. It was back in 2008. Which feels like a lifetime ago now. Back then Twitter was just taking off and the best form of traffic for your blogs was article directories. I was building up the traffic to a blog showing people how to get into internet marketing and make money from home. It was exciting. It was nerve racking and it was a fantastic adventure.

I will admit right now, that even though I opened an Adsense account (and got approved straight away) it was probably six months before I qualified for a pay out! The sites traffic was not bad but with the focus being on selling my ebooks and affiliating other products it was not something that I took seriously.

But then until you are getting 10 million visitors a day it is not going to provide you with enough income for you to live off. So we will be starting this Podcast by talking more about Adsense.

[Tweet “Food Blogging FM 002: Adsense & Food Blogging! #podcast”]

This Podcast will be split into the following main areas:

* Monetising Your Blog – We will be talking about what you need to think about when it comes to monetising your blog with Adsense. If you are earning peanuts from Adsense then you need to listen to this!

* Building Traffic To Your Blog – We will be talking about what you need to be doing to kickstart your social media traffic and your SEO from day one and how to bring in those first 10,000 readers to your blog.

* Techy Chit Chat – Dominic will be chatting to you in this Podcast about website speed and what you should be doing to speed it up. As lets face it the majority of websites load so slow you feel like you’re back on dial up internet!

Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 002:

* Google Adsense

* Hootsuite

* Godaddy Auctions

* Name Cheap (preferred place for cheap domain names)

* BlueHost (perfect for starter hosting)

* Knownhost (our VPS hosting)

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Welcome to our cooking tips FM Podcast and a big welcome to our Podcasting party!

We love Podcasts both as a creator and a listener. They are a fantastic alternative than a blog post or a video to get involved in a blog and are another way to tell a story.

It is also a chance for us to share our favourite cooking stories with you and to create a place where we can celebrate home cooking as a family without turning to the processed foods. We make ideal food bloggers because we have owned blogs before and we are addicted to cooking simple meals, so we are looking forward to sharing it all with you!

For this first Podcast it is an introductory session. We will be sharing with you what you can expect from our Podcasts and giving you the chance to subscribe so that you are always in the loop when a new Podcast is published.

Our CT FM Podcasts will go live every Thursday morning on Recipe This and you can learn from our cooking tips Podcasts in order to grow your cookery knowledge or just to listen to some cookery ideas.

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Access All Our Cooking Tips Podcasts

We will be updating this page every week so that you can use it as an index to access all of our cooking tips Podcasts.

CT FM 002: How To Eat Healthy With Your Kids

CT FM 003: Feeding Your Family For A Fiver

CT FM 004: Food Culture & Favourite Cuisine

CT FM 005: The Ultimate Guide To Broccoli

CT FM 006: Cooking With Your Kids

CT FM 007: Cooking With Herbs & Spices

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