The Cooking Bride's 2012 Year in Review

Recipe Roundup

The Cooking Bride’s 2012 Year in Review

Jan 1, 2013 by The Cooking Bride

Happy New Year!

It’s been quiet around here for a few days, hasn’t it? With all the hullabaloo that comes with Christmas, I decided it would serve my sanity wisely to step away from food blogging for a few days and enjoy my family.

That doesn’t mean I haven’t been hard at work. You may have noticed the blog got a little facelift. Even though the blog got a complete overhaul this time last year, there were elements that I wasn’t entirely happy with. However, our household budget is tight and I don’t have the money to hire someone to redesign it. One of the few (and I do mean few) perks of not having a lot of money is that it forces you to learn how to do things yourself. Through a lot of trial and error, reading and research, I managed this entire redesign by myself. I am tickled pink with how it turned out. I hope you like it.

In addition to changing the look of the site, I also added a resources tab to the navigation bar. In the coming months, I plan on posting a lot of quick reference guides and tutorials here. To start, I have launched The Cooking Bride’s Guide to . . . and have posted two reference guides for beginner cooks – “Stocking a Kitchen on a Budget” and “Stocking a Pantry.” If you are a new or budding cook, I hope you will find these helpful. Feel free to share them with your friends.

For the last three years, I have always posted a top recipes compilation consisting of the most popular recipes from the blog in the last year. Here are 2009, 2010, and 2011. I enjoy putting these posts together, because it’s fun to go back and see which recipes were the biggest hits. So in keeping with tradition, here is my 2012 recipe round-up.

10. Pink Lemonade