I Need Better Food Pics
In some cases, I just plain need pictures - good or not. I've been using Pinterest for a while now, and I started thinking that it would be a great way to handle the 'table of contents' on this blog. Currently I have the tabs at the top linking to all the different categories - using Blogger labels. And that works OK. You click the tab for soups, and you get a page with all the posts I've labelled 'soup' - simply scroll down through the posts to find a recipe that looks good.
I thought it would be nicer to create a Board on Pinterest for each of my categories. Clicking the tab would give you a page - like this one I created for Soups - with all the recipes in that category. The only problem is that it's not quite that easy. Why? Because I don't have pictures on all my recipes, and that means either I can't add those recipes to the Pinterest board, or I have to use my header, which doesn't quite convey the idea. It's that yummy picture of the recipe that is going to make people look in the first place. I know I love the pictures in a cookbook - whether I'm cooking or not, I can still get a lot of enjoyment out of looking at the pictures. Of course, my favorite cookbook - The Best of Mennonite Fellowship Meals - has no pictures at all, but...
Anyway, I have been trying harder to take pictures of everything I make, but I don't always remember - sometimes not until it's half gone, and sometimes not at all. And, my husband has been known to laugh at me for taking pictures of food. My problem is that I don't really know what makes a good food pic. I know one when I see one, but I don't really understand why it's good, and how do I go about taking some of my own? So it's time for some research into food photography and getting better food pics. I found a couple posts to start with:
In the meantime, what to do about those Pinterest Boards? Do you think it's a good idea for the 'table of contents' part of this blog? What do you use to organize your recipe posts to make them easy to browse?
many recipes in the world that there is just no excuse for using one twice if it's not something you really enjoy. Now, whether the rest of the family enjoys them or not is another story, but I try to add special notes about who likes what. 
