Post Comment Love & Newbie Showcase 15 July 2016

Hello there!  Guess what? Yes it's Friday again, so welcome to this week's Post Comment Love. You might be wondering why I'm sharing what is a rather pretty of rain. Or you might be fed up with the rain, but that's not why. This week I think the rain's had it in for me. No honestly. 

Do you know how many times this week it's rained at 1pm and 5pm?

Lots I tell you. It even prevented a bike ride to a local office on Tuesday, hammering it down it was. I guess that's "summer" for you! Let's hope the weather becomes more summer like soon, or sunnier at least.

Photo credit: Unsplash

Photo credit: Unsplash

Newbie Showcase: Jacqui from Recipes made easy

I have been a cookery writer and food stylist ( a fancy word for someone who cooks food to be photographed) for over 25 years and have written recipes for both weekly and monthly magazines here in the UK, as well as having written over 15 cookery books but I have only just started blogging my recipes.

I started my blog Recipes Made Easy at the end of last year, when my two boys had moved away from home and started

asking for recipes that they could cook. I had been thinking about writing a blog for a couple of years but just hadn't got around to it. They needed easy reliable recipes so this was the nudge I needed.

I love blogging and wish I had started earlier. The recipes on the blog are the recipes that I cook at home for family and friends and I love sharing them. All my recipes are well tested and I always try to explain each recipe clearly so even a beginner can understand.

I’ve learnt so much over the last few months as writing is just the beginning. There is the technical side to learn, social media to keep up to date, and not forgetting photographing the food. Before I started the blog I had only had to worry about how the food looked when shooting, now I am busy learning about exposure, lighting and post shoot editing as well. But luckily I soon discovered the food blogging world is a large and friendly community who are so free with their help and advice and for which I am very grateful. 

When I’m not in the kitchen or at my computer I can be found at my tiny city allotment where I grow soft fruit and herbs or by the coast in Suffolk where I have a holiday cottage.  I also like to crochet and love the theatre.

My favourite posts are:

Connect with Jacqui here

Blog  -  Facebook  -  Instagram  -  Twitter  -  Pinterest

 

Thanks Jacqui, you've inspired me to get started again with my sourdough. I've missed eating it and it really isn't as tricky as you first think.

If your blog is under a year old and you'd like to be featured in a future Newbie Showcase then please get in touch with Morgan or I, at the moment we have a very short list so you could be featured sooner than you think!

Post Comment Love 8 July 2016

Hello there and welcome to this Friday's Post Comment Love. And hasn't it been nice to see the sun?!  Long may it continue, although my evenings need some readjusting to find time for blogging and everything else that I need to fit in.  This week we've cooked on the barbeque whenever we can, even if that means just cooking outside and eating indoors.

MOH was luck with the weather last Sunday for his mega-Essex cycle, completing 102 miles in under seven hours and he was still smiling at the end of it. I headed off to explore the gardens at Hyde Hall before returning to laze around on my picnic blanket in the field where he'd started and would finish. Lucky it was nice weather then, hey?

BLUE SKIES AT HYDE HALL, MY PICNIC BLANKET IN THE ESSEX FIELD, ME ENJOYING THE SUN & MOH STILL STANDING (AND SMILING) AFTER HIS RIDE

BLUE SKIES AT HYDE HALL, MY PICNIC BLANKET IN THE ESSEX FIELD, ME ENJOYING THE SUN & MOH STILL STANDING (AND SMILING) AFTER HIS RIDE

Newbie Showcase: Laura with Adventures with J

Laura writes over at Adventures with J, and she's a stay at home mum having left her career in teaching behind.

Blogging has already become more than a hobby for Laura, and she's found the blogging community welcoming and helpful.

This week you can read more about Laura from Adventures with J over on Morgan's blog

Connect with Laura here

Please do pop over and say hi to Laura on her social channels.

Post Comment Love: A half birthday!

Welcome to this week's #PoCoLo. I know, Friday already and not only that it's the first of July!  Which means Morgan and I have been hosting this fab linky for six whole months now - so we're celebrating our half birthday this week!  Hasn't it gone quick?  As ever we're glad to have you along, but before we get to that...

It's been quite a week hasn't it? One where I'll freely admit I've struggled with the result of the referendum and been saddened by what seems to be an increase in racial incidents. That's never ok and I like the idea of wearing a safety pin to show solidarity with our foreign-born population. Going to Brit Mums Live on Saturday couldn't have been timed better for me and it was uplifting to be in a room stuffed full of positivity.

It was great to meet up with Vicky and to meet Morgan and for me there was no other photo to share in this week's post, so here you have us #PoCoLo's hosts past and present.

ME, VICKY AND MORGAN AT #BML16

ME, VICKY AND MORGAN AT #BML16

Newbie Showcase

Well today to celebrate our half birthday - and because we don't have a newbie to showcase this week - we're doing something different, we're celebrating all of our fantastic newbie showcase bloggers so far, so this week we're giving a *wave* to:

Nikki at Someplace Strange  |  Emily at Lost in Lyon  |  Poppy at A Sunny Island  |  Niki at Play Travel Life  |  Miranda at Drops of Learning  |  Sacha at Visualize Authenticity  |  Franca at A Moment with Franca  |  Sarah at Admissions of a Working Mother  |  Jenna at Jenna Michelle Pink  |   Katie at Mummy in a Tutu  |  Sarah at Craft Invaders  |  Kate at Refined Prose  |   Jessica at Babi A Fi  |  Lindsay at Crazy Organized Blog  | Michaela at The Mummy Diaries  |  Mainy at My Real Fairy  |  Katie at So this is Mrs T  |  Karen at Two Tiny Hands  |  Polly at Right Royal Mother  |  Sophie at Mama Mei  |  Rebecca at Taylor Made Ramblings  |  Gemma at Tiddlers Art Studio  |  Bethany at Simply Said Seven  |   Sam at Memories and Mayhem and Jennifer at Living with Layla-Rose.

It's fab that lots of you are still linking up each week, it's been a pleasure to share each and every one of your blogs.

If your blog is under a year old and you'd like to be featured in a future Newbie Showcase then please do get in touch with either Morgan or myself.