Members Profiles

1. What’s your blog called and what’s the URL?
Natural Kitchen Adventures / https://naturalkitchenadventures.com

2. What do you blog about?
I blog what I cook. Good, honest, healthy food – designed to make you eat and feel better. Based on the paleo nutrition concept – sugar and gluten free.

3. How often do you blog?
About 3 times per week

3. When and why did you start blogging?
2 and a half years ago I blogged my way through my first (and last) marathon – I enjoyed the blogging process as much as the marathon! When it was over I needed a new project to focus on. Since I had spent the last few years cleaning up my diet, submerging myself in nutrition and health alongside making an actual scrapbook of my new recipes – I decided the new project was to publish the recipes on line in a blog.

4 How has blogging changed your life?
Other than always eating my food cold because I’m waiting for the steam to pass before I can take a snap, blogging has enabled me to meet so many new and interesting people. It has also made me realise networking with new people is easy when you are passionate about your subject area. This has given me, personally a huge confidence boost.

5. Do you follow any blogs regularly?
Yes – some I read regularly, and others I dip in and out of from time to time, depending what the blog post is about.

6. What three tips would you give to someone just starting out in blogging?

• Don’t compare yourself to others. ever.
• Don’t get carried away and blog everyday – you’ll never keep it up
• Do enjoy everyminute. Otherwise what’s the point!

7. How do you find things to blog about?
Inspiration to write and cook comes from everywhere – a good meal I’ve made up – a meal out, or something ‘Ive seen in a cook book, on another blog or on a TV show can spark a related idea.
8. Do you blog full time?
No, though I wish I could!

9. Where you like to take your blogging?
I hope in time it will be a platform to take me to a new career in the world of healthy food. It would be my dream to write and have published a hard copied recipe book!

You can find Ceri at https://naturalkitchenadventures.com

This week’s featured blogger is Nayna Kanabar.

1. What’s your blog called?

It’s called simply.food – http://simplysensationalfood.com/

2. What do you blog about?

Vegetarian Cooking

3. How often do you blog?

I blog about 2-3 times a week.

3. When and why did you start blogging?

I started my blog in 2010 as a place to collect recipes for my daughter to use when she went to University .But over time I started to get visitors on the blog and my passion for food and encouragement from the visitors gave me motivation to take my blog to the next level.

4. How has blogging changed your life?

I now think, eat, breathe and live food. I can’t stop collecting props for food photos; I photograph food at any available opportunity and am forever trying new innovative recipe ideas to incorporate them in out meals.

5. Do you follow any blogs regularly?

There are many many blogs that I follow as the foodie world is very big.

6. What three tips would you give to someone just starting out in blogging?

• Make sure that your content is original and yours.
• Blog frequently, check your post are easy to read and understand they are informative and try and follow a niche rather than ramble about everything and nothing.
• Build up relationships with other blogs, share the love ie leave good comments and build rapport between fellow bloggers.

7. How do you find things to blog about?

I cook and blog about all the dishes I prepare, When ever I try new ingredients or create
a new recipe I always have a camera ready to click photos and have a pen and pad to note ingredients and measurements. I have so many recipes in my draft folders waiting to be posted so when I don’t have time to cook and post I use these recipes instead to blog about.

8. Do you blog full time?

No I work, so as much as I would love to blog full time I can’t so blogging is saved for free
time, but I manage regular posting by auto scheduling my post.

9. Where you like to take your blogging?

I want to grow my blog audience, bring more awareness to vegetarian cookery and hopefully secure a book deal for a vegetarian cook book that I am currently writing. I cook and blog about all the dishes I prepare, When ever I try new ingredients or create
a new recipe I always have a camera ready to click photos and have a pen and pad to note ingredients and measurements. I have so many recipes in my draft folders waiting to be posted so when I don’t have time to cook and post I use these recipes instead to blog about.

You can find Nayna at http://simplysensationalfood.com/

1. What’s your blog called and what’s the URL?
I have two blogs, http://modernbrick-a-brack.blogspot.co.uk/ and http://bestbitsaboutbrighton.com/, although recently I’ve realised that I do not currently have enough time to keep both blogs going so I’m now focusing solely on ModernBrickaBrack again.

2. What do you blog about?
I post up interviews, previews and reviews about people, places and events I think are worth recommending. Mostly I blog and tweet suggestions for going out in Brighton, covering a diverse range of topics – from the best fish and chips to up-and-coming Artists in the area and Brighton Festival events. Sometimes my posts deviate from the Brighton region – and relate to Wales, Northern Ireland or somewhere else entirely.

3. How often do you blog?
Not as often as I’d like!  From 2 – 4 times a month

4. When and why did you start blogging?
Two years ago as a creative outlet.

5How has blogging changed your life?
In so many respects, it has given me the creative outlet I had been craving for more years than I can admit to; I am privileged to be the only blogger the Brighton Fringe support, in terms of providing me with tickets to events to preview / review; it has given me a reason to meet and interview inspirational people, for instance Jane Bom Bane who runs a music cafe and makes mechanical hats (to name one); it has increased my confidence as it has given me a form of expression and one that other people have enjoyed.
 
6. Do you follow any blogs regularly?
Yes!  The blog that first impressed me was called Versailles and More, an incredibly interesting and well written blog.  It was V and M that recommended another blog that had a series of posts on it documenting the last days of Anne Boleyn.  Each post was written with such immediacy and re-imagined so vividly that I was blown away by them and still remember how fantastic the posts were over two years later.
These are only two examples of how enriching the blogosphere can be.

6. What three tips would you give to someone just starting out in blogging?

• Blog about a passion (everyone is passionate about something)
• Blog regularly (advice I should follow myself)
• Keep it visual

7. How do you find things to blog about?
That’s easy, I have a constant stream of blogs I’d love to research and write, especially at the moment in the lead up to the Fringe in May (so exciting!).

8. Do you blog full time?
No, I wish.  My working week involves office admin 🙁

9. Where would you like to take your blogging?
I would love the opportunity to be paid for blogging, who wouldn’t?

You can find Sarah at  http://modernbrick-a-brack.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/@irishAggers

We are continuously featuring our members on our own blog. You will be able to read about what other bloggers do, how they get inspired and maybe pick up some new tips and make some new blogging friends.

To be featured here, just sign up as a member in the sidebar and you will get sent an email with the questions to complete.