I randomly came across a tweet by @DineandDish discussing an Adopt a Blogger program for food bloggers. I sent off an email to the host, Kristen, about whether my used-to-be-a-food-blog-until-I-started-eating-meat-and-potatoes-exclusively would count, especially since I’ve used a lot of my bloggy wisdom to launch Simple Scrapper. She said sure and I felt pretty spiff being considered an experienced blogger! And I didn’t even have to tell her about my late ’90s webzine!
A wee bit of time passes and I am assigned Cre8tive Kitchen as a partner. At first, I wonder how Brenda, my mentee could be a newbie blogger as 1.) she came up with a totally awesome blog name and b.) she’s got a lot of content under her belt. Brenda is a woman after my own comfort foodie heart, posting just yesterday on my beloved garlic fries from Safeco Field in Seattle.
To officially launch our three month partnership, I guided Brenda through some decluttering of her site. You know me and simplicity… or some would call it OCD. (By the way, we had a leak in the ceiling last night directly above the bed. For safety’s sake, we had to put the bed on the diagonal and I had the worst night’s sleep ever. So stop questioning why everything has to be at right angles – it just does!)
Back to Cre8tive Kitchen… I’m so proud of Brenda for being such a receptive partner and I see she’s already picked up a few new subscribers. Her recipes look totally delicious (and super easy); I can’t wait to try them out on my family! Stop by and leave Brenda some love for me, eh?
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You two have really jumped in head first. Thanks for being such a great mentor!
Hey Jennifer! This food blog mentoring sounds very interesting. I’m laughing at your right angles thing. I understand it though. I loved the garlic french fries at Safeco Field too! I blogged about it before: http://www.listgirl.com/2007/09/adventures-in-emerald-city.html
I’m going to Seattle in June to run a half marathon, but it looks like the Mariners will be AWAY then. Boo!
Ya know, I bet there are other places in Seattle where you could get the garlic fries.
I am trying to remember what city/stadium I was in – but they had a best of ballparks food court area that included garlic fries from Seattle, Skyline Chili from Cincinnati etc.