Friday, September 10, 2010

"To Post or Not to Post - a guide to sharing recipes with other Swapping Beauties" aka "Filling Your Recipe Box"

Your recipes?  Post Away! We ALL love a recipe box filled with delightful dishes that friends have already reviewed and tried! "But everyone has a favorite recipe for chicken enchiladas" you say - oh contrar!  Not everyone DOES have a favorite enchilada recipe and even if they do, yours might have just that twist they are looking for!

So how do you do it?  There are 2 ways:

1st LEAVE A COMMENT- on any one of the blog posts with your recipe and where it came from and we'll repost it for you

OR

2nd BECOME A "BEAUTY EDITOR"- Especially if you have multiple recipes to post, we will gladly make you a contributor (Beauty Editor) to the blog!  That way you can post all of your recipes directly and we'll all be able to see them instantaneously!


A FEW GUIDES...

*BE A TATTLE-TAIL - No, we're not talking about telling us when you're big brother pulls your pig tails - we're talking about giving credit where credit is do :) Please make sure to reference wherever you found your recipe - if you found it on a website, please link to that website.  If it's from a Rachel Ray Magazine, let us know so that we know when we're being 'fancy'!

*LABEL LABEL LABEL -in the lower left hand corner of the posts as you're writing them, you'll see a box that says Labels: - PLEASE fill in this box with whatever you can come up with that fits this dish - chicken, Mexican, casserole, world's greatest frozen salt water taffy recipe.....whatever fits!  This is different from a good title, which definitely helps, because links several similar items together and allows you to find, for example, all the chicken recipes in one click! (Each of the labels you create will be listed on the side of the blog, making them easy to find!)

*DON'T BE A WEAK LINK - Actually, we'd just love more links!  As mentioned above, we hope you'll link your recipes to their sources, but in addition to that, we'd LOVE ideas for great links to dinners especially suited to frozen dinners!  As they're gathered, we'll post these links on the side of the blog so next time you're preparing for a swap, you'll know right where you can go!

I think that's it!  We may update and tweak this post as we need to, but for now it looks like we're good!  Just remember, the most important thing is to POST!  It doesn't need to be fancy or fine (that's for our dinner tables ;) and if you don't know where you got it, don't sweat it!  And if you made it up, tell us that too!  Pictures would be AMAZING, but are surly not necessary.  So what are you waiting for?!  Get Posting Already! <3 ;)

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