I’ve run a lot of Friday polls over the years and I would like to think I’m getting pretty good at guessing what you guys are going to vote for. I’m not so confident as to actually cook the thing before the final poll results are in, but I’m almost there.
I was pretty sure lamb meatballs would win just because they are interesting and sound delicious. The only thing that surprised me was how close the results were with brussel sprout salad coming in a close second!
I love brussel sprouts, but I thought I was sort of the only one!
Anyway, lamb meatballs won after all. They were pretty easy to make with one or two annoying steps. All in all, completely worth it though!
I frequently get referred to as a chef and I always sort of cringe when I hear the word applied to me. To me, a chef is a very specific career and description and what I try do is simply not the same.
I asked the question “What makes you a chef?” to my Twitter friends and the answers were really interesting so I thought I would share them with you all and try to flesh out why I don’t love being called one.
“Dude, somebody puked on your short stack!” Said nobody ever.
Who doesn’t love a real gross out meal during Halloween though? After all, I figure most of you lovely readers know that I’m not the guy that’s going to make cute ghost cupcakes. I’m much more likely to make fake vomit (that’s actually delicious) and put it on something that will scare children.
Someday I will have kids (I think) and I will make this and create some intense back story on how someone puked on my pancakes.
Then I will eat it in front of them and be crowned king of pranks.
If you happen to not follow financial news, or if you live under a rock, you maybe didn’t notice that Facebook is now a public company. That means you can own a piece of them!
It also means that they have become more focused on how to increase revenues. One place where it seems like they are really trying to raise revenues is on pages owned by websites or companies, like Macheesmo.
How the page used to work is if you “liked” it, it would push out any of my posts to your news feed.
This no longer works reliably because Facebook wants me to pay to send you posts. You see… they made this tiny little button that shows up when I try to update the page:
If I click the promote button, I can enter a budget and they will then make sure that all of my “likers” see the post in their news feed, assuming I pay enough.
This isn’t really realistic for me because, guess what, I’m poor.
For those interested in statistics, even though my Facebook “likes” have increased by about 20% in the last few months, my views for each post have decreased by about half.
So Facebook is actively filtering out posts that aren’t promoted to encourage people to pay for visibility.
The Fix
I really have no problem with this for two reasons:
1) They are a private company and can do whatever they want. I realize they need to make money and if this is a way they think they can do it then more power to them.
2) They built in a workaround for pages that you really like.
If you are on a page, say Macheesmo, you can click on the settings button and choose to “Add to Interest Lists” or “Add to My Page’s Favorites”. Either option will make it more likely that you will get new posts in your news feed.
Of course, I would love it if you did this for Macheesmo, but more importantly, if you have any pages that you really like but have noticed that you aren’t seeing their posts anymore, this is probably why.
Find the page and add them to your interests and you should get their updates more regularly.
The Poll
The Links
Bon Appetit Cover to Cover – This is an incredible project. Basically, this blog is working with its readers and other bloggers to cook everything in major magazines. This is their Bon Appetit version and is simply awesome. (@ The Bitten Word)
Voodoo Cookies – These are a bit of work, but man do they look cool. I doubt that I could replicate them and end up with anything close, but maybe you’ll have better luck! (@ Etsy Blog)
The Best Fall Cider – Is this the best fall cider? For real? I don’t know. But it does have a lot of booze in it so if you make it and drink it, you won’t care if there’s a better one out there. (@ Endless Simmer)
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Throughout the week I love chatting with people and sharing fun and interesting stuff around the web. I’m fairly active on a few different places:
I’ll be honest… I contemplated hunting out an actual brain to bake for this recipe because I’m pretty sure it would still be good, but just umm… more intense.
As is, it’s a really fun appetizer that looks cool and is probably the most delicious appetizer in the world. Prove me wrong. I dare you!
It also only has four ingredients so there’s no reason not to try it out!
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