One Year Blog-iversary

Today is the one year anniversary of our very first blog post! Honestly, we’re pretty proud of ourselves for keeping it up! People are always asking how we have time to do this with our busy school and clinical schedule – honestly I don’t really know. I think the creative outlet has helped us, plus we both really like to eat and cook. This has been quite the adventure for us. It adds a little bit of time to our dinners, but gives us motivation to keep trying new things. Just the other night, Selim, looking down at a tray of baklava, said, “I’m glad we started our blog. I would have never tried making some of these things otherwise.” Let’s look back over our first year!

Overall favorite dish:

♥ Ally – So hard to choose… but I think I have to go with Spinach & Feta Gözleme

♥ Selim – Lahmacun

 

Most difficult dish:

♥ Ally – Baklava

♥ Selim – Homemade Pasta Carbonara

 

Most unique dish:

♥ Ally – Balsamic Basil Blackberry Pizza

♥ Selim – Garlic & Truffle Pimento Cheese

Most liked dish: Spiced Blueberry Pie

Most viewed dish: Bay Scallop Risotto

Most pinned dish: Bay Scallop Risotto

Number of followers: 17 (watch out – we’re about to go viral 😂)

Number of unique blog visitors: 991

Number of blog posts: 90, including this one

Countries from which people have visited our blog: United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Namibia, India, Brazil, France, Sweden, Romania, the Netherlands, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Hungary, Greece, Singapore, Qatar, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Poland, Ghana, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, Colombia, Turkey, Bahrain, Indonesia, South Korea, Ireland, Chile, and Russia! (This might be my favorite statistic!🇨🇦🇳🇦🇳🇿🇧🇭🇧🇷🇫🇷🇬🇷🇺🇸🇹🇷🇨🇱🇩🇪🇰🇷)

Most used tag: Quick & Easy

Number of times Selim has asked to change our header photo: at least 8

Most loyal blog readers: Ally’s aunt Suzanne & Selim’s father

Least loyal blog reader: Ally’s mom – “Oh honey, I still don’t really know what a blog is.” (Said just last weekend!)

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This was quite the first year we had! Looking forward, in the next year we hope to:

• Make more Turkish recipes
• Finally share Selim’s perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe
• Continue to work on our Culinary Bucket List
• Convince Ally’s mom to read the blog
• Improve our photography skills
• Share more about our favorite wines
• Use our blog Instagram more frequently (follow us @bonappetitbabyblog & #bonappetitbabyblog if you want to see incredibly infrequent Instagram posts)
  • [Side note: we used to use #bonappetitbaby – but since that Katy Perry song came out, the hashtag has way more pictures of scantily clad women and weird memes than it does food – thanks for ruining our hashtag Katy 🙄]
• Finish graduate school! (May 2018 gets closer by the day!)

Thanks for reading!

-Ally & Selim