HERE’S WHAT’S UP: THE BEST OF JULY
Faithful are you Lord!
Faaaaaithful!
Sorry, we had a moment there. The month of July was a really good one for us in terms of blogging, eating and all other things that happen in life.
One of the things we love about blogging is that we can sit in any weird place in our house, wear any weird piece of clothing (like the “blouse” we're wearing now), write things and friends and strangers will read. Isn’t that notable?
This really set the pace of the month for us. Especially the prayer part. We're amazed at how much we achieved last month. It’s all because of God. Right after that, we wrote about why church leaders shouldn’t force people to call them specific titles. This post resonated with quite a bit of people who shared their experiences with such church leaders with us.
After putting our girls to sleep one night, we thought of the craziness that mommyhood is. So we penned a post on 10 crazy things every mother has done at some point.
Me and our partners in crime This post helped us see that we wasn’t alone in our nuttiness. It felt really good! Like worth making again!
We shared this recipe on how to cook Njama Njama with Egusi. Someone that we never imagined knew we had a blog called us to ask for a favour based on what he had read in the post. You never know who could be reading your blog. It is exciting and scary at the same time.
Our most read post in the month of July was the one on 5 plantain recipes you must make. Surprisingly, it didn’t rake in a lot of comments. Looks like people just came in to collect their recipes and vamoose.
We did a feature here on one of our favourite persons of all time, Arrey Echi. She gave others hope by sharing her experiences as a sickle cell sickler. How inspiring!
Then one morning, we decided to let the cat out of the bag and tell you all how we met Mr N. That post generated 32 comments!
We were able to share a video recipe on this deliciousness called Ndole.
Just last Friday, we did a list post, to show people 7 snack recipes they could make for the weekend. The result is pictures of snacks and written appreciation from those who made the recipes successful. It feels good to know that we push people into the kitchen with our posts. That’s our way of saying we inspire them to cook. Thank you, Jesus.
Still, in that good ole July, we got featured on three different sites:
1. Bella Naija where we shared our chocolate popsicles recipe.
2. Stella Dimoko Korkus’ blog where we shared our coconut jollof rice recipe.
3. TY Pearls where we shared on blogging. For some reason, the blogger here thinks This kitchen is a Nigerian. We've written to her to edit the post and indicate that This kitchen is a Cameroonian. She is yet to respond or change that.
We were also able to update our “About Me” page then we added a “Work with Me” page to make it easier for brands and individuals to find us.
There are many other interesting things that happened in July but you’ll have to see them for yourself in the July Archive.
Our healthy eating challenge
This month, we will be eating clean and sharing our satisfying and healthy recipes. Sometimes, you just need to let your body breathe from some other types of food. Here are some guidelines we're following:
- Low sodium
- Small portions
- Whole grains
- Lots of water
- Lots of fruits and vegetables
- Lots of ice cream (we kid!)
