I am so glad you guys are as happy with the new recipe page as I am! It has been a labor of love, not so much for me (I had the easy job), but for my husband. While Daily Garnish is certainly my personal venture, most of the time it feels like a family business. Our house buzzes with food talk, good smells coming from the kitchen, delicious dinners on the table, and lots of conversations about blogging and technology.
As my blog has become more and more food and recipe focused, I found myself getting increasingly frustrated with trying to find a way to manage my recipe content. I searched for solutions far and wide, but I found that it seemed that all my fellow bloggers were struggling with the same issue. Long recipe lists with no real order or way to search means that finding recipes is a daunting process for readers.
With everything I do here, whether it is a recipe, tutorial, or story – I always want to make sure I’m providing information in the way that is most useful to you guys. My end goal is always to get my food onto your plates.
I was jealous of big sites like My Recipes and Food Network – with searchable fields and professional print capability for the recipes. Tired of hearing me complain about it, Casey decided to jump in and help me find a solution.
He is an actuary by day – which means that he does a lot of high level math and risk assessment (and that he is very smart!). But for the past year, every evening he has been reading books, doing tutorials, and honing his web development skills. I am truly amazed at how talented he is, and how much he has been able to teach himself in such a short time.
After many many months of very hard work, Recipage was finally launched on Tuesday!
It began as a personal project to improve my personal site, but somewhere along the way, we realized that this was a great tool that could (and should!) be shared with the rest of the food blogging world. There are SO many websites that could benefit from the ability to manage recipes well, and share them with readers in a professional, streamlined solution. After many hours of concept development and web design, we created Recipage.
I wanted to launch my new recipe page and get honest feedback and first impressions, before you all knew that we were actually the creators behind the business. I am thrilled that it is an overwhelming success, and that some of you have already signed up to use the service on your own blogs!
If you have a food blog and you like to share recipes, I hope you’ll check out Recipage and consider using it on your site. (And please don’t hesitate to email me if you have any questions about it!) As a benefit to users, the recipes are all viewed and streamed directly on your site, so all clicks and searches generate more (a lot more!) pageviews for bloggers. And as a benefit to readers, recipes are now easy to find, easy to print, and easy to share. We see it as a win-win situation.
So that is the story behind the new recipe page, and how I have been spending a lot of my time these days. Casey is working hard to add new features every day, including more ways to customize the pages and add even more functionality and options.
While most of the creations in our house come out of the kitchen, this one came out of the office. I am hoping it continues to help the food blogging community continue to grow and get better each day – one recipe page at a time. Thank you guys again so much for your support! Who knows what we will do next?
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I think it’s an awesome idea, and I’m definitely considering it for my own blog! I’m in the process of updating/revamping my blog, and my recipe page needs a facelift, as well.
I just love the idea of having a specific search field and other ways to find what you want!
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Love couple-projects like this that require both spouse’s skills. :)
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I love the send to email or phone option!
I am always scribbling out a couple of items to add to my grocery list so that I can make a recipe I see in a post, and most of the time the post it gets stuck somewhere or I forget my list entirely.
I love being able to review the recipe while at the store on my phone and pick up those last few items!
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What a great idea, Casey & Emily! I don’t have a blog but I do like the ease in finding recipes on your blog. :-)
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I absolutely love it!! I am signing up as I speak/type:)
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That is so cool! Congratulations on your new venture!
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That is so awesome! I love the concept and hopefully I can afford to squeeze it in my blogging budget soon. Very cool.
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Oh congratulations! I love the new recipe page and think it is really user friendly. It is really cool to hear that you and Casey actually developed the technology together and that you are offering it for other food bloggers. Awesome story!!
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That’s an awesome service! I am just beginning but already the recipe list is growing entirely too long. I’ll have to look into it!
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The recipage is amazing! So user friendly and definitely a fantastic idea for food bloggers. Bravo!
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This is fabulous!! Congrats to you and Casey for creating this perfect tool for food bloggers. I wish you all the success in the world. :)
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That’s so cool that you saw a need and filled it. Congratulations! I wish you the best of luck.
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Truth? When I saw your new recipe page and the “provider” at the bottom, I sent the link to my blog email address to file to look in to. So, applause, applause because when I saw your gorgeous recipe page, and that I could possibly use the provider on my own site, I was hooked!
Can you ask your developer (wink) if it will work with Tumblr? (not as much manipulation opportunity on Tumblr…)
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I really like this concept and I visited the page and it is extremely easy to navigate and find things. Awesome work!!
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What a great tool Emily and Casey!!! thank you so much for sharing it with all of us. Good luck and thanks for sharing!
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Too cool!
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That is so cool your husband did all that research and y’all turned it into a business. I think it’s a great tool with so much versatility.
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SO, so cool! Congrats to you and Casey on this new endeavor!
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You guys rule! I definitely need to get more recipes under my belt before I invest in such an in-depth and awesome tool, but someday I hope to be able to take advantage of this amazingness!
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Wow this is great :) Thanks so much for sharing this with the blogging community!
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This is so incredible, nice job! I love seeing couples work together and produce amazing results. This seems like the perfect venture for you guys. I will totally look into this!
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You guys are amazing – congratulations – you both should be so proud – may this be more successful than you could possibly dream !
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Awesome work, what a great idea, Emily & Casey!!! Recipages is genius! You never cease to inspire me :)
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Looooooove this idea. Especially the search and sharing features. Good for you guys. Have you given any thought to adding a nutrition information functionality to this? It is fantastic as is but that would send it over the top!
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it looks so great and professional. congrats!
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You guys are awesome! What a fun thing to do together! I am so impressed!
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so RIDICULOUSLY impressed!
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That is so amazing! You guys make such a good team :)
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That is so impressive! I don’t create that many original recipes, but I’ve been thinking of adding a page related to my baking and cooking lately. Once I gather a collection of recipes that are worthy of Recipage I will definitely be using it! Thanks!
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Wow, that’s so awesome!! I am very impressed with you guys. Your recipe page is super easy to use and looks really great. I’m sure it took lots of hard-work, congrats!
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This is SOO awesome!! Congratulations! I am super excited for you guys! Total awesome new adventure!!
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How cool to know that you and Casey are the ones behind this service! Congratulations guys! My husband and I are working on a web project together too so I know how much work it takes do launch something like this yourself. Thank you for providing us with such a valuable tool that will help make everyones blogs that much better.
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Wow, how awesome! Keep up the great job Emily and Casey. If I was a blogger, I would totally use your new invention! :)
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Well, you’re brilliant.
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Excellent! Your recipe page is terrific and Recipage sounds like a great tool! You two are great people, Thanks!
Fran
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Brilliant! :)
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I totally checked out Recipage yesterday and bookmarked it for future use. Now that I know that y’all created it, well – I’m so impressed! Love your attitudes, know-how and dedication to your blogging community. Well done!
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So exciting! Great job — can’t wait to get cooking!
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and a quick question: were there any extra things you had to do with your posted recipes to get them ready to be in the ReciPage system? Just wondering how long it might take me to have things “ready” or if it pulls the needed information on it’s own.
So excited about this!
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Wow, I am impressed by Casey! I think it’s wonderful that he supports your blog as much as he does. Congrats on the new design- it looks great!
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That is just AWESOME! Great work Casey and Emily :)
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Wow that’s great!! You guys rock! I’m sure it took hours and hours of self taught trial and error to get this done so that’s very exciting! And hello your new recipe page looks amazing!!!
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your blog rocks.
That is all. :)
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That’s awesome! How clever ;)
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You guys are awesome. The end. :-)
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You and Casey rock!!!
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Now you need to set up a recipe aggrigator kind of like a recipe craigslist for food blogs plenty of page clicks for everyone
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Wow, you guys are amazing! I clicked on the website for Recipage and thought, “Wow, what a great service! I wonder how Emily found them?!” What a surprise to find out you guys created it yourself! What a labor of love :)
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Oh my gosh, Emily! This is amazing!!!
Congratulations! I’m definitely going to check it out as I know I’m going to have problems down the road trying to organize everything so I might as well start now!
How exciting!
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The layout is just lovely! I like the flashing previews of the pictures and recipie blurbs on the main page. Great job!
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Oh, I’m checking it out right now!! :)
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Fantastic! :) I love how the idea turned into reality just like that. Where there is a hole there is a way to fill that hole, and you guys did it. Looks great!
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Wow, that is truly impressive!!! I love working with my husband on the blog. . . he’s my webmaster and it makes it so much more fun when you can share it!
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That’s amazing! Congrats!
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Emily, I had NO idea this was launched by Casey and you! I saw that your recipe page was powered by “My Recipe Box” and I immediately jumped on it as I’ve been looking for a handy way to organize my recipes. I had trouble loading my photos and Casey emailed me right away! haha too funny.
Congrats on the new tool, it’s great! Tell Casey he is good at customer service :P Have a great weekend!
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Great work on Recipage! That’s amazing, and your recipe page looks awesome!
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You saw a need and filled it! It’s fabulous. I love your blog, thanks for sharing so much great stuff.
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This is great!!! I just tested it and typed in spinach to see what I could do with some in the fridge that is starting to wilt. Up came my options with photos!!
I also love the send to email and printer options.
Nice job Emily and Casey
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So impressed. Seriously. Some people are born to be entrepreneurs – they spot market gaps and take the steps to fill them. I think you and your fella must have been born with the “e” gene. Best of luck!
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It looks awesome! Nicely done! :)
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Yay for actuaries! ( i’m an actuary too!)
Love the new recipe page!
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Oh my gosh. You are amazing! That is so cool that you and Casey created Recipage — you are going to do so well with it! Congratulations! I actually already created a free account with it.. have to decide if I’m ready to initiate it for real though.
Question: If I let my free month trial lapse and then in a few more months come back and decide to do it for real — do I get a free trial again? Just curious how that works! Thanks Emily!
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You both are truly blessings in disguise! Thank you for being so creative :)
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Congratulations!!! The new page looks amazing! :)
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This sounds awesome and exactly what I had been researching 6 months ago. Good work and well done to hubs :)
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I’m impressed! Great job you two.
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I love the recipage! Proof you both are incredibly talented! Thanks for making it that much easier for me to cook and eat healthily while slaving away in grad school!
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That’s AMAZING! I wish I had the funds to be able to sign up for it permanently, but alas.
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That is so cool! I love your recipe page and I love knowing the story behind it. :)
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that’s great! congrats :)
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Oh my goodness, I LOVE that this business belongs to you and Casey! I was looking around for something similar to Recipage, with no luck…may just have to try it out! At some point, will it be easy to search by category instead of tags? Even if not, it is still a HUGE step up from my current recipe page!!
LOVE IT!
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Oh I’m so excited, Emily! It sounds like a great venture and I’m really looking forward to exploring it when it launches!
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Congratulations! I am so impressed with you guys for this. I think recipe organization is the #1 thorn in the side of food bloggers, and the #1 pain for food blog readers. Excellent!
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Emily Malone Reply:
February 11th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Couldn’t have said it better myself! I think you are exactly right. THANKS! :)
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You guys are awesome! That is some diligence to do all that on top of a full-time job. Inspiring!
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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new recipe index!! Thanks for all the hard work you do to make your website so great. You’re definitely one of my favorite food blogs! I found your kale soup quick and easy today- I’m a giving it a go tonight!
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That’s amazing and a fantastic collaboration! Way to go, Casey! And way to go, Emily the muse! =)
I love streamlining tools for content-management-frustrated people like myself, so this is such a welcome addition. THANK YOU GUYS!
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Emily Malone Reply:
February 14th, 2011 at 9:27 am
So glad you like it!
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I wish there was still an ‘Ingredient’ category search. I know you can search by ingredient, but it’s fun to see what you cook with the most. I imagine quinoa would make the top ten!
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This sounds VERY cool! Such a great idea and so awesome he can teach himself. I’m definitely going to check it out.
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[...] can check out the Recipage Story over on her site ~ it’s so [...]
I’ve been a reader of your blog for a while, but hadn’t read the Recipage post yet. However, I’ve recently discovered the Peas and Thank You blog, which I’ve appreciated because of the ease of searching for recipes. Today, though, I just read your post on Recipage, recognizing that it looked very similar to the recipe search page for Peas and Thank You! Checking again, I noticed the “powered by Recipage” at the bottom. I’m sure it’s cool for you to see your hard work being implemented on other food blogs…exactly the what you intedended for it! Congrats!
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Emily Malone Reply:
December 19th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
I love this! Thank you!
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