A Shift In Focus – To More Of What You Love
Over the last 2 years I had time and opportunity to play with all my recipe ideas on this blog and many of you clearly like it. As this blog and with it the community I’m trying to build with it, is growing, the direction is becoming clearer by the day, as I follow the posts you love most. So, I’m ever so slightly shifting my focus. To more of the recipes you enjoy most.
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What You Are Telling Me
While some of my plant centred recipes like the Vegan Tom Kha Soup or the Quick Massaman Lamb Curry with Veggies get their fair share of views, most of you are looking for protein and sourdough recipes (The Sourdough Protein Pancakes with Whole Wheat were quite the unexpected success so early in the life of this blog!). Which, I’m happy to report, is also what I’m most interested in creating.
What I Love Creating
Baking and sweet recipes have always been my happy place (much to the dismay of my scales) and with the combination of protein and sourdough, as I demonstrated in plenty of recipes at this point, I finally found a way to include helpful nutrition in them while creating recipes that taste fabulous. And clearly many of you appreciate that, which makes me very excited, as I feel I can help and be useful here.
What Is Good For Us
With the discovery of how beneficial this combination is (I explained the symbiosis of sourdough with whey protein in this post), I feel it’s high time to explore that connection and what we can create with it.
So, while I might still post the odd plant centred recipe, I will focus mostly on protein, sourdough and sourdough with protein the foreseeable future, to give you more recipe options on this fairly new topic.
I’d Love Your Help
Because this is so new and barely any references exist yet, it’s quite the challenge to create recipes that work the same for everyone, which is why I love your feedback when something didn’t work as expected for you. It shows me what I have to re-test, maybe adjust or clarify, to be able to help you better.
Of course I’d also love to hear from you when things worked nicely, because those comments really make my day and help me to continue working on this blog.
What Would You Like To See?
And, last but not least, I’d absolutely love to hear what recipes you would like to see on here. I might have a whole spreadsheet full of ideas but knowing specifically what recipes you’d like to have…uhm…sourdough-proteinified (Yup, I just made that word up) would be fabulous inspiration indeed!
Now, I know I could probably just have updated my “About” (and will do so soon), but I felt I needed to share my reasons for this shift with you.
So, what do you think? Will you miss the 5-a-day in one meal recipes?
Are you looking forward to all the baked protein and sourdough goodies?
Or are you just here for the protein?
Dear Sonja, Thank you for your website, recipes and blog. I love the protein Sourdough recipes as is not a day without tea and a small sweet (I am my g-mother’s g-daughter). However, since my 66th birthday, my metabolism has tanked & my waistline expanded, I am interested in how you lost your weight. How far back in your blog do I go to find those posts? Again, thank you!
Hey Shika,
I know the feeling of the expanding waistline all too well! And certainly the need for sweets!
I started the blog after losing the weight, so I didn’t document the process as such, as I felt I needed to be “successful” first, to be able to share.
But the method was mainly what you see in my 5-a-day in one meal category.
I had 2 meals per day: One large one somewhere between 10am and noon that had lots and lots of plants. Think HUGE bowl of salad, veggie stew or similar, that would keep me very full over the day.
And in the evening I had either something baked (like my sourdough protein recipes) or, very often, a warming sweet bowl of oatmeal with fruits. You can find those in the breakfast section.
Pancakes or waffles were also a popular dinner.
So essentially, as I knew I’ll want something sweet at the end of the day, I reversed the “typical” meal order, having something dinner-like as first meal and the sweet “breakfast” later.
This tricked my mind into feeling satisfied and made losing weight pretty easy.