If you would like to share your favorite sustainable healthy recipe with Dork Chow, we’d love to have it. Folks who publish recipes can get a copy of our current ECookbook as our way of saying thanks. It’s a little work but a lot of fun. Dork Chow is about sustainable healthy food that is as local as possible. Leave the fancy French whipped cream desserts or the steak tartare for some other blog. Browse the blog a bit before posting a recipe to get the idea of the general style and focus of the blog. Recipes must use primarily ingredients that are local to you and relatively easy to get. Recipes and other copy must be written in English.
Here is the procedure. It is really a lot easier than it sounds. With a bit of practice you will be able to whip out one of these in 20 minutes or less.
- Click Register,enter your email and make up a name and a password for yourself. (Or use your openid.)
- Your registration will get our attention. If we already know you we will bump you up to author as soon as we see your registration. If not, we will confirm who you are, ask what you want to do and request a sample. Once we are happy with all that we will bump you up to author. You don’t have to wait to get your author status to start. You can do the next steps right away.
Join keyingredient.com. (It takes less than a minute and it’s free.) We use their format for our recipes and we like our blog posts to have a uniformity of style.- Cook your recipe and take or find a digital picture of it that you have rights to use. This is REQUIRED. All recipes for publication in Dork Chow MUST have a photograph. Submission of your photograph implicitly grants us non exclusive permission to use it as we see fit. The web is a visual medium, and your recipe will get way more traffic with a picture. If your recipe is for some boring-looking goo (like our mole sauce) you may take a composed picture of all the raw ingredients if you think that would look better. Upload your picture and add your recipe into your account at Key Ingredient. If you wish to play first, clone someone else’s recipes to see how the tools work.
- When your recipe at Key Ingredient is published, look for the “Add to Blog” link down the left hand part of their page. When you click that, a box will pop up with a bunch of code. You will need to select and copy that code.
- You must have your author status before you can do this step. Log in to Dork Chow. If you have been bumped up to author, you will see administrative tools to let you create posts. Create a new post and paste the code from Key Ingredient into it. To add value we request that you tell a little something personal relating the recipe — how you learned to make it, who taught it to you, something cool that happened in conjunction with making it or eating it, poetry or music it reminds you of, or whatever. If you have additional pictures, video, audio, or other media you may upload them to Dork Chow using the Add Media buttons and include them in your post.
- You may also include a link to your business web at the bottom of the post if you wish. If you have a business I strongly suggest you take advantage of this link love
- Now get your friends, tweetbuds, etc. to stumble your post. We all win!!!