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| Kalyn's favorite Phase One Recipe for November 2011 would have to be these amazing-tasting Roasted Green Beans and Red Bell Pepper with Garlic and Ginger. |
November has been quite a month, with changes on the blog, and some good changes for me personally as well. It's been a month of reflection, and I've been contemplating the monthly Phase One Recipe Round-ups and how they might work better. Earlier this year I announced that I'm now focusing on new Phase One Recipe ideas that haven't been featured before, and I think that's been a good change. But I'm thinking of more changes, and it has to do with how blogging has changed since 2008 when I first started writing these round-ups. While I loved to follow hundreds of blogs back then, lately scrolling through my feed reader was feeling like a huge infomercial, with sponsored posts, product reviews, and lots of recipes where the blogger was compensated to use a certain ingredient. I respect the right of everyone to blog in the way that suits their needs, but I don't want to feature commercialized posts like that in my round-ups, and a few weeks ago I did a huge clean-out of my Google Reader account, removing literally hundreds of blogs that are no longer interesting to me.
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