I admit I have been quite inconsistent with my blog updates. I usually have 1 or 2 every month which is still not as often as I want to. My cooking and recipe testing is still ongoing but I don't do it primarily for the blog.  Recently I was asked to contribute recipes to another site. Last January I was able to test out around 20 recipes and submitted those to filipinorecipes.eu. You might want to check it out. A few of my favorite recipes are posted there.

This blog has just reached its 1st year. I started this blog to learn about blogging and the web. I had never planned to earn anything from it. I placed a few ads here and there and entered some contests, hoping to earn enough to pay for the domain name. No bites yet, but having a blog has benefited me in other ways.

There are a few insights I'd like to share. First, if you google for tulingan or ginataang tulingan, my tulingan posts seem to come up either first or on the front page. I'm no expert and I'm stumped how it happened, but it does amuse me a whole lot. It doesn't work on bing or yahoo search though. Second, I am happy to say that this blog has helped me land a few good online job leads. So the blog is paying for itself, but indirectly. Third, I have learned a lot from the upkeep of this blog, mainly, knowledge about the online environment and article writing.

I'd like to thank everyone who has visited my site and I hopemost of you have gotten something useful out of my kitchen and cuisineexperiments.  I am hoping to be able to make postings regularly soon, so stay tuned.

Until next time!

Ka_Fredo

*The picture above is inasal syle chicken cooked in a cast iron griddle. The food was my contribution to my family's Tagaytay Picnic.