Bites of My Life

Double post today and double bites today! Take A Bite went into hiding last week while I was working on getting my new site launched. A few technically difficulties set us back, but the time off built up the anticipation. Today is double the bites double the fun, to cover the past two weeks. I kept my bites condensed to not bore you with my life happenings. But heck, this site is about daily bites of my life, so lets get after it. 

-Halloween week naturally meant pumpkin everything, starting with this D@#% Good Pumpkin Soup. 
-Checked taking a food photography class off my to-do list! Need to brush up on some of the basics of my camera before I delve deep into Lindsay's tips.
-More pumpkin with this amazing Pumpkin Curry.
-Cured my halloween sugar coma and other things with breakfast tacos. 
-Naturally I went food related with my costume this year as a Pig in a Blanket!
-Ended the weekend crossing another thing off my Fall TDL, by enjoying the most gorgeous day riding bikes around downtown. 

-Molly and I decided to take our friendship from the Internet to pen and paper. Everyone loves getting mail and now it's even better with my bestie pen pal.
-Some lovey dovey pumpkin oats to start the day.
-Friday night wine and dine.
-Topped off with me, Ben and Jerry. 
-Kept the dinner and dessert trend going Sunday night with this incredible upside down pumpkin crumb cake, recipe to come. 
-And a big bowl of jambalaya and corn bread, recipe also to come. 

I hope you guys are enjoying the site as much as me. I have quite the pep in my step!

Annie

Live

Live from Oklahoma City, it's my new site design!!!!! Oh buddy this is a long time coming and I can't believe it finally happened. Isn't she lovely, isn't she wonderful? My sweet little DIY photoshop site I put together 2 years ago was in need of a little updating. 

Let's go through some new features and some of my favorite parts of the site. The Recipe Box feature in the right sidebar, so cute, right? All my recipes neatly categorized with themed pictures to organize them. The About page too, all my favorite things in one place. How great is the Instagram widget in the footer of the site? And finally make sure to subscribe via email (found in the right sidebar) to get Take A Bite sent straight to your inbox. I'm using a new service now that will make email posts look much prettier!

Last summer I started doing research on switching from blogger to a new hosting site. I would do research then realized it was to hard, then a few months later I'd do it again and realize it was too hard, then so on and so on. With 400+ posts I wasn't about to put 2.5 years of work on the line with the easy chance I would mistakenly delete it all somehow in the process. This summer I did a little more research and found blogging guru Bobbi, and realized with her help, it wouldn't be so hard to switch from Blogger to Squarespace. After some consultation with Peyton and Madison and hearing how much they have loved their Squarespace site I knew it was time to take the plunge.

Peyton and Madison are angels and took the ropes on all the design work. They took ideas I didn't even know I had and turned them into all of this! They are serious design angels. 

Huge kudos to Bobbi from Ready to Blog for taking all the techie ropes and peacefully transferring all my years of work to this beautiful new site. Ditto to Peyton and Madison for creating all design aspects and making the site look better than I could have wished, as well as to Peyton for being my Squarespace help center! She has an answer to all of my questions.

Stop in, stay a while, take a bite and enjoy!

  Annie