Maybe some of these will surprise you like they did me. Here are the ten most popular posts here on the blog for 2011…
10. Easy white chicken chili recipe with only 4 ingredients – this recipe came from my friend Lyn and is not only a fast meal to throw together, it’s also really good — even the kids love it.
9. I’m not sure how this one got so many hits this year, but something brought a lot of traffic over: Big Fat Lies – Fat Head movie review. In this post I tell you all the things that I loved about the movie and the one 
thing I didn’t love so much. I emailed Tom Naughton, the filmmaker, about my concern and his reply is at that post, too.
8. A lot of you must be confused about healthy milk options, and I’d be confused too if we didn’t have access to fresh raw milk.
7. My homemade mayo post gets quite a bit of traffic, and I love this recipe because it works 95% of the time and tastes even better than my old beloved Hellmanns. But I also posted a follow up, what to do when your mayo won’t set for that other 5% of the time!
6. This Baked Soaked Oatmeal Recipe from my friend Sue continues to be a hit, and it’s no wonder, since I even like it, someone who has never eaten oatmeal.
5. No carb/low carb, grain-free/gluten-free foods – this is a big long list of ideas for you.
4. This one surprised me that it ranked at number 4 for the year out of all my posts: How to make homemade yogurt, cream cheese and whey. (See the picture on the right? Kent loves to come home and find this hanging off the dining room light. We’re classy folk here…)
3. My index of Kitchen Kop recipes is at number 3 and I hope you are having good luck as you try these recipes out. I’d love to hear from you in the comments on that specific post once you try it. Even if you might not have had good results, please let me know so I can tweak the recipe for others, or for when I make it next! (Thank you!)
2. Number 2 is my resources page, and I’m thankful that so many of you go there to find Real Food and healthy resources. I’ve been helping Ann Marie get more and more sponsors up over there so we have no blank categories, and it’s filling up fast so keep checking back! But remember, if ever you can’t find something there, try finding items I use that are not on my resources page. Or you also could email me for help finding something: Kelly@KellytheKitchenKop.com.
1. Healthy Breakfast Ideas remains on top for my most popular post ever! It’s #4 on a Google search, so if you would do me a huge favor and help me inch higher, I’d really appreciate it: just go to that post and Stumble it, Pin it, share it on Twitter and FB, etc. THANK YOU! And if you have any good ideas to add over there, please be sure to comment. 
Did you have a favorite post from this blog in 2011???
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how cool that your blog software can give you the traffic numbers. I haven’t spent any time working on this technology. I like that kind of feedback.
It’s just Google Analytics.
Ha! I love the yogurt straining! I hang mine from the gas line to the dryer in the basement and put the bowl on top of the dryer.
I loved them all, Kelly! Happy New Year!!
Hi Kelly,
I love your site and I find Olive oil too strong in mayonaise but have a recipe that is a cooked mayonaise which is very nice. Is there any reason not to use it I will include it here so you can see. I will be trying Mary blend oil in your recipe and see what I think.
Helene’s Cooked Mayonnaise
Combine:
1 cup flour
1.2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons dry mustard
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup vinegar
Cook until very thick and smooth, stirring constantly.
Put mixer in blender and add:
4 whole eggs
Slowly dribble in:
1 1/3 cups salad oil.
Refrigerate.
I would be interested to know what you think.
Dot
Wow I’ve never heard of flour in mayo and would rather not have that in there myself. And was the sugar amount a typo? 1.2 cups?? That is very very high.
Have you tried the milder olive oils? They are really nice in mayo.
Kelly
I ued to make a cooked version myself because it’s more like miracle whip (which my DH prefers to mayo – don’t ask me why!). I never put the sugar in my recipe at all. It still came out fine. But I no longer make mayo/salad dressing very often because I like to use avocado oil in mine but it just gets too expensive. Olive oil – ditto (for decent quality stuff). We don’t use much around here anymore since it’s just me and DH, and when we have an occasional sandwich we usually use homemade 1,000 island dressing instead.
BTW, the flour is in the cooked recipe because you start off with a white sauce and that requires flour. I used spelt and it worked fine, but you can also use arrowroot (although I didn’t use 1 cup because I didn’t make that much at one time).
So there are ways to tweak that recipe, too.