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Monkey Monday: lentils and love edition 11 February 2008 8:13 am

Posted by Tracy in : cooking,friends,meta , trackback

First things first, big love to everybody who has ever linked to TracyFood on their blog or LiveJournal or website or email or anywhere else; you know who you are (or maybe you’ve already forgotten, which is okay, too). This weekend I spent a fair amount of time exploring TracyFood’s traffic patterns on Google Analytics, and was heartwarmed at the number of familiar sites giving me references. You are all beautiful, wonderful people — if you want me to blogvertise you back, drop me an email or something, mmkay? If you’re just skimming this paragraph to get to the part about the lentils, your not-so-long wait is over.

Y’see, I’ve noticed a recurring trend in my most popular posts, as well as the search terms that bring new readers to TracyFood, and it is lentils. Seriously, kids. After the front page, my most popular entry is my favorite lentil salad recipe, followed by kushari/kosherie, and red lentil soup is not far behind. Now, lest you try, as I did at first, to say “well, those recipes have all been around for a few months, no wonder they’ve gotten a lot of hits,” let me point out that my first attempt at replicating Nepali dal bhaat is also in my top ten posts of all time, and I only posted that in November. Almost half of my most popular posts are about lentils, and that’s not even getting into all the lentil-related searches that bring people to TracyFood, which are perhaps even more awesome. Because first of all, lentils are fantastic, and second, if TracyFood posts about them are rocking the Google popularity contests, then I believe two things:

  1. There is not nearly enough information about lentils available to Internet readers (yet).
  2. My writing about lentils is not so godawful that it sends people running and screaming away.

Which leads me to conclude that I should be writing more about lentils, if only to make good on that parenthetical “yet” up there in action item number 1.

So. This week I promise you at least one more delicious lentil recipe, as well as something even more sexy for Valentines Day, just to continue the theme from last year’s hotness. Which brings me full circle, back to the love with which I started writing this entry. My love, it is almost as delicious as all the wonderful people I feel it for.