In episode 066 Susie goes over all the tips, tricks and features to take advantage of when using the Mom’s Dinner website and recipe card.
We go over using the home page navigation, how to use the category page and search functions. Then when you find the recipe you want to make, how to use jump to recipe, and the features of the recipe card like; changing servings, pinning the recipe, printing options, and rating/commenting on recipes you have made.
I really hope this helps you feel at home on the Mom’s Dinner website and using the Mom’s Dinner recipe cards!
Please reach out if there are features you would love to see as I continue to make updates to momsdinner.net
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Intro: Hey everybody. Welcome in. My name is Susie Weinrich and I am the voice behind the podcast, let’s Make Dinner. I am also the recipe developer, photographer, and writer behind this website, Mom’s Dinner.
Susie Weinrich: We’re going to do things a little bit different today on this episode of Let’s Make. I wanted to go over some tips and tricks on how to best use the mom’s dinner website and make sure that you’re taking advantage of all of the features within the website, as well as within the recipe cards when you are cooking and making and saving the recipes from momsdinner.net.
Navigation Tips : So I want to start by going over some navigation tips. When you are on the homepage of momsdinner.net, you’re going to see a navigation bar right at the top of the page. Anytime you’re navigating the website, you can always click on that little icon on the top that says Moms Dinner, and it will take you right back to the homepage.
The next tip is using all of these navigations right there at the top. If you hit all recipes, that will take you to a very large category page and you can search by category. So breakfast, dinner, side dishes, drinks, desserts. You can even search by ingredients. So beef, chicken, and seafood. Then we get into some more specific categories like holidays and then grilling, casserole, soup, one pan. It gets even as specific as enchiladas, lasagnas, meatballs, chilis, things like that. So you can use this page really well to navigate to a category of something that you want very specifically. Right at the top of the all recipes page, there’s also an option to click here, and that will take you to all of the recipes in chronological order, so you can see what’s been posted when.
Now, let’s say you found the recipe that you want to make, and in this case, I’m going to go to my lasagna recipe. So in this lasagna recipe, there are a few different ways to use, not only the page in general, but the recipe card. If you’ve made this and you want to come and comment and rate the recipe, right at the very top, it will say five comments or however many comments there are, or it will say, leave a comment. You can click that and it will jump you right down to the comment section.
There’s another button that you should definitely take advantage of, and it’s called Jump to Recipe. Of course, I want you to read the full post because I put a lot of really good tips and tricks and time into writing really robust posts so that you are successful in the kitchen. But if you’re like me, I am already a seasoned cook, okay? Then you can just hit that jump to recipe button and it will jump you right down to the actual recipe card where it gives you all of the information you need. Cook time, prep time, ingredients, instructions, everything that you need.
I want to give you a few tips on using the recipe card. So let’s say we’re looking at this homemade lasagna recipe and it serves 10 people. Let’s say you need to double that and you have 20 people coming. What you can do is hover over that serving section right there at the top, and then a little slider will appear. That slider can be moved up or down so that you can make this for 20 people or you can make it for five people. When you do that, what will happen is all of the ingredients down in the recipe card will also change to suit the number of people you’re trying to serve.
Another tip that I love about this recipe card is that there is something called cook mode, right in between the ingredients and the instructions. This should be available on desktop as well as your phone. Now, I know there are some iPhones that don’t allow this cook mode button, but if you have it, you definitely want to use it. So you know when you’re cooking and you’re going back and forth to your phone and reading the ingredients and instructions and your phone goes dark. Your hands are dirty. Now you’ve got to get your phone back on. If you click this cook mode button on, it will prevent your screen from going dark while you’re cooking, and that is the best thing ever.
Another great feature that I have just started implementing, and I do have to go in and do it manually, so it’s not available on all recipes, but you know when you’re making a recipe and you’re in the instructions and then it says add the oregano, and you’re like, oh my God, how much oregano? Scroll back up. How much oregano? Okay, scroll back down. Where do I add it?
So with my recipe card, a lot of recipes will have the actual ingredients right under the instruction step that it’s associated with. So, like I said, I do have to add those manually so it’s not available in every single recipe yet, but we’re working on that.
Two last things I want to tell you about with the Moms Dinner website. Saving and pinning and printing your recipes is something you’ll want to do. So there are three different places where you can pin the recipe. Right at the top, there’s a little pin icon, and then as you’re scrolling down the page on the left hand side, there will be another little pin icon. Then as well as in the recipe card, there’s a little pin icon. If you click it, the pin that I created for the recipe should actually populate into Pinterest, and you can just pin it to whatever board you want.
Another way to, I guess, to save the recipes is you can always print the recipe. There’s a print button right in the recipe card, and if you click that, it will take you right to a little print screen. If you can choose at the top what you want to print. So do you want to print the recipe image? Do you want to print the notes? Do you want the nutrition label and how many people are you serving for? So you can make all of those changes right there in the print screen. Then go ahead and print it and put it in your recipe box. The other nice thing when you print the recipe, it actually puts my website right down at the bottom. So if you print it and then you’re like, wait a minute, where did I get this recipe? It will tell you right at the bottom of the page where you printed it from.
The very last thing that I want to tell you about this website is that we love to get your feedback on our recipes. Rating and reviewing the recipe is the very best way to give us your feedback and to connect with us. There’s a few different options, like I said in the beginning here. At the top of the recipe, you can hit how many comments there are and it will jump you right down to the comment section. Or if there are no comments, It will say, leave a comment and you can click that and it’ll take you right down there.
Another option is right at the top of the recipe card, there’s a little rate button and you can click that and it will jump you right down to the comment section where you can give it hopefully five stars, and leave a comment for me. Then the last is right down at the bottom of the recipe card. There’s a jump to comments button, and that will again just jump you right down to the comments so that you can leave a rating and a review of the recipe you made.
So those are all of my tips and tricks for using the mom’s dinner recipe website. I hope that these help you navigate the entire website as a whole, as well as the recipe card.
If you have any suggestions for things that would make the mom’s dinner site a little more user friendly, please reach out. You can always email me susie@momsdinner.net. Or like I said, you can leave a comment on a recipe. I check those every single morning, or you can connect with me on Instagram, Pinterest or Facebook.
Outro: All right, that’s all I have for today. Until next time, I hope these tips help you in the kitchen. See ya.
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