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Are you a culinary wizard? Do you have an exquisite palate? Are you the master of your home kitchen? And, most importantly, do you love to cook?!

If the answer is yes, yes, and YES!, then Homemade Recipes would love to feature you!

Homemade Recipes is a burgeoning community of home chefs, food enthusiasts and curious epicureans. We love sharing and learning new recipes, techniques, tips, tricks and skills to make your time (and ours) in the kitchen even more fun and exciting. If cooking and learning is what you’re all about, then you are just the home chef for us! We’re always looking to collaborate with other people as passionate about food and drinks as we are!

So now that you’re excited and ready to whip out your whisk, recipe book and camera, what do you have to do to get started?

First, we ask that you send us a trial recipe with accompanying photos. We’re not going to use your photos and/or recipe without your permission, but we want to see what skills (and plates) you’re bringing to the table.

When sending your trial recipe, remember that we want your best tasting recipe and most amazing photos! We want YOU on a plate. Can you do that? Of course you can! (At this time, it’s okay to yell at no one in particular, “I was born to do this!”)

So, what format should you submit your trial recipe in? Great question, we’re glad you asked!

• Photos:
  • We’re looking for clear, focused photos that detail critical steps in your recipe. Yes, photos of batter being stirred are entrancing, but if your recipe already calls for gentle mixing, then we probably don’t need to see a photo of it. What we’re looking for is:
    • Pictures of the ingredients used
    • Photos of steps that can’t be properly articulated through text. In example, a photo of a lattice crust being laid down, a chiffonade cut on those basil leaves your amazing Pad Thai recipe calls for, and the well in your dry ingredients before the wet ingredients have been incorporated.
    • Clear photo of the final product. Cooking is an experience, and we want to be taken on a journey! Show us your dish from start to finish and, when it’s finished, wow us with your presentation! As the Master Chefs say, presentation is key.

Awesome, we know you get it. You’re already a food photography wizard, so let’s move on to the post itself!

• Post:
  • Intro:
    • Introduce yourself and your recipe! You know you’re a top chef, we know it, so now it’s just a matter of letting the world know. Tell us what you’re making, what’s inside, why this recipe is so special to you, and most importantly, don’t be afraid to be yourself!

• Ingredients:
  • List all of the ingredients you will use and, if there are brands you prefer using, let us know! List the proper measurements of each ingredient used and the order in which they are used. Also, if you have any substitutes or recommendations, don’t be afraid to write them down! The more information, the better!
• Recipe:
  • List each and every one of your steps clearly and succinctly. Some of our readers are just getting into home cooking, so please do try and make your recipe as accessible as possible. That said, if you’re not the Ernest Hemingway type of writer, no worries. That’s where we come in. ☺
• Once you’ve finished listing your ingredients and recipe, end your post with a blurb you feel sums up the process and engages our readers. (Quick Tip: When we write our posts, we like to pretend we’re on a Food Network show and are speaking to the camera. It’s silly, but don’t pretend like you haven’t done the exact same thing!)

Things to Note When Becoming a Contributor:

• This isn’t a full-time position and no actual stardom is guaranteed. In all honesty, we run this blog because we love it and because we love it so much, we would only like to collaborate with people who feel the same way.
• This collaboration is geared towards home chefs who:
  • Love cooking on their own and want to showcase their skills
  • Have their own food blog and would like to direct more traffic and/or gain more visibility
  • Or for those who do all of the above (you wonderful over-achievers, you)

• Contributor Rates per Post:

• $25/post, $5/photo published (most posts include about 5 photos, so the average rate per post can be $50, but that doesn’t include the priceless experience of being featured!).

To sum everything up, here’s an example of what we’re looking for:

http://homemaderecipes.com/course/breakfast-brunch/make-healthy-homemade-granola-2/

Still interested? Of course you are and we are too! Fill out the form below to get started. We look forward to a wonderful, food-filled collaboration with you!