Monthly Roundup for August | Cook like a Bong

August Monthly Roundup at Bengali Cuisine

1 September 2009 1,852 views 12 Comments

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August has been pretty awesome here at BengaliCuisine. We had 7 new posts, loads of traffic improvement and corresponding comments. Here’s a summary of activities last month at the blog.

August Collage

5 Authentic Bengali recipe

Patishapta – The most popular Pitha (Pithe) prepared during Makar Sankranti (Sankranthi)
Mishti Doi – A very popular dessert, yet rarely prepared at home
Bhat Dal and Bhaja – A no frills carb rich bong meal
Chanchra – One of the very few bong delicacies untouched by foreign culinary influence
Rasogollar Payesh – Buy Rasogolla and prepare pudding (the post also gives out a couple of links on how to make rasgulla)

Festival – For the first time, Sudeshna celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi. Here’s how a Bengali celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi . Recipe for Narkel Nadu is still awaited though. [Update: 3 days later, Sudeshna posted how to make Narkel Nadu]

Top 7 Bengali Recipe Blogs – Bookmark the list of 7 most popular blogs on Bengali recipes. To give a personal touch, we’ve kept out links of Sulekha and other community food websites whose focus is on collaborative food community building. We have also kept out Sutapa’s site (it being way ahead of any other website on Bengali food) and Cook like a Bong (for obvious reasons you see J).

Events participated

The recipes here also participated in some food events. Here’s the quick list:

Mishti Doi to Linda’s event on Got Milk?
Chanchra to Indrani’s event on Spotlight:Fish and Haalo’s Weekend Herb Blogging (originally started by Kalyn)
Rasogollar Payesh to FIL: Milk hosted by Sanghi of Sanghi’s Food Delights

August Traffic Report

Traffic August 2009

August witnessed 15000 + Pageviews, i.e. almost 4 times that of July. Now, this HUGE difference is partly because Wordpress pagestats plugin was installed only in July 10 and the site was down for a couple of days due to hosting issues. But mainly, the increase in traffic is due to return of the original readership of bengalicuisine. Now let me explain this.

Sudeshna’s earlier blog was fairly popular till January 2009. But she broke her hand in Feb and that’s when the post frequency reduced dramatically. Sudeshna still managed a couple of posts per month, but it was nowhere close to her earlier average of 8 recipes a month. Now most readers who came there saw only a couple of posts in ONE Month! Naturally, they kind of almost forgot about the blog.

As posts became regular in the second version of bengalicuisine and Sudeshna started commenting on several blogs, original readers returned. In fact, one of our earlier regular readers Tulip, commented – I had visited your blog long time back, i guess the blog design was different then. Suddenly i got this link from my bookmark…and visiting again !! Thankfully.

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12 Comments »

Indrani said:

Your idea of doing a monthly round-up is just great..love the idea, visitors can check all the posts at one place
Indrani´s last blog ..Mini Fish Cutlets

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Sudeshna Banerjee Reply:
September 1st, 2009 at 5:27 PM

This idea was initiated by Kalyan, and even we found out easy for our navigations and whatever we could do in a month, so we can keep a track of everything.

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# 1 September 2009 at 10:29 AM

Priti said:

Thats a nice idea..one stop area
Priti´s last blog ..Rajma, Chole, Pulav, Paratha with Raitha…Platter for U

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# 1 September 2009 at 8:05 PM

Radhika said:

Great Job Sudeshna & Kalyan, you guyz are just rocking. I like the way you have put up things together, collected statistics. Am very glad to hear that cook like a bong had 15000+ hits in august. Many Congratulations and I wish you get more and more readers. “Cook like a bong” is truly authentic and I wish it is included in the top 7 bengali recipes websites.
you guys are truly inspiring.. keep it coming..
Cheers,
Radhika Vasanth
Radhika´s last blog ..Panchakhadya

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Sudeshna Banerjee Reply:
September 1st, 2009 at 10:20 PM

Radhika,
Thank you so much for your wishes .

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# 1 September 2009 at 9:55 PM

Monika said:

Lovely dishes last month!!

Can I please please put a request in for a murgir jhol recipe
xxx

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Sudeshna Banerjee Reply:
September 6th, 2009 at 10:40 PM

Monika,
Thanks for the comment, I’ll definitely put up something for you, as of now you can try out these two recipes Chicken do peyaja (http://bit.ly/3VWgl7), Chicken kasha (http://bit.ly/gOVXD)

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# 6 September 2009 at 9:24 PM

jaya said:

Sudeshna and Kalyan,
both of need a good round of applause for putting up this great effort…and even i liked the idea of one month at a time to get a glimpse of things happening in bengalicuisine..that way i can always see what evr i missed..great one …
hugs and smiles
jaya´s last blog ..Duporer Tiffin Khabar-Lunch Box Recipes-7

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Sudeshna Banerjee Reply:
September 8th, 2009 at 8:16 PM

Jaya,
Thank you so much for your feedback. This is exactly how we wanted to help our readers, to have all actions put up in a single post for the last month.

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# 8 September 2009 at 2:08 AM