You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
So, I was thinking…
In my future recipe posts, would you be interested in seeing more photos of the process, as opposed to just the final product? Would that be at all helpful?
I’m warning you: the recipe-process photos won’t be pretty. I usually cook in my very tiny and very dark kitchen. And if I’m not there, I’m in my parents’ much bigger—but just as dark!—kitchen.
You know those gorgeous white kitchens you see on Pinterest?
Yeah, so not my kitchen.
Above, unfinished Copycat Peanut Butter Eggs.
And by “unfinished” I obviously mean “not yet covered in chocolate.” However, this didn’t stop me from eating one two of the eggs straight off the piece of parchment paper. Really, can you blame me?
And what’s this?
Why, it’s a giant ball of unshaped peanut butter dough.
Did I say my “in process” photos were ugly? I take it back! 
This looks like a painting.
An edible painting.
Peanut butter art?
Oh Van Gogh, you know you’re jealous.
I also made this for you:
If you get a chance, please do check out the above link and let me know: Are the step-by-step photos helpful? Would you like to see more of them in future posts? Or are they as ugly as I cautioned and you’d rather use your imagination? (Be honest!)
And sorry about all my weirdo commentary in this post. One too many glasses of wine last night.
Or perhaps it was all the reeses eggs…
I think taking photos of the process is more interesting too! I love your commentary ha. sometimes I get a bit confused by the processes so that is my imput! 😉
I love the step-by-step photos but I agree it’s hard to do in a kitchen that doesn’t have the luxury of natural light. Yours look pretty good, though!!
I love your tutorial! Seeing what it should look like is helpful, but especially how to dunk them. The corn holder is genius! I always find myself awkwardly dropping and rolling around items in chocolate with a fork and then end up accidentally scraping some chocolate back off when I try to retrieve them, lol.
But I’ll agree with others that many of your recipes don’t need them (like the oatmeal, cake, and cookies). 🙂
Oh, in-process photos are something I struggle with too. Somewhere along the way it’s become ingrained in my head that if a photo isn’t pretty I won’t post it. But sometimes pretty photos aren’t necessary if you are showing a technique or something. I say, bring on the in-process photos!
It said comments were closed on the tutorial.
I do like process pictures, preferably for things worth noting like consistency or tips/hacks (like the corn cob skewer, love THAT!)
Haha I feel your pain. I put a tutorial up on my blog today and it was so painful to see how dirty my kitchen looked, but people were begging for this recipe and I didn’t have a chance to clean! Haha I was actually really hungry…
OK, I totally had to check out your post and that is wonderful. 🙂
I have a terribly lite kitchen (really, my entire house – you should see me attempt to photograph a quilt). My kitchen is tiny and always a mess. Much of my cooking/baking photos have random boxes, etc.
I think if we aren’t looking for it we don’t even think about it! We all love the human side of blogs don’t we?
I love step-by-step photos. It helps me know if I’m on the right track or not. One of the blogs I find most helpful is one where the blogger always posts step-by-step. I tend to over-mix and over-do things! 🙂
(and I don’t think the pictures are ugly at all!)
I like the step by step photos. It’s helpful to see if I’m doing everything right.
I think pictures of the process would be helpful.
pics would DEFINITELY be helpful!!
I would LOVE to see more of the process, but I understand taking pictures half way through isn’t always convenient haha
I must say they are helpful,to me at least. I´m a beginner when it comes to cooking so sometimes i could really use some ¨in the proccess¨ photos so i can have an idea of what i´m supposed to do:) And your photos are amazing!!!!!
i always thought it was nice, unique, and cleaner/sleeker that you DIDN’T include all of the photos of pouring flour into bowls, etc that MOST BLOGS do. maybe for SOME of the recipes that include odd steps that are difficult to explain, but for MOST recipes – I think the uncluttered way you do posts now is perfect.
Katie, PLEASE do pictures of the processes!!! That would undeniably help!!!
I LOVE the step-by-step photos – they’re extremely helpful to me. I’m such a visual learner, so I really get a lot out of seeing the steps as well as reading the descriptions. If you have the patience to take pictures during the process (I wouldn’t, haha) I would love to see more step-by-step photos in the future!
I like the step-by-step pics…..It helps some of us who aren’t so great in the kitchen know if we’re on the right track!!! 🙂