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Recipe Template for Ryder Theme

Optimize Recipe Content with the Schema

The recipe templates for The Ryder Theme for Hugo websites are progressing well. Today I released an update that creates the schema.org json-ld specification tags for a recipe. This allows your recipe content to show up as “rich content” in search engines and social media platforms.

Mushrooms

Family Recipe Book

My Mom's homemade family recipe's cookbook — Inspriation For Cooking

Featured Ingredients

Ingredients that have been tagged in recipes as featured ingredients are listed below. Find all of the recipes using these ingredients on each page. See photographs and learn more about these items.

Extreme Geomagnetic Storm Photography

On May 10, 2024 solar flares caused extreme G5 conditions to be observed

Screenshot-a-Day

S.A.D. 😩

You can’t automate a SLO for look and feel. Or can you?

Screenshot-a-day service. takes a screen shot every n units of time and adds a frame to a gif which you can host.

Referral links tool kit

Amazon associates program link builder.

A tool to build links for affiliate marketing programs.

Book Store Sample Data

Example

I just followed the example here on the hugo docs to set up the simple books demo, but I intend to use this new feature to build out some great new dynamic content for content marketing purposes, such as lists of top products.

Aunt Mary's Creamed Corn

For best results use FRESH CORN

Mom's Carrots and Onions

Adding Leaflet to Ryder Theme

I made this quick and easy shortcode to get started using leaflet.js in the Ryder Theme for Hugo Websites, as I add more features supported by leaflet to the shortcode I might update this page.

Product Marketing

Can small content websites actually make money?

An exploration into monetization of small content websites.

These product catalog pages will be pulled in on content pages via tages and related content functionality.

Mashies

My mom loved to call mashed potatos “Mashies”

Dads Home Fried Potatoes

My dad would make these for big family breakfasts on the weekend

Grandma Kreider's Meatloaf

Simple easy meatloaf recipe. There are no fixed amounts here!

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Buy The Hunchback of Notre Dame on Amazon.com

Original Granola

Lemon Chia Granola

Granola!

Granola is very flexible and allows you to flex your creativity, change up the seeds and dried fruits you use, the sweeteners, the lubricants etc…

Tuna Noodle Bake

I love this recipe because it is so simple, can be made for under $5 and is really tasty. We used to eat this quite often when I was growing up.

Aunt Mary's LemonMint

My mom had a huge mint garden outside of our kitchen growing up and we would have fresh lemonmint beverage all summer long as it grew like a weed.

Golden Beet, Apple, Mango, Banana Smoothie

Ingredients

1 1 medium beet cut into 1 inch cubes

2 1 apple cut into 1 inch cubes

3 1 handful frozen mango cut into 1 inch cubes

4 1 banana (frozen or ripe)

5 1 cup orange juice (or other juice, nut milk or coconut water)

Oberrieder Dog Park

The happiest place on earth

Latitude

33° 58' 18.48"

Longitude

-119° 34' 45.80"

Oberrieder Dog Park is a large, partially shaded woodchip covered enclosure for dogs and humans to relax and enjoy the company of other dogs (and humans). It is next to a beautiful walking path along the oberreider wetlands with views of the bluffs under LMU. This path easily connects to the Bluff Creek Trail for the back half of a 4.5 mile loop.

Del Rey Lagoon

The Lagoon beside the beach