059: Tanya Harris | My Forking Life

Tanya Harris is mom, wife, attorney, recipe groupie, photographer, and eater of all the beautiful food she posts to her food blog, My Forking Life.

Tanya Harris is an attorney who started her food blog, My Forking Life, as a hobby in 2016. Her goal is to provide her readers with quick and easy meals that are full of flavor. She wants everyone, even busy people, to be able to cook more often at home.

Tanya posts a lot of gadget recipes, pressure cooker and air fryer recipes, because these have helped her get dinner on the table quickly. She has increased her blog traffic to over 100,000 page views in just a few months by providing her readers with content they need and enjoy.

In her (limited!) free time, Tanya enjoys watching old episodes of Julia Child and Jacques Pepin.

Tanya Harris Show Notes

Contact:

My Forking Life
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat – Samin Nosrat

Camera, Lens and Lights:

Canon Rebel T3
Nifty 50
Neewer Lights

Marketing Tool:
Tailwind

Kitchen:

Instant Pot
Air Fryer

Popular Post:
Air Fryer Perfect Steak

Questions:

What did you do before you started blogging?
What was your major in college?
Are you passionate about it?
How does that work, being an assistant public defender?
What did your family think when you went into law?
Why did you start blogging?
When did it start being a food blog?
When did you start this?
How did you pick the name of your food blog?
Since “Life” is in the name, do you blog about other things as well as food?
Do you have aspirations to just do blogging?
So, you have a full time job as an attorney, when do you do your blogging work?
When you first started, how many times a week did you publish a post?
What about now, how many do you publish?
Since you started, how long did it take you to start making money?
How many drafts do you have in place to be published right now?
So are you up late doing this?
What is the best thing you’ve done for your blog?
So you just said that you needed to sit and think about this?
What is your most popular post?
Do you have anybody that helps you with your blog?
When did you find you needed the help?
From start to finish, how long does it take you to photograph a recipe?
What do you love about blogging?
How many iterations of the website have you had?
What is the hardest thing you find about blogging?
What is your favorite social media platform and why?
Is there some advice that someone who knows blogging gave you that you wish you had heeded?
What were the two platforms that you used?
Did you learn about SEO or how did you come about knowing you needed to focus on that?
I know you said you sometimes use artificial light, but do you prefer natural over artificial?
What kind of lights do you have?
What kind of camera do you have?
What’s your favorite lens to use?
Do you have a favorite marketing tool?
What is the most surprising thing you have found since you started blogging?
Is there anything that your readers or fans or other bloggers would be surprised to hear about you?
What is your biggest food failure?
How much of it did you eat?
What is your favorite cuisine?
What would be your last meal?
What makes it perfect?
What is one thing that you can’t live without in your kitchen?
What is your favorite cookbook?