HOW YOU CAN CUSTOMISE YOUR FONTS ON INSTAGRAM STORIES
HOW YOU CAN CUSTOMISE YOUR FONTS ON INSTAGRAM STORIES

NOTE: This blog post is part 12 of my INSTAGRAM SERIES - content all about helping YOU manage your way around instagram. In the INSTAGRAM SERIES I've touched on subjects such as what do the recent instagram stories changes really mean if you're a blogger, how to grow your instagram following and the one thing no one talks about in food blogging. Just click here to find all the other parts in the series.

Today, I'm talking about something you've been asking me about loads on instagram namely how you can customise your fonts on instagram stories? So rather than keep you wondering, I thought I'd put this blog post together with the BEST tools to help you costumise your instagram stories. I've also prepared a handy PDF with all this information, which you download if you sign up to the newsletter at the bottom of this blog post...

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instagram tricks, creativityK J Espinel
VEGAN RADISH SOUP IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ALLAND & ROBERT (P, V+, GF, NF, GrF)
VEGAN RADISH SOUP IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ALLAND & ROBERT (P, V+, GF, NF, GrF)

QUICK, EASY, VEGAN PART 3 – As you know from this blog post as well as this one, I'm sharing some quick, easy and delicious vegan recipes on the blog this month seeing we're all in the throws of buying last minute Christmas presents (which we should have bought AGES ago, but let's not go there) and have very little time to spend making complicated meals.

But rest assured that despite its simplicity, this beautiful radish and parsnip soup is utterly delicious, comforting and healthy. It's been made extra special by a secret ingredient called acacia gum. Acacia what?! Chances are you've never heard of it before but I hope today's blog post will change that because it's an ingredients worth knowing about!

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K J Espinel
NEW INSTAGRAM STORIES FEATURES! WHAT THEY MEAN FOR BLOGGERS
NEW INSTAGRAM STORIES FEATURES! WHAT THEY MEAN FOR BLOGGERS

NOTE: This blog post is part 11 of my INSTAGRAM SERIES - content all about helping YOU manage your way around instagram. In the INSTAGRAM SERIES I've touched on subjects such as why you're losing followers (and what to do about it), how to grow your instagram following and the one thing no one talks about in food blogging. Just click here to find all the other parts in the series. As for today, I'll talk in detail about the new instagram stories changes and, more importantly, what these changes mean for YOU if you're trying to make it as food blogger or instagram influencer.

Love instagram or not, the one thing no one can call instagram is boring, stagnant or uninventive. Nope, this platform is ALWAYS constantly and continuously reinventing itself, pushing boundaries and thinking outside the box. And the new instagram stories features are - yet again - instagram showing off its innovation and creativity.  

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Creative business, creativity, food blogging, food photography, instagram tricksK J Espinel
SPICED ORANGE WINTER SMOOTHIE + A COOKBOOK GIVEAWAY (R, V+, P, NF, GF, GrF, ChF)
SPICED ORANGE WINTER SMOOTHIE + A COOKBOOK GIVEAWAY (R, V+, P, NF, GF, GrF, ChF)

QUICK, EASY, VEGAN Part 2 - Hi everyone! As I mentioned in last week's blog post, I'll be sharing some quick and easy vegan recipes on the blog between now and the end of the year just cuz we're all SO busy in the run up to Christmas and the last thing we need is to be stuck in the kitchen, am I right?!

Apart from sharing the recipe for this delicious, healthy and seasonal spiced orange smoothie with you today, I'm also hosting a giveaway of a cookbook entitled NEW YORK CHRISTMAS. It was written by food bloggers and food photographers Liz and Jewels whose lovely recipes will surely get you into the Christmas spirit! Now before you get to hear about how YOU can win yourself a copy, shall I tell you a bit about what the book is like?

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VEGAN PUMPKIN MUFFINS WITH CHAI SPICES (V+, ChF, NF)
VEGAN PUMPKIN MUFFINS WITH CHAI SPICES (V+, ChF, NF)

QUICK, EASY, VEGAN! Part 1 - May I present you with the best vegan muffins I have EVER made? Now, please don't take my word for it, but instead ask the man and the boy in my life, our neighbours, their children, plus the guys at BBC World Service. See they ALL gulped these muffins down like there was no tomorrow and begged me to make more! I made 48 in total in the space of a week, insane isn't it?! But it kinda worked for me cuz I hade A LOT of Halloween pumpkin left-overs to use up ;). Know what I'm sayin'!!!

Anyway, I feel this muffin recipe will work really well for those of you celebrating Thanksgiving - as a sort of Thanksgiving breakfast treat kinda thing - as well as those of you who just dig pumpkins, full stop. Once baked, these muffins can be eaten on the spot or frozen to be enjoyed throughout the weeks to come. Whatever works for you!

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K J Espinel
THE ONE THING NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IN FOOD BLOGGING!
THE ONE THING NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IN FOOD BLOGGING!

NOTE: This blog post is part 10 of my INSTAGRAM SERIES - content all about helping YOU manage your way around instagram, food blogging and social media. In the INSTAGRAM SERIES I've touched on subjects such as why you're losing followers (and what to do about it) and how to set your price when working with brands. Just click here to find all the other parts in the series. Now on with today's blog post...

Is it just me or do we live in a society that only and always talks about (food) blogging in the context of success, fame and fortune!

''So and so left their boring 9-5 desk job to blog professionally and now is on the cover of Delicious Magazine.''

''Or such and such worked as a checkout girl and now blogs full time, with a following of 500,000 to boot and a sandwich at Pret a Manger named after her.''  

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instagram tricks, Creative business, food bloggingK J Espinel
SHOULD YOU USE FILTERS ON INSTAGRAM?
SHOULD YOU USE FILTERS ON INSTAGRAM?

NOTE: This blog post is part 9 of my INSTAGRAM SERIES - content all about helping YOU manage your way around instagram. In the INSTAGRAM SERIES I've already written about why instagram LIVE may be the new way to SERIOUSLY increase your reach and engagement, why you're losing followers (and what to do about it), and why the instagram hack should be a warning to us all. Just click here to find all the other parts in the series. Now on with today's post...

If you follow my blog and my instagram, you'll know that I'm LIVE on instagram every Sunday from 7pm - 7.15pm sharing photography and styling tips as well as answering YOUR instagram related questions. One of the questions that arose during the first LIVE photography tutorial was whether I use filters on my instagram and what my thoughts were filters in general.  

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instagram tricks, creativity, food photographyK J Espinel
VEGAN BUTTERNUT SQUASH RAVIOLI WITH SALVIA + LIMONE AND TWIGG STUDIOS (V, V+, ChF)
VEGAN BUTTERNUT SQUASH RAVIOLI WITH SALVIA + LIMONE AND TWIGG STUDIOS (V, V+, ChF)

I am rather happy working on my own. Thing is, I like my own company. But when all is said and done, I'm a super sociable person, so when Aimee from Twigg Studios suggested we do a another collaboration and inviteSilvia from Salvia + Limone too I was totally game. The result of bringing our creative minds and hands together is today's delicious and (if I may say so myself) GORGEOUS vegan butternut squash ravioli recipe. Despite appearances, it SO easy to make and the perfect recipe for this time of the year.

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K J Espinel
VEGAN SUSHI BOWL + A COOBOOK GIVEAWAY! (V+, GF, ChF, NF)
VEGAN SUSHI BOWL + A COOBOOK GIVEAWAY! (V+, GF, ChF, NF)

What I enjoy even more than sharing the food I love right here on the blog, is sharing the food YOU love, which is how this week's recipe was chosen :). See, I asked you guys on instagram stories a few weeks ago what recipe you wanted to see on the blog and - presented with a few different options -you chose a vegan sushi bowl! So TADA here it is, my version of a delicious, quick, easy and fun vegan sushi onigiri bowl.

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K J Espinel