So, a long time ago I wrote a Friday list about my top ten guilty pleasure foods, like Doritos and Kettle chips. There were a lot of chips on that list. I am definitely a salty-food craver. Here are my top ten favorite foods to scarf-though I don’t feel too guilty about these food weaknesses.

10. Sunflower seeds

Roasted, salted sunflower seeds are a definite weakness for me. I buy giant packages of them at the grocery store to use in trail mix and on salads. I would estimate that at least half of them get devoured by me standing in the pantry, dumping them from the jar into my hand, which is much neater and easier than dumping them directly from the jar into my mouth. I. Can’t. Stop.

9. Chocolate Chips

Much like sunflower seeds, a great proportion of the chocolate chips that enter my house get consumed after 8 p.m. by me standing in the pantry with the light on. I am partial to dark chocolate, particularly these Ghirardelli 60% cacao chips, which incidentally happen to be fantastic in a cookie recipe I’ll be posting next week. Sometimes I eat them off of a spoon with peanut butter.

8. Cheddar Cheese

I love a sharp cheddar. I mean, I love most cheese, but cheddar is my jam for real. It’s the one I eat the most of without a doubt. I throw it on salads, eat it on sandwiches, and sometimes make a meal out of cheese, crackers, and a couple of pieces of lunch meat or some pickles.

7. French Fries

Handcut, skin-on fries are my favorite, but I don’t discriminate when it comes to fries. Waffle-cut, crinkle-cut, skinny, steak fries…you name it. Potatoes plus oil plus salt equals yum. I can make a meal out of just fries. Here are my favorite recipes for making them at home: baked skinny fries and oven-fried potato wedges.

6. Crusty Bread

Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside-that’s the perfect loaf of bread for me. Warm and smeared with softened butter, or maybe dipped in olive oil…I’m happy either way. If a restaurant server sets a plate of bread in front of me before a meal I’ll be full before the salad comes, but I’m not complaining about that.

5. Peaches

I think I mentioned in my peach breakfast crisp recipe that I love in-season peaches. I love a good strawberry and I live for MacIntosh apples in September and October, but there is nothing like a peach that makes your hands sticky when you peel it. Usually I just eat them plain but I love them in yogurt and I love to bake with them too. I’m a little sad that peach season will be just a memory before I know it. I’m sorry….I can’t talk about it right now.

4. Biscuits

White Lily biscuits, to be exact. That’s important. Did you guys know that there are people who can’t buy White Lily at the grocery store? That makes me want to cry. White Lily is made from soft red winter wheat and it makes the most perfect, beautiful biscuits you can imagine. I make them almost every Saturday, and they make me happy I’m from the South, y’all.

3. Fried Pickles

Have you guys noticed that I love fried pickles? From the first time that I ate fried pickles at the long-gone Durty Nelly’s, I have been completed enamored with them. They’re my favorite appetizer to order at a restaurant (my favorites so far are the ones at Bone’s Smokehouse). I posted my own recipe for fried pickles recently that I like even more than any restaurant fried pickles I’ve had.

2. Burgers

I love a good burger. Great meat perfectly seared but not dried out, great cheese, soft yet chewy bun, toppings not too fancy. Sometimes bacon, but not always. There’s no more perfect meal, especially when paired with #7.

1. Popcorn

The joke in my house is this: when Philip gets hungry for an evening snack, I’ll say, “What are you having?” in a sarcastic tone because I know that the answer is cereal. He does the same to me, because he knows that the answer is popcorn. I’ve loved popcorn since I was a kid and I could eat it every day, actually. Popped in coconut oil is my favorite way, but sometimes I use a little butter and olive oil instead. Sprinkled with seasoned salt or maybe just plain old salt, either way is fine with me.

What are your food weaknesses?

When I went back to work three weeks ago, I swore to myself that I was going to stay on top of my BlogLovin’ feed. See, I follow 126 blog (and that’s with fairly regular weeding out of blogs that I just scroll right past in my feed), so when I don’t keep up with that I end up with hours worth of blog reading to catch up on the weekends. For a few nights I did great, checking my feed every night and marking posts as read. Now? I have 88 posts in my feed. And that’s mild.

Still, there are some blogs that I don’t feel like I have to read every word of every post….and others that I wouldn’t dare miss a word of. As you’ll see here, I love blogs with a conversational tone, and photography and layout definitely draw me in….but more than anything I love blogs that feature recipes that my family and I will actually eat. Here are my top ten food blogs!

10. Fifteen Spatulas

I actually just discovered Joanne‘s blog a few weeks ago. I started watching lots of video blogs (ahem, vlogs) on iFood.tv (on my Roku) and Fifteen Spatulas quickly became one of my favorites. Joanne’s videos are short but informative and well-produced, which can be kind of difficult to come by. I’ve moved on to watching her YouTube channel and reading her blog. After suffering from gastroesophageal reflux disease in college, Joanne started cooking everything from scratch, carefully reading ingredient labels. Eventually her condition healed and she has continued her whole food, cooking from scratch lifestyle, cooking good food that real people like to eat and showing us step by step just how simple it can be.

9. Pinch of Yum

Lindsey is a teacher turned full-time food blogger who is totally transparent about everything she does on the blog. I love that about her. She has written an ebook about food photography and a how-to about starting a food blog. She and her husband run a separate website (Food Blogger Pro) devoted to helping subscribers with all aspects of running a food blog. Her husband publishes a post every month detailing the previous month’s blog-related earnings….and wow. It’s seriously impressive. Lindsey’s blog is proof that hard work and attention to detail can build blog success. And she’s a recipe posting machine, publishing basically every other day. Oh, her recipes are all right too!

8. The Fauxmartha

Melissa is a self-proclaimed baker by day, designer by night. She publishes a wide variety of simple, beautiful recipes and a weekly kitchen tip. I love the slightly self-deprecating name of her blog, but even more than that I adore her photos, with their clean white backgrounds (an Ikea desk!) and simple styling. She is a prolific Instagrammer, and if you love food-related Instagram posts you will not be sad that you followed her.

7. Baker’s Royale

Naomi (whose husband is also a food blogger), mostly bakes but she also posts about other sweets, savory foods, and party foods and drinks. She’s not afraid to pull out a kitschy favorite (tomato soup cupcakes, anyone?) but also creative yet classic preparations like these eggnog cupcakes (which I have made and they are as amazing as they sound). I love that she experiments with the styling in her photography, and every photo is more beautiful than the last.

6. My Name is Yeh

Molly is another blogger that I recently discovered, after she was nominated for a Saveur Best Food Blog award. She uses her blog to write about cooking on a North Dakota farm. She’s also an accomplished percussionist with a degree from Juilliard. Her recipes tend to be fun and updated versions of classics, like these eggs Benedict Cumberbatch. I adore her photography.

5. Homesick Texan

I’m a little jealous of Lisa and the strong food heritage she took with her from Texas to NYC. I mean, yeah we have Southern food….but Texas has its own cuisine. It’s purely, 100% Texas. I love that Lisa is not afraid to pull out the punches and serve you cheese dip, buttermilk pie, and nine different varieties of salsa. She’s published two successful cookbooks as well. If you love Tex-Mex, you seriously need to read Homesick Texan.

4. Lady and Pups

Mandy calls her blog an angry food blog and outlet for her misery….but I really don’t pick up any of that in her posts. From her Beijing kitchen she writes posts about foods from a variety of cuisines (Chinese, Mexican, halal), plus sweets and breakfast and everything else under the sun. The thing that got me reading, though, was the eye-catching visual aspect of her blog. Her layout is amazing, with her posts in column format-something I’ve never seen from another food blog-and her photos, with their low-key, dark backgrounds, are stunning. Plus her pups are pretty adorable (scroll to the bottom here).

3. i am a food blog

Another blog that caught my eye because it is visually stunning, i am a food blog drew me even further in because I can’t stop making her recipes, like this burger, these fifteen minute doughnut holes, and this breakfast sandwich that I’m making for dinner tonight. Stephanie‘s heritage is Chinese and many of her recipes reflect this….but she definitely doesn’t play to just one theme. One thing I will say about her food is that it is comfort food, across the board. Her photos are amazing….lots of white backgrounds, but she isn’t “married” to that look. She makes great use of GIFs and fantastic graphics customized for each recipe. Her first cookbook, Easy Gourmet will be released on September 2.

2. 100 Days of Real Food

Lisa‘s blog can be a bit controversial at time. A few years back she started a challenge for herself and her family to see if they could follow a list of “real food rules” exactly for 100 days, later repeating the challenge on a budget of $125/week (of mostly organic food) for her family of four. Now, they’ve relaxed a little bit, but they still follow the rules almost all the time. Lisa posts great whole foods recipes on her blog as well as commentaries about the food that we eat, which is where it gets a little controversial at times, because sometimes people get offended by what they perceive as judgment. I’ve never read Lisa’s tone as judgey….just trying to inform people about the fact that we don’t have to be resigned to eating a steady diet of processed food. One of my favorite things about her blog is her extensive focus on the school lunches that she packs for her daughters. The 100 Days of Real Food Cookbook will be released on Tuesday.

1. Smitten Kitchen

I am sure that you guys are not surprised to see SK in the top spot. I’ve made it pretty clear here that as far as food goes I pretty much worship the ground that Deb walks on. Deb’s blog is arguably the most popular food blog on the inter webs and her recipe index is gigantic and if she doesn’t have a recipe that you need….well, you probably don’t need it. She meticulously studies and tests every recipe until she finds the perfect formulation, then she shares it. Plus her photos are simple perfection. Amen and amen.

So those are my top ten food blogs….what are yours?