2024 Year in Review (Spoiler: It's been an INCREDIBLE year!)

2024 was the first full year of Moon + Magnolia’s blog and YouTube channel. And it has been AMAZING!

To celebrate, I'm sharing your favorite posts and videos, fun facts, and behind-the-scenes highlights from the year.

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Collage of homemade food highlights featuring avocado toast, cereal, and chili, alongside a mother and child baking together. Centered text reads 'Moon + Magnolia 2024 Year in Review.'

What a year 2024 has been! In just over two weeks, it will officially be the first full year of Moon + Magnolia’s blog and YouTube channel.

This year has been packed with all the things I love: heirloom skills, scratch cooking, sourdough, and YOU!

When I decided to move full steam ahead with my blog and YouTube channel, I wasn’t sure if anyone would read or watch. But you did! Unbelievably, hundreds of thousands of you did!

Together, we've grown this community, embraced modern heirloom skills, and reclaimed simplicity. What a year it's been! Let's look back on the best moments-and get ready for 2025!

I’ve included a quick, fun fact or behind-the-scenes blurb for each post and video. So be sure to check them out!

Top 5 Blog Posts in 2024

Sourdough dough in a banneton with a plastic bag on it.

How To Store Sourdough Dough in the Fridge

Many new sourdough bakers wonder how long sourdough dough can stay in the fridge. Whether you are making a beginner's no-knead sourdough, sourdough sandwich bread, or your other favorite recipe, it can chill (literally) for a few days before baking.

HOW TO REFRIGERATE SOURDOUGH DOUGH

3-Ingredient Creamed Spinach

This 3-ingredient creamed spinach recipe isn't just easy–it's DELICIOUS, too. It's perfect as a dip with crackers or crusty sourdough. Or you can serve it as a decadent side dish. Made with basic ingredients, this is an easy recipe to customize or adapt for any palate or meal.

3-INGREDIENT CREAMED SPINACH

Freezer-Friendly Sourdough Pizza Dough

This freezer-friendly sourdough pizza dough makes pizza night cheap, easy, and nutritious. You can freeze up to a year's worth, so you don't have to worry about making dough every time you crave pizza.

SOURDOUGH DOUGH PIZZA DOUGH FOR FREEZING

Sourdough Toast

Sourdough toast is crispy and flavorful, and it pairs with every meal. You don't need a toaster, and it works perfectly with no-knead sourdough bread or my sourdough sandwich bread recipe.

SOURDOUGH TOAST RECIPE

Homemade Sloppy Joes

Hands down, this is the best homemade sloppy joes recipe–and the easiest. The ingredients are pared down so you can use pantry staples and have dinner on the table in under 30 minutes.

EASY SLOPPY JOES RECIPE

Top 5 YouTube Videos in 2024

Fun Fact: This video was a total sleeper. I posted it in April with modest success. And in November, it took off out of the blue. It’s now my number-one video on YouTube.

About the Video: I’m sharing how to feed sourdough starter once a week without extra fuss. Along the way, I’ll share my best practices and tips for maintaining a healthy starter-the easy way.

Behind the Scenes: I’ve had a lot of comments about this photo. And though, yes, it does have a Winged Victory vibe, it’s just a screen grab of me grabbing onions from the fridge. And my dress is from Sam’s Club, haha!

About the Video: I’m sharing simple recipes and cooking tips for various weekday schedules and scenarios. With these recipes, tips, and tricks, you can enjoy homemade family meals on weeknights.

Fun Fact: This is one of my favorite videos of the year. I love creating these comforting vibes in my home and sharing them with you.

About the Video: Some of the sweetest fall memories are made at home. I’m sharing a few simple ways and recipes for creating coziness in your home.

Behind the Scenes: The most disgruntled comments I’ve ever received online were from this video. I was completely unaware that there is a very loyal community of Ninja Creami users. And they were extremely unhappy with this review and comparison. Some of the comments were so bad I had to delete them!

About the Video: This is better than the Ninja Creami, and I’m excited to share it with you! You can make better ice cream (and faster) with the Kumio ice cream maker. In this video, I’ll share what I don’t like about the Creami and what I love about the Kumio.

Fun Fact: I published this video in November 2023, but it is my fifth most-watched video of 2024.

About the Video: Here are the 3 Dutch ovens I use for cooking: Staub, Lodge, and Cuisinart. And the big question is: do you need to splurge on an expensive Dutch oven, like a Staub, for your kitchen?

2024 Moon + Magnolia Milestones

My first full year of blogging and YouTube has been a blur, but I set two clear goals and committed to them:

Publish two blog posts a week
Publish two YouTube videos a week

Here is where I ended up this year:

100 Blog Posts: This post marks 100 blog posts! With two weeks left in the year, the total will hit 104.
100 YouTube Videos: I started my YouTube channel in 2023 with one video a week and increased it to two videos weekly in February 2024. So far, I've published 97 videos; by year's end, the total will be 102!
10.8 Million Words: According to Grammarly (my editing app), I've written 10,865,815 words across all platforms since March 2024. And I talk even more than I write-imagine the total word count there!

The Most Important Takeaway of the Year

This year, diving headfirst into my blog and YouTube channel has been a learning experience.

And though I could drone on about lots of techy things I’ve picked up along the way, the most important lesson I’ve learned is to just keep putting one foot in front of the other and focus on the next right thing.

It’s not always clear where that path will take you. But if you keep moving forward, you’ll get somewhere.

Continuing the Journey

As we head into 2025, let’s commit to reclaiming simplicity in our lives. Get inspired with these posts:

Homemade Vanilla Extract Recipe

Make this recipe Homemade Vanilla Extract Recipe

24 Recipes for Memorial Day – Homemade Favorites

Make this recipe 24 Recipes for Memorial Day – Homemade Favorites

THANK YOU!

My deepest gratitude goes to you. If you’ve read one blog or all of them or watched one video or all of them, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Thank you for being here and part of this community. I cannot wait to see what we grow together next year (I bet it will have something to do with wild yeast cultures, haha!).