Taste Spotting: A collection of deliciousness from throughout the interwebs! Their tagline? "A community-driven visual potluck." Oh man, the deliciousness that is collected on this website is too much to handle! I could seriously spend hours here, clicking, drooling, and repeating (to steal the tagline from FoodPornDaily.com). They even post their own creations! Such as these incredible looking Turkey Meatballs that have, among other ingredients, pine nuts, golden raisins, and cumin.
Food Porn Daily: Speaking of FoodPornDaily.com! Tagline: Click, Drool, Repeat. 100% accurate. Explore their website and you will be both inspired and descouraged. Food never looked so good ... or so sexy! But sexy in a "classy" way .. *wink*
The Winter Guest: Tagline: Food seen from my kitchen in Spain. Yes, you can see, feel, touch, hear, and sense the overwhelming jealousy that is oozing from every pore and hazy floating orb in my existence. A recent delicious find is this Vegan Butternut Squash and Tomato Soup. Be still my beating, gurgling, gluttinous stomach!
Food Gawker: Another heinously incredible collection of deliciousness, a la Taste Spotting. I want to cry when I look at the amazingness staring me down. I drooled first, therefore it won. But I couldn't be happier in my defeat! But are all the recipes coming exclusively from The Winter Guest? I can't tell, but this one sure is amazing! My Grandmother's Migas will definitely be given a try! Take one for the team ... I mean, it's the least I can do!
The Family Kitchen: Family friendly, indeed. Or at least that's what I'm assuming, as their host site is "Babble: for a new generation of parents." Quite tasty things can be found here! Such as this gorgeous Chocolate Avocado Cupcakes. Though personally I'd rather just go at the avocado sliced on a plate, sprinkled with lime and salt. But hey, I'll try anything chocolatey and delicious at least once!
Bittersweet Baker: Now this site makes me want to cry with the sugary deliciousness that oozes through the pixels in my screen. Raspberry Curd? Why not! Homemade Marscapone Cheese? Bring on the Giada recipes! (Granted this recipe came from another site that I'll have to mention later ... twist my arm!) Chocolate Crinkle Cookies? Don't mind if I do! This is an incredible find, indeed.
Baking Obsession: As promised, here is where I found the Homemade Marscapone Cheese recipe mentioned earlier! Chocolate Banana Cardamom Jam? Who'd have thought?! Well, it turns out Baking Obsession done thought-ed, created, and succeeded! Sigh. So much to try, so little time!
Poires au Chocolat: Contrary to the name, this isn't all about chocolate, but it is all about deliciousness. Tagline: "Don't tickle your tastebuds, seduce them." But my tastebuds are not the only seduced parts of me blindly groping the Fresh Mint Ice Cream laced with Dark Chocolate, its Black Cherry and Marscapone Tart with a Gingernut Crust, its Rose-Poached Pears, and its Homemade Nutella!
The Baking Bird: What a great name! Kylie, the creator, combines all her favorite things in this blog: "baking, cooking, food, photography, ayurveda, interior design, art, and last but not least, birds!" (Imagine sung to Julie Andrews' "My Favorite Things".) She also generously provides links to other delicious sites, such as Joy the Baker and her recipe for Curried Sweet Potato Soup with Goat Cheese Biscuits! Yumz.
Joy the Baker: What delicious fun things! It's a great site to roam around! Heres a goody: Pumpkin Pie Pop Tarts with Maple Glaze. And the pictures are fabulous, of course! Lavender Vanilla Sugar? Who'd have thought! What a fabulous idea! Christmas gifts? I think so!
The Little Teochew: "Food. Family. Fotography." There is a distinct emphasis on Asia (yes, this includes South Asia), but there are also some really wonderful recipes that don't necessarily have or need a cultural, culinary home. Some of my favorite mouthwatering recipes of Glazed Lemon Buttermilk Cupcakes, Yogurt Cake with Blueberry Sauce, beautiful Chinese Dumplings, a Roasted Pumpkin Quiche, and Watercress Soup. There's also a great recipe of what they claim as Easy Lemon Curd! Be advised, Alton Brown, you have competition.
All Day I Dream About Food: A blog that perfectly describes my obsession. "I Dream About Food." It's true. I do. And if I could have my way, I would Live Food. The tagline? "Adventures in cooking, baking, and eating the results." Jealousy, you are my perpetual foody friend. Anyway, this blog is calming on the eyes, but gets my stomach gurgling and my foody brain whirring in anticipation! They have 27 fun recipes that are gluten free, and 38 that are purported to be low carb. Mother, you might even approve! Please pass a couple of thick slices of the Rosemary Olive Oil Quick Bread (Low Carb) to go along with the Spicy Green Tomato Soup with Crispy Pancetta. And for dessert, how about we have some Chocolate Creme Tarts with Hazelnut Crust (Low Carb and Gluten Free) with a healthy scoop of Basil Ice Cream (Low Carb). Oh, Fall, how I adore your food combinations!
Three Many Cooks: A blog about the delicious things that go on in this family's kitchen. Well, the kitchen seems to belong exclussively to Mom and her two daughters, but there's more than enough love in their kitchen to make up for any people they banish from their counters, stovetops, and kitchen floors! The most recent offering are Salvadoran Papusas with Curtido and Salsa Roja. How fabulous! And a recipe that I am ridiculously eager to try? Grand Marnier Souffles. I'm very much looking forward to doing some more exploring on this site!
The Wholesome Home: Tagline: "Fitness from Scratch." Now, normally I shy away (to be honest, run screaming from), any stie that blusters on about health and advice on how to live longer while eating distressingly unappetizing food while exercising until you no longer feel like a human being, but this site has some wonderful recipes. Granted, I'll probably stay far away from their "Health" and "Life" sections, but the "Gardening," "Housekeeping," and "Recipes" departments might find themselves the subjects of a good read. So here is a fabulous little recipe that is both healthy (ick ... even the word gives me the heebee-jeebees) and tastebud seducing (ah, there we go) recipe: Hazelnut Macaroons with Homemade Nutella. Though not a huge fan of macaroons, anything paired with nutella is bound to get my attention, especially if that anything is something that can use up all the eggs that I buy but can never seem to get rid of. Plus, hazelnuts are quite tasty!
The Food Librarian: Interestingly enough, this blog actually is by a librarian! A librarian from Los Angeles, nonetheless! This blog chronicles her "attempt to learn to bake from scratch" in addition to "other musings about food and life" that, to be honest, may never get a "click" from this easily spooked reader. The recipe that has caught my eye is her individual-sized Lavender-Lemon Bundts. Not only are they adorable, but they look absolutely delicious. I am a lemon fiend, and love ideas that pair it with strange yet oddly-sensical things such as lavender. I guess this means I'm going to have to make a run to Michael's to get some mini bundt tins. (Michael's is such a dangerous place for me, but I shall be brave and not emerge with hundreds of thousands of things that I do not really need but that I want desperately.) Anyway, onwards!
Amanda's Cooking: I must admit, I'm intrigued. Savory Chicken with Onion and Thyme Sauce. Billy might enjoy this one! While Mother would probably prefer lighter Grilled Garlic Lemon Chicken Breasts that I would probably accompany with Homemade Pull Apart Dinner Rolls and some Garlic Mashed Potatoes or Julia Childs' Style Green Beans. (I'm actually a huge fan of the original pairing of the Pork in Lemon Juice & Herb Maranade in combination with the Garlic Mashed Potatoes.) What about some Buttermilk Rolls paired with Corn and Red Pepper Chowder? Who is this "Amanda", anyway? I quite like her!
Whitney in Chicago: Tagline: "Cooking, eating, and living in the Windy City." If the Windy City is made of nothing but deliciousness, count me in! Not to mention her "market" is the Green City Market that touts "fresh local delicious" food stuffs! I'm dying to try her recipe for Ginger Peach Muffins, as well as her Vegan Apple Crisp! Another reason to love this blog is the sidebar of TONS of links to other delicious blogs such as "Orangette," "Joy the Baker" (mentioned earlier), "Smitten Kitchen," "The Kitchen Sink,""Cucina Nicolina" ("life in & out of the kitchen" with such happy recipes as Potato-Leek Soup with Bay Leaves, Garlic-toasted Quinoa, and Pear-almond Upsided-down Cake), Happy Jack Eats ("eating. living. taking photos of it all." Including a ravishing Beans, sausage, squash, greens. And fall. recipe that seems too good to be true!), and of course for the fruit lovers out there the Fruitslinger (this site definitely deserves from serious perusing!).
Baked Bree: Now this is a great site. You find Lemon Ginger Steamed Pudding, Butternut Squash Soup with Gruyere Croutons, and Tandoori Chicken Burgers. I just love the step-by-step photos of the proces of making such mouth-watering foods. Plus there are links to fun yumminess like Oreo Cheesecake Balls (from another site that may get perused Three Sides of Crazy) and Accidental Pumpkin Blondies.
Fat Free Vegan: Recently inspired by a good family friend, I've been exploring fun, delicious, and surprisingly vegan-friendly recipes online. One of my recent obsessions is Susan V.'s FatFree Vegan blog, where I've found numerous kid and non-vegan friendly recipes! Granted, anytime I see the "fat free" notice (warning!), I cringe and have to fight the urge to slink away while grumbling "fat free isn't the only thing that matters." But this stie actually is quite fun! I love them because they are, as noted earlier, non-vegan friendly! Who would have guessed that Baked Spinach Kofta with Cucumber-Yogurt Sauce would be both vegan-friendly and tasty, or that I could do a Savory Swiss Chard Pie for the family friend at Thanksgiving and Christmas get-togethers, or that I could replace the traditional pumpkin pie with a possibly even more delicious Applie-Pumpkin Delight or a ripping Impossible Pumpkin Pie??? Or what about a Calamondin (or Lemon) Pie with Oatmeal Cookie Crust??? I think that's one of the things that I love about this woman's recipes: they don't look or sound or feel vegan! Such a fan! Family friend, you are in for quite a treat this holiday!
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