Monday, July 21, 2008

There are so many wonderful blogs out there

When I don't feel like cooking on my weekends, I get my foodie fix by surfing the web and reading delicious food blogs. I never cease to be amazed at the creativity, talent, and passion that I see. I am going to start choosing three cool blog posts to share every time I go into one of my binge blog reading sessions. So here are three that I chose for today:

The first is "Airy Fairy Cupcakes" at www.airyfairycupcakes.com. She is based in Ireland and blogs about her cupcake baking experiences. She has GREAT ideas for cupcake flavors such as lavender, french toast, chinese five-spice, "strawberry, champagne, and cream", and Guiness. The pictures on her blog are beautiful and made me crave a cupcake with some kind of gooey caramel goodness inside. I had never heard of "Welsh Rarerabbit Muffins" or "Millionare's Shortbread" until I read her blog, so click away if you haven't either. So, thanks Airy Fairy! I'll keep reading!

The next is Almond Corner's post "It's Raining Berries". She is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and she wrote this lovely post on wild strawberries. Here in California, the strawberries that are predominately sold in stores are the gargantuan ones. The wild ones, however, are quite petite and tasty. It was nice for me to read that she had picked these wild strawberries on her morning walk...how dreamy. I wish I could do that! She called them "tiny red smiles". She used them to make a chocolate-strawberry tart. She has quite a few interesting posts and good ideas, such as deep-frying elderflowers and strawberries! Wow! I can't wait to see what she makes next!

The third is a post about strawberry tart written on the blog Anne Strawberry. I like how the post includes a picture of each step in the tart assembly. The strawberries look gorgeously red and the tart looks delicious. The best part is, both the author and I have red Kitchen Aides. Yay!

So those were my favorites today. I hope to do this kind of post again soon!