I haven’t blogged in forever! For the last week or so I’ve been really busy cooking and photographing for the book since we’ve had a few more days of sunshine lately. Every time the sun is out I immediately think “Quick! While the light is good, take photos!”
This past weekend though, I didn’t do any of that. Jeff and I spent Saturday morning bottling our first batch of beer and then that evening I attended an Atlanta blogger potluck hosted at Lee’s house (Who also took this photo of us below, so she’s not in it. Thanks Lee!)
From left to right we have Emily, Tina, Stacy, Carol, Traci, Laura, myself, and Laura.
As you can imagine, food bloggers make for a really good potluck! We had:
- Brie and apples on crakers
- Olive tapenade toasts
- Sweet potato tot casserole
As well as:
- a huge greek salad
- Nutella sandwiched between vanilla cookies
- chocolate pretzel cookies
- chocolate zucchini muffins
- broccoli salad
And:
- a carrot cake
- spinach artichoke dip with crackers and carrots
- Japanese sweet potato casserole
- WINE
My contributions were the carrot cake and the Japanese sweet potato casserole. This is the same carrot cake that I made for Christmas, however this time it came out much drier than last time. Someone even commented that it kind of tasted “healthy.” Not my best work, but hey, even less than stellar cake is still CAKE!
The casserole was a hit though. This is a recipe I’ve been working on for my cookbook so I knew it was pretty good, but I did not expect the rave response it got! Glad to know I’m on the right track!
We all loaded our plates up to overflowing then went back and did the same with the desserts.
It was 4 hours of crazy girl chat about everything from our favorite (and least favorite) blogs, to horror movies! This is a really fun group of girls, and I’m so glad we get to catch up with each other like this every so often. The potluck format was perfect for a bunch of foodies that like to talk!
Thanks again to Lee for hosting such a fun get-together!
I didn’t think the cake was healthy tasting. Was it healthy?
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Not even remotely.
So good to see you! You weren’t just being nice when you said we could have that recipe, right? It was pretty amazing.
I’m so glad it was a hit. Yeah, I’m debating on wether to email it to all of you or just post it on the blog. Either way, looks like I’m gonna have to set this one free.
Great to see you and to eat both of your delicious dishes! Can’t wait for your cookbook.
Stacy @ Stacy Eats recently posted..Blogger Potluck
Both your cake a sweet potato casserole were awesome!! So much fun hanging out with y’all, let’s do it again soon!!
Oooh, what came up as the favourite blogs? Must. Resist. Urge. To Beg. For. Least. Favourite. Gossip. 😛
Can’t wait to see what’s in your Japanese sweet potato casserole! I am imagining all things delicious 😀
Yay for food blogger friendship wonderment!
I will say that most people chose smaller, more targeted blogs as their personal favorites. Blogs that spoke directly to the kind of content they’re most interested in rather than trying to please an enormous audience.
Sigh. I think I am just going to have to post that recipe after all. Fly little recipe! Be free!
I thought the cake was totally stellar tasting!! So glad I got to see you and enjoy your awesome dishes!
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