Saturday, December 5, 2009

Favorite Food Blogs and the Steamy Kitchen Winner!



Thanks to all of you who entered the contest to win my giveaway copy of the awesome STEAMY KITCHEN COOKBOOK by the equally awesome Jaden Hair. I will name the very lucky winner in a second, but we all get a really great runner-up prize, because this contest produced a fabulous list of food blogs that we can all try! I've assembled a clickable list below, which you should all try out, so long as you solemnly swear to come back to THIS food blog.

But first...the lucky winner, randomly selected by random.org because I cannot bear to pick out just one person myself, is Elaine, who suggested Dinner with Julie as her favorite blog. Congrats, Elaine -- you are the owner of this fabulous cookbook!!

Now for the list of blogs that we can all try!


1. Steamy Kitchen. Well, of course. When you get there, look up her pork dumplings (pictured above) -- they are out of this world.

2. Pioneer Woman. Natch. If there is anyone left on earth who hasn't visited her site...go now, and search the apple dumpling recipe. It involves Mountain Dew and is unbelievably good.

3. Joy The Baker. One of my very, very favorites, for the recipes, the photos and the smart, smart, smart writing.

4. Bakerella. A dessert paradise, especially all her bite-sized stuff.

5. Our Best Bites: Some great foodie holiday gifts on this one. Check out the peanut brittle. I adore peanut brittle. Hint, hint.

6. Chez Pim: Gorgeous blog, and all you fellow food bloggers, check out their Menu of Hope project going on right now, okay?

7. Wild Yeast Blog: Yep. All about bread. You can practically smell the bread baking from the beautiful pictures.

8. Orangette: I didn't know this one at all, but I'm glad I do now -- great writing and recipes.

9. Market Manila: Food in the Phillipines! Yum.

10. A Feast for the Eyes, celebrating their one year "blogaversary" - congrats, Debbie!

11. The Food Pornographer. A picture is worth a thousand words, right?

12. Foodgawker. One of my favorites - I love you guys! Thanks for taking all my pictures!!

13. A Hungry Girl's Guide to Taipei. If you are ever in Taipei looking for a good meal. Hey, it could happen!

14. Mark Bittman's Blog. The incomparable Mr. Bittman. I adore him from afar.

15. Dinner and Dessert. They have a rocky road fudge recipe up there that I think I may have to try Right Now.

16. Dinner with Julie. The adorable picture of the little boy with the camera on her homepage is worth the visit all by itself...but some delicious looking food on there, too.

17. Chickens in the Road. Recipes and crafts and gardening and lots of chickens.

18. Rasa Malaysia. Asian recipes, and drop dead gorgeous pictures. Jealous.

19. Cannelle at Vanille. Another site with incredible pictures. I'm getting an inferiority complex.

20. Eating Asia. Pictures and food from Southeast Asia -- beautiful and exotic.

21. Anne's Food. A Swedish food blogger, but her recipes are from everywhere.

22. Wives with Knives. Maybe my favorite blog name EVER???

23. Thought 4 Food. A collection of cooking posts. Hmmm....maybe I will send them something?

24. Culinary Concoctions By Peabody. Looks like mostly sweet stuff....Peabody, I think I like you!

25. Annie's Eats. Love this one, it's been on my blogroll for a while. Hi Annie!

26. Smitten Kitchen. One of the best...and she is now doing it all with a newborn baby!

27. Inuyaki. This means "grilled dog" in Japanese. Hmm. Some cool recipes though.

28. Hungry Cravings. Another one with beautiful, beautiful pictures.

29. La Fuji Mama. Fusion cooking, and she looks like SO much fun!

30. Culinary In The Desert. I would love this one just for the cute dogs on the home page...check it out!

31. 101 Cookbooks: I think this was the first recipe blog I ever visited, and it is still amazing. Very healthy stuff.

32. Chocolate and Zucchini. One of the first food blogs and still one of the best, written and photographed by the amazing Clotilde.

33. Kitchens Are Monkey Business: Don't know this one, but I agree with the general sentiment!

34. The Kitchen Sink: Didn't know this one either, and oh, those pictures! Yum yum.

35. Delicious Wisdom: Whole and healthy foods, and they look great.

37. Design Crush Blog: Not a food blog, although there are often great recipes on here, but a really, really fun site.

Thanks for all of these!! And because I can never leave well enough alone, here are just a few more from ME. Because I love them so much.


Tastespotting. Another place to swoon over amazing food pictures that all have links to the originating blogs. Mouthwatering. (You might find some of my shots there, too!)

Simply Recipes. Simply fabulous. She has maple cookies up there right this minute.

Chocolate Shavings. Another blog I visit for inspiration on both the recipes AND the photography, it's glorious.

The Locavore Way. A new one, all on locally grown food...and she has a brand new cookbook that looks amazing.

Okay, I'm ravenous now, and I know we have barely scratched the surface of all of the amazing food blogs out there, so we will do this again soon, okay? In the meantime, congrats to Elaine on winning the STEAMY KITCHEN COOKBOOK! And everybody check back with me tomorrow night, when I am starting up my next cookbook contest....

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