I’ve been popping up in all kinds of places lately. Read on for details of Eat Drink Blog 3, a new recipe site, two great recipe e-books, a fab food blogger hop, new client news and recent press clippings.
Eat Drink Blog 3
I’ve been enjoying reading all the lovely, thoughtful and thought-provoking posts about the 3rd Australian Food Bloggers Conference, which concluded Sunday night. The two-day event, which saw 80 food bloggers from nearly every state in Australia visit Adelaide last week, was managed by a volunteer committee of Adelaide food bloggers, who worked countless hours to ensure a successful, bar-raising weekend. So high fives to Amanda, Kirsty, Erin, Alex, Natasha, and Celeste – we did good.
Edit: here’s a pic of us at the beginning of the weekend courtesy of Simon Leong from Simon Food Favourites. Thanks Simon! And can I also say a heartfelt THANK YOU to the genius who invented concealer? You would never guess I was completely loopy-loo from a combination of jet-lag and 4+ hours/sleep a night for the week leading up to the conference.
Thanks must also go to our fantastic sponsors, and most importantly, our major sponsor, the South Australian Tourism Commission, and to Michele D’Aloia, Caitlin Jones and Barbara Storey.
Sadly, I hardly got to chat with any of the delegates properly and missed most of the sessions. Oh well – I’ll just have to read everybody else’s blog posts and look forward to attending next year’s event as a regular delegate!
New recipe site
A few months ago I was commissioned to develop a new recipe site — Amazing Almonds — for the Almond Board of Australia to showcase almonds. We launched last month with some great recipes and articles about almonds, and each month I’ll be adding more recipes — like the Almond & Parmasen Crusted Fish above — interviews and helpful articles.
So if you love almonds, head on over to Amazing Almonds. I’d love to know what you think so any feedback via the site’s comments section would be much appreciated.
New Recipe E-Books
Love recipes? Of course you do if you’re reading this blog!
Two of my recipes have been included in two new e-books that are now available.
Firstly, Ocean Spray commissioned two recipes using their cranberry products for a new e-book featuring Australian food bloggers. I made a Warm Duck Salad (see above) and a crowd-pleasing Berry Trifle – you can download the Ocean Spray recipe e-book free here.
Secondly, a couple of months ago Lauren from Corridor Kitchen asked if I’d like to be involved in an e-book of blogger recipes she was producing called The Potluck Club with all proceeds going to Foodbank, Australia’s largest food relief organisation. We were asked to contribute a low-cost but full flavour recipe and I chose my mother’s Feel Good Fish & Eggplant Curry (see above).
You can download The Potluck Club e-book for $5.95 here and then pat yourself on the back for being both generous and clever in sourcing a great recipe e-book. For more information about the e-book click here.
Cake & Three Veg – this months’ Sweet Adventures blog hop
As regular readers will know, I’m one of the hostesses of Sweet Adventures monthly dessert blog hops. Sadly I had to miss last month’s hop due to a hectic work schedule so I’m doubly pleased to be able to make this hop.
This month, the lovely JJ at 84th & 3rd is hosting Cake & Three Veg, so we’re inviting food bloggers everywhere to post their favourite vegie dessert recipes and join in the fun. The hop opens on Monday 19th November and will remain open for a week for you to link up your post. For more information check out JJ’s post.
New clients & New Projects
This month, apart from my regular gigs with Amazing Almonds, About.com, and Honest Cooking, I’m excited to be working on new projects for the #1 olive oil worldwide, Bertolli (recipe development, food styling and photography), She Knows (recipe development, food styling, photography + writing) and Hardie Grant Publishing (freelance writing).
Thanks to all for the opportunity to work with you. I love the variety of the freelance life!
Press Clippings
I’ve been honoured by some recent press. You may have seen me popping up in Adelaide Matters with some of my fellow Eat Drink Blog committee members, in In Daily with my Grandmother’s prawn sambal recipe or on the ABC website holding a bowl of almonds.
It’s very odd being at the receiving end of a camera for a change – next time I’m calling in hair and makeup!
Christina xx
PS all photos by moi except the top two taken by the talented KK from ParcStudio
