Elsewhere in Foodblog Sphere – September

September has been a fairly boring month foodwise for me, although I have been busy with the blog.    Firstly I was in France, then getting home I decieded that I was fed up of a deluge of product cascading out of the kitchen (and hall cupboards) every time I opened them.  So I resolved to try not to go to the supermarket in September.   Of course I did, but apart from fruit and veggies, from my food co-op and market,  I think that I have only bought some coffee, olive oil (both essential) and some ground ginger (for a cake).     I also entered the Glorious Soup’s recipe competition and received 10 of their soups as samples which I am still working through.   I still have mounds of non perishable foods, and soon am going to be eating more strangely than usual.  I am currently developing a taste for aramanth porridge!  At least this is giving me time to catch up with the blog backlog.

I adore being a food blogger and clearly remember how excited I was to be asked to my first event, invitations still come thick and fast and being obsessed by all things edible I love going to food events, and receiving review samples, but there is a backlog to be written up (I also had August off).    My policy is to get every new review out immediately and to get an overdue one written for every new one.     That way I should catch up – hopefully by the end of October.

So in other people’s kitchens this September:-

MiMi was literally in someone else’s kitchen as she took over Matt Follas’s The Wild Garlic and ran a Burmese pop-up on Friday evening.   I am super impressed at the number of dishes she served and the amount of time she spent prepping before she even starting cooking.    I wish I could have gone as the evening sounded fantastic and totally delicious, I met up with her and Kavey and Matt the next day and heard all about it.    I hope that there will be a repeat in London some time soon, or at least a few recipes!

Kip, the messy vegetarian coook made wonderful Baghara Baingan (Stuffed Hyderabadi Aubergines).  I read her post on a Sunday morning and resolved to buy aubergines immediately to make it.

Steenbergs have written the story behind their vanilla.  A very interesting post about cultivation, harvest and curing of the vanilla with great photos.  I am hosting a giveaway for a fabulous Steenbergs baking box at the moment so please enter here if you have not already done so.

One of my favourite blogs is Everybody Likes Sandwiches, which is packed full of lovely ideas (not all sandwich related) all beautifully written and photographed.  Whenever a new post pops up in my feed reader I click through immediately and am rarely disappointed.  I can’t wait to make these salty sweet candied peanuts, although I may try them with cashews.

With autumn firmly in the air I am liking the look of Two Peas and Their Pod’s Pumpkin and Nutella Bread.   Beautiful autumnal colours.

Sarah (Fingers and Toes) was recently invited on a food tour of the North of North of Sweden.    Her photos of this  beautiful and slightly alien land are breathtaking, see them here and here.    The trip looked amazing and I hope Sarah will tell Visit Sweden about Fuss Free Flavours!

Pickeld aubergine or eggplant was on the menu at Green Kitchen Stories written by David & Luise who eat delicious healthy food and take beautiful photos.   They are about to go travelling with their young baby daughter, I do hope they keep blogging.