Project Food Blog Challenge #1: Ready, Set, Blog!featured

As many of you may know, Foodbuzz is hosting a fabulous contest called Project Food Blog.

There are a series of 10 Project Food Blog Challenges, each one focusing on different culinary and blogging skills, from writing to cooking to photography. Each entry post is voted on by the Foodbuzz community, and scored by a panel of judges, including Dana Cowin, Editor-in-Chief of FOOD & WINE Magazine (and fellow Brown alum!), Nancy Silverton, founder of La Brea Bakery & Co-owner of Mozza, and Pim Techamuanvivit, author of Chez Pim and The Foodie Handbook.

So, here we go! The first challenge poses the question:

What defines me as a food blogger?

I’ve thought long and hard about this…What makes Lick My Spoon unique? Why do I blog? Why do you read me? (Feel free to chime in here).

I like to describe Lick My Spoon as a place for all things delicious. It is my little corner of the blogosphere where I can talk about the things that get me jazzed, juiced… another “J” word is failing me right now, but you get the idea.

Here, I have a beautiful, blank canvas to talk about all the joys I find in little morsels of goodness. Some decadent and rich, others sublime in their simplicity. I always try to write as honestly and seductively as I can. I want you to taste my words.

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You’re my boy, Blue!featured

Introducing, Blue. The newest edition to our Lick My Spoon T-Shirt family!

(Model: Matt Brezina)

Hunger Challenge: Eating on $4 a Day – Eggs & Onionsfeatured

I often stop and marvel at how lucky I am to be living in such an amazing food town. I eat well.

I feel truly blessed because in this city overflowing with great food, 150,000 people aren’t sure where their next meal is coming from. That’s 1 in 4 children and 1 in 5 adults.

This week, the San Francisco Food Bank is holding their Hunger Challenge to see if you can eat for $4 a day — the average amount that food stamp recipients have to spend. $4 for a whole day of sustenance? Are you serious? Could I even make one meal for that little money? I started brainstorming of all the cheap ingredients I could use. Carbs and veggies rose to the top of the list. Rice, beans, pasta, onions, potatoes, oatmeal…

I decided on a humble dish of fried Eggs and Onions over rice for my Hunger Challenge Meal.

Did you ever get on a food kick when you were little and wanted to eat nothing besides that one special dish? I went through first grade eating turkey and mayo on white bread for lunch every day. Must’ve had a thing for white foods…

Hua, on the other hand, branched out slightly farther in his color spectrum and pretty much lived on Eggs and Onions for a majority of his middle school years.

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14th Annual Kendall-Jackson Heirloom Tomato Festivalfeatured

The Kendall-Jackson Heirloom Tomato Festival sells out every year, and this year was no exception. Over 3,000 tomato fans turned out this past Saturday to enjoy a hot summer day on Kendall-Jackson’s beautiful grounds, from which more than 175 varieties of heirloom tomatoes were picked fresh for the festival feasting.

The day-long event featured live music, wine and food education seminars, cooking demos, a Chef Challenge, wine tastings, and tasting tables from more than 50 local restaurants, all featuring — you guessed it — juicy, sweet, heirloom tomatoes.

A majority of the dishes featured some combination of Tomato + Carb + Cheese (no complaints here).

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