Announcing Leftover Tuesdays #2

Rachel's Bite is happy to be hosting February's Leftover Tuesdays blogging event. So make sure to include a meal which will allow you to get creative with your leftovers when you make your shopping list next week!

How it works: The basic idea is 1) to have a leftover item on hand as a result of your cooking (or other dining) between Wednesday, February 21 and Monday, February 26; 2) make something new with those leftover items and blog about this new creation by Tuesday, February 27. I will post a round-up by the end of the week.

To Enter: Post your blog by midnight EST on 2/27/07 and send an email to rrubin at i-spangle dot com(replace the “at” and “dot” with their respective symbols, please) with the subject “Leftover Tuesdays”. Please include the following information:

Your name and location
Your blog name and URL
URL for your Leftover Tuesdays entry
A 100 x 100 jpeg photo if you would like it included it in the roundup

If you use Technorati tags, please use "Leftover Tuesdays" and "leftovers" for this event.

Thanks to David at Cooking Chat, the founder of Leftover Tuesdays, for letting me host this one.

Valentine Wishes From a Food Blogger

I received a Valentine today from Jenny of All Things Edible. As part of the 2nd Blogger Postcards Around the World a whole bunch of us food bloggers signed up and Meeta from What's For Lunch Honey assigned us to someone to send our postcard to. I sent mine out a while ago. Jenny blogs from Ottawa, Ontario Canada. How cool is that!

With Love, From a Food Blogger

I made this little postcard to send some Valentine's love to a fellow food blogger. The polar bear was from a World Wildlife Fund sample of their Christmas cards. I cut it down, grunged it up, added the rub-ons of the wing and a crown. It is my way of turning him into a sweet prince. I stamped on the flowers with red paint and drew the stems and some doodles.

So where in the world is my crafted Valentine going? I can't tell. It's a secret. Only Meeta from What's For Lunch Honey and I know. 60 food bloggers from all around the world are taking part of the 2nd Blogger Postcards Around the World event and Meeta paired us all up. I can't wait to get mine!

2007 foodie resolutions

An interesting question was posted over at Save Your Fork... There's Pie! What are your food resolutions for 2007?

I had not even thought of making something like a "food resolution". But like my fellow food blogger, I too have some goals regarding food for the coming year. So I have listed my food resolutions below . . .

1. Actually READ my cookbooks. Many of my cookbooks have some valuable information in them aside from just recipes. Until now, I have just passed over that "fluff" and went straight to the recipes.

2. Make at least one recipe in each of the cookbooks I have. I'd like to do this before I purchase any additional cookbooks. I have many cookbooks that I bought for the novelty of it or because they were on sale at Costco and I thought I had to have it. Many I have not even actually made one single recipe from. This goal will pose especially challenging for The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden which I have cracked open several times but have always been discouraged and confused about deciding what I want to cook. I may also have some issues with a sushi cookbook my friend gave me.

3. Cook food that I can take for lunch. I have a plethora of recipes for all sorts of good salads, breads, tacos, etc. I should be able to find several things to throw together that won't cost an arm and a leg.

4. Become conscious of the food I put in my mouth. I am not necessarily going to go on a diet, but I want to be aware of foods that are very fattening. I plan to add all the recipes I make to the Weight Watchers online recipe tool because I like using their points system to determine how fattening or healthy something is. I get confused with calories, fat grams, etc.

5. Blog the results of each recipe I cook. That's what I started this blog for afterall. I'm using it as a food journal of sorts.

6. Food & Wine's 100 Tastes to Try in '07. Do my best to try as many foods on this list as possible. I think it will be a fun way to try some new things.

So what do you think? They all seem like reasonable enough goals to me.