omicron antipodal: Food Events

Event Name:
Recipe Book Challenge

Hosting Blog:
Lavender and Lime

Theme: Random Recipe

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 29 February 2012

If you are like me, you have a great collection of recipe books that you have never cooked from! I can tell you that the last three Jamie Oliver books in my collection have not been experimented with. So, this month?s challenge is to randomly pick a recipe from a recipe book you have not used and cook / bake it. The challenge falls over the entire month, so feel free to enter as many recipes as you would like to the linky party ? which will be open from today until the 29th.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Fresh From The Oven

Hosting Blog:
Purely Food

Theme:

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 28 February 2012

Fresh from the oven is a bread baking, monthly blogging event. If you
want to improve your bread baking skills (or try baking bread for the
first time) then this is the blogging event for you. This month we
are baking bagels and you can find the challenge recipe by clicking
the link in the further details section below. All you have to do is
try the recipe, blog about it and email us your link and a photo
(further details on the blog). At the end of the month we will publish
a round up of all the bagels you have baked. So what are you waiting
for? Join the Fresh From the Oven Challenge and get baking!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Sweet Heat

Hosting Blog:
Vanilla Clouds and Lemon Drops

Theme: Game Food (watching games, ie superbowl)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 26 February 2012

There's nothing like a great sports game on TV to make you want to get together with a group of friends to watch the game and of course eat some fantastic Game Food. So since this month is the American Super Bowl and the start of the 6 Nations Rugby Tournament (and of course the continuance of hockey season!) I decided the theme for this month's Sweet Heat challenge is Game Food! That means anything you fancy eating whilst watching the big game will work as long as it is spicy! Chicken wings, Jalapeno poppers or even a big batch of Chilli all fit the bill perfectly, so why not invite some friends over, chill some drinks, make some spicy snacks and cheer for your team! And of course if you aren't a sports lover there's nothing wrong with inviting some friends over and getting out the Cards, Cranium or if you're in the mood....a little Twister!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Cook.Eat.Delicious - Desserts

Hosting Blog:
Chez Cayenne

Theme: Desserts with Herbs or Spices

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 29 February 2012

Life without Desserts is no life at all! Desserts create smiles, laughter, and sweet aromas that fill the house with deliciousness. This dessert lover's event for the month of February wants you to showcase your best dessert recipe featuring Herbs & Spices. One winner will walk away with a brand new cookbook!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Family Friendly Fridays

Hosting Blog:
Fabulicious Food

Theme: Family Meals

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: every Friday

Event Name:I am finally starting to get this house in order! You may have noticed that for the past few weeks, I have been posting a Family Friendly Recipe each Friday and today I am opening this up as a new blog event here on Fabulicious Food! I?ve added all my previous posts to get us started. I may be the only one entering, but I hope not!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Strawberries Special

Hosting Blog:
Vardhini's Kitchen

Theme: Strawberries

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 29 February 2012

I am happy to be guest hosting Anu's Berries event for February 2012 with theme "Strawberry". Hard to believe but I tasted strawberry only after coming to the US and have totally fallen in love with it. They are pretty and tasty too :). So for this event, I am inviting everyone to send in any dish made using strawberry. Thanks Anu for letting me host this event.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Sweet Luv

Hosting Blog:
Vardhini's Kitchen

Theme: Sweet dishes for Valentine's Day

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 29 February 2012

It is February and the first thing that hits my mind is "Valentine's Day". Love is sweet and the event this month is also sweet :). So friends for this event, I am inviting everyone to link up anything that is sweet. It can be any cuisine, any part of the meal, any mode of cooking, basically anything sweet. (Eggs are allowed in baking.)

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Anyone Can Cook

Hosting Blog:
Taste of Pearl City

Theme: Weekly Event to Encourage New Cooks

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: every Friday

* For beginners
* With less ingredients
* With minimum amount of time spent

Your recipe doesn't have to fall under all these categories, if it falls under any one of the categories that's enough. I'll also explain about each category separately.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Invite a Blogger to your Table

Hosting Blog:
More Than Burnt Toast

Theme: Try a recipe with a blogger friend

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: ongoing

Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to "Invite a Blogger to Your Table"! This is a fun event and an outlet for us each to challenge ourselves and create stronger bonds within the blogging community. Nothing is more intimate, or more effective at creating friendships than cooking and sharing meals together, even it is virtually. But hey, if you live in the same area as another blogger what's to stop you from gathering in your own kitchen for this challenge.

Choose a dish to prepare and invite 1(one) blogger to create that dish with you. You can source your recipe from a cookbook, magazine, blog or any other source. Your dish can be sweet or savoury; easy or complicated.

Decide upon a date that you can both mutually post your recipe within a 4 week time frame.

Details can be found here

Hosting Blog:
Sweetbites
Theme: The Illustrated Kitchen Bible by Victoria Blashford-Snell

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 December 2013

A weekly cook-a-long for those that want to be Gutsy! in the kitchen cooking from The Illustrated Kitchen Bible by Victoria Blashford-Snell.

Every week a menu is posted and Gutsy cooks choose to cook 1, 2 or all dishes posted in the menu. Then you blog about your experience every Sunday night. Come and cook along with this fun group - be Gutsy!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Black and White Wednesday

Hosting Blog:
The Well-Seasoned Cook

Theme: Black and white photography

Event Date: Every Wednesday

Black and White Wednesday, a new culinary photo event which will run weekly and feature food-related imagery. Your photo/s need not be of actual food, but can also be the preparation, presentation, and consumption of it.

Participation couldn't be easier. You don't need a story nor a recipe nor a location. There will be no competing, curating, nor critiquing. The only requirement is that you post your black and white photo/s on any Wednesday, mentioning Black and White Wednesday and linking to this announcement

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Daring Bakers & Daring Cooks

Hosting Blog:
The Daring Kitchen

Theme: Check website on reveal date.

Daring Bakers Reveal Date: 27th February 2012
Daring Cooks Reveal Date: 14th February 2012

The Daring Kitchen is the home of The Daring Bakers and The Daring Cooks. The premise of both groups is to create one recipe each month, given to us by a monthly host. We all create the same exact recipe and then post about it on our personal blogs on a designated date.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Presto Pasta Nights

Hosting Blog:

Week One: Lavender & Lime (PPN #250, February 10)
Week Two: Cookin' with Moxie(PPN #251, February 17)
Week Three: The Life and Loves of Grumpy's HoneyBunch (PPN #252, February 24)
Week Four: Once Upon A Feasr (PPN #253, March 2)

(Ruth is looking for hosts, if you would like to host Presto Pasta Nights, just follow the link on the side panel)

Theme: Pasta

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: : every Thursday for inclusion on the Friday roundup

Every week food bloggers around the world photograph and write about their latest pasta creation? if it?s for breakfast, lunch or dinner; served hot or cold; spicy or sweet; from appetizers to mains to desserts, you?ll find it in the roundup published every Friday with links and photos to all the posts.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Cake of the Week

Hosting Blog:
Casa Costello

Theme: Cake

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: every week (use the linky)

Calling all cake fanatics and baking lovelies! How do you fancy showing off your creations each week?

I post each Sunday evening my Cake of the Week and invite you to do the same.
Add your blog post link to the linky underneath my Cake of the Week post and lets admire each other?s creations.

You do not need to be a professional cake decorator ? it doesn?t even have to be a decorated cake ? just one that you have posted about that week.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Weekend Herb Blogging

Hosting Blog:
Cook Almost Anything

Theme: Herbs, Fruit, Flowers, Plants or Vegetables

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: every Friday

Hosting Blog: Would you like to host? Haalo is also looking for hosts. Check out the sidebar for details.

Each week food bloggers around the world post recipes about cooking with herbs and unusal vegetables or interesting ways to use vegetables, and on the weekend, we publish a Recap with links to all the posts.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Taste & Create

Hosting Blog:
Taste & Create

Theme: Trying recipes from a given blog

Event Sign Up Date: 8th of the month
Event Deadline: 24th of the month

Taste&Create was started as a food event by Nicole from For the Love of Food. It?s whole purpose was, and has been, to create a community of bloggers who test each others? recipes and share links. It has also been to help new and not so well known bloggers get their foot in the door of the foodie community.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Chocolate Lover

Hosting Blog:
Daily Cuppa

Theme: Valentine's Day

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 15 February 2012

Our infatuation with chocolate first began 2,000 years ago when it was discovered in Latin America. The Maya and Aztec elites infused cocoa beans with water to form frothy chocolate drinks ? the first frappuccinos, if you will ? for special occasions and as sacrifices to the gods. The Aztec ruler Montezuma believed that chocolate was an aphrodisiac and routinely drank it before entering his harem, thus increasing chocolate?s popularity and its association with love and romance. As it turns out, he was ahead of his time. Modern-day scientists have linked the chemical phenylethylamine in chocolate to feelings of excitement, attraction and even pleasure. So, in conjunction with the coming Valentine's Day 2012.....I am organizing my first event and its called 'Chocolate Lover'.............

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Frugal Food Fridays

Hosting Blog:
Fuss Free Flavours

Theme: Frugal Cooking

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: every Friday

Now Christmas has past, and January seems a very long month, let?s let Frugal Food Fridays begin in ernest!

Some themes for money saving ideas that I have thought up are:

Dishes using cheaper ingredients ? cheap cuts of meat or vegetarian
Meals using leftovers
Meals using up the ends of packets
Substitutions of cheaper ingredients
Packed lunches
Meals that use less energy to cook
Pressure cooking
Slow cooking
Faster cooking ? less oven time for example
Batch cooking for the freezer
Using Sustainable foods
Food you have grown yourself
Meals from reduced food in the supermarket

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Virtual Valentines Craft and Bake Competition

Hosting Blog:

Theme: Valentines Day

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 4 February 2012

This is just for fun competition showcasing photographs and blog posts from insanely clever crafters and bakers like you. Be as creative as you like there are no hard and fast rules. If you believe in Mayan predictions there will not be another one as the World is going to end in 2012 so this could be your last chance!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Love Lock with Sweets

Hosting Blog:
Killer on the Plate

Theme: Dessert (Vegetarian and no eggs)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 15 February 2012

"Love Lock with Sweets celebrates some of the sweetest joys of life."
For participation, send in ANY dessert! Only it should be suitable for vegetarians and preferably have no eggs.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Wellness Weekends

Hosting Blog:
Diet, Dessert & Dogs

Theme: Healthy Vegan Recipes

Event Start Date: 8:00 PM EST Thursdays
Event Deadline: 12:00 midnight EST Mondays

What: whole foods, no refined flours/sugars, vegan recipes posted
within the previous week.
--There's a linky on my blog that people can link up. Five entries
are featured the following week.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
River Cottage Rocks

Hosting Blog:
Jo's Kitchen

Theme: River Cottage recipes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 12 February 2012

I have been a fan of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and River Cottage since I was at university. To avoid university work, I used to watch repeats of the very early series wishing that one day, that kind of life would be my own. Now, as I have not won the lottery yet and it does not look like it is coming anytime soon, I have decided to set up a monthly blogging challenge that everyone can take part in and hopefully, bring us a little bit closer to living a lovely life in rural Dorset.