RecipeMuncher

[ts]
I don’t know why we do this to ourselves, but so far, every time we’ve had to submit something for a blog event, we almost tear our hair out trying to come up with something “different”… or so we think.

It was no different for Wandering Chopsticks’ Weekend Wokking event. The theme: tomato. (All info at the bottom of the post.)

We were torn: should we do something very simple? I mean, that is the best way to showcase the natural beauty and flavors of the tomato. I was tempted just to blog about a really ripe tomato sprinkled with coarse salt!

But then, if we do something simple, how are we to gain our blog-street-cred?

[js]
I thought we could do something like a tomato and blue cheese souffle. I love tomatoes and blue cheese together. TS might have done a souffle before, but never…

[js]
I’ve been quite dejected of late.

I have lost my desire for grilling fish.

Mind you, this is big news. Ding-dong, sound the gong: the death of Desire, with a capital D. (Oh no, I’m having a flashback to my pretentious years in school. Heaven forbid.)

Recalling the capital D, I do not think my lack of desire lately has anything to do with our general lack of industry. This is different: I’ve been foiled by failure and I’m now fearful of destroying more specimens of fishly beauty.

After those gorgeous(!) pike mackerel about a month ago, I’ve been having trouble grilling fish. I’ve tried it with three different fish now. I wish I knew what I was doing wrong, because then, I can write myself a cautionary tale of how not to turn beautiful fish into ugly fish.
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[js]
We are new to the world of food blogging and are becoming increasingly amazed, day by day, at the riches it offers. We have “met” many wonderful people travelling through the food-blogosphere, stalking their blogs and drooling over the food they cook and create.

Up until a month ago, we did not even know that blog events existed! Now that we have discovered them, we can de-lurk and come out from the blog-stalker shadows into the full light.

One of the sunniest of these blog events, it seems, is in Florida: The Royal Food Joust (hosted by the Leftover Queen).

Now, being our first participation in a joust, we don’t know how bloody this event would be or how battered we might be after the tournament. At the very least, we have seen people losing the shirts off their back…