RecipeMuncher

I think I may have mentioned in an earlier post, my weird obsessiveness around the number three…

My alarm goes off at 07:09… or occasionally 06:57. I’m eternally greatful that our time system is base 60… cook for 30 seconds, 15 minutes, 45 seconds, lovely… I even make friends’ coffee with three 2/3 teaspoons of coffee instead of just 2!

Now… are you still there? I’m not that weird, honest - it’s just one of my little quirks I can skip it if I need to… I’d just rather not!

It’s not just me - Chinese people consider the number three to be lucky because it sounds like the word ‘alive’. And in many other cultures, it is considered a significant number due to the trinity of mind, body and soul.

So anyway, I love that the Royal Foodie Joust has three ingredients, and this month I decided to propogate the three-love by using the three ingredients to make three …

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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…