This month Julia at A Slice of Cherry Pie is hosting our seasonal food blogging event “In The Bag”, and we’ve got a great one lined up.

In amongst all of the snow slush, I’ve somehow managed to salvage the entries for Christmas 2009’s Seasonal Food Blogging Event “In The Bag”. For this even I challenged food bloggers to come up with a dish using the ingredients of cranberries, clementines or mandarines, and nuts. We’re not exactly bursting at the seams with entries, but what we have are corkers; check them out below.

I’ve been a little quiet with food blogging since the birth of Mia in May this year, and one of the things I just haven’t had time to be involved with is the great seasonal food blogging challenge “In The Bag”, which instead has been held by co-host Julia over at “A Slice of Cherry Pie”.

The challenge is on. Can you do an even better job of baking a Zebra Cake than Jane did?

It’s now more than 2 months since baby Mia (pictured) was born, and I still haven’t blogged a recipe yet.  I don’t really feel like I need to apologise (I’m enjoying time with Mia, working full time, and  studying for a degree from home – something I should have done when I was younger like [...]

As a thank you to all those readers who’ve sent good wishes to us and also to anyone else who happens across this post, I’m giving away another great FREE COOKBOOK.

I’ve been talking about Gosia’s pregnancy on this blog for months now (check out the scan photographs here and here), and am now happy to announce the arrival of Baby Mia.

I’m happy to announce that I have the opportunity to give away a free “Mayan Magic” Chocolate Making Kit to one lucky blog reader.

In short, the kit allows you to make your own chocolate from home and contains all the essentials: cacao powder and  butter, natural sweetener, you get the idea.

I’ve not tried it and [...]

And it brings me great pleasure to introduce the winner of our recent free cookbook giveaway…R. Carradine, come on down and collect your prizes (Traditional Puddings and Desserts and Supper for Friends by Mary Berry)!

Before I start rambling let me just tell you the purpose of this little post.  Basically a few weeks ago I invited food bloggers from around the world to join in with our challenge “In the Bag”, whereby dishes must be cooked using a group of pre-chosen seasonal ingredients – white chocolate, pomegranates, and passion [...]