The Food Blog Diary

Foodie Events - January 2012

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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:
Simple and in Season

Hosting Blog:
Fabulicious Food

Theme: In season - January

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

All you have to do is come up with a dish using any seasonal produce you like (savoury or sweet) post it on your blog. You can take inspiration from anywhere – adapt a recipe from your favourite cookbook, try something from a magazine, make up your own creation or share a family favourite. Include any seasonal produce you fancy including fruit, veg, herbs, meat or fish.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
No Croutons Required

Hosting Blog:
Lisa's Kitchen

Theme: Black-Eyed Peas

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 20 January 2012

The challenge this month is to come up with a soup or salad featuring Black-Eyed Peas. This popular legume is thought to bring good luck and prosperity if served for New Year's dinner, especially along with collard greens.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
My Legume Love Affair

Hosting Blog:
Chez Cayenne

Theme: Legumes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

Fresh or dried beans, lentils, pulses, and/or the sometimes edible pods that contain these seeds, and derivative products like tofu or besan/chickpea flour all come under "legumes". Even tamarind, fenugreek, carob, peanuts, etc. are among some of the other edible plants in the legume family which are included in this event. MLLA is really about legumes of any sort as the main draw. In short, I accept an entry as long as the recipe showcases the legume primarily but not as an auxiliary ingredient.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Flavors of Tamilnadu

Hosting Blog:
Sweet Karam Kapi

Theme: Food of Tamilnadu (India)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

I am starting this new event, Cooking Challenge Series, and to start with The Flavors of Tamilnadu.
Chettinad cuisine hails from the deep southern region of Tamil Nadu. Chettinad cuisine is far from the cuisine of traditional Tamilian Brahmins—it is one of the spiciest, oiliest and most aromatic in India. And other types are Nanjil cuisine, Nellai cuisine, Kongu cuisine, Pandi Cuisine or Iyengar cuisine are some to be mentioned.
So, lets cook from the flavors of Tamilnadu. It could be the usual sambar, satha-amudhu, or yenna kathirikai. Anything that belongs to the Tamilnadu cuisine.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Veggie/Fruit of the Month-Cucumber

Hosting Blog:
Ambrosia

Theme: Cucumbers

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 15 January 2012

So cucumber that has so many benefits, should definitely feature in our kitchen! The dish can be anything -muffins, rice dishes, fired, chutneys or juice but with cucumber as main ingredient. The dish can be any course of the meal. (starters / main dish / beverage etc)The recipe can be veg or non veg, eggs are allowed in baking.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Kids Delight

Hosting Blog:
Kids Delight

Theme: Colourful Healthy Food

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 15 January 2012

Have you seen That kids are attracted towards colours!!I am sure even we are and what better way than "COLOURS" to entice the lovely little kiddos to eat healthy food. Have you tried using natural healthy vegetables, fruits to make something colourful for your kids and see them grab it???I have !!!

Put your thinking caps on...Cook/bake or even make salads/smoothies anything which is colourful and healthy to attract your kid.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Bookmarked Recipes

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Recipes you have collected

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 28 January 2012

If you are anything like me, you collect recipes right left and centre and rarely get around to using them. That is what this challenge is all about, to encourage us to use some of those unused recipes.

You may post recipes you have bookmarked from magazines, tv programmes, websites or blogs..... Please credit the author of the recipe.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Random Recipes

Hosting Blog:
Belleau Kitchen

Theme: Random Recipes - New Year, New Book

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

... so let us kick it off in wonderful style with a nice and easy Random Recipe challenge... New Year... New Book is all about cooking something random from your newest cookbook... I realise we've done something similar before but the concept is a moveable feast for everyone and seeing that I could, with impunity, guess that we all received at least one new cookbook for Christmas, it shouldn't be too hard to want to join in...

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

Event Name:
Gutsy Cooks

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 January 2012
Daring Cooks Reveal Date: 14th January 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: Once Upon A Feast (PPN #245 January 6)
Week Two: Fuss Free Flavours(PPN #246, January 13)
Week Three: Cook, Craft, Enjoy (PPN #247, January 20)
Week Four: Souperior (PPN #248, January 27)

(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:
Teatime Treats

Hosting Blog:
Lavender & Lovage

Theme: Sweet Pastries & Breads

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 28 January 2012

Tea Time Treats is a monthly blogging event that showcases treats from our favourite meal of the day: teatime! Hosted alternate months by Karen from Lavender and Lovage and Kate from What Kate Bakes, each challenge involves a style of bake or popular teatime ingredient. All teatime treats, whether sweet or savoury, breads, pies, pasties, cakes, tarts, desserts, conserves or biscuits (plus many, many more!) will be featured over the coming months. This month’s theme is Sweet Pastries & Breads

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.

Sign up and you will be given a blog to work with. Just post one of their recipes to join in.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Vanilla Bean Paste Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Cook Eat Delicious

Theme: Giveaway (worldwide)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 4 January 2012

Here is your chance to win a bottle of Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Bean Paste. This stuff is delicious, giving your food and baked goods such a depth of vanilla flavor. I love to use it for baking and since it is a paste I can add more vanilla to my recipes without it thinning out. I am sure you will love this Vanilla Bean Paste as much as I do.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
We Should Cocoa

Hosting Blog:
Chocolate Teapot

Theme: Health Conscious

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 25 January 2012

No doubt some of you will have made some kind of resolution when the bell's rang out. Maybe to be more organised or to see family and friend's more often? Get fit perhaps? Loose weight even? Well, if the last one is on your radar at all you may just love this month's We Should Cocoa Challenge, no key ingredient (apart from chocolate of course!) or baking method, just a very broad and general theme. To take part all you need to do is submit a recipe that is health conscious - whatever that may mean to you! It is possible to use chocolate in a health concious way, I promise.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Celebrating Street Foods

Hosting Blog:
Tomato Blues

Theme: Street Foods

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

My event is all about cooking street foods in our own kitchens nice, clean and hygienic. You can make any dish that reminds you of eating on the streets. For me its always gol gappe and tikki poori on the streets of Bangalore. You can make anything from chaat in our style or sandwiches famous on the Mumbai Roadsides or even Dim Sums from the oriental.
Okay!! Now the exciting part. At the end of this event, i shall choose one winner for the giveaway of the book Street Foods by Sanjeev Kapoor.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Breakfast Club

Hosting Blog:
Food je t'Aimee

Theme: The January Detox

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

"Breakfast Club: Because breakfast should be more interesting than
tea & toast or coffee & cereal."

It's that time of year, friends. Yep - we all ate too much over the holidays and are now struggling to keep that top button closed, right? Feeling mighty over-indulged? Hmm? Perhaps even guilty? I know I am.

Thus, I present to you this month's theme: The January Detox.

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:
Innovative Pakwan

Hosting Blog:
Dashami's Collection

Theme: Vegetarian dishes (no egg)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 15 January 2012

Participants must submit only vegetarian recipes. Any vegetarian dish is allowed.No egg should be included. new entries and innovative entries are preferred.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Lets Cook With Leftovers

Hosting Blog:
simply.food

Theme: Leftovers

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

This event is all about being creative and using up leftovers and giving them a new dimension by preparing a new dish with them in order to avoid food wasteage.
To participate in this event you must prepare any dish using leftovers. You can add other ingredients to your dish to complete it .Only vegetarian dishes allowed although eggs are permitted.

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:
Sweet Heat

Hosting Blog:
Food, Football and a Baby

Theme: (East) Indian food

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 29 January 2012

this month's theme makes it really simple to have chilli in your recipe, as its that perennial spicy favourite, (East) Indian food. Indian food is one of the most popular cuisines in the world with reason. It can be hot and spicy, or with just a hint of heat and a myriad of spices. Hot, spicy and comforting, what more do we wish for? Any way you look at it, you cannot go wrong with it, especially after a month-long orgy of sweets, chocolates and decadent desserts.

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:
Cook.Eat.Delicious - Desserts

Hosting Blog:
Veggie Platter

Theme: Fresh Produce

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

"Life without Desserts is no life at all! Desserts create smiles, laughter, and sweet aromas that fill the house with deliciousness. This Month's Food Blog Event & Giveaway, “Cook.Eat.Delicious-Desserts!” is featuring the theme of Fresh Produce. Cook up your favorite dessert or challenge you to try something new! Runs for the whole month of January."

Details can be found here

Event Name:
New U

Hosting Blog:
Vardhini's Kitchen

Theme: Healthy Recipes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

It is the new year and are you making changes in your food for a new "U"? So friends for this event, I am inviting everyone to link up anything you consider healthy. It can be sweet, savory, etc., any part of the meal, any cuisine, any mode of cooking, basically anything vegetarian. (Eggs are allowed in baking.)

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Healing Foods

Hosting Blog:
Vardhini's Kitchen

Theme: Cauliflower

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

I am happy to be guest hosting Siri's Healing Foods event for January 2012 with theme "Cauliflower". Growing up cauliflower was one of my favorite veggie and I loved to eat it in any form, even raw. Send in any vegetarian dish using cauliflower. Eggs are allowed in baking. There is a giveaway for this event.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Bumper Total Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Pebble Soup

Theme: Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 22 January 2012

Sticking to a healthy New Year's resolution has suddenly been made much easier with this bumper give-away. The first of the year.
Pebble soup has teamed up with TOTAL Greek Yoghurt to give one reader the chance of winning a healthy start up pack.
The lucky winner will receive:
A Month’s supply of Greek Yoghurt that will include a selection of 0%, 2% and Classic TOTAL Greek Yoghurt, as well as TOTAL 0% Greek Yoghurt Split Pots in honey, blueberry, strawberry and tropical fruit.
But carefully managing the fat intake is not enough so TOTAL has thrown in:
a yoga mat,
a reformer and
2 x 0.5kg hand weights.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Bake Your Own Bread

Hosting Blog:
Girlichef

Theme: Bake your own bread

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 29 January 2012

BYOB is a monthly event that encourages you to start (or continue) getting comfortable baking bread in your own kitchen. Anything from simple quick breads to conquering that fear of yeast to making and nurturing your own sourdough starter. All levels of bakers are welcome to participate. It's simple- just bake some bread, buns, rolls, biscuits, sweet rolls, etc. Blog about them like your normally would...and then, by a designated day each month, send your link over to me. I will do a roundup on the last day of each month showcasing everybody's efforts.

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.

I have decided to call this challenge ‘River Cottage Rocks’. All you have to do is blog a River Cottage recipe on a chosen theme for that month.

Details can be found here

to be continued ........

Check back for lots more competitions, giveaways and challenges. I always have more to add as the month progresses.

Food Events - December 2011

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Event Name:
Twelve Days of Christmas - Giveaway Bonanza

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Giveaways

Event Start Date: now

For the first 12 days of December, I will be hosting a giveaway each day and the winners will be announced over the 12 Days of Christmas.

1. On the first day of Christmas - win an Ultimate Orange 10" Chocolate Pizza.
2. On the second day of Christmas - win a copy of The Food Hospital.
3. On the third day of Christmas - win one of three copies of The Ultimate Slow Cooker Book.
4. On the fourth day of Christmas - win a set of three picture books.
5. On the fifth day of Christmas - win a family ticket to the Merlin attractions at Blackpool Tower.
6. On the sixth day of Christmas - win a copy of Step-By-Step Baking.
7. On the seventh day of Christmas - win £66 worth of goodies from VUPbaby.
8. On the eighth day of Christmas - win a copy of Jamie's Great Britain.
9. On the ninth day of Christmas - win a copy of Innocent's Hungry.
10. On the tenth day of Christmas - win a voucher to make your own hardback cookbook or family photo book.
11. On the eleventh day of Christmas - win a copy of The Boy Who Bakes.
12. On the twelfth day of Christmas - Win a Chocolate Hamper from Hotel Chocolat.

Event Name:
Bookmarked Recipes

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Bookmarked Recipes (vegetarian)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 24 December 2011

If you are anything like me, you collect recipes right left and centre and rarely get around to using them. That is what this challenge is all about, to encourage us to use some of those unused recipes.

You may post recipes you have bookmarked from magazines, tv programmes, websites or blogs..... Please credit the author of the recipe.

Details can be found here

No Croutons Required

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Festive Photos

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 20 December 2011

As tradition dictates, the December challenge is called Festive Photos. There is no need to make a salad or soup, although you can if you would like it to appear in your photo. I am looking for festive photos, that could be food, plants, snow, ice, family, decorations...... Just let your imagination take you to winter festivities and see what you can come up with. As usual, we only accept one photo per entrant and your entries must be in by the 20th of December 2011.

Details can be found HERE

Event Name:
Random Recipes

Hosting Blog:
Belleau Kitchen

Theme: Make Space for some Christmas Charity

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 December 2011

I get at least 2 new cookbooks each Christmas and my bookshelves are beginning to groan under the strain and it's very possible that there are one or two books I never use, that I could, in fact, take down to the charity shop to make space for my new books... and a little charity for this time of year is always a good thing... so, for this month's Random Recipes i'd like you to look at your bookshelves and find that book that you just never use and would happily give away (come on, we all have one...) and it's from this book I'd like you to choose your Random Recipe and cook at least one last dish before you give it away.

It's a tough one this month but it really is harder and harder each month to come up with crafty ways to make sure you're all playing to the rules. This time we all have to pick a random recipe for each other...!

Details can be found here HERE

Event Name:
Flavours of Sri Lanka

Hosting Blog:
Mharo Rajasthan's Recipes

Theme: Sri Lankan Recipes and Food

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 December 2011

I welcome Flavors of Series event once again to my blog. I feel honored that I could host it 2nd time. Thanks Nayna for letting me. First time around was Flavors of Bengal. And, this time we are going international to India's neighboring country, Sri Lanka.

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

Event Name:
Gutsy Cooks

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 December 2011
Daring Cooks Reveal Date: 14th December 2011

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:
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:
Tea Time Treats

Hosting Blog:
What Kate Baked

Theme: CHRISTMAS inspired Tea Time Treats

Event Start Date: 1 December 2011
Event Deadline: 28 December 2011

Tea Time Treats is a monthly blogging event that showcases treats from our favourite meal of the day: teatime! Hosted alternate months by Karen from Lavender and Lovage and Kate from What Kate Bakes, each challenge involves a style of bake or popular teatime ingredient. All teatime treats, whether sweet or savoury, breads, pies, pasties, cakes, tarts, desserts, conserves or biscuits (plus many, many more!) will be featured over the coming months. This month’s theme is CHRISTMAS inspired TEA TIME TREATS.

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.

Sign up and you will be given a blog to work with. Just post one of their recipes to join in.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Flavours of China

Event Name:
Sweet Heat

Hosting Blog:
Vanilla Clouds & Lemon Drops

Theme: Spicy Christmas Recipes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 27 December 2011

How could I resist and not pick 'Christmas' as this months Sweet Heat theme. That's right, I've put my Santa hat on early and thrown open the idea of making some spicy little Christmas recipes. That means it can literally be anything that you consider to be Christmassy so party food; chocolates; baking; edible gifts; soups; turkey or even a chilli themed Christmas decoration will fit the bill (trust me the idea did cross my mind of making a chilli garland as I was threading my chillies to dry a couple of months ago!!)...it's up to you! And since I'm in the giving mood, for this challenge since it is Christmas the entry that I love the most will receive an extra little present to pop under the tree!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Lets Cook For Christmas Red /Green Event

Hosting Blog:
Simply Sensational Food

Theme: Cooking for Christmas with Red or Green Ingredients

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31st Dec 2011

With the month of December upon us, the Christmas festivities are fast approaching. It's a time for sharing and caring, eating and drinking and having lots of fun.

As the colours red and green are generally associated with Christmas, the theme for this event is to cook anything for the christmas festivities but you must feature the colour red or green or both in your dish in some form.
You can do this by either using green or red ingredients in your dish or use them as a garnish, or alternatively you can present your food in a red/green serving dish, or use red /green accessories to compliment your dish and presentation.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
The Breakfast Club

Hosting Blog:
Krithi's Kitchen

Theme: BREAD

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 December 2011

Breakfast Club is a wonderful event started by Helen of Fuss Free Flavours, which I am guest hosting for the second time this year. My theme for last time was "Pancakes" and the event was a great success with 40 beautiful pancake entries. I would like to thank Helen for giving me an opportunity to host this event again.
The theme for this month's event is the most common breakfast of the world - "Bread"

Details can be found here

Event Name:
We Should Cocoa

Hosting Blog:
Chocolate Log Blog

Theme: Oranges

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: Midnight 25 December 2011

After the mixed response we had to the Apple round-up, many of you asked for something "simple please" for Christmas. So, I've been mulling over the possibilities. What about Avocado? It's seasonal and comes from the same neck of the woods as cocoa. What could be more appropriate? Turkey maybe?

But no, I jest. I decided on my choice for this month's We Should Cocoa sometime ago. Seasonal, festive and if you're very lucky you'll find one in your stocking. It is a well established flavour pairing with chocolate and it's one of my favourite colours. The future's bright, the future's Orange!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Christmas Delicacy

Hosting Blog:
Erivum Puliyum

Theme: Varieties of christmas recipes from all over the world

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 December 2011

I am happy to announce my first blog event and am all excited about it.I have chosen Christmas as the theme, as I wait for the month of December from the beginning of the year.This month brings about all celebrations to invite Christmas and the forthcoming year as well.Preparations have already begun to invite the Thanks giving thereafter to welcome Christmas too.There are many recipes in relation to christmas time esp the cakes ,cookies and wine.Not only the sweet cakes all savories too...Its a festive time and holiday season coming up .So,Don't forget the event at my space,dearies and all this is possible only with your yummy recipes, Friends!!

Details can be found here

Event Name:

Win a CASE of Dorset Cereals Porridge

Hosting Blog:

Lavender and Lovage

Theme: Giveaway

Event Start Date: Now until the 20th December 2011

Dorset Cereals

have very kindly offered a CASE of their Porridge for my Winter Breakfast Giveaway! Four different types of porridge including their limited-edition gingerbread porridge will be included in the case.

Details can be found HERE.

Event Name:
My Legume Love Affair

Hosting Blog:
SUMADHURA

Theme: Legumes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 December 2011

Fresh or dried beans, lentils, pulses, and/or the sometimes edible pods that contain these seeds, and derivative products like tofu or besan/chickpea flour all come under "legumes". Even tamarind, fenugreek, carob, peanuts, etc. are among some of the other edible plants in the legume family which are included in this event. MLLA is really about legumes of any sort as the main draw. In short, I accept an entry as long as the recipe showcases the legume primarily but not as an auxiliary ingredient.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Cook.Eat.Delicious. - Desserts

Hosting Blog:
Raksha's Kitchen

Theme: Desserts with Coconut

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 December 2011

I am very very excited to announce my first event which is Deserts with Coconuts. I contacted Raven and asked her whether I can guest host this event for December and she allowed me to do so. She asked me what theme I would like to chose, I chose "Coconuts" which was liked by Raven :)

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Peeled Snacks Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Cook Eat Delicious

Theme: giveaway (worldwide)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: Wednesday 21 December 2011

Peeled Snacks are a delicious organic and naturally fruit snack that is perfect for any occasion. Here is your chance to win 12 packs of their Peeled snacks in 6 fun flavors that all are sure to enjoy!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Microwave Easy Cooking

Hosting Blog:
Edible Entertainment

Theme: Easy Microwave Cooking

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 Decemebr 2011

In this time and age, speed and time are of utmost importance. And Microwaves help us save a lot of time in cooking! They are less messy too. So, put on your creative hats and come up with any VEGETARIAN (eggs allowed) dish cooked 100% in the Microwave. Stove-top cooking or any other cooking not allowed. You can of course use apparels like blender, refrigerator etc! :-)

Details can be found here

Event Name:
♫ Jingle All The Way ♫

Hosting Blog:
Edible Entertainment

Theme:

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 December 2011

To celebrate the most joyous season of the year, I'm hosting Jingle All The Way. Anything you cook for this season - be it Christmas or Hanukkah, any stories or decorations you put up, you could send it to me. :-) Some ideas - cookies, cakes, brownies, sweets, savories, family Christmas photos, Hanukkah stories etc.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Sinful Delights

Hosting Blog:
Zesty Palette

Theme: Sinful Delights

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 December 2011

Now off to the event at "Zesty Palette" this month. As you read it is all about "Sinful Delights". I know it is the opposite of me to indulge in sinful delights, but I also strongly believe in the fact that moderation is the key. Added to that it is the month of Christmas and I see Christmas similar to what Diwali is to us in India. So I am inviting everyone to link in their sinful delights and make this event a success.

So the event accepts any entry be it sweet or savory which you consider to be a "Sinful Delight". There is no restriction on the mode of cooking. Some examples of acceptable entries would be mysore pak, rasamalai, vadai, rich side dishes loaded with cream, butter cookies, pizza, etc.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
LGSS - Stuffed Paratha

Hosting Blog:
Zesty Palette

Theme: Stuffed Paratha

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 December 2011

This is the second event happening at my space this month. I am guest hosting "LGSS - Lets Get Stuffed Series" started by Vatsala. Parathas were not something which was made at home on a frequent basis when I was growing up, but thanks to my friend Shy I am a lot more into North Indian cooking although South Indian tops the list for the most part :).

So for this event, you can link in any paratha which has been stuffed. To be more clear, the filling should be made separate like paneer paratha, aloo paratha, etc. or the ones where you add stuff to the dough itself like spinach puree paratha, methi paratha, onion paratha, etc.
Thanks Vatsala for letting me host this fun event.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Flavors of Tamilnadu

Hosting Blog:
Sweet Karam Kapi

Theme: Food of Tamilnadu (India)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 January 2012

I am starting this new event, Cooking Challenge Series, and to start with The Flavors of Tamilnadu.
Chettinad cuisine hails from the deep southern region of Tamil Nadu. Chettinad cuisine is far from the cuisine of traditional Tamilian Brahmins—it is one of the spiciest, oiliest and most aromatic in India. And other types are Nanjil cuisine, Nellai cuisine, Kongu cuisine, Pandi Cuisine or Iyengar cuisine are some to be mentioned.
So, lets cook from the flavors of Tamilnadu. It could be the usual sambar, satha-amudhu, or yenna kathirikai. Anything that belongs to the Tamilnadu cuisine.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Veggie/Fruit of the Month-Cucumber

Hosting Blog:
Ambrosia

Theme: Cucumbers

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 15 January 2012

So cucumber that has so many benefits, should definitely feature in our kitchen! The dish can be anything -muffins, rice dishes, fired, chutneys or juice but with cucumber as main ingredient. The dish can be any course of the meal. (starters / main dish / beverage etc)The recipe can be veg or non veg, eggs are allowed in baking.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Kids Delight

Hosting Blog:
Kids Delight

Theme: Colourful Healthy Food

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 15 January 2012

Have you seen That kids are attracted towards colours!!I am sure even we are and what better way than "COLOURS" to entice the lovely little kiddos to eat healthy food. Have you tried using natural healthy vegetables, fruits to make something colourful for your kids and see them grab it???I have !!!

Put your thinking caps on...Cook/bake or even make salads/smoothies anything which is colourful and healthy to attract your kid.

Details can be found here

Food Events November 2011

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Event Name:
Bookmarked Recipes

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Bookmarked Recipes (vegetarian)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 26 November 2011

If you are anything like me, you collect recipes right left and centre and rarely get around to using them. That is what this challenge is all about, to encourage us to use some of those unused recipes.

You may post recipes you have bookmarked from magazines, tv programmes, websites or blogs..... Please credit the author of the recipe.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
No Croutons Required does Random Recipes

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Randomly Selected Soup (vegetarian)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 29 November 2011

Dom and I have teamed up this month and we are doing a joint challenge. So for those of you have been wondering what we have been up to. Voila! No Croutons Required Does Random Recipes.

Dom and I would like you to select a random soup recipe, make it and post it for our challenge. Randomly select a soup from one of your cookbooks. They tend to be at the beginning, so it should be easy enough. It is up to you how you choose the cookbook, then the recipe. Get someone else involved if you like.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Random Recipes does No Croutons Required

Hosting Blog:
Belleau Kitchen

Theme: Randomly Picked Soup (vegetarian)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 29 November 2011

This month the lovely and very busy mamma Jac from Tinned Tomatoes and I have teamed up to bring you a double-headed challenge whammy... Random Recipes does No Crouton's Required!

and it's all about soup... as you know, I am a keen advocate, particularly during these cold winter months... oh... well, it may have been the warmest October on record in the UK... but it's cold and damp somewhere... i'm sure!

... and there are lots of ways to pick... a lot of cook books have dedicated chapters for soup, many have the soup recipes at the start of the books or, like me, you may have an entire book of soups...

Details can be found here

Event Name:
A Celebration of Indian Food

Hosting Blog:
Lisa's Kitchen

Theme: Indian Food

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 November 2011

And now for submission guidelines: Submit your most cherished Indian creation from any region of India. It can be an appetizer or sweet snack, spice blend, chutney or sauce, legume dish, soup, salad, grain dish, vegetable dish, bread, dessert or snack, beverage or an Indian-style fusion dish. Please note that I will only accept one entry from participants and the recipe must be vegetarian.

I will choose a random winner and will ship a copy of 660 Curries by Raghavan Iyer at my own expense to anywhere in the world.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Eat Your Books Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Free lifetime membership to Eat Your Books

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 13 November 2011

Eat Your Books is a search engine for your cookbooks. You add all the cookbooks you have to your bookshelf and any of the foodie magazines that they cover. They all appear on your bookshelf with a nice wee photo of the cookbook cover. Anytime you want to find a recipe, just enter the ingredient in the search box and a list of recipes will appear. Each will list the cookbook the recipe is from, along with a list of the main ingredients, a review (if there is one) & a star rating (if there is one). A great database.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Rudi's Organic Bakery Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Lisa's Kitchen

Theme: Giveaway (Canada and US only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 6 November 2011

Rudi's Organic Bakery was founded 35 years ago, for nearly 20 years the company has been using organic ingredients for their breads and baked goods. In the October issue of Vegetarian Times, Rudi's Rocky Mountain Sourdough bread was voted one of the top foods for vegetarians and non-vegetarians; you are sure to enjoy their offerings.

The prize is a free voucher from Rudi's Bakery and a lunch box.

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

Event Name:
Gutsy Cooks

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 November 2011
Daring Cooks Reveal Date: 14th November 2011

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: Once Upon A Feast (PPN #238 November 4)
Week Two: Lavender & Lime(PPN #239 November 11)
Week Three: The Life & Loves of Grumpy's Honey Bunch (PPN #240 November 18)
Week Four: Briciole (PPN #241 November 25)

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:
Win Tickets to BBC Good Food Show Birmingham

Hosting Blog:
Simply Food

Theme: Ticket Giveaway

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 18 November 2011

BBC Good Food Show Winter
23 – 27 November NEC, Birmingham

The BBC Good Food Show Winter is 21 this year and to celebrate simply.food has teamed up with the organisers to offer 3 lucky winners the chance to win 1 pair of general admission tickets each.

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:

Week one: Cook Almost Anything (WHB#308 - October 31st to November 6th)
Week two: A Food Lover's Journey (
WHB#309 - November 7th to November 13th)
Week three: La Cucina di Cristina(WHB#310 - November 14th to November 20th)
Week four: Briiblog (WHB#311 - November 21st to November 27th)

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:
Hallowe'en Fiesta

Hosting Blog:
Zesty Palette

Theme: Hallowe'en

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 5 November 2011

It is October already and pretty soon it is going to be all about pumpkins. So, why not an event to celebrate the same? This event is not limited to just food, it is about anything you see fit for Halloween. You can send in carved pumpkins, spooky desserts, Halloween celebration pictures, costume pictures and so on. You get the idea right? I am excited to see what my fellow bloggers and non bloggers are going to come up with for this event.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Novel Food #14

Hosting Blog:
Briciole

Theme: Fiction inspired food

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 13 November 2011

If you like to read and you like to cook, this event is perfectly tailored for you. Simona is looking forward to learning about a published literary work (a novel, novella, short story, memoir, bio, poem) that provided you with inspiration to prepare something in the kitchen.

This is a fun event: you read, you cook, you write, and at the end you also get a nice reading list, which can be easily turned into a plan for enriching your library (physical or electronic).

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Total Greek Yoghurt Scary Stories & Wacky Recipes Competition

Hosting Blog:
Total Greek Yoghurt (facebook page)

Theme: Hallowe'en Scary Stories & Wacky Recipes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 11 November 2011 (winners chosen each week)

TOTAL Greek Yoghurt loves this time of year: when the ghouls and ghosts come a-knocking and the air is filled with the smell of bonfires and fireworks. In fact we love it so much that we’re running a special competion!

We want your scariest stories or wackiest recipes. The best weekly submission will win a special Halloween themed food and drink goodie bag. Yum! All you need to do is head over to our Total Greek Yoghurt Facebook Page and upload your wacky recipe or scary story and post your accompanying picture to our Facebook wall.

Your scary stories can be rooted in fiction or in spooky real life experiences. In previous weeks we have received recipes suggestions such as “witches eyeballs” and “chocolate chip pumpkin muffins”. It’s totally up to you – but the wackier the better!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Teatime Treats

Hosting Blog:
Lavender & Lovage

Theme: Ginger and Bonfire Treats

Event Start Date: 1 November 2011
Event Deadline: 28 November 2011

Tea Time Treats is a monthly blogging event that showcases treats from our favourite meal of the day: teatime! Hosted alternate months by Karen from Lavender and Lovage and Kate from What Kate Bakes, each challenge involves a style of bake or popular teatime ingredient. All teatime treats, whether sweet or savoury, breads, pies, pasties, cakes, tarts, desserts, conserves or biscuits (plus many, many more!) will be featured over the coming months. This month’s theme is GINGER and BONFIRE TREATS.

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.

Sign up and you will be given a blog to work with. Just post one of their recipes to join in.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Flavours of China

Hosting Blog:
Sizzling Tastebuds

Theme: Food from China

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 November 2011

Legend goes that the Cuisine of China spreads both around the world and deep into history and is marked by both variety and change. The archeologist and scholar K.C. Chang says “Chinese people are especially preoccupied with food” and “food is at the center of, or at least it accompanies or symbolizes, many social interactions.” Over the course of history, he says, "continuity vastly outweighs change." Over the centuries, as new food sources and techniques were invented, the Chinese cuisine as we know it gradually evolved.

So, send in all your vegetarian only recipes – Fried Rice , Hakka Noodles, Glass Noodles, Stir fries – anything Chinese – to this event !

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Cook.Eat.Delicious - Desserts

Hosting Blog:
Simply.Food

Theme: Apples

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 November 2011

Life without Desserts is no life at all! Desserts create smiles, laughter, and sweet aromas that fill the house with deliciousness.

This month I am hosting the Monthly Food Blog Event & Giveaway, “Cook.Eat.Delicious-Desserts!” This month’s theme is Apples.The event runs from November 1st – 30th November.
Raven from CookEatDelicious.com is the founder of this event.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
My Legume Love Affair

Hosting Blog:
Briciole

Theme: Legumes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 November 2011

Fresh or dried beans, lentils, pulses, and/or the sometimes edible pods that contain these seeds, and derivative products like tofu or besan/chickpea flour all come under "legumes". Even tamarind, fenugreek, carob, peanuts, etc. are among some of the other edible plants in the legume family which are included in this event. MLLA is really about legumes of any sort as the main draw. In short, I accept an entry as long as the recipe showcases the legume primarily but not as an auxiliary ingredient.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
One Year Anniversary Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Cook.Eat.Delicious

Theme: Giveaway (worldwide)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30th November 2011

You can be the winner of this amazing kitchen appliance: The Hamilton Beach-Set n’ Forget 6 quart Programmable Slow Cooker with Lid, Click-in-Spoon, and thermometer probe. Don’t know what to cook in this wonderful Slow Cooker? I will throw in “Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook” by Beth Hensperger.

You can win a second place giveaway too! The KitchenArt Pro Auto-Measure Spice Carousel.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Cookbook Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Jamie's Great Britain Cookbook Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 28 November 2011

Jamie Oliver has a new TV show called Jamie's Great Britain. Jamie visits Yorkshire, The Heart of England, Essex and East London, Bristol and Somerset, South Wales and Scotland and gathers together a plethora of recipes which can be found in his new book that accompanies the series called, yes you guessed it Jamie's Great Britain.

If you would like a copy of Jamie's Great Britain, you are in luck. I have been give two copies to give away.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Ideal Home Show Ticket Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Simply Food

Theme: Ticket Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 11 November 2011

With over 400 exhibitor’s offering an unrivalled range of products, the Ideal Home Show at Christmas will offer all the inspiration you need to make your home feel welcoming and inviting this Christmas.

Ideal Home Show at Christmas has teamed up with simply.food to give you the chance to WIN one of 5 pairs of tickets.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Sweet Heat

Hosting Blog:
Vanilla Clouds & Lemon Drops

Theme: Spicy Soup

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 25 November 2011

I just couldn't resist with the change in seasons and drop in temperature to choose a …... (drum roll).....Spicy Soup! For this months challenge you can make any soup you want, (inspired by any country in the world, recipe or just whatever you happen to have in your fridge) so
for those of you that want to take part and are lucky enough to be living in lovely sunny and warm climates, you don't need to feel excluded! It can be a hot or cold soup, just as long as it contains chillies. And if you manage to include a spicy little garnish or side to accompany your soup then you get extra points!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Healthy Cooking Challenge

Hosting Blog:
Edible Entertainment

Theme: Healthy Lunch

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 November 2011

The name of the event says it all. Lunch, is an indispensable part of our diet & only a healthy, tasty & wholesome one can curb our temptations throughout the day. So, cook any vegetarian lunch from any cuisine in the world and link to my page between Nov 1st - 30th.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Bake Fest

Hosting Blog:
Zesty Palette

Theme: Baking

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 November 2011

Inspired by the various monthly events, I am announcing a new monthly event "Bake Fest" which is all about baking as the title implies. Although I have baked stuff on and off, only recently I have started to bake with a lot of passion. I have also been trying to convert deep fried stuff into healthier alternatives through baking. So friends, let us put on our baking hats and have fun. The event will run from 1st to the end of each month and the roundup posted by 10th of the following month.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Dish It Out

Hosting Blog:
Zesty Palette

Theme: Soy & Tomatoes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 November 2011

"Dish it Out" comes home this month :). I am hosting it with "Soy and Tomatoes" as the ingredients. We know the health benefits of soy and it is a good source of protein. Soy in any form is accepted for eg. soy milk, soy flour, soy beans, soy chunks, etc. I am a big fan of soy chunks particularly and tomatoes are in abundance this month. So those became the ingredients for this month.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Healthy Thanksgiving Challenge

Hosting Blog:
What Would Cathy Eat

Theme: Healthy Thanksgiving Dishes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 27 November 2011

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. But my heart – and yours – deserves better than the usual artery-clogging fare. I’m out to prove that you can enjoy an amazing feast this Thanksgiving, without all of the saturated fat and salt. This is my Healthy Thanksgiving Challenge, and you’re invited to participate – and maybe even win a great holiday cookbook!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
We Should Cocoa

Hosting Blog:
Chocolate Teapot

Theme: Apples

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 25 November 2011

This months 'special' ingredient is one that is very easy to find, they are in prolific supply for most of the year and if the fresh variety fails to appeal then feel free to fulfil the brief by using it in another form ... maybe juice ... or dried ... or sauce?

Have you guessed what it is yet?

Yep - you got it! APPLES

Apples & Chocolate. Go bake!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Simple And In Season

Hosting Blog:
Fabulicious Food

Theme: Dishes using seasonal ingredients

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 November 2011

Welcome to another round of Simple and in Season. Each month I wonder whether it will be the last, but with 45 entries last month, which I had to split into savoury and sweet in the round-ups, I am encouraged to keep going and open up a new round! Thank you to everyone who took part last month.

Next weekend, the clocks will go back in the UK which means that the days will seem even shorter, light will be at a premium and I’m sure we’ll all be eager to make warming winter food!

All you have to do is come up with a dish using any seasonal produce you like (savoury or sweet) post it on your blog.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Serve It

Hosting Blog:
Krithi's Kitchen

Theme: Savoury Baked

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 November 2011

The Serve It series is a culinary event based on cooking techniques, featuring a theme each month. November being Thanksgiving month we have decided on the Savory Baked - Theme. Send in your entries featuring baked dishes that are savory.

Details can be found here

to be continued ........

Check back for lots more competitions, giveaways and challenges. I always have more to add as the month progresses.

Food Events - October 2011

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Event Name:
Eat Your Books Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Free lifetime membership to Eat Your Books

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 13 November 2011

Eat Your Books is a search engine for your cookbooks. You add all the cookbooks you have to your bookshelf and any of the foodie magazines that they cover. They all appear on your bookshelf with a nice wee photo of the cookbook cover. Anytime you want to find a recipe, just enter the ingredient in the search box and a list of recipes will appear. Each will list the cookbook the recipe is from, along with a list of the main ingredients, a review (if there is one) & a star rating (if there is one). A great database.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Rudi's Organic Bakery Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Lisa's Kitchen

Theme: Giveaway (Canada and US only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 6 November 2011

Rudi's Organic Bakery was founded 35 years ago, for nearly 20 years the company has been using organic ingredients for their breads and baked goods. In the October issue of Vegetarian Times, Rudi's Rocky Mountain Sourdough bread was voted one of the top foods for vegetarians and non-vegetarians; you are sure to enjoy their offerings.

The prize is a free voucher from Rudi's Bakery and a lunch box.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Soldier Egg Cup & Toast Cutter Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Little Tums

Theme: Giveaway (worldwide)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 28 October 2011

You can’t beat the old classic boiled egg and soldiers! There’s just something about dipping that toasted bread into a nice, runny egg that makes it a breakfast favourite.

If you’re a bit too old now to be asking your mum to cut your toast into soldiers, then The Soldier Egg Cup and Toast Cutter will be the ideal accessory for you. You can make your breakfast ‘eggstra’ special and it will certainly put the fun back in to your meal time.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Serve it Festival Potluck

Hosting Blog:
Oh Taste n See

Theme: Festival Potluck

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 October 2011

Thanks to an overwhelming response to the ‘Serve it’ Series started by me and Krithi of Krithi’s kitchen - we now have 3 different collections of recipes by cooking technique. We have a total of 278 recipes linked by foodies – bloggers and non bloggers alike. And what more do we need to celbrate! Add to this that this month is so festive – right from Navrathri to Diwali, most of our days this month, we are to spend creating dishes to celebrate and share with family and friends. That is exactly what the theme of the month is. Yep, this month is a ‘Festival Potluck’. Choose any dish – as long as the dish is made to celebrate – you are in!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
No Croutons Required

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Soups or salads including squash (any kind) must be veggie

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 20 October 2011

Hey folks, it is now October, so Autumn has reached bonnie Scotland (even though I am cheating by enjoying some hot weather in Cyprus), so I though that squashes would make a good ingredient for soups or salads. Hope you get your thinking caps (or witches hats, it is October after all) on and come up with something delicious. Remember your soup or salad has to be suitable for vegetarians, but apart from that, well just go crazy.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Bookmarked Recipes

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: using bookmarked recipes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 29 October 2011

If you are anything like me, you collect recipes right left and centre and rarely get around to using them. That is what this challenge is all about, to encourage us to use some of those unused recipes.

You may post recipes you have bookmarked from magazines, tv programmes, websites or blogs..... Please credit the author of the recipe.

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

Event Name:
Gutsy Cooks

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 October 2011
Daring Cooks Reveal Date: 14th October 2011

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:
£30k Scholarship to Le Cordon Bleau Cookery School

Hosting Website:
Le Cordon Bleau

Theme: Scholarship plus accomodation for 16-19 year olds.

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 24 October 2011

For the first time in its 115 year history, world-renowned Le Cordon Bleu, is offering the Le Grand Diplôme UK Scholarship Award from its new international flagship school of culinary arts and UK headquarters at Bloomsbury Square in the heart of London. Starting in 2012, one passionate 16 to 19 year old student will be awarded a life-changing opportunity worth more than £30,000.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Box Appetit Lunch Box Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 04 October 2011

I was in Lakeland recently and looking at lunch boxes. I seriously considered buying this lunch box, but I thought it was a bit pricey. Roll on a few days and Find Me A Gift, get in touch and ask if I would like one to review. How psychic are they? Spooky! The good news is that they sell the same lunchbox £4 cheaper (they have great prices and deliver next day) and the great news is that I have one to give to one lucky reader.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Food Palette Series Final - Rainbow

Hosting Blog:
Torview

Theme: Rainbow Coloured Food

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 October 2011

Many of you had eagerly asked me for the next colour, which has always put an exciting smile :) Along the way I have learned many things from all of you and hope you did as well.
Do check out these previous colours, you will be surprised on the collection and how everyone went out of their way to try some unique innovative dishes.

Glad I kept going with this event :) To end the event we will celebrate with a rainbow of colours and include the colours blue, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo and violet :)

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Presto Pasta Nights

Hosting Blog:
Week One: Once Upon A Feast (PPN #234 October 7)
Week Two: From Kirsten's Kitchen to Yours (PPN#235 October 14)
Week Three: The Life & Loves of Grumpy's Honey Bunch (PPN #236 October 21)
Week Four: Food Hunters Guide (PPN#237 October 28)

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:
Vegan Cookbook Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Given to Distracting Others

Theme: Cookbook Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 9 October 2011

Whether you are a fully fledged vegan or a beginner just dipping your toes into the water, this collection of vegan recipes will introduce you to a whole new world of exciting dishes based on fruit and vegetables, pulses and grains, nuts and seeds, pungent herbs and warm aromatic spices – prepare to be DAZZLED!

Need 2 Know Books have offered five of you a chance to own a copy.

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:
F for Fruit Curries

Hosting Blog:
Ambrosia

Theme: Fruit Curries

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 10 October 2011

We all know that including fruits in our diet is the surest way to a healthy body. So why not use fruits in meals and curries? So readers, I am looking forward to your mouth-watering recipes with fruits!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Win Tickets to BBC Good Food Show Birmingham

Hosting Blog:
Simply Food

Theme: Ticket Giveaway

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 18 November 2011

BBC Good Food Show Winter
23 – 27 November NEC, Birmingham

The BBC Good Food Show Winter is 21 this year and to celebrate simply.food has teamed up with the organisers to offer 3 lucky winners the chance to win 1 pair of general admission tickets each.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Show Me Your Aprons

Hosting Blog:
Fuss Free Flavours

Theme: Blog Event

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: End October 2011

I have a collection of 10 aprons and would love to see yours! Grab your camera and slip your aprons on!
Details can be found here

Event Name:
100th Post Multiple Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Lavender and Lovage

Theme: Giveaway (Worldwide)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 1 October 2011

To celebrate my 100th post I am hosting a HUGE Giveaway Party! A BIG thanks to all of you who have made my early days of blogging so enjoyable and for following me.....I have enjoyed my first 100 posts and plan on posting many more; meeting new people and reading about them and their recipes, traditions and family lives has been inspirational and I feel I have made some lifelong friends already.

I have THREE prizes up for grabs, a choice of one food hamper from Lakeland and two books.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Eat Vegan on $4 a Day Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Lisa's Kitchen

Theme: Giveaway (Canada & US only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 10 October 2011

I recently received a complimentary copy of Ellen Jaffe Jones' Eat Vegan on $4 a Day per person. As food prices rise, it is the time to get smart and be a budget conscious shopper. Obviously the first step is to avoid processed foods, as well as packaged and canned foods as much as possible. It is also important to eat a variety of legumes, whole grains, vegetables and fruit. So many tips for saving money and your health are provided in this cookbook.

I am pleased to offer my Canadian and US readers a chance to win a copy of this budget-conscious book.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Win a Luxury Italian Cooking Kit

Hosting Blog:
A Glug of Oil

Theme: Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 14 October 2011

One lucky reader of A Glug of Oil will WIN an Ultimate Italian Cooking Kit courtesy of Galbani® worth over £350!!
Containing an Italian fresh pasta maker, Alessi Spaghetti Tongs and a whole host of Harvey Nichols food goodies.
Plus six month’s supply of Galbani® Dolcelatte® and another six month’s worth of Galbani® Mozzarella cheese - delizioso!

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:
Week one :Healthy Green Kitchen (WHB#303 - September 26th to October 2nd)
Week two: Mele Cotte (WHB#304 - October 3rd to October 9th)
Week three: CindyStar (WHB#305 - October 10th to October 16th )
Week four: The Well Seasoned Cook(WHB#306 - October 17th to October 23rd)
Week five: Cafe Lynnylu (WHB#307 - October 24th to October 30th)
Week six: Cook (almost) Anything (WHB#308 - October 31st to November 6th *WHB turns 6!*)

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:
House Favorites - Vegan

Hosting Blog:
Chez Cayenne

Theme:Favorite Vegan Dishes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 October 2011

As food bloggers, sometimes we get so caught up in trying new things that we forget about the dishes that we make all the time. These are the recipes we make repeatedly for house guests and potlucks. The ones our families won't let us skip on the holidays. Our beloved signature dishes. Our house favorites.

What are your house favorites? This is a monthly blog event where you can show them off. It will run from the first day of the month to the last.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
We Should Cocoa

Hosting Blog:
Chocolate log Blog

Theme: Chocolate and Chilli

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 25 October 2011

Now the nights are drawing in and the chilly season will soon be upon us. What better way to fire up our sluggish post party metabolisms than with chilli. It is, after all, the chilli season. I know some of you love chocolate and chilli and I know some of you have never tried the combination, so now is the time to really let your imaginations run wild. Something savoury, something sweet? You decide.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Random Recipes

Hosting Blog:
Belleau Kitchen

Theme: Randon Recipe Chalenge

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 October 2011

I'll show you mine if ... you show me yours!

It's a tough one this month but it really is harder and harder each month to come up with crafty ways to make sure you're all playing to the rules. This time we all have to pick a random recipe for each other...!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
My Legume Love Affair

Hosting Blog:
Veggie Platter

Theme: Legumes (vegetarian or vegan only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 October 2011

Fresh or dried beans, lentils, pulses, and/or the sometimes edible pods that contain these seeds, and derivative products like tofu or besan/chickpea flour all come under "legumes". Even tamarind, fenugreek, carob, peanuts, etc. are among some of the other edible plants in the legume family which are included in this event. MLLA is really about legumes of any sort as the main draw. In short, I accept an entry as long as the recipe showcases the legume primarily but not as an auxiliary ingredient.

Details can be found here.

Event Name:
Cook Eat Delicious (Desserts) - Strawberries

Hosting Blog:
Sizzling Tastebuds

Theme: Strawberries

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 October 2011

Imagine life with desserts, add to that one of the best loved berries - Strawberry, and you have a winner there . So whip up those yummy desserts - strawberry cheesecake, souffles etc. Furthermore, if you feel that your entry also qualifies to my ongoing event - Global Food Fest, don't forget to link up ;)
So, rush your entries, and grab a chance to win a giveaway :-)

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Online Bake Sale

Hosting Blog:
Foodness Gracious

Theme: Online Bake Sale for child with Type 1 Diabetes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 10 October 2011

My six-year-old daughter has had Type 1 Diabetes since she was three. Our main goal is to raise as much money as we can for Team Miranda and The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, with the expectation of finding a cure for Miranda and all of the other people with T1D.

I would like to host an on-line bake sale and am asking my blogger friends, foodies and non foodies to volunteer to put up one of your special recipes for auction. I realize life for everyone is very busy nowadays, myself included, but it could be a simple baked good or even a piece of baking equipment, if baking is not your best talent. If you are interested in taking part in this event I would need you to do the following:

* Send me a recipe with a picture (we eat with our eyes) and a link to your blog - after all, you deserve the extra traffic I hope to generate. I will display all of the goodies in a new post just before the auction goes live.
* Commit to baking the product within 3-5 days of the winning bid being paid into our team's fundraising page, I will notify you when that happens.
* Ship the goodies to the winning bidder - you can choose to ship only in the U.S or Canada or even internationally.

After the auction is over, I will do a follow-up blog post highlighting all of the blogs which took part and making sure everyone gets the credit they deserve.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Hallowe'en Fiesta

Hosting Blog:
Zesty Palette

Theme: Hallowe'en

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 5 November 2011

It is October already and pretty soon it is going to be all about pumpkins. So, why not an event to celebrate the same? This event is not limited to just food, it is about anything you see fit for Halloween. You can send in carved pumpkins, spooky desserts, Halloween celebration pictures, costume pictures and so on. You get the idea right? I am excited to see what my fellow bloggers and non bloggers are going to come up with for this event.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Novel Food #14

Hosting Blog:
Briciole

Theme: Fiction inspired food

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 13 November 2011

If you like to read and you like to cook, this event is perfectly tailored for you. Simona is looking forward to learning about a published literary work (a novel, novella, short story, memoir, bio, poem) that provided you with inspiration to prepare something in the kitchen.

This is a fun event: you read, you cook, you write, and at the end you also get a nice reading list, which can be easily turned into a plan for enriching your library (physical or electronic).

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Simply Suppers Cookbook Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
The Well Seasoned Cook

Theme: Cookbook Giveaway (worldwide)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 20 October 2011

With over 100 recipes featuring soups, sides, sandwiches, entrees, and desserts, Simply Suppers includes meals for vegetarians, meat eaters, and vegans, many of which are highly adaptable to cater to your particular dietary preferences.

I am happy to be able to offer two copies of "Simply Suppers," which I requested from the publisher for the purpose of giveaways. Two random drawings will be conducted: one for domestic readers, and one for international readers. These drawings are open to everyone, whether they blog or not.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Total Greek Yoghurt Scary Stories & Wacky Recipes Competition

Hosting Blog:
Total Greek Yoghurt (facebook page)

Theme: Hallowe'en Scary Stories & Wacky Recipes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 11 November 2011 (winners chosen each week)

TOTAL Greek Yoghurt loves this time of year: when the ghouls and ghosts come a-knocking and the air is filled with the smell of bonfires and fireworks. In fact we love it so much that we’re running a special competion!

We want your scariest stories or wackiest recipes. The best weekly submission will win a special Halloween themed food and drink goodie bag. Yum! All you need to do is head over to our Total Greek Yoghurt Facebook Page and upload your wacky recipe or scary story and post your accompanying picture to our Facebook wall.

Your scary stories can be rooted in fiction or in spooky real life experiences. In previous weeks we have received recipes suggestions such as “witches eyeballs” and “chocolate chip pumpkin muffins”. It’s totally up to you – but the wackier the better!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
I Love Peas

Hosting Blog:
Eat Right! Live Happy

Theme: Healthy Pea Recipes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 October 2011

We all know that peas are one of the most nutritious vegetable, very rich in minerals, phyto-nutrients, vitamins and anti-oxidants.
So, dear friends, lets cook peas today and get the most exceptionally strong nutrients .

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Forever Nigella

Hosting Blog:
Halloween Horrors

Theme: Nigella Recipes with a Halloween Theme

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 01 November 2011

So this month you have “sort of” free rein to create any Nigella dish you like. I say “sort of” because the caveat is that you must adapt it in some way to make it suitable for Hallowe’en. I don’t want just any old Nigella favourite, beautiful as that may be, I want proper Hallowe’en influenced goodies (and baddies). There MUST be a Hallowe’en twist of some kind – though I’ll accept cryptic ones if they’re convincing. Standard pumpkin and squash recipes are permitted without plastic skeletons required.

Scary pea soup with cobweb cream? “Eyeballs” in trifle? Cupcakes covered in “blood”?

Go ahead, use your imaginations – we want a line up of Nigella recipes that look really frightening (in a good way please)

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Teatime Treats

Hosting Blog:
Lavender & Lovage

Theme: Ginger and Bonfire Treats

Event Start Date: 1 November 2011
Event Deadline: 28 November 2011

Tea Time Treats is a monthly blogging event that showcases treats from our favourite meal of the day: teatime! Hosted alternate months by Karen from Lavender and Lovage and Kate from What Kate Bakes, each challenge involves a style of bake or popular teatime ingredient. All teatime treats, whether sweet or savoury, breads, pies, pasties, cakes, tarts, desserts, conserves or biscuits (plus many, many more!) will be featured over the coming months. This month’s theme is GINGER and BONFIRE TREATS.

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.

Sign up and you will be given a blog to work with. Just post one of their recipes to join in.

Details can be found here

to be continued ........

Well that is the first few on. Check back for lots more competitions, giveaways and challenges. I always have more to add as the month progresses.

Food Events - September 2011

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Event Name:
Win a super cute Lunch Bag

Hosting Blog:
Little Tums

Theme: Lunch Bag Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 September 2011

TumTum has kindly offered me three lunch bags to give away. They are good quality, insulated, colourful lunch bags with a really fab design on the front and an ice cream van on the back. The ice cream van has room for a photo of your child, so the bag can be quickly identified as theirs at playgroup, nursery or school. It is the lunch bag to be seen with this season.

ps you might like to win one of these for your own lunch time treats.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Cute Apron Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 10 September 2011

When Buy Cute Aprons offered me an apron I found it really hard to choose. There are so many to choose from and they are all a bit special. I eventually settled on what they call the Wrap Apron Victoria. What I like about the apron, is that it looks less like an apron and more like a dress and is really lovely on. I am pleased to tell you that Buy Cute Aprons have offered me and apron to giveaway to one lucky reader. So why not leave a comment. There are 6 chances to win.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
No Croutons Required

Hosting Blog:
Lisa's Kitchen

Theme: Soup or Salad made with a homegrown ingredient (vegetarian)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 20 September 2011

I will be hosting the September edition of No Croutons Required. The challenge this month is to make a vegetarian soup or salad with ingredients grown in your garden.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
We Should Cocoa

Hosting Blog:
Chocolate Teapot

Theme: 1st Birthday Party Cake (for adults as well as children)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 25 September 2011

Well here we are in September, a whole year down the track from our oh so humble beginnings with the raspberry challenge and what a fantastic year it has been!

With this in mind there is really only one challenge I could set this month that seemed appropriate now we are one. Let's have a virtual birthday party! To celebrate/participate all you have to do is create a chocolate masterpiece fit to serve at a 1st birthday party (remember that adults attend these shindigs too!).

Details can be found here

Hosting Blog:
Simply.Food

Theme: Flavours of South India

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 September 2011

South Indian cuisine is made up from four different states of South India ; Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Naidu. The food is famous for its various spices and also spicy foods. Some of the chief varieties of spices produced here include cardamom, pepper, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Of course we can't forget the many varieties of Dosas ,Vadas , the Uttappam and of course the tasty Sambhars.The variety of recipes are too numerous to mention , each and every dish is a culunary delight so this visit is going to be a real treat for our palates.

The South India is equally famous for the availability of coconut, a wide variety of fishes and root tubers. The south Indian food is mainly rice, which is served with a combination of Sambhar or curry.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Bookmarked Recipes

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: using bookmarked recipes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 29 October 2011

If you are anything like me, you collect recipes right left and centre and rarely get around to using them. That is what this challenge is all about, to encourage us to use some of those unused recipes.

You may post recipes you have bookmarked from magazines, tv programmes, websites or blogs..... Please credit the author of the recipe.

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

Event Name:
Gutsy Cooks

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 September 2011
Daring Cooks Reveal Date: 14th September 2011

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:
Olivado Getaway Including Meals

Hosting Blog:
Torview

Theme: Vacation Giveaway (Canada only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 15 September 2011

Olivado has a getaway for within Canada, if you like to win a romantic weekend getaway for 2 at the Fairmont Banff Springs hotel enter the contest before September 15, 2011. Everything included from flights, car service door to door, hotel and dining.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
£30k Scholarship to Le Cordon Bleau Cookery School

Hosting Website:
Le Cordon Bleau

Theme: Scholarship plus accomodation for 16-19 year olds.

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 24 October 2011

For the first time in its 115 year history, world-renowned Le Cordon Bleu, is offering the Le Grand Diplôme UK Scholarship Award from its new international flagship school of culinary arts and UK headquarters at Bloomsbury Square in the heart of London. Starting in 2012, one passionate 16 to 19 year old student will be awarded a life-changing opportunity worth more than £30,000.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Cox, Cookies & Cakes Cookbook Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Pebble Soup

Theme: Cookbook Giveaway

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 7 September 2011

I got a bit of help from BakingMad.com who is kindly giving away a copy of Cox Cookies & Cakes by Eric lanlard and Patrick Cox.

BakingMadUK.com is a comprehensive and lively website full of recipe ideas. Whether you are a complete beginner or an enthusiastic home cook, this website will be of interest. The recipes are easy to find, there is a converter, a forum where you can ask the experts your questions and other rubrics such as a blog, competitions, to name but a few.

For a chance to win a copy of the fashionable "Cox, Cookies & Cakes" by Eric Lanlard (retailed at £16.99) please choose your favorite recipe from http://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/cakes.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
My Legume Love Affair

Hosting Blog:
What Would Cathy Eat

Theme: Legumes

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 September 2011

For the purpose of this event, legumes include fresh or dried beans, lentils, pulses, and/or the sometimes edible pods that contain these seeds, and derivative products like tofu or besan (chickpea flour). According to Susan you can include recipes that use tamarind, fenugreek, carob, peanuts, etc. since they are among some of the other edible plants in the legume family and thus ARE included in the event.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Food Palette Series Final - Rainbow

Hosting Blog:
Torview

Theme: Rainbow Coloured Food

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 31 October 2011

Many of you had eagerly asked me for the next colour, which has always put an exciting smile :) Along the way I have learned many things from all of you and hope you did as well.
Do check out these previous colours, you will be surprised on the collection and how everyone went out of their way to try some unique innovative dishes.

Glad I kept going with this event :) To end the event we will celebrate with a rainbow of colours and include the colours blue, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo and violet :)

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Sugar High Friday

Hosting Blog:
Vampituity

Theme: Sweet Heat (desserts)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 26 September 2011

Heat could be the way you make the dessert, it doesn't necessarily have to be part of the flavor. Maybe the heat is part of your story about the dessert. Is there a dessert that means "romantic evening" for both you and your sweetheart, or perhaps a dish you recall sparked a huge fight some years back? Entertain us and demonstrate your interpretive creativity.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Presto Pasta Nights

Hosting Blog:
Week One: La Cuisine de Sarah (PPN #231 September 16)
Week Two: Lavender & Lime (PPN #224 September 23)
Week Three: Scientist in the Kitchen (PPN #235 September 30)

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:
Vegan Cookbook Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Given to Distracting Others

Theme: Cookbook Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 9 October 2011

Whether you are a fully fledged vegan or a beginner just dipping your toes into the water, this collection of vegan recipes will introduce you to a whole new world of exciting dishes based on fruit and vegetables, pulses and grains, nuts and seeds, pungent herbs and warm aromatic spices – prepare to be DAZZLED!

Need 2 Know Books have offered five of you a chance to own a copy.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Serve it Steamed

Hosting Blog:
Krithi's Kitchen

Theme: Steamed Food

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 September 2011

Steaming makes the food healthier and the amount of nutrients lost is very minimal compared to other methods of cooking. Steaming is when the food is cooked in steam or water vapour. It should not be confused with boiling, where the food is dropped into hot water. It is also different from double boiling, where the food's contact to the steam is undesired e.g. melting chocolate.

You may send in any entry that has been ‘Steamed’. Not to be confused with boiling/double-boiling/bain-marie method of cooking.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Cook.Eat.Delicious - Desserts

Hosting Blog:
Anu's Healthy Kitchen

Theme: Desserts with Almonds

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 30 September 2011

Life without Desserts is no life at all! This month Cook.Eat.Delicious! and Anu's Healthy Kitchen wants you to cook up your most delicious Almond dessert recipe. Any dessert goes as long as Almonds are the star! One random recipe will win the cookbook "Nuts in the Kitchen" by Susan Herrmann Loomis.

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:
F for Fruit Curries

Hosting Blog:
Ambrosia

Theme: Fruit Curries

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 10 October 2011

We all know that including fruits in our diet is the surest way to a healthy body. So why not use fruits in meals and curries? So readers, I am looking forward to your mouth-watering recipes with fruits!

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Kerrigold Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Peeble Soup

Theme: Giveaway (UK & Ireland only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 26 September 2011

Every little bit helps, this is why I am really pleased to be able to pass three £1 pound vouchers to three readers. It sounds a little confusing doesn't it : nine vouchers in total, kindly offered by Kerrygold.

I would go as far as saying that spreadable butter is the new sliced bread though I don't really think that sliced bread is really great on the other hand spreadable butter is. The process as far as I understand it, goes like so: olive oil is recombined with solid butter to make a spreadable consistency. The taste of olive oil is extremely faint, if non-existent.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Win Bottlegreen in Aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer

Hosting Blog:
Jam and Clotted Cream

Theme: Bottlegreen Giveaway

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 23 September 2011

Bottlegreen have teamed up with Breakthrough Breast Cancer to turn its gorgeous pomegranate & elderflower cordial and pomegranate & elderflower sparkling pressé pink in aid of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The stylish new bottles will be in store for a limited time only, with 10% from each sale going to help the charity’s fantastic work.

I have 3 sets of the bottlepink range to giveaway.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Win Tickets to BBC Good Food Show Birmingham

Hosting Blog:
Simply Food

Theme: Ticket Giveaway

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 18 November 2011

BBC Good Food Show Winter
23 – 27 November NEC, Birmingham

The BBC Good Food Show Winter is 21 this year and to celebrate simply.food has teamed up with the organisers to offer 3 lucky winners the chance to win 1 pair of general admission tickets each.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Show Me Your Aprons

Hosting Blog:
Fuss Free Flavours

Theme: Blog Event

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: End October 2011

I have a collection of 10 aprons and would love to see yours! Grab your camera and slip your aprons on!
Details can be found here

Event Name:
Box Appetit Lunch Box Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Tinned Tomatoes

Theme: Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 04 October 2011

I was in Lakeland recently and looking at lunch boxes. I seriously considered buying this lunch box, but I thought it was a bit pricey. Roll on a few days and Find Me A Gift, get in touch and ask if I would like one to review. How psychic are they? Spooky! The good news is that they sell the same lunchbox £4 cheaper (they have great prices and deliver next day) and the great news is that I have one to give to one lucky reader.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
100th Post Multiple Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Lavender and Lovage

Theme: Giveaway (Worldwide)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 1 October 2011

To celebrate my 100th post I am hosting a HUGE Giveaway Party! A BIG thanks to all of you who have made my early days of blogging so enjoyable and for following me.....I have enjoyed my first 100 posts and plan on posting many more; meeting new people and reading about them and their recipes, traditions and family lives has been inspirational and I feel I have made some lifelong friends already.

I have THREE prizes up for grabs, a choice of one food hamper from Lakeland and two books.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Eat Vegan on $4 a Day Giveaway

Hosting Blog:
Lisa's Kitchen

Theme: Giveaway (Canada & US only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 10 October 2011

I recently received a complimentary copy of Ellen Jaffe Jones' Eat Vegan on $4 a Day per person. As food prices rise, it is the time to get smart and be a budget conscious shopper. Obviously the first step is to avoid processed foods, as well as packaged and canned foods as much as possible. It is also important to eat a variety of legumes, whole grains, vegetables and fruit. So many tips for saving money and your health are provided in this cookbook.

I am pleased to offer my Canadian and US readers a chance to win a copy of this budget-conscious book.

Details can be found here

Event Name:
Win a Luxury Italian Cooking Kit

Hosting Blog:
A Glug of Oil

Theme: Giveaway (UK only)

Event Start Date: now
Event Deadline: 14 October 2011

One lucky reader of A Glug of Oil will WIN an Ultimate Italian Cooking Kit courtesy of Galbani® worth over £350!!
Containing an Italian fresh pasta maker, Alessi Spaghetti Tongs and a whole host of Harvey Nichols food goodies.
Plus six month’s supply of Galbani® Dolcelatte® and another six month’s worth of Galbani® Mozzarella cheese - delizioso!

Details can be found here

to be continued ........

Check back for lots more competitions, giveaways and challenges. I always have more to add as the month progresses.