Food Fest Meet and Greet

[ysabetwordsmith]

Lots of folks want to see more activity on Dreamwidth. Thematic meet and greet events offer a good opportunity for that. So I made one for this month's Food Fest theme. It gives people a place to meet folks with similar interests, and to squee about the current theme.

Here is the basic outline. Fill in as much or as little of it as you wish, depending on your interests as they relate to the Food Fest.


Name: Whatever you wish to be known by.
Sex/Gender Identity: Share any descriptions you wish people to know about you, including pronouns.
Home Turf: Your country, state/province, ecoregion, or whatever else you wish to share.
Find Me At: Your other blogs, services, or venues.
My Favorite Restaurants: Local, chain, ethnic, whatever.
My Favorite Cuisines: To make, to eat out, or just to read about.
My Favorite Foods: Ingredients, dishes, recipes, etc.
Things I Can't or Won't Eat: Allergies, aversions, exasperations with the modern foodstream, etc.
Fun Food Quotes: Humorous sayings, advice or guidelines you like, etc.
Cookbooks I Recommend: Old or new, in any format.
Cooking or Food Shows I Recommend: Television, online, movies, etc.
Cooks I Admire: family legends, local or wider celebrities, authors, etc.
Online Food Resources I Recommend: Recipe archives, cookbook lists, places to buy exotic ingredients, etc.
Favorite Food Blogs or Communities: Anything on Dreamwidth, or other venues, relating to the above topics.
About My Blog: A general description of your blog metaphor, what your blog contains, common formats / media, activity level, typical rating level, featured fandom(s) or original work, etc.
What I Create: Anything you make that relates to the Food Fest theme or above topics; fandoms, formats, recurring motifs, and so forth. Do you write and share your own recipes, garden and post photos, link recipes that you described in your fiction, or what? Do you use recipes, measurements, and/or intuition?
What I'm Looking For: Things you would like to get from this activity; readers, comments, recommendations of fandoms or fanworks, new friends, cooking conversation pals, wider representation of something, etc.

<strong>Name:</strong> Whatever you wish to be known by.<br /><strong>Sex/Gender Identity:</strong> Share any descriptions you wish people to know about you, including pronouns.<br /><strong>Home Turf:</strong> Your country, state/province, ecoregion, or whatever else you wish to share.<br /><strong>Find Me At:</strong> Your other blogs, services, or venues.<br /><strong>My Favorite Restaurants:</strong> Local, chain, ethnic, whatever.<br /><strong>My Favorite Cuisines:</strong> To make, to eat out, or just to read about.<br /><strong>My Favorite Foods:</strong> Ingredients, dishes, recipes, etc.<br /><strong>Things I Can't or Won't Eat:</strong> Allergies, aversions, exasperations with the modern foodstream, etc.<br /><strong>Fun Food Quotes:</strong> Humorous sayings, advice or guidelines you like, etc.<br /><strong>Cookbooks I Recommend:</strong> Old or new, in any format.<br /><strong>Cooking or Food Shows I Recommend:</strong> Television, online, movies, etc.<br /><strong>Cooks I Admire:</strong> family legends, local or wider celebrities, authors, etc.<br /><strong>Online Food Resources I Recommend:</strong> Recipe archives, cookbook lists, places to buy exotic ingredients, etc.<br /><strong>Favorite Food Blogs or Communities:</strong> Anything on Dreamwidth, or other venues, relating to the above topics.<br /><strong>About My Blog:</strong> A general description of your blog metaphor, what your blog contains, common formats / media, activity level, typical rating level, featured fandom(s) or original work, etc.<br /><strong>What I Create:</strong> Anything you make that relates to the Food Fest theme or above topics; fandoms, formats, recurring motifs, and so forth. Do you write and share your own recipes, garden and post photos, link recipes that you described in your fiction, or what? Do you use recipes, measurements, and/or intuition?<br /><strong>What I'm Looking For:</strong> Things you would like to get from this activity; readers, comments, recommendations of fandoms or fanworks, new friends, cooking conversation pals, wider representation of something, etc.


Feel free to copy this Meet and Greet into your blog as well as filling it out here.

Comments

[readera]

Name: Readera
Sex/Gender Identity: she/her, cis queer female
Home Turf: USA, specifically TX
Find Me At: Readera on Dw & tumbr
My Favorite Restaurants: Local Chinese place (with bonus punny name & excellent delivery), local angus burger place, fried chicken (not chick fil a). Fav chains include tropical smoothie cafe & the catch (fried seafood & chicken)

My Favorite Cuisines:
Soul food, American style Chinese food & Japanese food. Home Baked goods.

My Favorite Foods: chocolate, fruits like Strawberries or blueberries. Japanese style curry is a dish I make all the time. Fried chicken is a favorite as is tx style BBQ. Fav snacks include yogurt & sunflower seeds


Things I Can't or Won't eat: no allergies but household aversions to mushrooms & peas. We try to avoid beef at home & only eat it when we order out. We eat a lot of chicken & turkey & some pork.

Cookbooks I Recommend:
Good & cheap by Leeann brown. Free pdf available at
https://www.leannebrown.com/

Cooking or Food Shows I Recommend: Chef is a fav movie as is Good eats. Chopped is something we watch when it's on the TV in a waiting room but we don't look for it.

Cooks I Admire: Alton brown, Sally of Sally's baking both for methodical methods. My partner J was a chef before his health stopped that career cold so I've learned most of my cooking from him.

Online Food Resources I Recommend: How to cook that on YouTube is lovely & so is Emmymade. Both of them do food experiments & unusual foods/recipes.
King arthur flours recipe archive is useful & has weight measurements for various ingredients
for baking.


Favorite Food Blogs or Communities: Budget bytes & Sally's baking addiction are some fav food blogs. Ysabetwordsmith is a fav of mine but she isn't food focused.

About My Blog: I don't post much but I do read & comment.

What I'm Looking For:
New blogs to follow & new cooking ideas or cookbooks. I just got a fancy new air fryer/pressure cooker/multicooker so I'm looking for things to cook in it.

[readera]

I forgot things I make section. I am the main cook in our house due to my partner's health & mobility.

I'm not the best cook & am not great at improvising or subbing out missing ingredients. I normally follow a recipe unless I have it down pat & even then I will use the recipe for baking. It takes me a few tries of a new dish to get it down.


I tend to repeat recipes which are mostly standard north American recipes. I have added some Asian recipes to my usual cooking list like Japanese style curry & Cabbage pancakes.

I started baking during the pandemic & am still a novice. Baking recipes I have down include potato rolls, sausage kolaches, & muffins. Still working on a good fudge brownie recipe & loaves of bread.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Fav chains include tropical smoothie cafe & the catch (fried seafood & chicken) <<

There's a smoothie place at a mall that I enjoyed, and we recently discovered a new seafood restaurant, but I can't remember the name of either LOL

>> Fav snacks include yogurt & sunflower seeds <<

Oh yeah, I love yogurt. My favorite is Brown Cow because of the cream top, but I like Oui too.

Sunflower seeds are a favorite.

>>Ysabetwordsmith is a fav of mine but she isn't food focused.<<

Thanks for the rec! :D While food isn't one of my main topics, it is easy to find on my blog via the Food and Recipe tags. Cookbook reviews are under Reviews.

>>New blogs to follow & new cooking ideas or cookbooks. I just got a fancy new air fryer/pressure cooker/multicooker so I'm looking for things to cook in it.<<

Doug has an Instant Pot, which does pressure cooking. We are extremely fond of it for making corned beef or any kind of legume dish. These things cook much faster and come out more tender. Recently we got The Indian Instant Pot Cookbook and marked a bunch of recipes to try, though we haven't actually made any of the new ones yet.

Since it's summer, strawberries are coming into season. Summer squash won't be far behind.

We just bought strawberries to make a fruit curry.
https://aglomot.com/strawberry-curry-is-a-modern-twist-on-an-old-tradition/

Three Sisters Succotash
https://www.cindyderosier.com/2016/12/the-three-sisters-cooking-iroquois.html

Summer Squash Bread
https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/ella-bella-s-healthy-summer-squash-bread-435894