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Food blogger potluck, the sequel
For the second time in as many months, Austin food bloggers gathered to share food and foodraderie on Sunday at Soup Peddler David Ansel’s house. This meant, as you would presume, great food and lots of people taking pictures of it.
Boned chicken stuffed with crawfish, shrimp and boudin straight from Louisiana was the star of the first act (a ham leg stole the show after round one), along with tarts, enchiladas, fried pork ribs, potato salad, mini sandwiches made with strawberries and pea shoots and a one killer Caesar salad. Desserts filled an entire table: strawberry tart and strawberry cream cake, fruit “cupcakes,” blondies, brownies, pecan tarts and cupcakes, including Jennie Chen of Miso Hungry’s Irish Car Bomb cupcakes.
Like the food, there were too many good people to mention them all, but I want to give a special shout-out to Michael Chu of the Cooking for Engineers, who after establishing his nationally known blog in San Francisco, moved Austin three weeks ago. Glad to see him and April Woods of The Hungry Engineer, bottom left, getting along so well.
So what did I bring? Last time it was lamb and blue cheese on endive; for this potluck, the rainy Saturday put me in the mood to bake, so I made some pizza dough and created a chard (from my backyard!) and queso fresco pizza inspired by this post by Lisa Lawless of Lisa is Cooking.
The good food is just a perk. Knowing and befriending these bloggers is the real fun.
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By Penny De Los Santos
May 18, 2009 1:45 PM | Link to this
Beautiful post! I am so very proud to be apart of this group.
By lisaiscooking
May 18, 2009 2:11 PM | Link to this
Seriously, I’m still stuffed! Best chicken ever.
By Rebecca
May 18, 2009 2:29 PM | Link to this
Hi Addie,
I am a relatively new blogger in Austin. My blog is about entertaining others and yourself in Austin and beyond. It includes everything from entertaining at home tips/recipes, green entertaining (including no-bake recipes or energy-saving entertainment ideas), to upcoming events and ideas for entertaining out of town guests. I would love to participate in the food blogger events, since food is a big part of entertaining, of course!
Feel free to check out my blog (www.Rebeccammendations.com) and let me know what else I can do to participate in these fabulous events in Austin!
Thanks so much! Rebecca
By Jennie Chen
May 18, 2009 4:01 PM | Link to this
Just clarifying….. I have nothing to do with that food truck! :o)
Happy Eating!