Foodie Friday Giveaway and Recipe Link-Ups #1 (Feb 18, 2011)

Welcome! Thank you for joining us for our first blog-hop, originally named Foodie Friday. As we were planning for our first Foodie Friday, we realized that another food blogger is already doing a Foodie Friday and there are other Foodie Friday events as well. We did not want to appear as though we were trying to copycat someone else’s idea (because we certainly were not!) so decided to rename ours.

We chose Make a Food-“e”-Friend Monday, because even as new food bloggers we have already begun finding Food-“e”-Friends, and it has been fun roaming the food blogosphere, seeing other blogs and finding common interests aside from the one that brings us all together at first: FOOD!

So what is a Food-“e”-Friend, exactly? Shouldn’t it be “Foodie” Friend?
Good question. And it is, in fact, the same general idea, but it goes a little further. I consider an e-friend a person I have probably not met “in real life,” someone I have interacted with only online. Our first experience with e-friends was during the time when we were in the process to adopt The Well-Fed Son. We “met” some other adoptive families through our adoption agency’s online forum and also through a Yahoo adoption group. Some of these e-friends were a tremendous source of information, support and encouragement to us throughout the adoption process. We didn’t know any other families in our area who were adopting with whom we could interact in this way, so we learned a lot then about the value of these types of friendships.

Will we meet to link up again this coming Monday, since it is just a few days away?
That is really completely up to you. I was not sure how everyone would feel about linking up again so soon, so I will be here to link a recipe with anyone else who wants to participate again that soon (giveaway link up will also be included again). We enjoy finding new recipes and the way I feel about it is… the more, the merrier. It’s not a whole lot of work since we can use recipes that have already been written and posted, and we’ll leave it open for any type of recipe you’d like to share for now. I’d love to get into some themed potlucks eventually, but we’ll keep it basic for now.

Okay… now that we have that special announcement out of the way… on to our first and only “Foodie Friday”:

1- Write your recipe blog post or locate the one you want to share that is already written. Copy and paste the following somewhere in your blog post: “This recipe is featured in the (date) Foodie Friday Recipe Potluck, hosted by The Saturday Evening Pot.” After you have put the text into your blog post, be sure to highlight the (date) text and insert the Friday date for the blog hop in which you are linking the recipe. This will better enable your readers to locate the specific blog hop your recipe is featured in if they would like to find other great recipes. This will be especially helpful during the weeks we have themed potlucks.

If you would like to include the Foodie Friday button, just use the code underneath the button in the sidebar, although, this is not required.

2- Post the permalink to your recipe in the “URL” field. To get the permalink, click on the title of your blog post, highlight and copy the URL for that post at the top of your webpage.

3- Put the name of your recipe in the “Name” field.

4- Take a few minutes to check out some of the other recipes and be sure to leave a brief comment for other participants. It’s a lot of fun to see all of the recipes that people choose for blog-hop events, but it’s much more fun when participants take a few moments to make new friends and interact with each other about what has brought us all together in the first place… again, our love for food. And who isn’t blessed by knowing someone else has enjoyed what they have shared? That’s a part of what true friendship is all about!

*(Our blog was initially created to share our favorite recipes with others, so if any of the recipes you share become family favorites, we may ask to feature them as a future weekly recipe.)

Since we needed to announce the change from Foodie Friday to Make a Food-“e”-Friend Monday, we will link our recipe here instead of sharing the full recipe here. This week, we are sharing one that has already been one of our recipes served, Pecan-Encrusted Tilapia. This is one of my all-time favorite recipes created by The Chef!

About the Author

Adopted at age 2, grew up in the Charlotte, NC area. Obtained Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Appalachian State University. Loves being a Mom of two and taste-testing Chef John's culinary creations and sharing them with readers.

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