This, my friends, is a picture from the recipe that our first MaFF Monday Featured Food-“e”-Friend says is the one we should try first from her blog! The reasons she would recommend this as the first to try are because although it looks so elegant, it is so easy to make, it’s full of flavor, and the combination of ingredients incorporate many of her favorites. It does look delicious!
I am excited to be starting our new format for the party this week, as mentioned in previous MaFF posts, and would like to introduce you to Cindy Jamieson, from the city of Barrie in Ontario, Canada, author of Hun… What’s for Dinner? I enjoyed reading her responses to a few questions I asked her that I thought would really help us get to know her better as today’s MaFF FFF:
1) Tell us a little bit about the “birth” of your blog. How long have you been blogging and why did you start your blog?
I created Hun… What’s for Dinner? about 4 yrs ago. My son was starting to eat table food and I wanted to introduce him to great food, from the start. One night I made Pork Pizziola with some Orzo (my first post)Â and it looked so beautiful, when I plated it up. I decided to take a picture, but felt silly posting a picture of my dinner, on Facebook, for everyone to see. So that evening, I decided to start a Food Blog, as a way to keep track of new recipes I had tried and whether or not they had been successful. It was also a way to have all my recipes in one spot, so friends and family could access them.
2) I noticed that you are participating in a recipe contest. How exciting! Share a little bit about that with us.
Two months ago, one of my fellow blogger friends announced the Real Women of Philadelphia contest on her blog. For some reason, I felt compelled to enter. I am a very shy person and have never done anything of the sort before. If this opportunity would have come around last year, I would have fantasized about doing it and just went on my merry way. But this time I felt like I needed a way to reconnect with myself as a woman, not a wife or mother. For 6 yrs I’ve been Mom, or Hun and was starting to loose my sense of self, who Cindy really was. So I took the plunge and it has been a spectacular journey.
Check out her video entries for the contest here!Â
3) What feature of your blog would you like most for us to know about?
I’ve recently been appointed as a Life Made Delicious Connector, by General Mills. As a way to generate traffic to their wonderful website full of easy and delicious recipes. I have a button, at the top right of my blog, that links directly to the Life Made Delicious site. You can find recipes ranging from Brunch, to BBQ and desserts. It’s really great.
As you can see, there are lots of great things to check out on Cindy’s blog, including a great giveaway. Mini Sausage Meatball Minestra is her Star Recipe. If you haven’t added your blog’s most popular recipe to our Star Recipes Collection, I hope you will take a moment to do that today. It has been a popular feature of our blog. I hope each of you have enjoyed as much as I have getting to know Cindy a little better this week, and I look forward to learning more about another FFF next week.
Now, on to our party! Check out our Make a Food-“e”-Friend (MaFF) Monday page for more information on what this party is all about, specifics about how to link from your blog, and for more on how you can be a Featured Food-“e”-Friend).
For our regular guests, just a few reminders before linking:
1) You can link a recipe or any type of food-related blog post (including giveaways or free food coupon offers). Make sure you use the URL for the actual post and not your blog (or those interested in what you are sharing may not be able to find it if it’s not your most recent post and will miss out on what you wanted to share!).
2) Don’t forget to link back to this potluck party, using either a text link or the button image. This is important to help spread the word about the party and so all the great recipes that people are sharing can be found and enjoyed. To make it easier:
This party’s URL for a text link:
http://www.thesaturdayeveningpot.com/2011/06/maff-monday-17-meet-cindy-of-hun-whats.html
OR
Button linking back to this week’s party (highlight, copy and paste into your post):
3) Most of all, have fun and be sure to check out any recipes that interest you that others have brought to the party. (How else will you make new Food-“e”-Friends?!) Some weeks I am not able to make it around to all of the recipes shared, but I always enjoy seeing the different things that are linked at these parties and check back when looking for new ideas.
(Link-up open through Wednesday):
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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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