May 2008: Food and Drink Blog Events

EVERY WEEKEND - Weekend Herb Blogging hosted by Kalyn's Kitchen.

WEEKLY - BOOKMARKED RECIPES. Anyone from anywhere can blog about a recipe they had bookmarked from a cook book, food magazine, food blog, food website, from TV etc, make it and submit it to a weekly roundup every Monday. More details found on Ruth's Kitchen Experiments.

WEEKLY - MADE IN AMERICA/LA BUONA CUCINA AMERICANA. Every week one of our circle of expatriate bloggers will post a recipe for old fashioned American food in both English and Italian, in both US measurements and metric. Anyone who can do this is welcome to join up! All the details are here.

WEEKLY - ROOT SOURCE CHALLENGE - From cookthink.com - Every week we propose a new ingredient for our root source newsletter, and make a call out for the best recipes using that ingredient. The winner has their recipe published on the site and our blog, as well as featured in our newsletter. They also receive a cookbook! For rules and current topics, please click here.

WEEKLY - TUESDAYS WITH DORIE. A group who celebrate Dorie Greenspan's brilliant book, Baking: From My Home to Yours, one recipe at a time. If you would like to bake your way through this book, please stop here for more details.

WEEKLY - Presto Pasta Night. Channel your inner comfort food muse and join in the new, fun weekly event. Hosted by Ruth at Once Upon A Feast, complete details to participate can be found right here.
WEEKLY - ARF/5-A-Day. Hosted by Cate at Sweetnicks every Tuesday night. Have you recently made a recipe with fruit and/or vegetables? Then this is perfect for you. Come on and join in the fun - complete details are right here.

ONGOING - World Bread Day - After Hours Party. For those that missed out on the recent 113-entry roundup for World Bread Day, this is your chance to join in the fun. Complete details can be found here.

NEW!!! Monthly - Great Cooks Community County Fair - Each month the Great Cooks County Fair is sponsoring an event designed to bring out your inner chef. The Great Cooks Community is all about simple, delicious, everyday foods. May's topic is Kid Friendly Cooking. Whether your recipe is one that kids love to eat or one they love to cook, enter and join the fun! Rules for entry can be found here. Recipes must be posted before midnight, EST on May 30th. For more questions, email us.

MONTHLY - GROW YOUR OWN celebrates the foods we grow ourselves and the dishes we make using our homegrown products. Make a dish that uses at least one item from your very own garden (indoor, outdoor, urban, whatever) or meat you have raised and post about it. You can use something that was gifted to you, but the giver must have personally grown or raised the item. Posts are due on the 28th of each month and the round-up will be posted a few days later on or around the 1st of the month. Check out the full details here.

MONTHLY - CLICK: the photo event. Check out the theme of the month and rules @ Jugalbandi here. Deadline: 30th of the month.

MONTHLY - TRIED AND TASTED (T&T) – a monthly event of appreciation of other blogs - an opportunity to thank your fellow bloggers for sharing their recipes by re-creating them. Peek into their kitchen to see what’s cooking and go for it! Take it,make it and say it! Each month, one of YOU will be Tried and Tasted and after the final verdict given this lovely stamp to prove that your recipes ARE worth it! Read more about the event here.

MONTHLY - JIHVA FOR INGREDIENTS - Celebrating exotic ingredients, one at a time. For complete details, please click here.

MONTHLY - FOOD ART - From Mahanandi. Theme-based event dedicated to Food drawings and crafts. The theme for spring is "Mango Manthram". For details, please click here.

MONTHLY MEET AND MINGLE. Deadline is May 5, and the theme is Bollywood Cooking. Complete details can be found here.

MONTHLY - TASTY TOOLS! The theme of this event is creating recipes using a specific tool. For April, recipes using ice cream scoops and portion scoops are being featured. Hosted by Joelen of Joelen's Culinary Adventures. Details here.

NEW!!! MONTHLY - NO CROUTONS REQUIRED. This month's challenge is to create a salad. Our theme is cheese, be it blue, crumbly, creamy, pongy, smoky, gooey or chewy. From vegetarian to vegan. The winner will be awarded a gorgeous badge for their blog! Details can be found here.

NEW!!! MONTHLY - SNACKSHOTS #4: Salad - At last summer has arrived here in the UK and what better reason to celebrate than with a crispy, cool salad. Salads definitely top the list of the dish that is easy and quick to prepare and healthy. Whether it is leafy green to-do, starchy pasta or potato salad, meaty or fishy or warm or cold, anything goes. If you have a favourite salad, why not share it with the world and at the same time get all lyrical about it to stand a chance to win the Word4Word writing award? More details here.

MONTHLY - THINK SPICE...THINK CLOVES! This month, the "Think Spice" event from Sunita's World is guest hosted by Gretchen at Canela & Comino and the featured spice for April is CLOVE. How do you use cloves in your home? What are you favorite foods that have cloves in them? Make or bake something that features cloves and submit it on or before April 25th. For complete details, read this!

MONTHLY - MEAT & GREET. This is a new event focusing on, what else? Meat. The theme ingredient for March is offal. No other strictures -- it can be from any animal and can be any variety meat. Tongue, heart, kidneys, livers -- even spleens if you are so inclined. Let's see what you can whip up. Winner this month wins a coveted copy of Richard Olney's "Variety Meats." Hosted by Hank of Hunter Angler Gardener Cook. Details here.

MONTHLY - MASTER BAKER. Bake what you want. Every month we will choose an ingredient of the month and you're job is to bake whatever your little heart desires with our ingredient of the month. For more info, click here.

MONTHLY - WEEKEND BREAKFAST BLOGGING. Saffron Trail hosts this event. Complete rundown is here.

MONTHLY - Cooking with Tea Contest sponsored by Tea Chef. Experiment with different ideas to develop the best recipe with that tea, then send it in with a picture. Every month new recipes are posted for community voting (look for the "Vote for this Recipe" links). The highest-ranked recipe will win a fabulous tea-related reward and the acclaim of the community!

MONTHLY - CARNIVAL OF DINING OUT. Come celebrate your favorite place to eat in this new monthly event. Entries are due by the end of the month, and complete information can be found here.

MONTHLY - FOOD BLOGGY PETS OF THE MONTH. Peanut Butter Etouffe is doing a monthly round-up featuring all your pets. Come join in the fun - all the details are right here.

ANNUAL - EAT LIKE A PIRATE DAY. September 19th is the first annual Eat Like a Pirate Day! If you are going to talk like a pirate, you should eat like one too! Whether it's parrot a'la orange or seaweed-wrapped seaweed, swash your buckle on over and share. More details soon. Contact kitchenMage(at)gmail(dot)com.

NEW!!! ANNUAL - SPRING TEA PARTY. Spring Tea Party hosted by The Skinny Gourmet. Gird your pinafores, artfully cuff your kimonos: you are cordially invited to a tea party. Tea is a global industry with a thousand local faces. It is also a really tasty excuse to get together with some friends on a Saturday afternoon and have a good time. So I'm getting in the mood for warm saturday afternoons in the garden and smart picnics with an annual food blogger event: a spring tea party. More details can be found here. Entries due May 23rd. The roundup will be posted by May 31st.

NOW UNTIL MAY 5th - DOLLAR DISH DUEL. Hosted by Just Get Floury, Ginny challenges everyone to make a dish for $5 that must feed at least 2 people. So hit up a dollar store or be creative with what you can find at your local grocery store. Find more details here.

NOW UNTIL MAY 6th - PAPER CHEF #29. This month the ingredients are fennel, prosciutto, honey and fresh fava beans. Think you have what it takes to be a Paper Chef? The details are at Hunter Angler Gardener Cook right here.

NOW UNTIL MAY 21st - PUTTING UP. 'Putting Up' Event is a new event hosted by myself, Pixie, at You Say Tomahto, I say Tomayto and Rosie, from Rosie Bakes a Peace of Cake. The event focuses on preserving fruits and vegetables. We're asking you to share your Jams and Conserves, Jellies, Marmalade, Curds and Butters, Chutneys, Pickles, Relishes and Preserves. Your welcome to create a dish around your preserve, however the focus is on the preserve itself and we really want to see that JAR! More details can be found HERE. Hope you can join us!

NEW!!! NOW UNTIL MAY 23rd - DMBLGIT. Complete details can be found here. This month's host is Habeas Brulee.

NOW UNTIL MAY 25th - SUGAR HIGH FRIDAY #43. The theme this month is Citrus. Lemons, lime, oranges, tangerines, clementines, mandarines, grapefruits, kumquats... The bright colors of the fruits and the desserts they are prepared with cannot but make you happy and ready for summer. Let's get all zesty and let's pucker up with citrus in May!. Details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL MAY 25th - VEGETABLE, BEAUTIFUL VEGETABLES. May 19-25 is national vegetarian week in the uk and, as happened last year, abby from eat the right stuff is hosting “vegetables, beautiful vegetables,” an annual event where food bloggers around the world are invited to show off their skills at creating fantastic vegetarian dishes. to participate tell abby about a vegetarian dish that you have cooked, complete with recipe. or maybe review a favourite vegetarian restaurant. or take a photo of your weekly vegetable purchases and tell abby what you plan to do with them. Due by May 25th. Complete details can be found here.

NEW!!! NOW UNTIL MAY 31st - IN THE BAG. A seasonal food blogging event. This month's bag includes asparagus, eggs and parmesan and readers are challenged to create a dish using these ingredients plus any others they find appropriate. Details here.

NOW UNTIL MAY 31st - AVF #3: A Vegetarian Feast in a Quiche. For the third Vegetarian Feast, we're posting about a meatless savoury tart, quiche, or pastry (or something along those lines). Pick your favourite recipe with no meat, fish or poultry and take at least one photo. Dairy is allowed but vegan recipes are welcomed. Your blog doesn't have to be vegetarian, just your recipe! Check out Shortcut to Mushrooms for more information.

NOW UNTIL MAY 31st - MAD FOR MACARONS IN MAY. Hosted by Minko of Couture Cupcakes. During the month of May I am going to be trying my hand at macarons. What is a macaron? A macaron is a traditional French pastry traditionally made from egg whites, almond powder (flour, ground almonds) icing sugar and sugar sandwiched together with a buttercream or ganache or even a jam filling. The cookie should have a foot and a thin but crisp shell, but when you eat it, it melts in your mouth. There should be a good ratio of cookie to filling and not be too sweet.]Sound daunting? Don't worry, macarons are an obsession and there are a lot of web sites that provide advice and even pictures on how to make the perfect macaron step by step. Get the details here.

NOW UNTIL MAY 31st - BEAUTIFUL BONES. Help promote bone health during the month of May which is National Osteoporosis Awareness Month. Just post a calcium-rich recipe any time between May 1-May 31st, then send it to Susan of Food Blogga. Check out the details here.

April 2008: Food and Drink Blog Events

EVERY WEEKEND - Weekend Herb Blogging hosted by Kalyn's Kitchen.

WEEKLY - BOOKMARKED RECIPES. Anyone from anywhere can blog about a recipe they had bookmarked from a cook book, food magazine, food blog, food website, from TV etc, make it and submit it to a weekly roundup every Monday. More details found on Ruth's Kitchen Experiments.

WEEKLY - MADE IN AMERICA/LA BUONA CUCINA AMERICANA. Every week one of our circle of expatriate bloggers will post a recipe for old fashioned American food in both English and Italian, in both US measurements and metric. Anyone who can do this is welcome to join up! All the details are here.

WEEKLY - ROOT SOURCE CHALLENGE - From cookthink.com - Every week we propose a new ingredient for our root source newsletter, and make a call out for the best recipes using that ingredient. The winner has their recipe published on the site and our blog, as well as featured in our newsletter. They also receive a cookbook! For rules and current topics, please click here.

WEEKLY - TUESDAYS WITH DORIE. A group who celebrate Dorie Greenspan's brilliant book, Baking: From My Home to Yours, one recipe at a time. If you would like to bake your way through this book, please stop here for more details.

WEEKLY - Presto Pasta Night. Channel your inner comfort food muse and join in the new, fun weekly event. Hosted by Ruth at Once Upon A Feast, complete details to participate can be found right here.
WEEKLY - ARF/5-A-Day. Hosted by Cate at Sweetnicks every Tuesday night. Have you recently made a recipe with fruit and/or vegetables? Then this is perfect for you. Come on and join in the fun - complete details are right here.

ONGOING - World Bread Day - After Hours Party. For those that missed out on the recent 113-entry roundup for World Bread Day, this is your chance to join in the fun. Complete details can be found here.

MONTHLY - CLICK: the photo event. Check out the theme of the month and rules @ Jugalbandi here. Deadline: 30th of the month.

MONTHLY - TRIED AND TASTED (T&T) – a monthly event of appreciation of other blogs - an opportunity to thank your fellow bloggers for sharing their recipes by re-creating them. Peek into their kitchen to see what’s cooking and go for it! Take it,make it and say it! Each month, one of YOU will be Tried and Tasted and after the final verdict given this lovely stamp to prove that your recipes ARE worth it! Read more about the event here.

MONTHLY - JIHVA FOR INGREDIENTS - Celebrating exotic ingredients, one at a time. For complete details, please click here.

MONTHLY - FOOD ART - From Mahanandi. Theme-based event dedicated to Food drawings and crafts. The theme for spring is "Mango Manthram". For details, please click here.

MONTHLY MEET AND MINGLE. Deadline is May 5, and the theme is Bollywood Cooking. Complete details can be found here.

MONTHLY - TASTY TOOLS! The theme of this event is creating recipes using a specific tool. For April, recipes using ice cream scoops and portion scoops are being featured. Hosted by Joelen of Joelen's Culinary Adventures. Details here.

MONTHLY - NO CROUTONS REQUIRED In anticipation of Spring, we would like participants to submit a soup or a salad featuring mushrooms of any variety. Though mushrooms are probably the meatiest of vegetarian fare, we do ask that you stick to the vegetarian theme, meaning no meat, poultry or seafood. The winner of the challenge will recieve a gorgeous badge for their blog. Details of this month's challenge are here.

MONTHLY - SNACKSHOTS #3: Muffins hosted by Greedy Gourmet. Take a photo of anything muffin. You don't need to bake it necessarily, just buy your favourite muffin and show it to the world! For more info, click here. Deadline: 6 May 2007.

MONTHLY - THINK SPICE...THINK CLOVES! This month, the "Think Spice" event from Sunita's World is guest hosted by Gretchen at Canela & Comino and the featured spice for April is CLOVE. How do you use cloves in your home? What are you favorite foods that have cloves in them? Make or bake something that features cloves and submit it on or before April 25th. For complete details, read this!

MONTHLY - MEAT & GREET. This is a new event focusing on, what else? Meat. The theme ingredient for March is offal. No other strictures -- it can be from any animal and can be any variety meat. Tongue, heart, kidneys, livers -- even spleens if you are so inclined. Let's see what you can whip up. Winner this month wins a coveted copy of Richard Olney's "Variety Meats." Hosted by Hank of Hunter Angler Gardener Cook. Details here.

MONTHLY - MASTER BAKER. Bake what you want. Every month we will choose an ingredient of the month and you're job is to bake whatever your little heart desires with our ingredient of the month. For more info, click here.

MONTHLY - WEEKEND BREAKFAST BLOGGING. Saffron Trail hosts this event. Complete rundown is here.

MONTHLY - Cooking with Tea Contest sponsored by Tea Chef. Experiment with different ideas to develop the best recipe with that tea, then send it in with a picture. Every month new recipes are posted for community voting (look for the "Vote for this Recipe" links). The highest-ranked recipe will win a fabulous tea-related reward and the acclaim of the community!

MONTHLY - CARNIVAL OF DINING OUT. Come celebrate your favorite place to eat in this new monthly event. Entries are due by the end of the month, and complete information can be found here.

MONTHLY - FOOD BLOGGY PETS OF THE MONTH. Peanut Butter Etouffe is doing a monthly round-up featuring all your pets. Come join in the fun - all the details are right here.

ANNUAL - EAT LIKE A PIRATE DAY. September 19th is the first annual Eat Like a Pirate Day! If you are going to talk like a pirate, you should eat like one too! Whether it's parrot a'la orange or seaweed-wrapped seaweed, swash your buckle on over and share. More details soon. Contact kitchenMage(at)gmail(dot)com.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 1st - THEY GO REALLY WELL TOGETHER #10. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 1st - BREADBAKINGDAY #08: CELEBRATE! Hosted by Wild Yeast. What holiday, festival, or special event are you celebrating this month? As one of the oldest and most universal of foods, bread is associated with celebrations in every part of the world. For this month’s BreadBakingDay, you are invited to share your own spring holiday bread tradition, explore one you’re not yet familiar with, or start a new one. Details on how to participate can be found here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 7th - ONE PERFECT INGREDIENT. Complete details are here. Basically, the bloggers are invited to blog about their favourite ingredient and post a recipe featuring it. 5 lucky winners get Marcus Wareing's new book. Unfortunately, due to DK posting restrictions, the books can only be sent to UK and European addresses.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 7th - MONTHLY MINGLE. The theme this round is Spring Fruit Sensations and complete details can be found here and here.

APRIL 11TH THROUGH THE 25TH. GO AHEAD HONEY, IT'S GLUTEN-FREE is hosted by Gluten A Go Go. Read what GAHIGF is all about here. Send Sheltie Girl your permalink information to be included in the round up.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 15TH - DOSA MELA ~ PANCAKE CELEBRATIONS! This is an one off event to celebrate Dosa and its different varieties. The dosa is a South Indian crêpe. This food is a typical South Indian breakfast recipe. Regular dosa batter is made from rice and split, skinned urad bean blended with water and left to ferment overnight. Dosa refers to anything that's spread like a regular dosa. It can be thick like Uthappam or thin like a paper roast. It can be made with rice, wheat or any of the different flour you can think of. With stuffed or mixed or topped with anything. Post can also be on Dosa Trivia or other Dosa related things. If you are not familier with dosa, you can send a pancake too. Pancakes are a type of flatbread prepared from a sweet batter that is cooked on a hot griddle or in a frying pan. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 18th - A NEB AT NUT ROAST. I want to spread the word about the delicious virtues of nut roasts. Nut roasts have a bad reputation but when done well are heaven on a plate. Nut roasts are savoury baked loaves with nuts that are loved by vegetarians and omnivores alike - but it seems not many people have tried them. At my blog (Green Gourmet Giraffe) I have written about the joys of nutroasts and given advice on making them. I invite you you to make a nut roast - complete details here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 19th - LiveSTRONG WITH A TASTE OF YELLOW. This popular event from last year is back! Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 21st - SUGAR HIGH FRIDAY. This time, the theme is Asian Sweet Invasion and the complete details can be found right here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 21st HAY HAY IT'S DONNA DAY #19. The Clafoutis Edition hosted by Bron Marshall. Full details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 30th - WAITER, THERE'S SOMETHING IN MY ... The theme is breakfast favourites, savoury, sweet, hot, cold – anything but marmite on toast, basically! All the details can be found right here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 30th- LEFTOVER TUESDAYS #13. Leftovers got you down? How about converting those leftovers into something new and intriguing? That’s what the Leftover Tuesdays event is all about. Project Foodie is hosting Leftover Tuesdays #13 where we challenge you to transform those leftovers into tasty temptations. The leftovers can be the remnants of a previous meal (either home cooked or bought) but they can also be the unused portions of the various components you've used to create recent (or not so recent) meals. Basically, leftovers are anything in your fridge, pantry or freezer for which you have no intended purpose and need/want to use up! Get all the details here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 30TH - COOKING IN MICROWAVE. Cooking in Microwave has always been a big challenge, atleast for most of us. Most I have done has been to bake a cake or just use it for for reheating. So this event is a learning experience for many to target on specific theme each month and cook up in microwave. So calling all food bloggers to send in their dish which will be part of "Microwave Easy Cooking". Details can be found here. Dish can be of any cuisine.

NOW UNTIL MAY 5th - DOLLAR DISH DUEL. Hosted by Just Get Floury, Ginny challenges everyone to make a dish for $5 that must feed at least 2 people. So hit up a dollar store or be creative with what you can find at your local grocery store. Find more details here.

NOW UNTIL MAY 21st - PUTTING UP. 'Putting Up' Event is a new event hosted by myself, Pixie, at You Say Tomahto, I say Tomayto and Rosie, from Rosie Bakes a Peace of Cake. The event focuses on preserving fruits and vegetables. We're asking you to share your Jams and Conserves, Jellies, Marmalade, Curds and Butters, Chutneys, Pickles, Relishes and Preserves. Your welcome to create a dish around your preserve, however the focus is on the preserve itself and we really want to see that JAR! More details can be found HERE. Hope you can join us!

NEW!!! NOW UNTIL MAY 25th - VEGETABLE, BEAUTIFUL VEGETABLES. May 19-25 is national vegetarian week in the uk and, as happened last year, abby from eat the right stuff is hosting “vegetables, beautiful vegetables,” an annual event where food bloggers around the world are invited to show off their skills at creating fantastic vegetarian dishes. to participate tell abby about a vegetarian dish that you have cooked, complete with recipe. or maybe review a favourite vegetarian restaurant. or take a photo of your weekly vegetable purchases and tell abby what you plan to do with them. Due by May 25th. Complete details can be found here.

NEW!!! NOW UNTIL MAY 31st - AVF #3: A Vegetarian Feast in a Quiche. For the third Vegetarian Feast, we're posting about a meatless savoury tart, quiche, or pastry (or something along those lines). Pick your favourite recipe with no meat, fish or poultry and take at least one photo. Dairy is allowed but vegan recipes are welcomed. Your blog doesn't have to be vegetarian, just your recipe! Check out Shortcut to Mushrooms for more information.

NOW UNTIL 31st MAY - MAD FOR MACARONS IN MAY. Hosted by Minko of Couture Cupcakes. During the month of May I am going to be trying my hand at macarons. What is a macaron? A macaron is a traditional French pastry traditionally made from egg whites, almond powder (flour, ground almonds) icing sugar and sugar sandwiched together with a buttercream or ganache or even a jam filling. The cookie should have a foot and a thin but crisp shell, but when you eat it, it melts in your mouth. There should be a good ratio of cookie to filling and not be too sweet.]Sound daunting? Don't worry, macarons are an obsession and there are a lot of web sites that provide advice and even pictures on how to make the perfect macaron step by step. Get the details here.

NOW UNTIL MAY 31st - BEAUTIFUL BONES. Help promote bone health during the month of May which is National Osteoporosis Awareness Month. Just post a calcium-rich recipe any time between May 1-May 31st, then send it to Susan of Food Blogga. Check out the details here.

March 2008 Food and Drink Blog Events

EVERY WEEKEND - Weekend Herb Blogging hosted by Kalyn's Kitchen.

WEEKLY - MADE IN AMERICA/LA BUONA CUCINA AMERICANA. Every week one of our circle of expatriate bloggers will post a recipe for old fashioned American food in both English and Italian, in both US measurements and metric. Anyone who can do this is welcome to join up! All the details are here.

WEEKLY - ROOT SOURCE CHALLENGE - From cookthink.com - Every week we propose a new ingredient for our root source newsletter, and make a call out for the best recipes using that ingredient. The winner has their recipe published on the site and our blog, as well as featured in our newsletter. They also receive a cookbook! For rules and current topics, please click here.

WEEKLY - TUESDAYS WITH DORIE. A group who celebrate Dorie Greenspan's brilliant book, Baking: From My Home to Yours, one recipe at a time. If you would like to bake your way through this book, please stop here for more details.

WEEKLY - Presto Pasta Night. Channel your inner comfort food muse and join in the new, fun weekly event. Hosted by Ruth at Once Upon A Feast, complete details to participate can be found right here.
WEEKLY - ARF/5-A-Day. Hosted by Cate at Sweetnicks every Tuesday night. Have you recently made a recipe with fruit and/or vegetables? Then this is perfect for you. Come on and join in the fun - complete details are right here.

ONGOING - World Bread Day - After Hours Party. For those that missed out on the recent 113-entry roundup for World Bread Day, this is your chance to join in the fun. Complete details can be found here.

MONTHLY - MEAT & GREET. This is a new event focusing on, what else? Meat. The theme ingredient for March is offal. No other strictures -- it can be from any animal and can be any variety meat. Tongue, heart, kidneys, livers -- even spleens if you are so inclined. Let's see what you can whip up. Winner this month wins a coveted copy of Richard Olney's "Variety Meats." Hosted by Hank of Hunter Angler Gardener Cook. Details here.

MONTHLY - BREAKFAST BLOGGING. Hosted this round by Mansi of Fun and Food, the theme is Balanced Breakfasts. Check out the event details and send in your entries to her by 31st March. Details are here.

MONTHLY - TASTY TOOLS! The theme of this event is creating recipes using a specific tool. For March, recipes using a kitchen grater or microplane are being featured. Hosted by Joelen of Joelen's Culinary Adventures. Details here.

MONTHLY - CUPCAKE HERO. The theme ingredient for March is Marshmallow. Bake up a cupcake with Marshmallow in the cake, frosting or filling for the shot at being named The Cupcake Hero. Hosted by Laurie of quirky cupcake. Details here.

MONTHLY - GO AHEAD HONEY, IT'S GLUTEN FREE #2 – This month's gluten-free baking challenge is Birthday Baking for Kids and is hosted by make life sweeter! So start thinking gluten-free and post a delicious gluten-free birthday treat between now and March 24th. Details are here.

MONTHLY - MASTER BAKER. Bake what you want. Every month we will choose an ingredient of the month and you're job is to bake whatever your little heart desires with our ingredient of the month. For more info, click here.

MONTHLY - WEEKEND BREAKFAST BLOGGING. Saffron Trail hosts this event. Complete rundown is here.

MONTHLY - Cooking with Tea Contest sponsored by Tea Chef. Experiment with different ideas to develop the best recipe with that tea, then send it in with a picture. Every month new recipes are posted for community voting (look for the "Vote for this Recipe" links). The highest-ranked recipe will win a fabulous tea-related reward and the acclaim of the community!

MONTHLY - CARNIVAL OF DINING OUT. Come celebrate your favorite place to eat in this new monthly event. Entries are due by the end of the month, and complete information can be found here.

MONTHLY - FOOD BLOGGY PETS OF THE MONTH. Peanut Butter Etouffe is doing a monthly round-up featuring all your pets. Come join in the fun - all the details are right here.

MONTHLY - GROW YOUR OWN celebrates the foods we grow ourselves and the dishes we make using our homegrown products. Make a dish that uses at least one item from your very own garden (indoor, outdoor, urban, whatever) or meat you have raised and post about it. You can use something that was gifted to you, but the giver must have personally grown or raised the item. Posts are due on March 28 and the round-up will be posted on or around April 1. Check out the full details here.

MONTHLY - SNACKSHOTS #2 hosted by Greedy Gourmet. Take a photo of anything leek. It can be of a fish you prepared or abstract photography. Whatever you do, we want to see it! For more info, click here. Deadline for this month extended to March 31st.

MONTHLY: ART YOU EAT #1 - Chocolate - DEADLINE EXTENDED to FEBRUARY 11! We all want our creations to look as wonderful as they taste and there are tons of absolutely gorgeous examples out there of the amazing creations that all you beautiful bloggers create. Why not hold an event that shares the decorating and presentation tips as well as the food? After all, if someone is going to try to recreate your masterpiece, shouldn't it look spectacular too? Each month we will hold an event that will focus on a different kind of decorating theme, medium, idea, holiday, etc. That way we can all go for variations on a similar theme for that month and end up with lots of ideas to choose from! It should be fun to see all the variations we come up with. To join in the fun get all the details here!

MONTHLY - APPLES & THYME. A celebration of time spent in the kitchen with our mothers and grandmothers (or anyone else you wish to blog about) and what they did or did not pass on to us that influenced how we cook and eat today. The event is hosted by Vanielje Kitchen and The Passionate Palate. We would love you to enter and share with us a person and a dish that celebrates your relationship with them. Deadline is February 20th. More details here.

MONTHLY: ART YOU EAT CHALLENGES. Hello again! We have another challenge before us, chosen by AYE #1's winner, the lovely and oh so creative, Inge of Vanielje Kitchen. For this challenge Inge and I agreed that eggs and creations that are shaped like eggs would be eligible to participate. As before, posts you have published before can be entered as long as you repost it as an entry to the event with a link back and tell us how you made your creation look so amazing and artful. So whether you make something with eggs as a main ingredient or in the shape of an egg, try to make it celebrate the coming spring and Easter season! Please email entries to artyoueat AT gmail DOT com by the end of March 19th and include the following: NAME, LOCATION, ENTRY TITLE, BLOG TITLE, BLOG URL, POST URL, THEME IDEA IF YOU WIN. The top three entries will be chosen by Inge and myself for this challenge (mostly by Inge since it is her theme – I just get to put my two cents in!) and then voting will begin to choose who will host the next round.

ANNUAL - A TASTE OF TERROIR. Between now and January 21, 2008, create and post an entry on your blog which highlights a food or drink, or food/drink product, or recipe which highlights terroir in your location which you can write about with a personal perspective including a photo. Describe how it relates to your locale. Full details are here.

ANNUAL - EAT LIKE A PIRATE DAY. September 19th is the first annual Eat Like a Pirate Day! If you are going to talk like a pirate, you should eat like one too! Whether it's parrot a'la orange or seaweed-wrapped seaweed, swash your buckle on over and share. More details soon. Contact kitchenMage(at)gmail(dot)com.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 1st - TO MARKET, TO MARKET. Celebrate your local market with this new event from A Scientist in the Kitchen. Complete details can be found here

NOW UNTIL MARCH 1st - BREAD BAKING DAY #7: FLATBREADS. This one is being hosted by Chili und Ciabatta. Flatbreads were the first breads (people have been making them for more than 6000 years) and exist in almost every culture. Come and join us in baking flatbreads! It's so easy: you can use almost every grain, even legumes such as chickpeas or lentils. And you don't even have to use an oven - you can also throw your flatbread in a pan. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 1st - THEY GO REALLY WELL TOGETHER (TGRWT) #9. This month's challenge is to create a recipe that combines Parmesan cheese and cocoa. The event is being hosted by lamiacucina. They Go Really Well Together (TGRWT) is a food blogging event where you create a recipe that pairs two ingredients that are not usually seen together. Cocoa and Parmesan share several chemical compounds and theory predicts there should be great recipes with the pair. The challenge is finding one. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 3rd - AN APPLE A DAY. I am organizing a Blog Event on foods that can prevent stroke. I made a critical selection. A apple a day … has a great scientific meaning. Indeed apples help also to prevent stroke. In your recipe apples must be present (one apple is enough) plus one of the other ingredients from this list: APPLE(S) + Almonds, Black Tea, Cinnamon, Dark Chocolate, Fish, Peperoncino, or Tomatoes. Complete details on the event can be found here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 8th - CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. A major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. We don't want to celebrate the political way, instead fiordisale and I would like to invite you to prepare some food. Food connects people, so we ask you to cook or bake something yellow for this special day. More information about the event and how to participate you'll find in English here and and in Italian here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 10th - MONTHLY MINGLE. Theme: One-Dish Dinners. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 14th -- ORGANIZE YOUR LUNCH-PACKING GEAR. Anyone who's accumulated more than one or two lunch containers or lunch-packing accessories has probably faced the challenge of organizing their growing collection to keep things accessible without taking over the kitchen. There are many truly creative ways to organize gear using craft boxes, wall shelves, tool boxes, etc. Will you share your clever ideas? The author of the most ingenious solution will receive my review copy of the upcoming bento book Face Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes (to be released March 15, 2008). Full details can be found here at Lunch in a Box.

MARCH 10th - MARCH 14th - CELEBRATE Pi DAY. What holiday do we celebrate on March 14th? What might hungry mathematicians eat on the 3rd month’s 14th day? Ah yes, on March 14th, we celebrate Pi Day to honor pi, the revered mathematical constant of 3.14 and a trillion more digits. To help pie lovers and food bloggers celebrate the occasion, you are invited to share a favorite pie recipe for Pi Day here at Kitchen Parade. The challenge: While it's easy to fill a pie, the crust itself is more challenging -- but so worth investing in, so worth doing well. And so for Pi Day, please make your own pastry. Yes, Pi Day is about homemade pie crusts, whether a favorite pie crust recipe, whether a new-to-you recipe with a particular technique, whether your own innovative twist on pastry -- all are welcome. Butter crusts? Crisco? Olive oil? Lard??? All ingredients are welcome! Single crust? Double crusts? Lattice tops? All are welcome, so long as the pastry is homemade. Complete details can be found right here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 20TH - NO CROUTONS REQUIRED. The monthly soup and salad challenge hosted by Holler of Tinned Tomatoes and Lisa of Lisa's Kitchen. This month's challenge is to create a Spicy Vegetarian Soup, that will tingle on the tongue! The winner will be awarded a gorgeous badge for their blog! Rules can be found here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 22nd - Novel Food #3. The culinary/literary event Lisa of Champaign Taste and Simona of briciole co-launched two seasons ago is back. Continuing what is becoming a special tradition, we are looking to find culinary inspiration in literary works. The simple rules for participating in Novel Food #3: Prepare a dish of your choosing that has a connection to a published literary work (novel, novella, short story, memoir). Post it on your blog by Saturday March 22, 2008, 9 am (Pacific Time). Send an e-mail to Lisa (webrina AT gmail DOT com) or to Simona (simosite AT mac DOT com) and include your name, blog name and blog address, and a permanent link to your post. Non-English submissions are fine. If possible, include an introduction in English. The announcement is available here and here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 22nd- "FESTA ITALIANA." A new food event hosted by Marie of Proud Italian Cook and Maryann from Finding La Dolce Vita. Let's celebrate the sweet life together! Bring your favorite Italian dish or drink and gather with your friends for a food event not to be missed. All are welcome. Complete details here and here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 24th - SUGAR HIGH FRIDAY #41: SWEET GIFTS. Habeas Brulee invites you to share the recipe for a dessert you made (or want to make) for someone else. Any sweet will do, as long as you also share the story of why you made (or want to make) that particular dessert for that particular person! The deadline for entries is March 24th, and the round-up will be posted on March 28th. Get all the details here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 26th - PULLET SURPRISE. Here we go, let's have a drum roll, please... This years category, keeping with the poultry theme, is Eggs. Now the only restriction is the dish must have eggs as it's main attraction but we'll leave the finer points of argument to you. If you think it qualifies then send the entry. Here are the rules: Make a recipe with the main ingredient being eggs. Post recipe on your blog. Photos are a plus. Have this link back to PBE in your post (http://pbetouffee.blogspot.com/). Send us your permalink E-mail. Do all of this by midnight PST March 26, 2008 Don't have a blog? Just e-mail all your info and we'll post it here. Note: Pullet Surprise is a play on words. You will not be getting the real Pulitzer.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 28th - WAITER, THERE'S SOMETHING IN MY... This popular monthly event is celebrating its 14th edition this month and focusing on pulses. Don't know what that is? Check out all the details right here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 30th - CLICK: a theme-based event dedicated to food photography. The theme for March 2008 is 'METAL'. For details, go here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 29th - IN THE BAG. An event where people create a dish using a bag of seasonal ingredients selected by us. This month we've selected just one
- the fantastic vegetable Purple Sprouting Brocolli. More information can be found here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 1st - THEY GO REALLY WELL TOGETHER #10. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 1st - BREADBAKINGDAY #08: CELEBRATE! Hosted by Wild Yeast. What holiday, festival, or special event are you celebrating this month? As one of the oldest and most universal of foods, bread is associated with celebrations in every part of the world. For this month’s BreadBakingDay, you are invited to share your own spring holiday bread tradition, explore one you’re not yet familiar with, or start a new one. Details on how to participate can be found here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 7th - MONTHLY MINGLE. The theme this round is Spring Fruit Sensations and complete details can be found here and here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 19th - LiveSTRONG WITH A TASTE OF YELLOW. This popular event from last year is back! Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 21st HAY HAY IT'S DONNA DAY #19. The Clafoutis Edition hosted by Bron Marshall. Full details can be found here.

NEW!!! NOW UNTIL APRIL 30th- LEFTOVER TUESDAYS #13. Leftovers got you down? How about converting those leftovers into something new and intriguing? That’s what the Leftover Tuesdays event is all about. Project Foodie is hosting Leftover Tuesdays #13 where we challenge you to transform those leftovers into tasty temptations. The leftovers can be the remnants of a previous meal (either home cooked or bought) but they can also be the unused portions of the various components you've used to create recent (or not so recent) meals. Basically, leftovers are anything in your fridge, pantry or freezer for which you have no intended purpose and need/want to use up! Get all the details here.

February 2008 Food and Drink Blog Events

EVERY WEEKEND - Weekend Herb Blogging hosted by Kalyn's Kitchen.

WEEKLY - Presto Pasta Night. Channel your inner comfort food muse and join in the new, fun weekly event. Hosted by Ruth at Once Upon A Feast, complete details to participate can be found right here.
WEEKLY - ARF/5-A-Day. Hosted by Cate at Sweetnicks every Tuesday night. Have you recently made a recipe with fruit and/or vegetables? Then this is perfect for you. Come on and join in the fun - complete details are right here.

ONGOING - World Bread Day - After Hours Party. For those that missed out on the recent 113-entry roundup for World Bread Day, this is your chance to join in the fun. Complete details can be found here.

MONTHLY - MASTER BAKER. Bake what you want. Every month we will choose an ingredient of the month and you're job is to bake whatever your little heart desires with our ingredient of the month. For more info, click here.

MONTHLY - Weekend Breakfast Blogging. Saffron Trail hosts this event. Complete rundown is here.

MONTHLY - Cooking with Tea Contest sponsored by Tea Chef. Experiment with different ideas to develop the best recipe with that tea, then send it in with a picture. Every month new recipes are posted for community voting (look for the "Vote for this Recipe" links). The highest-ranked recipe will win a fabulous tea-related reward and the acclaim of the community!

MONTHLY - Carnival of Dining Out. Come celebrate your favorite place to eat in this new monthly event. Entries are due by the end of the month, and complete information can be found here.

MONTHLY - FOOD BLOGGY PETS OF THE MONTH. Peanut Butter Etouffe is doing a monthly round-up featuring all your pets. Come join in the fun - all the details are right here.

MONTHLY - GROW YOUR OWN celebrates the foods we grow ourselves and the dishes we make using our homegrown products. Make a dish that uses at least one item from your very own garden (indoor, outdoor, urban, whatever) or meat you have raised and post about it. You can use something that was gifted to you, but the giver must have personally grown or raised the item. Posts are due on February 27 and the round-up will be posted on or around March 1. Check out the full details here.

MONTHLY - SNACKSHOTS #2 hosted by Greedy Gourmet. Take a photo of anything leek. It can be of a fish you prepared or abstract photography. Whatever you do, we want to see it! For more info, click here.

MONTHLY: Art You Eat #1 - Chocolate - DEADLINE EXTENDED to FEBRUARY 11! We all want our creations to look as wonderful as they taste and there are tons of absolutely gorgeous examples out there of the amazing creations that all you beautiful bloggers create. Why not hold an event that shares the decorating and presentation tips as well as the food? After all, if someone is going to try to recreate your masterpiece, shouldn't it look spectacular too? Each month we will hold an event that will focus on a different kind of decorating theme, medium, idea, holiday, etc. That way we can all go for variations on a similar theme for that month and end up with lots of ideas to choose from! It should be fun to see all the variations we come up with. To join in the fun get all the details here!

MONTHLY - APPLES & THYME. A celebration of time spent in the kitchen with our mothers and grandmothers (or anyone else you wish to blog about) and what they did or did not pass on to us that influenced how we cook and eat today. The event is hosted by Vanielje Kitchen and The Passionate Palate. We would love you to enter and share with us a person and a dish that celebrates your relationship with them. Deadline is February 20th. More details here.

MONTHLY: ART YOU EAT CHALLENGES. Hello again! We have another challenge before us, chosen by AYE #1's winner, the lovely and oh so creative, Inge of Vanielje Kitchen. For this challenge Inge and I agreed that eggs and creations that are shaped like eggs would be eligible to participate. As before, posts you have published before can be entered as long as you repost it as an entry to the event with a link back and tell us how you made your creation look so amazing and artful. So whether you make something with eggs as a main ingredient or in the shape of an egg, try to make it celebrate the coming spring and Easter season! Please email entries to artyoueat AT gmail DOT com by the end of March 19th and include the following: NAME, LOCATION, ENTRY TITLE, BLOG TITLE, BLOG URL, POST URL, THEME IDEA IF YOU WIN. The top three entries will be chosen by Inge and myself for this challenge (mostly by Inge since it is her theme – I just get to put my two cents in!) and then voting will begin to choose who will host the next round.

ANNUAL - A Taste of Terroir. Between now and January 21, 2008, create and post an entry on your blog which highlights a food or drink, or food/drink product, or recipe which highlights terroir in your location which you can write about with a personal perspective including a photo. Describe how it relates to your locale. Full details are here.

ANNUAL - EAT LIKE A PIRATE DAY. September 19th is the first annual Eat Like a Pirate Day! If you are going to talk like a pirate, you should eat like one too! Whether it's parrot a'la orange or seaweed-wrapped seaweed, swash your buckle on over and share. More details soon. Contact kitchenMage(at)gmail(dot)com.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 4th - MONTHLY MINGLE. This time, the 17th!! Monthly Mingle will be focusing on Comfort Foods. After all the big fancy meals we have been eating the last few months, wouldn't it be simply great to go back to the simple, undressed-up charms of comfort foods? I keep finding myself creating simpler foods right now. Food that hugs me from the inside out! It's the type of food that picks us up when we are down, warms us when we are feeling lost and cold and blurs out the bad mood. The first mouthful takes us straight back to the familiar, the good; to the time when all was well. That is what I am looking for this month. Your very favorite comfort foods. Comfort food is not to be confused with favorite foods though. Favorite foods are more fancier like a lemon tart, mousse au chocolat or a Chateaubriand steak. Comfort foods are often simple, no frills and easy to prepare kind of foods. So, do something good for yourself and bring over your Comfort Foods to my mingle this month. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 9th - MY LEGUME LOVE AFFAIR. Hosted by Susan of The Well-Seasoned Cook.Looking for a healthy, economical, yet tasty change after the overindulgences of the holiday season? Consider the legume. Full details found here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 12th - MINI PIE REVOLUTION EVENT #2: Small Tarts Have Big Hearts! Here at the Mini Pie Revolution HQ, we know that Valentine's Day requires tarts of a different kind. Grandmothers everywhere would not lie – the stomach leads to the heart, and nothing inspires love like a filled pastry crust. For Valentine's Day, we want to see your sweetest tarts! Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 15th - A HEART FOR YOUR VALENTINE. On February 14th we celebrate Valentine's Day, a holiday honoring love and lovers. In the spirit of the holiday, I suggest to romance the special person in our life not only with a love note but also with a homemade "edible heart." So I would like to invite you to treat your Valentine with something sweet or savory but always heart-shaped or heart-decorated. Give your fantasy full scope and surprise your beloved one with a special heart! Of course we would like to see what kind of heart you give away, so please blog about it from now until February 15. More information about the event can be found here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 20TH - NO CROUTONS REQUIRED. A monthly soup and salad challenge, hosted by Holler of Tinned Tomatoes and Lisa of Lisa's Kitchen. This month's challenge is to create a tasty vegetarian soup, that even the most carnivorous diner would drool over! The winner will be awarded a gorgeous badge for their blog! More details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 21 - WEEKEND COOKBOOK CHALLENGE #25. The theme is Nigella Lawson, and the due date is Feb 21. Ani from Foodiechickie is hosting and complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 25th - A FRUIT A MONTH. Sra from When My Soup Came Alive is hosting the A Fruit A Month (AFAM - Pomegranate) event this month. AFAM is an event that focuses on dishes of all kinds - savoury and sweet - made with the fruit chosen for the event every month. In February, it's pomegranate. The deadline is Feb 25. Find the event details at right here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 29th- LEFTOVER TUESDAYS #12: THE SWEETHEART CHALLENGE. Leftovers got you down? How about converting those leftovers into something new and intriguing? That’s what the Leftover Tuesdays event is all about. This month Project Foodie is hosting Leftover Tuesdays #12. We’re going to add a twist to our leftover challenge in honor of Valentine’s Day. Make a leftover creation for your sweetheart. The leftovers can be the remnants of a previous meal (either home cooked or bought) but they can also be the unused portions of the various components you've used to create recent (or not so recent) meals. Basically, leftovers are anything in your fridge, pantry or freezer for which you have no intended purpose and need/want to use up! Get all the details here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 29th - FRUGAL FOODIE CHALLENGE. Food Revolution is pleased to host the Frugal Foodie Challenge. This monthly event is to encourage creativity within saving money. How creative can you get with $7 and a required ingredient? You must create a meal for two people with the $7. This month’s required ingredient – Apples (or a natural derivative – applesauce, apple juice, etc)! Deadline for entries is February 29 at 5pm EST.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 29th - THE POTATO FE(A)ST, in collaboration with International Year of Potatoes (2008). Hosted by Dhivya Karthik from Culinary Bazaar, you can find the complete participation details right here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 29th - FOOD FIGHT #3: Pantry Raid! Monthly Food Fight's are being resurrected by Allen at Eating Out Loud. This month's theme is somewhat voyeuristic since it focuses on what's in your pantry and what you can make from it. Anything goes -- are you ready for the challenge? Be creative and wow us with what you can whip up. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 29th - SERENDIPITY BAKE-OFF. We are hosting a contest for the Most Pleasing Dessert - baker’s choice of what to prepare. Then, take at least one photo during its preparation process (so we know you didn’t go to Confetti Cakes for it!), photograph the finished treat & share the recipe and your experience with us on your blog. In the end, we all win, right? However, since it is a contest, the prize will be 3 To-Die-For products from Serendipity Soap. The Contest Rules are simple: All entries must be posted or emailed to us (bencomobaby AT hotmail DOT com & soapchix AT gmail DOT com) by February 29. By entering this contest, you agree to divulge your secrets (i.e. your personal recipe or its source). If you are friends, relatives, neighbors, or mere acquaintances of any of the judges (Amy, Ash or Tiff), then you not only qualify to participate in this contest, but are strongly encouraged to do so (this means you Mom & Aunt Jenny!). Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 29th - CLICK. A theme-based event dedicated to food photography. The theme for February 2008 is 'FLOUR'. For details, go here.

NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 29th - WEEKEND BREAKFAST BLOGGING - HEALTHY EATS EVENT. Weekend Breakfast Blogging, the monthly event that celebrates the most important meal of the day. comes to Tasty Palettes. This month's theme is Healthy Eats. To participate in this event, send in your healthy, nutritious and well balanced recipes that can be served at breakfast. Deadline is Feb 29. More details here."

NOW UNTIL MARCH 1st - TO MARKET, TO MARKET. Celebrate your local market with this new event from A Scientist in the Kitchen. Complete details can be found here

NOW UNTIL MARCH 1st - BREAD BAKING DAY #7: FLATBREADS. This one is being hosted by Chili und Ciabatta. Flatbreads were the first breads (people have been making them for more than 6000 years) and exist in almost every culture. Come and join us in baking flatbreads! It's so easy: you can use almost every grain, even legumes such as chickpeas or lentils. And you don't even have to use an oven - you can also throw your flatbread in a pan. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 1st - THEY GO REALLY WELL TOGETHER (TGRWT) #9. This month's challenge is to create a recipe that combines Parmesan cheese and cocoa. The event is being hosted by lamiacucina. They Go Really Well Together (TGRWT) is a food blogging event where you create a recipe that pairs two ingredients that are not usually seen together. Cocoa and Parmesan share several chemical compounds and theory predicts there should be great recipes with the pair. The challenge is finding one. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 3rd - AN APPLE A DAY. I am organizing a Blog Event on foods that can prevent stroke. I made a critical selection. A apple a day … has a great scientific meaning. Indeed apples help also to prevent stroke. In your recipe apples must be present (one apple is enough) plus one of the other ingredients from this list: APPLE(S) + Almonds, Black Tea, Cinnamon, Dark Chocolate, Fish, Peperoncino, or Tomatoes. Complete details on the event can be found here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 8th - CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. A major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. We don't want to celebrate the political way, instead fiordisale and I would like to invite you to prepare some food. Food connects people, so we ask you to cook or bake something yellow for this special day. More information about the event and how to participate you'll find in English here and and in Italian here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 10th - MONTHLY MINGLE. Theme: One-Dish Dinners. Complete details can be found here.

MARCH 10th - MARCH 14th - CELEBRATE Pi DAY. What holiday do we celebrate on March 14th? What might hungry mathematicians eat on the 3rd month’s 14th day? Ah yes, on March 14th, we celebrate Pi Day to honor pi, the revered mathematical constant of 3.14 and a trillion more digits. To help pie lovers and food bloggers celebrate the occasion, you are invited to share a favorite pie recipe for Pi Day here at Kitchen Parade. The challenge: While it's easy to fill a pie, the crust itself is more challenging -- but so worth investing in, so worth doing well. And so for Pi Day, please make your own pastry. Yes, Pi Day is about homemade pie crusts, whether a favorite pie crust recipe, whether a new-to-you recipe with a particular technique, whether your own innovative twist on pastry -- all are welcome. Butter crusts? Crisco? Olive oil? Lard??? All ingredients are welcome! Single crust? Double crusts? Lattice tops? All are welcome, so long as the pastry is homemade. Complete details can be found right here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 22nd - Novel Food #3. The culinary/literary event Lisa of Champaign Taste and Simona of briciole co-launched two seasons ago is back. Continuing what is becoming a special tradition, we are looking to find culinary inspiration in literary works. The simple rules for participating in Novel Food #3:

1. Prepare a dish of your choosing that has a connection to a published literary work (novel, novella, short story, memoir).
2. Post it on your blog by Saturday March 22, 2008, 9 am (Pacific Time).Send an e-mail to Lisa (webrina AT gmail DOT com) or to Simona
   (simosite AT mac DOT com) and include your name, blog name and blog
   address, and a permanent link to your post.

Non-English submissions are fine. If possible, include an introduction in English. The announcement is available here and here.

NOW UNTIL MARCH 22nd- "FESTA ITALIANA." A new food event hosted by Marie of Proud Italian Cook and Maryann from Finding La Dolce Vita. Let's celebrate the sweet life together! Bring your favorite Italian dish or drink and gather with your friends for a food event not to be missed. All are welcome. Complete details here and here.

NEW!!! NOW UNTIL MARCH 24th - SUGAR HIGH FRIDAY #41: SWEET GIFTS. Habeas Brulee invites you to share the recipe for a dessert you made (or want to make) for someone else. Any sweet will do, as long as you also share the story of why you made (or want to make) that particular dessert for that particular person! The deadline for entries is March 24th, and the round-up will be posted on March 28th. Get all the details here.

NOW UNTIL APRIL 19th - LiveSTRONG WITH A TASTE OF YELLOW. This popular event from last year is back! Complete details can be found here.

January 2008 Food Blog Events

EVERY WEEKEND - Weekend Herb Blogging hosted by Kalyn's Kitchen.

WEEKLY - Presto Pasta Night. Channel your inner comfort food muse and join in the new, fun weekly event. Hosted by Ruth at Once Upon A Feast, complete details to participate can be found right here.

WEEKLY - ARF/5-A-Day. Hosted by Cate at Sweetnicks every Tuesday night. Have you recently made a recipe with fruit and/or vegetables? Then this is perfect for you. Come on and join in the fun - complete details are right here.

ONGOING - World Bread Day - After Hours Party. For those that missed out on the recent 113-entry roundup for World Bread Day, this is your chance to join in the fun. Complete details can be found here.

MONTHLY - Weekend Breakfast Blogging. Saffron Trail hosts this event. Complete rundown is here.

MONTHLY - Cooking with Tea Contest sponsored by Tea Chef. Experiment with different ideas to develop the best recipe with that tea, then send it in with a picture. Every month new recipes are posted for community voting (look for the "Vote for this Recipe" links). The highest-ranked recipe will win a fabulous tea-related reward and the acclaim of the community!

MONTHLY - Carnival of Dining Out. Come celebrate your favorite place to eat in this new monthly event. Entries are due by the end of the month, and complete information can be found here.

MONTHLY - FOOD BLOGGY PETS OF THE MONTH. Peanut Butter Etouffe is doing a monthly round-up featuring all your pets. Come join in the fun - all the details are right here.

MONTHLY - GROW YOUR OWN celebrates the foods we grow ourselves and the dishes we make using our homegrown products. Make a dish that uses at least one item from your very own garden (indoor, outdoor, urban, whatever) or meat you have raised and post about it. You can use something that was gifted to you, but the giver must have personally grown or raised the item. Posts are due on February 27 and the round-up will be posted on or around March 1. Check out the full details here.

MONTHLY - SNACKSHOTS #1 hosted by Greedy Gourmet. Take a photo of anything potato. Whether it is dish you made or freshly dug up tubers from your garden, we want to see it! For more info, click here.

ANNUAL - A Taste of Terroir. Between now and January 21, 2008, create and post an entry on your blog which highlights a food or drink, or food/drink product, or recipe which highlights terroir in your location which you can write about with a personal perspective including a photo. Describe how it relates to your locale. Full details are here.

NOW UNTIL JANUARY 1 - BREAD BAKING DAY #5. Hosted by Chelsea of Rolling in Dough, the theme is Filled Breads. Mix up any bread you like, white or wheat, roll it out, fill it with something inspiring, roll it up and bake it. It can be fruit, cheese, salsa, sauce, spices, veggies, candy - whatever you are in the mood for. Rolls, calzones and meat pies all count as filled breads and if you have a filled bread that is a tradition where you live, we'd love to read about it. Simply bake your lovely filled bread creation, take some pictures, write about it and post between now and January 1. Please include a link to Rolling in Dough in your post and send me an email at chelsea@tresbonvivant.com, including the permalink to your post, a picture if you have one and your name and general location. I'll have the collection of wonderful breads up by January 5.

NOW UNTIL JANUARY 7th- MONTHLY MINGLE. Theme is Drop In & Decorate. Complete details can be found here.

NOW UNTIL JANUARY 15th - APPLES & THYME. A celebration of time spent in the kitchen with our mothers and grandmothers (or anyone else you wish to blog about) and what they did or did not pass on to us that influenced how we cook and eat today. The event is hosted by Vanielje Kitchen and The Passionate Palate. We would love you to enter and share with us a person and a dish that celebrates your relationship with them. As we have got a bit of a slow start to this year we have extended the closing date for the third Apples & Thyme to 15th January. It is a monthly event with the closing date normally the 10th of each month with the roundup on the 15th and we will revert to this format in February. More details here.

NOW UNTIL JANUARY 19th - 2008 COMFORT FOOD COOK-OFF. Here in the northern hemisp