i started this blog last year before i went back to school, thinking that it would be something i'll be doing during my spare time. but lo and behold, i didn't have a lot! posting became quite a challenge after a while, but then i kept telling myself that i needed to do this to have something i can call my own. something i built from the bottom up. when i saw that foodbuzz was holding a competition for food bloggers, i did not think twice on joining. i know that it would be another challenge; it had deadlines, and parameters which i am kind of a stickler for.
on posting
so what sets my blog apart from the 1,890 people who are in this competition? i think it's the stories i tell and the dirty dishes that came with it. my consistency in posting falters most of the time because i feel like my stories are not that compelling, considering the routine life i live. but then i thought, who doesn't live a routine life? i know mostly everyone but it's how you go about your routine that makes it fun most of the time, and i keep telling myself to approach everything that way.
on photos
okay, let me also tell you that i don't take the best photos in the food blogging world, but i do my best to take them. it will make the food cold to take the best shot sometimes... okay most of the time, but that's what the microwave is for considering it's the same food i'm going to serve my boyfriend (and whoever is home during that time). taking food photos at night with an old point and shoot camera is not that easy. i want to take photos during the day, but i don't have the luxury of time on a regular basis. i think lighting one of the greatest challenges i have to overcome whenever i cook something i want to post, it fails most of the time but when i get a really good shot, then onto the blog it goes. by the way the pictures i'm posting are photos of recipes that haven't reached the blog yet.
on recipes
the recipes i cook are mostly a combination of different recipes i have encountered. it's hard sometimes to try and invent a recipe, because when you google your idea... there it is on somebody else's blog looking at you in the face and calling you a copycat! i try to bitch at the screen whenever i see my idea on another person's blog telling them that they stole my idea (yeah, my head's a crazy place to be in). i get frustrated, but then i look at how they did it and i'm like, "please, i can do it better!" it's not that good all the time, but they're not gonna know that my version wasn't good because i'm not going to post it... and all the crazy stays in the confines of my own head. my recipes are also made up of ingredients that are not too fancy. i mean seriously, on a college student budget, you expect me to buy 5-grams-for-20-dollar saffron from whole freakin' foods? no, imma wait until in goes on sale at nugget (it's 5 dollars for 5 grams there sometimes). then i cook shitloads of saffron infused food, i'll get sick of it, but i have to use all of it before it goes bad. i also go to the grocery store a lot to find good deals... did you know that target's bog box of cream is the cheapest i've found anywhere?! seriously, you need cream? go there... NOW! oh, before i forget, i want to tell you that i am lucky to live in a farm town because i have access to fresh produce almost all year round, except when freakin' larry's produce close for 3 months, then i have to resort to foodmax or safeway. but yeah, target's cream is cheap!
dog story
i was supposed to post this a week ago, but i had exams that i need to study for and then the dog thing happened. when the week started, randall (the dog) had been throwing up a little bit. nothing alarming, we just thought that it was because if the heat. so we just gave him a water to rehydrate and he was all good again (i just have to suffer through scrubbing it off our white carpet, but it's all good). then friday afternoon after we played, he started throwing up like crazy... as shawn puts it, linda blair projectile. it was alarming to see him like that, but then i thought maybe he was just really tired. so i let him rest some more. what really made up want to go to the vet was when he didn't eat that night. if you know anything about young labs, then you know that they can eat, and they will not stop most of the time. he just drank most of his water and retreated to bed, but then shawn ran out of out room to tell me (i was cleaning in the kitchen) that randall threw up in the crate. i ran back in the room and it was all water. so we decided that the next morning we're bringing him to the vet. yesterday was the crazy day at the vet. we were there almost the whole day. and today, he had surgery for intestinal blockage. before finishing this post, shawn got a call from the doctor and they said the surgery was successful and that they want us to look what they got out, because they can't figure out what it is. they said it was like a hard ball of something... so maybe it was the big seed-like stuff that falls off the tree on in out backyard. so shawn and i are just nervous wrecks right now until we pick him up at 5:30. wish us luck!!!
voting
so voting starts tomorrow, september 20 at 6am pst and will end on september 23 at 6pm pst. don't forget to vote for me to become the next food blog star! sign up at foodbuzz.com to vote for me, you can even connect it to your facebook to make it a lot easier for you. don't forget to vote okay?! click on the logo on the sidebar and it'll lead you to the voting thing.. i think. lol.
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