Hey everybody! Today marks the 6th birthday of my little cooking blog! I can't believe I've been blogging for 6 whole years. I think this officially makes me Very Old in the world of food blogging. Last year I baked a Victoria sponge with hazelnut crunch buttercream to celebrate, and this year I've made a Maple-Walnut Loaf cake. (Adapted from Nigella Lawson's maple-pecan bundt cake in Kitchen). Hmmm... it seems I find nuts particularly celebratory! (No giggling please!)
Before last year it never occurred to me to do a blog birthday post, but now I'm in the habit, I guess I better stick with it. (Any excuse for cake, right?) I'll blog about the cake in detail soon, but for now let me share some fun blog stuff with you. Last year I gave a bit of history to my blog, and gave a top 10 of my most frequent labels. Unsurprisingly, the top 3 were: "Nigella", "Chocolate" and "Travel", and I don't think much has changed this year!
This year I'll give you a best-of and share some of my favourite posts with you. Please enjoy!
- The first post: Gooey Chocolate Stack
- A series of posts on Mum's Birthday Party, where we held a massive party for my mum's birthday and I cooked everything, including a Croquembouche! My series of posts include all the test-runs leading up to the big night itself.
- Croissant in a Can. Enough said.
- The Kylie Kwong Drinking Game. Incidentally, I watched Luke Nguyen's Vietnam for the first time tonight, and he was awesome! It proves you can go back to your homeland and be respectful of the locals, hehe.
- I've also enjoyed cooking for my family and friends! PORKTOBERFEST, Christmas BBQs, A Fun Sunday Lunch for 15, Tonkatsu Time, and 2 pulled pork meals!
- I've also been travelling a lot - in particular Europe 2006, Japan 2007, Vanuatu 2009, and - how could you forget? - Germany 2007!
Thanks everyone for reading and sharing my little cooking journey with me! Looking forward to many more posts!
xox Sarah
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Happy bloggedy birthday Sarah! I've come to really love your blog over the past few months.. you'll have to show me some Melbourne eats when I visit one day xxx
ReplyDeleteWow - you've been blogging for a while! Well, I still love reading it! Happy blog birthday!
ReplyDeleteHi guys!
ReplyDeleteYay, comments from my two favourite London bloggers! Thank-you, thank-you!
@Catty - For Sho!
xox Sarah
Congratulations Sarah! Six years in blogging is like...a hundred years in the real world. Your Nigella project blog was the very first food blog I ever discovered and a huge source of inspiration to me - I'm glad you're still blogging and long may you continue :D
ReplyDeleteI love reading your blogs Sarah!! congrats on 6 years, great effort
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! 6 years, your blog is getting to be a big kid now, ready for school!
ReplyDeleteMy blog turns 1 in a week,it's just about to take its first steps!
6 years is such an achievement. Good work.
happy 6th birthday!!! haha, now you can celebrate your real birthday and your blog birthday too!
ReplyDeleteHappy blog birthday Sarah!
ReplyDeleteThe croissant in a can is one of my fave posts of yours too! And you have certainly planted a bug for travel to Vanuatu that won't budge!
May the posts continue!
Happy bloggy day! 6 years and going strong. Thumbs up to you!
ReplyDeleteYay, 6 years of blogging, great stuff. And all those cakes, carbs and calories, hooray. May there be many more cakes to come.
ReplyDeleteHappy Bloggerversary!! Wow, 6 years, that's amazing dedication!
ReplyDeleteHappy blog birthday!!! croissant in a can... musta missed that one!!
ReplyDeleteHappy blog birthday Sarah... gee you are old, like a grandma of the blogging world :P Hehehe!
ReplyDeleteKeep going strong! :)
Happy 6th birthday Sarah Cooks! And congrats Sarah :)
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