Showing posts with label bloggers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bloggers. Show all posts

Sunday, 3 August 2008

Happy First Birthday to me!




Today at 14.44 this day, one year ago, I pressed "publish" on my first blog post. Weirdly, the very first word, I ever typed as a blogger was "Furry"! It was originally designed to document the building on My Big Fat Greek Oven, as there was nothing like it that I had been able to find on the 'Net.

Since then, I've posted 165 times, documented my soul-mates tranformation from bogan boi to kitchen whizz, given my entire family of origin (highly unsatisfactory!) "internet names", changed the layout of this place three times, attended a Bloggers Banquet, hosted a Bloggers banquet, been part on an Internet meme, promoted causes that are dear to me and met some of the most amazing, opiniated, loud, funny, brilliant food obsessed people in Australia.

I've written about sex with vegetables, reviewed restaurants, and been interviewed by manistram media twice.

I've become an advocate of SOLE in the suburbs, and discovered obscure Chilean bakeries.

I've made $30 from Google and had 31,487 page views.

Personally I'd like to shout out to Sticky and Grocer, my two SOLE sistas, Possumchops for her help with vegetable sex, Vida for becoming my on-line mother, Gobbler for his inspirational writing style, Cindy and Michael for overcoming Furry's revulsion of tofu, Thanh for the laughs, Ed for NOT publishing my quote about the Mull-O-Matic, Duncan for the single most memorable food experience of my life, and far too many other people to mention.

All as a result of this funny little corner of cyber space.

Thank you dear reader, for keeping me going.. for commenting and finding me funny/annoying/inspirational/an idiot.

The next year will bring who knows what, but I promise more irreverance, more bad typos, more suburban SOLE, more than $30 on Google clicks(hopefully), more frivolity.

Basically just more P.G!

Thanks for dropping by!

Saturday, 1 December 2007

Bloggers go Bakery Barmy!



Well, I am as full as a Mallee bull and it's only 1pm. This morning, Thanh from I eat therefore I am, and Vida from, well, Vida, and Furry and I embarked on a "take-one-for-the team" Bakery Eat-Off.

Four bakeries in 2 hours.

The Force was stromg with us today, young jedi as we met at



Haley's Bakery in Noble Park. It's a Chilean bakery and serves lots of yummy things that Vida is going to identuify for us. Apparently the cartoon pic on the window is a famous Chilean cartoon character.

I have no idea what these thing we bought are, but here are some of the delights we sampled...



doughnuts with custard filling



puff pastry roll, filled with dulce du leche











mille feuille-y things



Thanh, who has a hangover that could kill a spotted dog, gets some sweet, sweet, custardy goodness into him!!

Next stop is:



And we try....



cheesey empanada goodness...



meaty, oniony, olivey, eggy empanada goodness...





Next stop...



for...

















And a final stop, for...





(and no, that's NOT a brie)

I'd post more, but my liver is processing the 45 basquillion calories I ingested this morning, so it's off for an afternoon nanny nap for me!!!