I had a great day. The writing workshop I went to was wonderfully informative and I’m so glad I had the chance to attend. The information gained, the sense of community fostered; sharing, learning, growing, hearing other blogger’s perspectives and experiences, it was all fantastic.
Dianne is amazing and such a wealth of knowledge. I highly recommend her book if you want to improve your (food) writing skills.
The food wasn’t half bad either.
Liz’s lentil soup
Marie’s arugula, cranberries, pistachio, roasted beets, and goat cheese salad
A fruit and Gorgonzola cheese plate from Denise
…and tons of other food and goodies that I didn’t photograph.
It was a great day but now it’s time to be a wife and mommy and spend time with my family.
See you in the morning with a recipe along these lines…
What did you do today?
What was the best thing you ate or did?
Thanks for the Yoga Mat Giveaway entries
Averie – Yesterday was an awesome day, wasn’t it? Enjoyed meeting you and wish you the best in your blog, writing, and cookbook endeavors. You certainly have the energy to accomplish it all! The Gorgonzola, Fig and Pecan Terrine is from The Hearty Boys Cookbook, Talk With Your Mouth Full – great for parties and entertaining! Denise
It was so great to meet you! Just edited the post and credited you for the recipe. Those figs on it were…so.good. I could have “cherry-picked” off all the figs. And the grapes were the perfect, crunchy, wanna eat a whole stalk kind :) Love those.
Please keep in touch!!
I have a busy day planned with grocery shopping and food prep to do. Meant to do it yesterday, but just didn’t get to it. Your day looks like it was much more fun!
That fruit and cheese plate is gorgeous! What a lovely spread of food!
The best thing I ate this weekend was goat cheese and mushroom pizza for dinner last night. It was fabulous!
Wow, sounds like a great event! I have her book and need to crack into it! But I’d love to go to a workshop too for the interactivity.
That is awesome, a writing workshop! I had a lot of fun this weekend and attend the 2012 Veggie Food Festival here in NYC. They had SO many great things, including to die for sweets! I think I definitely had a sweet over-load, but so worth it :)
As a writing teacher, you KNOW I love this :-) Workshop settings are so fun. Well, except when your 20 year old student turns in a story that involves the phrase “quivering member.” True story from last week’s class. Ugh. :-)
This is uncanny. Yesterday at the workshop, the word qu*vering was used in a passage to describe some food or some experience with food and I said, that’s lovely but I will NEVER use that word in a blog post b/c the thought of what search engine results and google traffic I will get it if I post that is not something I want. And then a few other times during the day, the ladies would jokingly say, yes, you can say that…but remember, you can’t say qu*vering. It was a running joke of the day. What are the ODDS that you had this happen, and wrote about it?!
Cannot make this stuff up!!
beautiful pictures Averie! the fruit and cheese plate looks incredible.. i want to dive right in!! i made something similiar to your caramel apple bars yesterday! i posted about them this morning. uh-mazing! :)
Headed over to check them out….
I love writing workshops! So much fun. Glad to hear it was a good time : )
Yesterday I went to an early pilates class and spent the rest of the day running errands and doing work. Thanks to a crazy schedule change last week and a case of pinkeye, I kept it pretty low key and just hung out with a friend in the evening.
I loved reading that book, and reading her blog — how awesome that you had the opportunity to go to this workshop!
Yesterday was a yoga teacher training day — we did lots of hip opening seated poses and those tend to make me really happy. Today we’re learning about the chakras and developing a yoga practice for them!
I ate the most amazing baked celeriac fries (odd, i know), but so so good! I even paired them with homemade ketchup
Beautiful photos, Averie! I hope your yummy brownies were loved! :-)
Best thing I did today: I just got home from performing ‘Defying Gravity’ from the musical Wicked for a broadway fundraiser here in Santa Cruz. So much fun! I love to perform and it seriously makes me giddy and full of vibrancy all night after I do! Best thing I ate: zucchini spaghetti! :-)
When I was emailing you yesterday, I was in class :) Glad you had a fun day!
More details! Oh, and that there is arugula, chica. ;) (Because someone else will point it out to you, you know.)
An avocado-topped salad was the best thing I ate today!…Or maybe the berry-topped oats! Ok, both. =)
They both sound fantastic!
I had a pretty relaxed day getting things done that need to get done! Those pictures are beautiful! So vibrant.
The house it was held at has GORGEOUS daytime lighting. The field day I could have with food photography in her house….
:)
You added so much to the discussions…And your dessert rocked! Hoping to see you again for coffee or lunch or whatever. X0 Liz
Awww, thanks, Liz! It was sooo fun and good to connect with you and the others and to share and learn from each other. That’s what it’s all about! :)
I had such a fun day today!!!
I started my day with an amazing breakfast (quinoa + sweet potatoes = yummy!) and then met a friend for yoga in the city, then a trip to the biggest WF I’ve ever seen, followed by a fantastic vegetarian lunch, an even yummier dinner and then wine and super mario cart with my man.
I seriously love Saturdays!!!
Glad you had such a stellar day!! And I was at a WFs in Phoenix a few times that was….HUGE! The CA ones in San Diego aren’t “huge”. They are big but not huge, by any means.