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An Honour from Edible Communities…

It`s a delightfully lazy Saturday morning.  All 3 of us (Shaeffer the dog included) are lying on the couch.  The furry one is napping and the two of us are quietly scanning the Internet and slowly coming to our senses.

I happened to flip over to email and an awesome surprise was waiting.  An email from our friend Gail Gordon Oliver who is the publisher and editor of Edible Toronto:

`I’m in Santa Barbara attending the annual Edible Communities conference and am delighted to let you know that your Preserving column was one of three finalists in the “Best Editorial – New Column Creation” category in the Edible publishers awards; quite an honour in a field of some 60 Edible publications.`

I`m suddenly a lot more awake than I was a few minutes ago!

Here`s a recap of the 3 posters (and links to the recipes inside them):

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Thank you for your Nominations for the Canadian Food Blog Awards

I`m writing this at midnight knowing full well that the alarm clock will rung loudly around 5AM this morning and that I will be at the market by 5.30 at the latest.  I adore shopping for a dinner party and New Years will see me finalizing my menu as I shop in the early morning.  There`s nothing quite like it – and I mean that in a good way.

Dana and I were surprised to learn yesterday that we were both nominated and named as finalists in 2 categories of the Canadian Food Blog Awards.  Humbled, honoured and flattered beyond belief is the best description of how we feel.  Seeing the names of the other blogs (as well as some that are new to me – and having checked them out, I have some more reading to do as I`m excited to see some content and people I dearly want to know more about) made me gulp to be included on the list.  We are most thankful.

It`s very easy to write at 5AM and forget that people actually read.  I don`t mean that to insult those who do – I am grateful for your visits, comments and sharing of your own experiences.  It`s just that when one writes at 5AM, generally still bleary eyed and writing a post that I literally dreamed about, it`s easy to imagine that no one would be interested in the output.  One of the reasons for starting the blog was so that I could go back and find my own preserving recipes and perhaps that helps perpetuate that bias. Read more