"Teilen macht spaß" (sharing is fun) is a German saying children often get to hear in these parts, and I've been trying to convince my son about, without much success. Maybe three years old cannot yet see the sense. Things are different when it comes to food: is there anything nicer than sharing the food you prepared with those you love, or your favorite recipe with a fellow-minded cook? That's the spirit of the many food blogging events that delight us every month, and to top that, there's a little surprise in store. This month we'll not only be sharing recipes, but even events! That's the idea behind this month's joint Sugar High Friday-Is My Blog Burning Cookie-swap Party.
Join me Jennifer and me for this festive cookie swap. Share a recipe or two...or more for your favourite homemade cookies with us and look for new ideas among the contributions of other bloggers, without the stress of having to look through books, magazines and webpages for your inspiration. I for one hope it will end up a yearly holiday tradition.
On top of the bounty of recipes, Jennifer has organized a special treat for this month's participants. Yes, this time there are also prizes to be won! Go over to her forums (click on “Blog Events”), and you will see a few photos of the outside and inside of a very sweet cookie book called “The Cookie Sutra”. Jennifer has managed to secure a dozen of these naughty little cookie books for 12 lucky winners. How will we ever judge the winners, you ask? Quoting Jennifer: "Well, I won’t…and Alberto won’t…but YOU will!". Read through the round-ups, choose your top three favorites and email us before December 8th quoting the recipe and which blog it appeared on (please, don’t vote for yourself – someone will, we're sure!). The top twelve most selected entrants will get a copy mailed to them – just in time for the holidays.
The usual "rules" apply to this IMBB/SHF event as always. And if you're joining us for the first time, here it goes: any and all bloggers...or readers of blogs... or complete strangers without blogs (yet!) are welcome to take part, whether they regularly blog about food or not. The theme is "Cookie Swap" and the weekend for this joint SHF/IMBB is Friday November 25th – Sunday November 27th, 2005. The cookies don't have to be made on that weekend, but your entry and recipe should be posted then. Share the recipe for your cookie(s), and if you can include a picture too: we would all love to see what they look like. Once your entry is posted, please email us at our joint cookie swap email address with permlink to your recipe, your blog, your name and where you are located. We will include it in a post that lists all of the participants and their recipes the following week.
And now: hush, hush off you go, turn those ovens on and start baking!
And be sure to check out Jennifer's announcemet too!
Sounds good! I just got a new little cookie cook book magazine today...one of those little ones they have at the checkout at grocery stores, and, well, I'm going to give it a try!
Posted by: LisaSD | November 05, 2005 at 12:07 AM
Ooh, great! :) I'm really looking forward to this!
Posted by: Anne | November 05, 2005 at 01:41 PM
Sounds like fun!
Does the entry have to be in english? Or at least the recipe? I guess so...
Posted by: Marcela | November 07, 2005 at 02:27 AM
hi alberto. :)
question : how many cookies allowed to be posted?
wena
Posted by: Wena | November 07, 2005 at 05:48 AM
Hola Marcela!
the post doesn't have to be in English, but it would be nice if the recipe could be (maybe in English and Spanish), so that everyone can give it a try if they wish. I don't think you need any help with the transaltion, but if you do, drop me a line.
Hi Wena, nice to see mum:mum alive and kicking once more. There's no limit, post as many recipes as you wish.
Posted by: Alberto | November 07, 2005 at 09:19 AM
Ciao Alberto,
i'll try to make an understandable translation. :D
Grazie per la disponibilità comunque, sei molto gentile.
Posted by: Marcela | November 07, 2005 at 12:34 PM
I'm a little teary-eyed at the thought of all those cookies. My kids and I LOVE to bake cookies during the holidays. We have a few standards that are made every year, but otherwise we like to experiment with as many varieties as possible. Many times ending up with upwards of 30 different kinds of cookies. This is going to be heavenly!
Posted by: Sarah | November 07, 2005 at 05:15 PM
Alberto - I must say that I haven't made cookies for more than 20 years! Maybe this is the right time to try making again...
Posted by: keiko | November 08, 2005 at 08:11 PM
Alberto--Are bar cookies allowed?
Posted by: lisaSD | November 08, 2005 at 09:00 PM
keiko, I'm sure you'll come up with something divine... as usual ;-).
Lisa, I don't see any reason why bar cookies should not be allowed.
Posted by: Alberto | November 10, 2005 at 11:28 AM
i admit i have a fear of baking--but there's no better way to overcome it than to face it head on. count me in!
Posted by: wasabi | November 10, 2005 at 06:40 PM
Dear Alberto - greetings from My Dhaba. Hope you have received our mail with the link to one of our favorite ones - the rock cookies. Hope you like it. Cant wait to read the entries of the D-Day. Cheers!
VK Narayanan
Chef de cuisine
My Dhaba
Posted by: VK Narayanan | November 27, 2005 at 08:21 PM
VK, got your mail. Very nice recipe!
Posted by: Alberto | November 28, 2005 at 09:53 AM
when's the post with all of the cookies going up?
Posted by: Rachel | November 29, 2005 at 10:38 PM
Rachel, there will be more than one post (it's over 100 entries!) and it will be split between Jennifer's blog and mine. You'll definitely see the first round-ups up before the end of the week.
Posted by: Alberto | November 29, 2005 at 10:47 PM