Now this is so much fun. The End of Month Egg on Toast Extravaganza blog event (have egg and bread nought else!) has reached another monthly conclusion. Jeanne has posted the over-view of the latest themed event. This time it was Tabloid Headlines.

Some people have been so inventive and clever. You might have seen the eggcellent newspaper posted on Becks and Posh but the other entries are equally as funny (except perhaps my humble effort hilariously described as 'three under-aged chicks'). There are stories of 'eggsploits with freshly laid eggs' how jilted Bacon tells French Toast to "Get stuffed!" and eggsposures of bizarre geriatric egg-laying.

All fun stuff. Cluck on over to page three Cooksister for full eggscruciating details.

The blogging fun that is End of Month Egg on Toast Extravaganza is about to take place. This month it is all about food - food using eggs and some form of bread obviously - related to a headline. Yep, it is the Headline Edition of EoMEoTE.

Click over to the cooksister for full details but basically it is all about creating something creative using the last remaining staples in your kitchen at the end of the month, before pay-day kicks in to allow a restock. It can be sweet, savoury, simple, complex, breakfast, dinner - whatever you like. The twist is that EoMEoTE is an ovo-literary event. In the past, we've had poetry, fan fiction and song lyrics as themes (for the full list, see the end of this post) - something for everyone, really! This month the theme is... tabloid headlines - think National Enquirer, think The Sun or The Mirror and you'll get the picture.

What can a man do when a Reluctant Housewife sends you a smile? Little, but succumb to her wishes. In this case, before you get too excited, it is a blog event. The lovely Gabriella, via My Life as A Reluctant Housewife, is asking for contributions to Summer Salads.

What can we do here people? Complicated or simple? Should we include a little fish perhaps, a slither of chicken or Italian meats? Sticky smothering pink sauces or delicate olive oil based dressings? Radishes are plentiful.. choices, choices, choices.

Despite the general summer slow down across the internet here are four blog-events to follow or to participate in.

• Mixology Monday V takes place at Jiggle the Handle on July 17th. The subject is Lemon - plenty of fun to be had discovering or inventing a cocktail!
• Sugar High Friday storms through to the 21st edition and a theme of "Ice Ice Baby" (chilled and frozen desserts).
• The 12th edition of Blog Party - Passport Party!  traveling...virtually, of course. Think about the places you've been, countries you've visited. Or, a country you're hoping to get to. Create at least one appetizer and drink inspired by your favorite place, or places.
• Everyone's favourite food porn competition, Does My Blog Look Good In This, already has several wonderful entries. Send your picture or just view the entries at Grab Your Fork.

The image is my entry for DMBLGIT... what do you think?

With Wine Blogging Wednesday #22 wrapped up by Tim at Wine Cast - who would have thought there were so many red wines still with less than 12.5% alcohol - our thoughts turn to the next theme.

Hosted by Vivi's Wine Journal the theme for round 23 is  Bar-B-Que Wines. What wines do you serve with your burnt sausages, undercooked chicken and wilted salad? OK so I am dissing your culinary endevours, I am sure your BBQs offer an array of delicious specialities cooked to perfection. BUt wine is the thing here. Do you go for a general perpose white, something relativly inocculous or do you go for some full-bodied, mighty red bursting with flavour to match the smoky edge to those hulking slabs of beef?

Whatever your selection would be, Viuv's Wine Journal would like to hear from you by the 5th July.

Oh yes indeedee, my friends, the top wine blog event WBW (Wine Blogging Wednesday) and the premier food bloggers event IMBB (Is My Blog Burning) are combining in May to create perhaps the largest food blog event EVER!

To be called the Fabulous Favorites Festival this exciting event will occur on Friday May 19. Combining the food and the wine FFF is a food and wine pairing event that the organisers hope "will attract the largest group of participants ever for any culinary blog event."

The concept is simple, with two plans of attack you can choose from.

1. Pick a favorite bottle of wine from your cellar and create/cook a dish that goes with it.
2. Pick a favorite dish in your culinary repertoire and seek out a wine that will pair will it.

Or, if you're feeling really ambitious, create an entire wine-pairing menu of favorites.

While we here at Slashfood seem to be too busy to join in (or in my case too forgetful) the biggest food bloggers' event might just spur a few of us to join in this time.

[Nick had a great post the other day for Sugar High Friday] 

Open only to the grand array of Canadian food bloggers who have sprung up over the last couple of years - CBBP: Canadian Blogging By Post (a take on my own Euro Blogging By Post or EBBP for short).

Canadian Blogging By Post is an exchange of food parcels. The first round is just been announced at Sweet Pleasures. The rules are simple but it is up to each participant in what they send. There is a theme of sorts - Chocolate - but the other 4 or 5 items are up to you. You send off your parcel on the 7th May and in return receive one from a mystery benefactor. This parcel exchange is terribly popular in the Euro-blogging zone; the squeals of pleasure across the provinces are sure to be equal to those across Europe!

Two Hawaiian blogs - Ma'ona and Ono Kine Grindz have joined together to create a one off Virtual Vacation Contest.

The idea is to create a food dish you consumed while on a memorable holiday. It should be a dish you had for the first time while abroad. They ask that you blog about the dish with details of the discovery. How successful were you at recapturing the flavours and sensations that you encountered?

What makes this event more exciting is the promise that the best entry will win a hand-picked basket of Hawaiian food stuffs. Not sure that recreating a Cornish Pasty munched in a cold February drizzle in Fowey is really what they are looking for and I know for certain that my culinary skills will not measure up to recreating the delicious fish dishes we had at Rick Stein's place in Padstow either...