"SugarHighFriday" news and stories

This month's edition of the food blogging event Sugar High Friday - an event that is sweet-centric - was hosted by Alanna at A Veggie Venture. Most of the themes for this event revolve around a single ingredient or one type of dish. The theme for this round was "a surprise inside," which was variously interpreted to mean surprise ingredients in otherwise regular dishes, surprise fillings and add-ins in some recipes and just plain surprises in others. There were over 65 participants from around the world and they submitted recipes that included:

• Fortune Cookies (pictured)
• Bavarian fig pastries with fig and pomegranate compote
• Creme brulee egg cups
• Curried chocolate brownies
• Cocoa surprise muffins
• Chocolate caramel pocket cookies

Need more of a sugar fix, or just want to check out a few new blogs? Take a look at the whole roundup!

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Last month, the worldwide food blogging event Sugar High Friday took it to the extreme with frozen and chilled desserts. This month, host Delicious Days chose the theme of Jams and Jellies, just in time for preserving the fruity (and veggie) goodness of summer's produce. There were almost 60 participants, with recipes, stories, and best of all, photos, of jams and jellies made with everything from apricots to jalapeno peppers. If you're trying to figure out what to do with that basket of late-season peaches you picked up at the farmers' market, take a peek!

Something I have never attempted is making jam or other forms of preserving the summer bounty. But if you have all the gubbins and are a dab hand at getting the temperature to the correct level for setting or just fancy giving it a go then head over to Delicious Days and get your creations listed for Sugar High Friday.

SHF is one of the longer running and most popular blog-events and has reached round 22 with this jam making theme. The host is the superbly designed and entertaining read that is Delicious Days. Full details of how to enter are on the website.

Those of us who have not attempted to make jam before might need a pointer to some decent instructions. Anyone recommend a decent recipe/instruction book or blog post on the subject; I'll be most greatful.

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So maybe you weren't so tempted by desserts made with soy. Or maybe you were and you're still on a Sugar High.

Well, for the month of July, Sugar High Friday is letting those of us in the northern hemisphere cool off in the high heat of summer with the theme of Ice Ice Baby. Sugar High Friday is a worldwide food blogging event created by the Domestic Goddess in which food bloggers create a dessert or other sweet treat with a given theme as a guide. For this 21st edition, food bloggers will be making sweet treats that are chilled or frozen, and posting them on Friday, July 28, 2006.

I'm beginning to think I should have gotten that ice cream maker attachment for my stand mixer...

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]