"sugar high friday" news and stories

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...

A few weeks ago we posted that Reid of 'Ono Kine Grindz would be combo-hosting Is My Blog Burning no. 27 and Sugar High Friday no. 20, with the theme of Soy. The roundup of just-shy-of 20 entries is posted, and ranges from the use of soy flour in the Indian flatbread Aloo Matar Parantha to a Miso Soup with Silken Tofu, Shiitake Mushrooms and Spring Onions on the savory side, and Double Soy Chocolate Chip Cookies and Tofu Orange Creme Brulee on the sweet side.

So if you're looking to add a little healthy soy to your diet, look to the roundup for inspiration.

Hawaii's favorite food blog, 'Ono Kine Grindz, is hosting both Is My Blog Burning and Sugar High Friday for the month of June. It's a special event for blogger Reid, since it was IMBB no. 3 that was the motivation for his starting the blog back in April 2004!

The theme for both events is "soy," which includes everything from soy milk to tofu. I'm not quite sure if that means a single dish works for both (which means that it has to be something sweet), or if you can make one sweet dish for SHF and another separate dish for IMBB.

Either way, soy is definitely going to take a little bit of creativity. The deadline to email or post an entry is Sunday, June 25, 2006.