Thank you for Another Year In The Kitchen!

I've had an exhilarating and exhausting year in the kitchen but always, the results have been rewarding and enlightening. I've found that I was more in the mode of experimenting and trying new things most of which I have learnt from you, my fellow foodie, my fellow food blogger, my friend. Today, my last post for 2008, I want to offer my sincere thanks for the inspiration. There are many, many more of your recipes securely and safely bookmarked for cooking and baking in 2009!

This week's column discusses my adventures in the kitchen this year. Click here to read through.

The collage below represents new things I've tried making and familiar things that I made for the first time that made it to publication in my column. You can click through to the links below to go to those respective posts and just in case you are visiting for the first time, feel free to contact me for any or all of the recipes.

1. Curd Chilies
2. Golden Apple Crumble
3. Chinese Cake
4. Sun-Dried Tomatoes
5. Coconut-cilantro Rice
6. Congee
7. Cheese Straw wafers
8. Fried Chicken Livers & Gizzards
9. Bacon-wrapped Chicken Livers
10. Kohlrabi
11. Chicken N’D Ruff
12. Chow Fun
13. Green-onion paratha
14. Flying Fish Choka
15. Roast Breadfruit
16. Dirty Rice
17. Buttermilk Biscuits
18. Jug Jug

This list of links are of various things I've made from some of you, I've linked back directly to your original post(s) so that anyone visiting can get the recipe directly from your site.

• Nic’s Sun-dried tomato, Parmesan and Basil Swirls
• Nora’s Savoury two-cheese biscotti
• Jaden’s Congee (Rice Porridge)
• Valentina’s Banana Mousse
• Sheela’s Kohlrabi dal
• Bee (Rasa Malaysia)’s Chicken Satay & Peanut Sauce
• Glenna’s Fried Chicken Liver
  Pat’s Orange-Lemon Cake
• Farida’s Pirojki
• Marie’s Pasta Salad
• Elly & Bobby’s Flay’s German Potato Salad
• Chuck’s Savoury Breakfast Bread
  Robyn & David’s Eating Asia sambal
• Ingrid Hoffman’s Green Plantain Fritters
• Sunday Nite Dinner’s Vietnamese Roast Chicken and Green Onion Dirty Rice
• Sia’ Banana Blossom Palya
  Caecilia’s Tumis Style Banana Blossom
• Sylvia’s Brandade de Morue
• Felix’s Callaloo
• Farina’s Fried Beef & Potato
• Janelle’s Shrimp Cakes
• Chuck’s Apple Tart Bread
• Nora & Dana’s Banana Breads
  

My friend, once again, thanks very much for your support and encouragement this year. Be sure to keep watching this space for more about my book launch and don't forget that you can order your copy right now by clicking this link or the one just beneath my photograph.

Don't forget to take part in the Royal Foodie Joust and the Eat Healthy contest for a chance to win a copy of the book! Meeta's Monthly Mingle, Jugalbandi's CLICK and Susan's My Legume Love Affair are all going to be events through which you can win copies of the book as well so be sure to be on the lookout!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!