I'm Baaaack! (Maybe)

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Hello there everyone who is no longer reading this blog because it has been 11 months since my last posting. But, I have a good excuse, I swear!! Do you remember that fruity looking drink I had at the 1st food blogger happy hour? Well, it was just that. Grapefruit juice! No alcohol! I was just a few weeks pregnant!

Since then, I survived morning sickness, evening sickness, little to no interest in food (and thus no desire to cook, eat out, or write about food), and a modified protein-heavy-carb-light diet due to gestational diabetes - oh, and the DELIVERY of course! But, it was all worth it because 9 months later, my husband and I were rewarded with the birth of a beautiful daughter, Samantha, who has brought us so much joy and happiness over her now 3 1/2 months of life.

I'm getting back into food - slowly - although I have hard time finding time to cook. I'm getting back into the food scene - again slowly - as I start to discover all of the new restaurants and food trucks (so many food trucks!) that have opened since my sudden disappearance from said food scene.

Without rushing, of course, my husband and I delight in the daydreams of sharing our favorite foods with Samantha. A good family friend bought us the Beaba BabyCook Food Maker, and I already know that I am going to have so much fun with it. For now, though, its all breastmilk and formula and a sickly sweet smelling grape flavored vitamin drop. So many culinary adventures await...

Making Us Seem A Little Less Crazy: DC Food Blogger Happy Hour

I've lived in this city for 10 years (almost to the day, in fact). I've gone through multiple and varied phases of "hobbies" that have introduced me to many different people in the city - volunteering (social and political), painting, drawing, and photography classes, art and museum meet-ups, neighborhood planning groups etc. and I can now say that I have never had as much fun at an organized meeting of like-minded people as I did last night at the DC Food Blogger Happy Hour. Many thanks to Mary from Arugula Files, Amelia from Gradually Greener and Jenna from Modern Domestic for organizing! (Click on their links to see photos from the event). Cathy from We Love DC also did a great write-up on their site and I say this for many more reasons beside the fact that she mentions Beets and Bonbons.

We all inhabit a small, little, infinitesimal actually, space on (in?) the Internet, writing about what we think is important and hoping that someone out there does too. Last night's happy hour was humbling (wait, you remember that post of mine on Rick Bayless? I read your blog, too! All the time!), satisfying (so not every meal you make is blog worthy?) and surprising (over 60 people showed up. Who know there were so many of us!). It was a chance to share funny stories and blogging tips - it seems the jury is still out on ad space but overwhelmingly likes Wordpress (good news for the Wordpress guy that was there).

And it was great to finally meet the faces behind the twitter feeds and blogs I follow. And in the coming days, I have MANY more to add to the blog roll on the right, so stay tuned. You don't want to miss out on these! The blogs I read regularly became all the more interesting having met the creative minds behind them, and I learned about many that I should have been reading since day one.

The best news is that it looks like the happy hours will continue on a regular basis. I look forward to meeting everyone that I didn't have to chance to say hi to last night. See you soon!