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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Foodie Friday and The Mystery Ingredient Club

Welcome to Foodie Friday

and

The Mystery Ingredient Club.

The "secret" ingredient was chocolate. Bandwidth kindly made a chocolate

soufflé with a lovely ganache--a Gordon Ramsay recipe, which you can find HERE.

I am deeply grateful to all of the kind, consoling comments that you all left last week.

Zap is home from the hospital. You can read about that right HERE.

If you are contributing a recipe to this week's Foodie Friday, locate the blue Inlinkz icon in the lower, left-hand portion of this post. Click on the icon and follow the directions. After you complete the process, you will see a red "x" beside your name. This allows you to delete your link if you made an error; the red "x" is visible to you only.

Pretty please do not pin images from the FF thumbnails. Visit the source blogs. Thanks.

For a complete, UPDATED guide to this linky party, click HERE.

Monday, January 6, 2014

You're Invited to the Mystery Ingredient Club

You're Cordially Invited...

What: The 3rd Mystery Ingredient Club

When: February 6th and 7th

Where: Foodie Friday, Rattlebridge Farm

What is the Mystery Ingredient Club?

Are you a fan of the cooking show Chopped? The participants are given

a basket that's filled with outlandish mystery ingredients, and it's up to the chefs to

create a dish.

That's what you'll do at our MIC.

An ingredient is announced, and /cooks are invited to use their imaginations.

You can read about the guidelines for the premier event HERE.

Additionally, you might want to take a peek at the First Mystery Ingredient Club and the second.

(Note: If you're visiting from Pinterest, be sure to click on the above links, scroll down to the bottom of each post and click on the members' names, and you'll find deliciousness to "pin.")

For the first two events, I reached out to several bloggers and asked if they would participate, then I mailed them the secret ingredient/s. The parties were delightful. Quite a few bloggers suggested that the event be open to anyone who wished to participate; they would purchase the ingredient, use it in a recipe, and present the finished product at the MIC/Foodie Friday Linky Party.

Mary at Home Is Where the Boat Is suggested the ingredient for the 3rd party.

Can you guess what it is?

The mystery ingredient is . . .

Dark Chocolate.

Here are the guidelines for the Mystery Ingredient Club:

1. Purchase any type of dark chocolate in your MIC recipe. Bars, cocoa, or any type

that sparks your imagination.

2. Create a recipe and add it to the linky party on February 7th. You aren't required to

have a backlink.

3. If you are participating, please let me know by leaving a comment.

And that's it!

Welcome to the Mystery Ingredient Club!

Love,

Monday, August 5, 2013

Foodie Friday "Mystery Ingredient" Recap Plus the Most Popular Recipes

It's a pleasure to bring you a recap of last week's "Mystery Ingredient Club" at Foodie Friday.

If you haven't heard about the MIC, here's a little background information. My co-host, Bandwidth, helped me develop this series. We thought of it as CHOPPED meets "Where's Waldo."

I immediately sent out a call for players last month; I posted about the idea and several bloggers left encouraging comments.

So, how did the game work?

I selected an ingredient--as it turned out, I selected three Meyer lemon ingredients--and shipped them to nine bloggers (Rattlebridge was the tenth). The club members could cook whatever they liked for the August 1st Foodie Friday. Their recipes would appear as thumbnails at the linky party, all mixed in with other wonderful recipes. If anyone wanted to play along, they could look for the "secret ingredient" in the thumbnails, either in the title or photo.

The results were fantastic!

I would have dearly loved to have sent every FF member a trio of ingredients, but the coffers wouldn't bend that far. However, regular visitors to Rattlebridge will have a chance to participate in the 2nd Mystery Ingredient Club, which Bandwidth and I are putting together now, with a launch date of October 4th (Foodie Friday).

*****If you are a first-time visitor, please note that none of the following images may be "pinned" from this blog and placed on Pinterest or Tumblr. If you enjoy a blogger's beautiful photography, please visit her blog by clicking on the link beneath the image. Please pin from the source and/or take a moment to observe pinning policies. Thanks.

Meet the bloggers from the 1st Mystery Ingredient Club!

Home Is Where the Boat Is made a Lemon Rosemary Coffee Cake,

blending great food and photography. This is a swoon-worthy cake!

(c)Home Is Where the Boat Is

Visit Home Is Where the Boat Is for the recipe and to "pin."

Stone Gable made a Spicy Crab Linguini with Preserved Lemons. Lemons and crab go together beautifully! Check back with Yvonne for a DIY on preserving lemons.

Visit Stone Gable for the recipe and to "pin."

Kitty's Kozy Kitchen made Lemon Chicken and Mediterranean Quinoa Salad.

I've never tried quinoa, and Kitty has captured my fancy! Good food is always

on the menu in Kitty's kitchen--her recipes will soon become your favorites.

Visit Kitty's Kozy Kitchen for the recipes and to "pin."

Hyacinths for the Soul prepared a Meyer Lemon feast. You'll enjoy

Sarah's photos and tablescapes, each one seasoned with grace.

You can find recipes for Grilled Salmon with Preserved Meyer Lemons and

Preserved Lemons and Spring Vegetable Risotto with Grilled Pernod Shrimp.

You'll also find recipes for lemon blueberry muffins and Meyer Lemon Olive Oil Cake at

Hyacinths for the Soul for recipes and to "pin."

Wives with Knives prepared Moroccan Chicken with Lemon and Olives in an

exotic, gorgeous dish. Cathy is a superb cook, and her food writing is just as

wonderful as her photography.

For the recipe, visit Wives with Knives and please pin all photos from WWK.

A Quiet Life celebrated Meyer lemons with a mouth-watering menu, stunning photography,

and a witty writing style.

Jain began with Moroccan Stews. Here's one:

You'll love Pan Roasted Line-Caught Halibut with Soy-Lemon Sauce.

What about the simple pleasure of a Meyer sandwich?

Here's a simple, delicious way to infuse lemon into bakery bread:

Two unforgettable salads graced the menu:

Also, a cucumber soup!

Here's one of several luscious desserts

All of these recipes (and a hilarious story about a citrus tree) can be found at a quiet life.

Please "pin" from a Quiet Life.

Mountain Breaths cooked

a lip-smacking version of Meyer Lemon Halibut, along with lemony

Orzo--doesn't it look delicious?

and a stunning salad:

Visit Mountain Breaths for the recipes and to "pin."

The Gazebo House made Israeli Couscous. Rett had so much fun celebrating the lemon!

Visit Rett's blog, The Gazebo House

to look at her photos and to read the recipe.

Lines from Linderhof cooked an authentic Moroccan Chicken Tajine:

Also on the menu was a Meyer lemon cake:

Visit Lines from Linderhof for the recipes and to pin.

Mari at Once Upon a Plate brought Moroccan cuisine to life with

apricot and orange Couscous ...

... and Chicken with Preserved Lemons and Green Olives.

You'll enjoy reading about Mari's adventures with an exotic cuisine. Her photography could grace the cover of a book.

Visit Mari at Once Upon a Plate for recipes.

Here's the line-up for the most popular recipes for the past two Foodie Fridays.

Last Week's Most Popular Recipes at Foodie Friday

August 1st

#1 Hyacinths for the Soul

#2 Daily Dose of Del Signore

A tie for #3

#3 Make Mine Lemon

The World's Best Madeleines

#3 Home Is Where the Boat Is

The Most Popular Recipes for July 26th Foodie Friday:

#1 Hyacinths for the Soul

#2 Fabby's Living

#3 Betty's Cozy Corner

Well, there you have it--fantastic recipes from the mystery baker squad and

from the past two Foodie Fridays. I hope you will enjoy visiting these wonderful, friendly blogs, and I especially hope you will discover new "keeper" recipes.

Sunday, July 7, 2013

The Mystery Ingredient Club

The dog days of summer will be here before we know it.

Just for fun, the August 2nd Foodie Friday party will feature a bonus culinary event,

.The Mystery Ingredient Club

Here's how it will work:

When you link up to the August 1st-2nd Foodie Friday,

the party will continue as usual, but we'll be offering a "Where's Waldo" type of game, but with food.

Instead of Waldo, a mystery ingredient will be unveiled, and

if you choose to play along, you can look through the thumbnails to find the blogs that will

feature recipes with this "mysterious" ingredient.

A few weeks prior to the event, Bandwidth and I will contact bloggers to see if they wish to play along. If they agree,

we will mail the mystery ingredient/s to you,

along with a thank you gift.

The ingredients will be mailed in separate shipments.

Using the ingredient, the bloggers will prepare a dish of their choice and will reveal their recipes on the August 2nd Foodie Friday.

Participants will be chosen from members of the Consuming Passions board at Pinterest and/or bloggers who have regularly contributed to, and have commented on,

the Foodie Friday linky parties.