Five Food Blogs

I've been on a total food blog kick lately. A part of me is timing it with Master Chef Australia being back on my TV, but really, I've always been pretty into cooking. I've been compiling a lot of recipes over at Pinterest at the moment, but figured I'd share some of my favourite food blogs here too.

i am a food blog.

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. A part of the fun of a good food blog is the photography, and this one is pretty close to being pornographically wonderful.  It's one of my favourites at the moment, and I'm pretty keen to try out some more of the recipes on there.Also, it's got some pretty great typography and a great tagline - after all, who doesn't want to celebrate the awesomeness that is food?

(the pic is Spot Prawns with Cilantro & Lime. Yum.)

Raspberri Cupcakes

Pretty dessert-skewed, but it does include some tasty-looking meals too. This is again, just a gorgeously designed blog with some gorgeously designed food. She's a Sydney-sider too, which is the icing on the cake. (Sorry for the bad joke)

(the pic is her Green Tea & Raspberry Trifles.)

Eat Make Read

Also great on the photography side of things, this is wonderfully diverse in terms of the types of food she makes. The writer also publishes a magazine which I'm pretty keen to get my hands on at some stage. Being me too, I'm pretty keen on her Happy Hour tag.

(pic is her Raspberry, Lime & Gin) 

Food Coma

Not strictly a food blog, Emma's pretty awesome for craft, style and photography posts too, but it's the food that got me there in the first place, so here she is. I've tried a few of her recipes, and they've all turned out pretty wonderfully. I especially love her Recipe Box filing system on her blog. It's a lot of fun to check out the photos for all the recipes without having to go through the tags.

(Pic is her Upside Down Coconut Cream Pies)

Sprinkle Bakes

Both the best and worst part of my health is that I'm allergic to cocoa. The good being that if I wasn't, I'd probably be the size of a house, the bad being that looking at blogs like Sprinkle Bakes is a certain kind of torture. Her blog is beautiful though, and she makes a mean dessert. She's also got such a sense of colour in her baking. It's something really special. I've ordered her cookbook online, and I'm pretty excited to get it! 

(Pic is her gorgeous Mint-White Chocolate Mousse Cake)

The Great Gatsby Trailer

I’ve been a bit of a Fitzgerald fangirl since my first year of uni where we read Tender is the Night, and I’ve since gone through the bulk of his back catalogue with a fair amount of enthusiasm. The Great Gatsby really is a masterwork of fiction and a testimony to economy in literature, where a story about excess is told so sparingly. In this way, I'm kind of excited to see Baz Luhrmann tell this story on the big screen. Regardless of whether you like him as a writer or not, he's got a pretty amazing visual sensibility which will hopefully work wonderfully with the parties and the spectacle of Jazz-Age America. 

In other words, I'm pretty hopeful and I'm pretty excited.

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Colosse

This is so sweet, and really hits all my buttons in a short film. Over on the website, director Yves Geleyn lists The Iron Giant as an inspiration, and given that that's an all time favourite of mine, I feel like it deserves a bit of a highlight.

Crayon Dragon

I love animation for a lot of reasons really, but this short by Toniko Pantoja embodies most of them. Creatively, emotionally and artistically, this is a pretty special little film. via io9

Dear Creatures Fall 2012

I’ve been pretty into fashion and style for the last few years, not especially for the currency of it, but more for its ability to both transcend time and place and to embody it. For its ability to tell stories of an era; politically, socially and culturally. I love that. I love especially this trend now in lines to look back instead of forwards, to draw from vintage threads, cuts and prints and to modernise them.

I guess it’s about paying homage, about nostalgia for by-gone eras. For pin-up girls and forties icons, sixties skirts and the grunge of the nineties. It’s exciting either way, to reminisce and to explore and to create. Dear Creatures Fall 2012 line embodies all of this, the whimsy of wistfulness. You can see some of their new line below, but I really recommend taking a look at their website for some of their older collections. (I especially love the mustard/tan dress.)

 (Collection pic care of Wolfeyebrows)

Friday Finds

I’ve been geeking out with the best of them over the release of The Avengers (2012) and its pretty fun to see the different ways it’s exploded online. I’m kind of in love with this superhero themed wedding care of the Etsy blog. 

The Guardian over in the UK has published the10 best first lines in fiction online. It’s a pretty interesting list, not all of which I agree with. Austen’s place is well-deserved though.

 I’m also genuinely in love with this pink typewriter.