True Confessions aka My Other Loves

I must confess that I have a new love. A somewhat secret love. I've been cheating.

I came to the blogoshere like many of you, feeling so very alone and looking for connections and understanding and finding grrl, then Tertia,  Julie , Julia and so many many more. A whole community for us infertiles! How amazing.

Later I found celebrity babies and all that entails. DaddyTypes has the coolest of the cool and while I'm still waiting for my baby I've got to stay hip to the latest and greatest. Various celebrity gossip blogs got added to the mix. Those were just diversions. Filler, if you will.

But food blogs. Oh. My. Goodess. My addiction started innocently enough with a (then) pastry student. Then it morphed into cupcakes at a time when I was cupcake obsessed. Do you know have any idea how many other people are cupcake obsessed? There are others out there like me!

There are so many wonderful food blogs. The pictures. The recipes. My breath shortens and heart speeds just thinking about them. There are many that I love to read. Pastry chefs that I've long admired and new ones (to me) that I've found online. Locals and non-locals who write about every aspect of food. So much goodness.

This week I stumbed across one of the best: Gluten Free Girl. The lovely Bebe mentionned her to me on the phone (what with the gluten free thing) and the nominess for various food blog awards came out from the Well Fed Network. Synchronicity.

If you're looking for something good to read, go check out this post. Even if you aren't, go read the post. Seriously. You won't regret it. Don't come back here until you've read it.

It's a beautiful piece of writing and it's nominated for best post of the year. You can see all of the nominees here and vote if you'd like. Of course you can vote for whichever post you like. I shouldn't really tell you who to vote for, should I?

Hmmm. It *is* my blog. Go vote for Gluten Free Girl.
 

Comments

[thalia]

It is a lovely post. Infertile that I am I wrote to her afterwards and suggested that if she wanted children, that they not wait until they marry next year. She was very gracious about it!

[zhl]

I've been reading Gluten-free girl for a while--found her while I was trying to eat wheat-free and then found some others through her. (It's supposed to help with endo. Explains why I hadn't found the cupcake sites.) I still use several her recipes regularly, and while i got miffed that she wasn't posting much for a while, I was happy to find out why.

And I'm so glad that Thalia wrote her. That was of course my first thought!

[Jen]

I too cheat on IF blogs with food blogs--so pretty, so full of yum. Thanks for pointing me towards that post by GFG--just lovely.

[Bonnie]

I loved that post. She's a beautiful writer. And I also very much enjoyed the link to the cupcake blog with the pictures and recipes. Too bad my mister is on a diet right now.

[Boulder]

Ha! I also cheat on IF blogs with foodie blogs. One of my favorites for inspirational recipes is Simply Recipes @ www.elise.com - the photos are good, and the recipes are drawn from lots of places.

I also like CityFood by CitiMama (http://citymama.typepad.com/cityfood/), Everybody Like Sandwiches (http://everybodylikessandwiches.blogspot.com/), and The Kitchen - Apartment Therapy (http://kitchen.apartmenttherapy.com/)

I'll have to check out Gluten Free. Thanks!

[erin]

long-time reader. Had to delurk to recommend a great food site I recently discovered: http://whatdidyoueat.typepad.com/

Thanks for the other links, particularly gluten-free girl. You're right, a beautiful post.