I travel every day. Blogs allow you to experience different flavors, cultures and ideas. Food blogs offer culinary sightseeing without having to leave your office or home. Need a break from the guy in the next cubicle or your cherub-like children? Click to an Italian blogger's site and you are in Rome licking your gelato. Short of catching a plane, this does the trick for me as I explore the world created by other bloggers.
Food is always a great destination. The picture above was composed from two of my recent visits to other food blogs. The Wednesday Chef posted a middle eastern pepper spread called Muhammara that I just couldn't resist. It's a thing of beauty: silky, crunchy, garlicky, slightly tart at the same time,and simply wonderful on bread. It would be excellent on a cheese-melt or any sandwich. Closet Cooking featured a wonderful, simple, lemony Hummus which is creamy, light and refreshing. I topped it with some smoked paprika and zaatar. After test-tasting both of them, I decided that the two should definitely meet over dinner tonight... they compliment each other perfectly.
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Clever posting Alexa. Food blogs do allow travel while at home and I love it. Your combination for this evening sounds exotically delicious.
--Marc
PS - You can go to an American food blogger's site for Italian Granite :)...thanks for the nice comment...
The travel through food is one of my favorite aspects of cooking! Nice photo. That Muhammara sounds good. That zaatar on the hummus sounds good s well.
Marc,
I travel to your blog often for the gorgeous pictures, witty commentaries and wonderful recipes, especially the Granita con Panna.:-)
Kevin,
I'm glad you liked the picture and what I did with the hummus. I had a wonderful canvas to start out with: your recipe.
That's the beauty of blogging - being inspired and then creating and re-creating. Both dips look great!
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