You make my day award

Well, I was going to share with your the recipe of a really interesting risotto I made yesterday ... but such is life, I got nominated for a meme. Thus, I got to continue! This one is an easy meme as it consists of naming the 10 blogs that I visit daily or so ... and I am going to bend the rules. Yes, I never stick to them anyhow :-) I will list the 10 blogs which I like the most ... but they do not get updated daily and, unfortunately, one if even on hold!

But first things first! As far as I know I was named by Adina ... who said I am an engineering in th kitchen (that is my wife I think!!!) ... and Comida de Mama ... and I hope she manages to make the souffle in my previous post or she will regret naming me!!!

As for my top10, well here it is .... if you see your name down here please follow the meme ... I will post a comment on your blog anyway or send you an email (except when I deem it inappropriate ... another broken rule!).

1. There is a blog I discovered about two months ago and that has influenced my recipes in the last two months considerably. I have already mentioned it recently, but I do it again: Mercante di Spezie. Lory has taken a break from blogging, but I still go back there to check her recipe ... and hoping she will re-start.

2. Even more recently I discovered another blog ... and it is really a lot of fun! To the point that I visit it more than once a day sometimes. It is almost a community more than a blog ... what is it? Kelablu! Massimo ... do not worry I also do not expect you will follow this meme!!!

3. Now back in time, there were two blogs which actually forced me to rethink how to take photos and cook. Only one is now still being really followed by me, but more because the blogger is the perfect opposite of me: a Flemish in Italy, while I am an Italian in Flanders! That is surely Il Cavoletto di Brussels.

4 & 5. You might think ... this guy only looks at italian blogs. Neeeeee! (this is dutch). My favourite resources for cake recipes (or better baking envy): Peabody (Culinary concoctions) and Jennifer (Use of Real Butter). I wish they were my neighbors ... I love their cakes. So rich and luxurious! I envy their skills!

6.On a very different tone, I follow the updates also on Ele. She (Elena) used to be my colleague at Philips and, then, she dropped everything to go on humanitarian missions in Africa. A brave choice from an amazing woman, who is enduring a difficult life to help others in need. Always emotional to read her rare posts.

7. Keeping the list far from food ... here is the Strobist (and I am not going to ask him to follow the meme). The best blog and resource for flash photography. I have been lurking this blog will last Xmas when Elke gave me a flash .... so now I can try to learn from reading it all over again!!!

8 & 9. Back to food .... I love to pass by Colica d'acqua (i.e. kind of translates to "water diarrea colic") and Applemint. One in italian and oen in english .... both a joy to read and always nice photos!

10. Last but not least .... one of my nominee .... Adina. Yes, I also have the feeling you are a "precisina", but as we say in italian "con il pepe dentro"!! And in the kitchen ... I think we are kind of similar.

This is all ... but before leaving to more navigation in the web-sphere a suggestion ... let's all use the Google Translator widget (or similar). If not for making our blogs easy to understand on various languages, at least to have a laugh at its translation (as my parents noticed lately)!