Award: The Versatile Blogger

Marelie of Cookie Droplets has given me a Versatile Blogger Award. My sincere thanks to Marelie. If you haven't met her yet, hop on over there and you'll find lots of delicious Filipino food, both sweet and savory. Since the Philippines have many influences including French, Spanish, Chinese, American and more, you'll also get a world flavor. She often includes history of dish and background

A Lovely Blog Award from Marelie

Thank you, Marelie.
I've received this lovely blog award from Marelie at Cookie Droplets Etc.  She has a wonderful blog which I highly recommend that you visit.  She doesn't just post recipes.  She gives us a complete background on the recipes, exotic ingredients, Filipino foods, customs and history, so it is highly educational.  She is a lovely person too who always has a kind word, and you

Award, Find a Friend Friday Linky Love, etc.

Lots of announcements ...

Are you a friendly blogger?  Link yourself below, and ...
Find A Friend FridayYou can link all through the weekend.Tell a Friend.
Be sure to enter my "I Hate To Cook Book" giveaway!  You don't want to miss out on this great 50th Anniversary Edition.  It sold more than 3 million copies during the 1960s.

I also have an award to share. :-) Thank you Michelle! Your kind

New Award and Find a Friend Friday

I have a new award from Almost Unschoolers.Thank you for thinking my blog deserves an award!
The conditions for accepting the award?
Thank the person/people who gave it to you. Yes, of course, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Tell 7 things about yourself.
Pass the award on to 15 bloggers, whom you have recently discovered, and think are fantastic.
I share a lot about myself on my about/welcome

Blog anniversary, award, chocolate brownie recipe

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers, and postcards. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will you

You make the blogging world a friendly place!

I've received another beautiful award. This one is from Emily, a very nice blog friend who writes Marvelous Recipes. Thank you, Emily!! We also need to answer why we love blogging.Emily wrote "I love to blog because I enjoy meeting new people and making new friends. And I enjoy keeping up with all the different things going on in my friend’s lives. I have a passion for cooking and I love to

One Lovely Blog Award

My thanks toMichelle of Frugal Creativity,for this, indeed, lovely blog award.I love roses and friendship teacups!Here are the rules of this blog award.Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link. Pass the award to 10 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they

A Lovely Award

My thanks to Kristen of Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker for giving me this lovely award with roses and a friendship teacup.There are no special rules to this one other than to pass it on, which makes the whole process easier. I am awarding the following lovely ladies:Bean at Coyote CraftSara at Simply SaraSnow White at Joy in my kitchenJen at Balancing Beauty and BedlamEmily at Marvelous

A Thanksgiving Meme

Amanda at Mrs. W's Kitchen has tagged me for a fun Thanksgiving Meme. :-) Thanks, Amanda!! While here in the States we are all busy preparing for the big feast and for family and friends to gather, a fun tag just might be the answer for both blog authors and readers.It's almost Thanksgiving so we had better all tag a lot of people before the holiday comes and goes. I am tagging:Ames at Yay,

Joy Of Desserts Receives Kreativ Blogger Award

Beloved Mama has given me and 6 other bloggers the Kreativ Blogger Award. She says she "chose these blogs because I read them often, I find them creative and unique, and I have not given them an award before...and I want to share them with you!!!"Thank you so much for this Kreativ Award, Beloved Mama!This award is quite creative too. We don't just award it to 7 more lucky bloggers, we answer 7

Teaching Each Other About Desserts And More

My thanks to Tamy of 3 Sides Of Crazy, for sharing this newly created award with me. Tamy is my co-hostess for our Need To Kneed Bread Roundup on October 15th and I visit her blog daily because there is always something new and interesting. I'm sharing my latest award with some great bloggers who teach me about desserts, food and a myriad of other topics.Drumroll, please.And the award goes to

Get Your Culiverter! It's An Award-Winner!

There's a new widget in town and you NEED it! The Culiverter is already in my sidebar and you should add it to yours. It is a Culinary Converter!It converts to and from the Metric system, the Imperial system and the American system. So if you read food blogs from other countries or you hope that readers from all over the world will read YOUR own blog, then run to Lore's site, Culinarty, to grab

Thank You! Awards For Me; Awards For You

My readers make me smile, so stay for a while, please take your time. ;-)At my elementary school, whenever one of us would compliment the other or whenever we did something we were proud of, we would boastfully say "Arretez les flashes!" -- "Stop the flashes!" -- as if we were talking to the Paparazzi. So with 7 more awards in such a short time, I just laughed out loud when I saw this theme

Awarding Amanda For Her A-Z Kitchen Tips Series

There are millions of wonderful blogs written by good people who work very hard to give all of us wonderful information, entertainment or inspiration. It is impossible to read them all or award them all. From time to time I come across a blog post which just hits the mark so well, that I've wanted to let the person know how great it was. Comments are wonderful and all bloggers love them, a

A Tree Of Happiness Brings Ice Cream Memories

This is such a beautiful award and the sentiment is so touching too. Each day when I pray, I ask God to grant me happiness. I figure that if I am happy, then all else is falling into place in my life. If I am happy, I am likely to be healthy, have enough food on the table at least for today, have at least my basic needs met. If I am happy, then all is well. This award, given to me by

I Never Thought I'd Share This On A Dessert Blog

I never thought I'd share this on Joy Of Desserts! I've been tagged by Tamy at 3 Sides Of Crazy and now I'm supposed to tell you 3 things about myself. I could tell you the 3 very obvious things:I like desserts;I like blogging;I like photography;but I'm told it should be 3 things you don't already know.I'm an avid reader and usually have a couple books going at the same time, plus I enjoy

A Rocking, Sparkling New Award For My Sidebar!

Thank You, Mercedes!!!Mercedes of Mercedes Rocks who hosts Scrumptious Sunday gave me this sparkler. She gave me my very first award when my blog was only 12 days old which was so encouraging and brought me luck with so many more awards since. I am so happy to add this latest award to my side bar.There are no rules to this award either. It is just from her to me and a few of her other favorite

Thank You! Thank You! Two More Awards!

Thank you, Tarta Sacher of Mil Postres for giving me another great award. I do a lot of walking and I also visit blog friends from all over the world, so this award feels just perfect.I pass it on to the following blog friends:Gina's Public DiaryHandprints On The WallCanela's KitchenGrace Todayand to a brand new discovery I made just today thanks to a comment this blogger left on Mil Postres.

Isn't It Pretty? I'm The Proud Recipient!

I have been given this beautiful award by Tarta Sacher of Mil Postres. Tarta Sacher is so kind to me with her comments and with her awards. I'm a lucky person to have discovered her excellent blog.Here are the award's rules:Give the award to 5 more bloggers;Post about the award and link to the person who gave it to you;The 5 bloggers in turn need to award 5 more bloggers.So here are the 5

Joy Of Desserts Received Two More Awards :-)

I'm so blessed to have all of you giving me awards for this blog. This time, Tarta Sacher of Mil Postres (1000 Desserts) gave two lovely awards. The first is the Yummy Blog Award which is particularly fitting for a dessert blog. The second is an award of love. The rough English translation is "Love me. When I deserve it the least is when I need it the most."Thank you so very much, Tarta