Food Bloggers Christmas Picnic

Monday, 14 Dec 09

Food-bloggers are an elusive, but distinct species. Being a Hunger-type, making a distinctive clicking sound and having attacks such Flash and Devour, you would think that a flock numbering over 40 would be easily found in the relatively small region of Hyde Park…

Alas, the Pokedex (ala, me) was having a bad day with directions and mistook the Hyde Park Fountain for the rather more..still.. Pool of Reflection. We suspected an equally lost-looking denizen of the footpath was one such member of the food blogger species and surreptitiously tried-not-to-look-like-stalkers when following Jacq (we think it was you, even though we only determined this from your name tag, as we didn’t get the chance to say hi!!) to the pre-planned location.

We were met with a beautiful sight…

The food bloggers were also very attractive ;), but alas, some are rather camera-shy, so I’ll play it safe and not reveal their identities. Some, in particular, went to the extent of masking themselves…

Apart from the food, the other main event was the Kris Kringle…which had a catch. We drew numbers to determine the order in which we could choose a gift, but once you had opened it, it was fair game for anyone who was after you in the drawing to choose your gift!

Being number 34 meant I had the pick of other people’s hoarded presents…but I was nice…and pleasantly intrigued by my own selection – a Froot Guard!

This will  hopefully protect many an apple from the dangerous confines of my handbag (spot the cupcake I snuck away at the end of the picnic!)

There were over 50 foodbloggers there (47 took part in the Kris Kringle game, and I know more came and left before we played) and certainly the biggest foodblogger meet I’ve been to. The food was all sumptuous, and the company both informative and entertaining. It was great catching up with people who I’ve met before, as well as meeting a lot of newer bloggers who I hadn’t had the pleasure of discovering or meeting previously. Let’s do it again soon! Thanks so much for organising, Suze and Helen!

Gotta catch them all…

Some more foodie highlights follow after the jump.
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Helen’s bacon cupcakes were deliciously sweet and salty – maple syrup (?) added complexity, and the moist crumb was laced with surprises of bacon.

I believe Rose from Food F*ck Yeah brought this amazing looking chocolate tart. It was deliciously rich, with a silky mouthfeel to the filling. Yum!

Suze brought fairybread and chocolate crackles, and my inner child danced in delight. And how cute are those mini hot-dogs!

We were all highly impressed by the crew from Yaya’s Yum Yums assembling these cupcakes at the last minute. So pretty!

Billy‘s champagne jelly was sumptuously laced with lychees and gold flakes and deliciously refreshing. It was also accompanied by the most amazing pork ever. Seriously.

It was about this time that we had an unfortunate accident with Richard‘s eggnog – apologies again for the person’s whose bag got splattered =(

I believe these are Ellie‘s duck wonton cups which I’ve been itching to try since she blogged about it. And they definitely lived up to expectation!

9 Comments

1. Pleasure to meet with you once again :)

   Does your little present not resemble either a deformed pacman or a pokeball?

   Comment by Simon — December 15, 2009 @ 12:15 am

2. Oh man I’m totally jealous of your froot guard/pokeball, even though what I got was equally amazing! I wonder where I can find one…

   It was awesome to meet both of you – I’m sure we’ll have the opportunity to do this again in the future :)

   Comment by Rose — December 15, 2009 @ 12:28 am

3. aha I can tell you’ll be using that froot guard for many other things besides froot!

   Comment by Grace — December 15, 2009 @ 11:26 am

4. Forgot to tell you guys when I saw you that I really, really like the wallpaper here!

   Comment by mademoiselle délicieuse — December 15, 2009 @ 12:13 pm

5. LOL yes I think I saw you guys wandering around the wrong side of Hyde Park as well! You weren’t the only one with a faulty navigation system =P Sorry we didn’t get a chance to say hi properly but I’m sure I’ll be seeing you guys around sometime soon =D

   Comment by Jacq — December 15, 2009 @ 4:20 pm

6. Great to meet you at the picnic! Shanks and I were giddy with pride when we saw you sneak away with one of Shanks green tea and blueberry cupcakes. Hoped you enjoyed it. Des.

   Comment by Lobo — December 15, 2009 @ 8:59 pm

7. Your froot guard was acvery cool KK and lol don’t worry I think a lot of people ended up on the wrong side of the park! Glad you made it – the turnout was so impressive! And yes Billy’s pork was amazing!

   Comment by Helen (grabyourfork$ — December 16, 2009 @ 8:45 am

8. Hee hee if I had a frootguard it would promptly be turned into a cupcake guard too ;)

   Comment by FFichiban — December 17, 2009 @ 12:41 am

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   Comment by He who likes his privacy — December 18, 2009 @ 4:32 pm

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