One Sweet Year (aka: a giveway)

There are few traditions in the food blogging world that I haven’t been able to wrap my head around.

First off is the ever-popular act of tying a stack of cookies with a delicate ribbon, as demonstrated here and here. It sounds like a cute idea on the surface, but after seeing a million and a half food bloggers photograph their baking creations this way, you grow a bit tired of the idea. Call me a fuddy-duddy, but the bottom line is, ribbon wrapped cookies are no longer creative nor whimsical. It’s just plain silly. Maybe this is my inner fuddy-duddy, party-pooper speaking.

Another food blogging tradition that has yet to excite me is blogging awards. You create an award, like “the super tasty blog award”, or “fun, fresh, and flavorful blog award!” and send it as an icon to someone you deem worthy of having your award on their blog. I guess it’s a nice gesture and all, but personally, it reminds me too much of junior high popularity contests and trying to collect as many friends as possible as fast as you can. Then gain, maybe this is just the fuddy-duddy speaking.

Lastly, another extremely popular food blogging tradition is the blog giveaway.  The Great Blog giveaway, where the blog writer voluntarily purchases (or in the rare case, makes) something for its’ readers to sign up to win and then sends this item in the mail to the winner using the blogger's own hard-earned money. What could possess a normal person to make such a kind gesture of pure unselfishness? Why would a sane person send a total stranger something in the mail (potentially over a very long distance) and not receive anything in exchange?

The good news is, that’s just what this fuddy-duddy is doing. You see, as it turns out, it’s The One-Year Anniversary of The Transplanted Baker. I’m not normally a big one on anniversaries. As it turns out, I had to ask my mom what the date of my wedding was as the one-year mark was approaching- to my defense, it was a court house ceremony on a random Thursday in December.  But I do feel like celebrating this anniversary, the one that marks one year of mixing and baking and notes-in-the-cookbook-margin-making and photographing and writing and sharing and dreaming. 

And to celebrate, I’m doing two things.

One, I'm baking a cake and eating it. 

Two, I’m giving away one of the most quintessential items of the Norwegian table, an ostehøvel. 

What you need to do: Now, some food bloggers just have their readers sign their name in the comment section in order entire to win the giveaway. Not me, I’m more of a “make them work for it” kind of girl. As we’re nearing the height of summer and all, I’m going to ask you to write what you believe to be the perfect summer dessert. As long as you do that by next Sunday (the 26^th), you’re name will be entered into a drawing to win this very divine, Norwegian–made, wooden-handled cheese plane. Your cheese plate will never have looked so good.

Thanks for playing along!

-Siri

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