top uk food bloggers 2016 Archives - Munchies and Munchkins

Today I am happy to introduce to you my eighth food blogger of the fortnight. I’m really enjoying sharing some of my favourite bloggers with you and in the process also giving myself a reminder to have a good roam around blogs that I love.

Emma is the blogger behind Supper In The Suburbs, another blogger I am glad to have met at River Cottage in September. I have followed the blog for quite a while now and Emma has actually guest posted on my blog previously – remember those lemon thumbprint cookies?? Her blog is a fabulous mixture of all kinds of dishes and desserts with restaurant reviews from London and restaurant tips for places she has visited such as Edinburgh, Nottingham and New York. I highly advise you to pop on and over and have a browse..its worth it I promise! Now over to Emma

Supper in the Suburbs:

Tell us a bit about you and the blog:

I started blogging back in 2011. I can’t believe that that makes my blog almost 6 years old! It started out as a distraction at university. I was living with some people I really didn’t get along with and food became my escape. The more I cooked the more I enjoyed it and I wanted to find like minded people to share my hobby with!

The last 3 years the blog has really taken a turn: I moved to London and have been lucky enough to try out some of London’s finest restaurants, bars and street food. But, the main focus of the blog are still my recipes. I share a combination of cakes and bakes, as well as quick and easy meals that anyone can make at home.

People often tell me I should be doing something with food for a job but I like keeping blogging as my hobby and I certainly don’t intend to start making serious money out of it any time soon. Blogging is still a bit of an escape for me and I have made so many fantastic friends over the last 6 years that it’s become an important part of my life and I know it will be for a long time yet!

Become a part of my little community of readers and I can guarantee tasty recipes, insights into the London food seen and down to earth chatter!

What is your most popular recipe:

My most popular recipe is a bit of a surprising one – Breakfast Detox Smoothie. Ironically the remaining top 10 recipes on the blog are cakes and other naughty treats! I guess my readers need the Detox Smoothie after binging on cake and chocolate.

And what is your personal favourite recipe:

My favourite recipe is probably my Profiterole Celebration Cake. It signifies 3 things: 1.) making one of my best friends smile when I presented the cake to her at work (she had been having a REALLY tough time and cake was most definitely needed, 2.) pride after learning a new skill (choux pastry) and 3.) getting selected to sit in the front row at The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice because the producers wanted to film my cake!!!

This cake to me is a celebration in more ways than one!

Where else can we find you??

Twitter: www.twitter.com/KitchenGoddess3
Instagram: www.instagram.com/efwalt
Facebook: Like me here

Today I am introducing my seventh food blogger of the fortnight – Choclette from Tin and Thyme

I love reading other food blogs, both for recipes and just to drool over the appetising photos. This feature is my way of introducing you to some of my favourites ( in no particular order ) and I hope you will find blogs that you like and will enjoy reading. Its always worth following these bloggers on Instagram as the majority of them share some really great food pics and meal inspiration.

Today we hear a little from Choclette who I spent some time with in Devon recently during a really enjoyable visit to River Cottage, we were side by side making soda bread and homemade butter and it was really nice to get to know her as person after enjoying her blog for so long. She cooks mostly from scratch and is a vegetarian with a passion for baking and cooking. Her recipes can be both healthy using ingredients I wouldn’t always think to use yet indulgent at the same time. Lots of the recipes have a chocolate theme which is always a bonus! Anyway less from me and more about Tin and Thyme:

Tin and Thyme

I started my food blog Chocolate Log Blog back in early 2009 as a way of recording the recipes I made with chocolate and to encourage me to be a bit more adventurous. At that point I had no idea there were other food blogs out there, so I was quite surprised to discover a whole load of them soon afterwards. I loved the community of food bloggers I found and a year later another chocoholic and myself set up the chocolate blogging challenge, We Should Cocoa. This opened up another new world and a load more blogs. However, chocolate can only keep you going so long, so after six years I decided to diversify further and blog about the other food we eat. Tin and Thyme is a vegetarian blog that focuses on vegetarian cooked from scratch recipes with a slant towards healthy and local ingredients. My love of chocolate continues however as does my love of baking and my home county of Cornwall.

Since blogging at Tin and Thyme, my most popular recipe are by far and away these Raspberry and White Chocolate Flapjacks – I’ve no idea why.

I get excited about most of the recipes I create, so it’s hard to choose a favourite. At the moment I’m feeling rather proud of my Pumpkin Pasties. Pastry has always been my nemesis, possibly because I insist on using wholemeal flour. But a year or so ago I came across a brilliant recipe using yoghurt. I’ve adapted this to use half spelt or wholemeal flour and it comes out brilliantly every single time. Having attempted pasties once many years ago, I swore I’d never make them again. But this pastry enabled me to do so and I was really pleased with the result.

Twitter – https://twitter.com/Choclette8
FB – https://www.facebook.com/ChocolateLogBlog
Instagram – https://instagram.com/choclette8/
Pinterest – https://www.pinterest.com/choclette/

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