Happy Halloween and Blogher Month in Review

Halloween Photo from Joomlablog.

It's Halloween, the day that kids love and elementary school teachers dread. My school has a Halloween parade in the morning right when the kids come to school, so it's relatively painless. Still, it's safe to say that Halloween isn't my favorite holiday. I'm not a total Halloween scrooge though. Here's a link to something fun for Halloween, sent to me by my young-at-heart friend Alanna.


Most of my blog readers know I also write for Blogher, a site for women bloggers. (Men are welcome too; it's just that the writers are women.) As a Food and Drink contributing editor, I have to keep up with as many food blogs as I can (It's tough work, but someone's got to do it!) I write eight pieces a month for Blogher, so I've decided on the last day of each month, I'll give Kalyn's Kitchen readers my Blogher month in review so you can see what I've been writing about. If you're a food blogger, you might even find that I've mentioned you. Here's what I talked about in October:

It was fun to write about the success of The Green Blog Project.

Of couse I had to announce that Cilantro was Voted Favorite Herb for the one-year anniversary of Weekend Herb Blogging. (Last time I checked, this post had 21 comments, so obviously there was some interest.)

I was Fishing for Compliments with a collection of great salmon recipes.

My next blogher post was about World Bread Day, and featured links to a few of the great bread recipes I spotted.

Next I insisted Soup is Not Boring, and a lot of people agreed. There's a collection of yummy looking soup recipes here.

My next post spotlighted Diwali Celebrations, particularly lighting the candles and the special foods that are served for this Hindu Festival.

Not strictly food-related, but found on a food blog, I linked to a four-part series on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Hormone Replacement Therapy. Read this if you're a woman over 40!

Last, but absolutely not least, my post called Beyond Jack-O-Lanterns shared a collection of great recipes using pumpkin, just in time for Halloween.

There are some other great food writers at Blogher besides me. You can check out Blogher Food and Drink if you want to see what they've been writing about.

It's only Tuesday and I've already gotten four entries for Weekend Herb Blogging, the weekend event that's not just for the weekend. Follow this link to Who's Hosting Weekend Herb Blogging or check the Rules for Weekend Herb Blogging for more information if you'd like to participate.

Finally, thanks to my incredibly generous and talented brother for the delightful new blog header, with all those colorful beans that are just dying to be made into a cold-weather soup, and a new tagline and icon too. (Isn't my brother just the greatest?)