I found this article "Top 10 Ways You Know You're a Food Blogger" on http://laphemmephoodie.com by Wendy Kirby. So I asked myself the question, "Do I fit these criteria?"
10.) Your food goes cold while you get the “perfect” photo. Ummm... not quite that extreme. I do try to get a bunch of photos before I eat, but I'm usually too excited to eat my creation to spend too much time shooting pics.
9.) When someone tells you the dish you made was good, you then pepper them with 20 questions about what they mean by good. Well, for right now, when someone tells me my dish is good, I say, "Really? I posted it on my blog. Here's the URL. Here's the recipe."
8.) Your wish list is full of kitchen gadgets. I have been craving kitchen gadget shopping lately. I've been online window shopping websites. And I've browsed kitchen sections in stores. I've also been thinking of going to thrifty stores looking for interesting plates and other dishes that will make the food look prettier in photographs.
7.) After taking a pretty good photo of your dish you then take 574 more just in case. I take two or three "just in case" shots.
6.) You know all the major food holidays better than your friends’ birthdays. I'm not a big holiday person, so I haven't gotten into this yet. I have been thinking about what I want to make for Christmas baking and candy making this year that might photograph well and be interesting recipes. It is only July, so maybe this stage is starting to set in.
5.) Buying cookbooks has made such a dent in your bank account that your family is considering an intervention. I own too many cookbooks as it is. I have decided that I can find all the recipes I need online so why buy books (other than for the unique experience a book provides in and of itself). I do spend way too many hours perusing food blogs and watching cooking tv shows.
4.) You plan your vacations around the food in that location. Absolutely! Isn't that what everyone does? Before I go anywhere, I research all the local restaurants and scout out all the unique, interesting, delicious places I want to try.
3.) Friends and family roll their eyes when you take out your camera at the table. My son is starting too.
2.) It would take 365 years to make all the recipes you have saved. Easily.
1.) You embrace the word foodie with wild abandon. Yeah. I think so ,I've started calling myself "a bit of a foodie" for the past year or two.
Well, it seems I'm not a "Food Blogger" yet, but I might be well on my way to becoming one.
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