Simon Food Favourites: Inaugural Sydney Food Bloggers Christmas Party 2009, Hyde Park, Sydney (13 Dec 2009)

13 December 2009

Inaugural Sydney Food Bloggers Christmas Party 2009, Hyde Park, Sydney (13 Dec 2009)

Hyde Park South, Sydney NSW 2000

A Celebration of Food

The weather couldn't have been more perfect for the Inaugural Sydney Food Bloggers Christmas Party organised by Grab Your Fork and Chocolatesuze which received fantastic support from over 50 blog rsvps. Apart from an abundance of delicious food on offer there was a fun Kris Kringle. Amongst all the presents the Food Face gift (pictured above) was the most prized possession. I thought it was all mine after stealing it from Hungry Digital Elf but it soon was relinquished from my hands in a round of Kris Kringle steals even though I was last to pick :-( — although I finally ended up with Pigged-Out's basting brush which will be a handy addition to my kitchen. The Kris Kringle steal rule is when it's your turn to select a gift you can decide to steal (politely) a present instead from someone who has already opened a kris kringle present.

The most unusual food item on offer for me would have been Grab Your Fork's bacon and peanut butter cupcakes ... WTF! I thought this would have been seriously wrong but actually worked together OK — who says you can't put bacon in everything. One of the most prettiest cupcakes was the cherry and blueberry decorated ones — who did these? They were sooo yummy and moist :-). At packing up time I was lucky enough to try Lobo's deliciously smooth homemade dark chocolate rocky road from Yaya's Yum Yums — thanks so much. It was a great day to have the opportunity to meet new faces of the food blogging community and catchup with fellow bloggers I've had the pleasure in already meeting — Happy Eating and a Great Blogging New Year!

The location

The food

Grab Your Fork's bacon and peanut butter cupcakes

Visually best dressed for me – Matcha cupcake with blueberries and white cherry

Yaya's Yum Yums dark and white chocolate rocky road

Chocolatesuze Classics of fairy bread, honey joys and chocolate crackles

Emperor's Puff

S&F Sulfaro cannoli

The Way It Crumbles savoury rice paper rolls

So much choice, so little time!

The Kris Kringle

My Kris Kringle gift

Zeal stainless steal basting brush

The most prized Kris Kringle

Food face

My name tag

Fellow bloggers

Chocolatesuze and me

Foraging Otaku minding cute dog 'Spartacus'

Confirmed food bloggers attending:

17 comments:

Trisha said...: Ohmygoodness... this is one heckuva fast blog post!!!! Great great job with the roundup - didn't realise we really had that much food until I saw that photo! :) Twas great to meet you too Simon!; December 13, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Leona @ pigged-out.com said...: holy shoot!
geees your quick! lol thought you were kidding when you said you'd have it up shortly.

Great photos!!!! I hardly took any I think i was overwhelmed with the whole thing. Great seeing you again as always! I know i'll be seeing you more often in 2010 for more foodie eat-outs.; December 13, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Leona @ pigged-out.com said...: LOL im sooo glad you didn't take my chocolate mirror :P; December 13, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Jade said...: Wow, that was quick! Nice round up of today. I also loved the peanut butter and bacon cupcakes. Can't wait to try them out myself!; December 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM
YaYa said...: Such speed and great photos! Thank you for posting up the urls of the picnicers, I'm going to have a lot of reading soon, what a great bunch of people!; December 13, 2009 at 8:53 PM
joey@forkingaroundsydney said...: Wow, that was fast! Great work! A shame I missed it as it looked like a really good time was had by all. Can't wait to see the rest of the posts. :); December 13, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Betty @ The Hungry Girl said...: Wow, you really weren't kidding about getting this up asap! lol. So many things I didn't get to try and I didn't see the cannoli's!! Damn!; December 13, 2009 at 9:22 PM
chocolatesuze said...: wow that was a super fast post dude! great seeing you again and oh man there was just so much food!; December 13, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Trissa said...: Speedy Poster! Great coverage - too bad I missed the exchange gift - I would have loved to steal your baster from you! hehe...; December 13, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Shanks said...: Super fast post with great coverage and photos. Visually best dressed dish - aww shucks lol!! It was actually very last minute. Matcha cupcakes with blueberries and white cherry. Post on these to come at Yayas.; December 14, 2009 at 8:00 AM
Forager said...: Wow. Your super speed powers will never cease to astonish me! Was good to catch up with you again!; December 14, 2009 at 9:09 AM
AY said...: Hey! Didn't get to say hi to you yesterday but great job with grabbing the final number in KK and then starting a war! ;) You should've taken the Stars Wars figure!

Loves your photos! :D; December 14, 2009 at 12:58 PM
Anonymous said...: Wow! you are really fast :) It's great to meet you for the 1st time.; December 14, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Arwen from Hoglet K said...: Nice too see you again Simon, and nice job with the photos! So much food, and such fun with the kris kringle!; December 14, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Jacq said...: Haha you weren't joking when you said we'd be home and your blog post would already be up! Love the photos :); December 15, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Lobo said...: Great photos! Glad you enjoyed the rocky road, if one person liked them then it was worth the burnt fingers. =); December 15, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Simon Leong said...: hi trisha, next time i'd blog as i'm there perhaps hehe

hi leona, hehe holy shoot love the comment. i'd don't kid around hehe. it was quite overwhelming wasn't it. so many people and so much food. see u in 2010. hope you enjoy the choc mirror

hi jade, good luck with the peanut butter and bacon cupcakes.

hi yaya, so many new blogs to read. it's great!

hi joey, hopefully see you at the next one to put a face to the name

hi betty, i came late so missed out on all of billys amazing food :-( that will teach me to be on time next time

hi chocolatesuze, always good seeing you. hope you didn't overdose on that energy drink thing hehe

hi trissa, that was lucky you left otherwise I would have been basterless ;-)

hi shanks, awesome cupcakes. hope to see the recipe soon

hi forager, great seeing you again. if i had a superpower it must be speed blogging although i still have more than 50 in the wind i want to finish by the end of the year :-(

hi ay, hopefully will get to meet you next outing. i was seriously thinking of the star wars figure, that was pretty cool

hi ellie, was great meeting you too. hopefully will see you again in 2010 and remember if you ever need another mouth to feed i'm there with all your yummy cooking :-)

hi arwen, that KK was the funniest one i've ever been to. the stealing rule is pretty funny.

hi jacq, glad my promise came true in a speedy post. glad you like the photos, thanks heaps :-)

hi lobo, was excellent rocky road. sorry about the burnt fingers but hope I get to try it again one day :-); December 22, 2009 at 12:16 AM

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