I love doing year end roundups – this year, how about one for each month? Here is my favorite post for each month of 2012 – the recipes I have loved the most, and those that I loved writing the most – Hope it’s been a great 2012 for you and wish you all the best for 2013!
January
Creamy Cauliflower Soup - because I love hearty soups that celebrate otherwise mundane veggies 
February
Cream of Jerusalem Artichoke and Celeriac Soup – my foray into root vegetables found their delight with jerusalem artichokes!
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I hope everyone had a very merry holiday, filled with fantastic glorious food to eat! We spent ours in a cozy chalet high in the Swiss Alps, remote and cut off from the world (not even cell signal or internet) – a nice change of pace from the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. We went snowshoeing, sledding down mountains, drank homemade hot chocolates, played silly games of Uno, and had a roast duck feast for our Christmas dinner with friends
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Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice. – Robert Frost
When the depravity of humankind seems too much to bear, when we don’t want to try to bring our minds to accept the in comprehensible tragedies we never even knew possible, it seems a cold bleak world indeed.
I cannot offer up much to alter one’s impression of our world or the atrocities that occur therein, nor have I anything to give beyond kind thoughts and prayers to console those who suffer pain and grief, especially from such unspeakable events. But as we draw nearer to this Christmas day what I can do is offer some joy and light to this space, and some happy thoughts, be they trivial or integral to my very being – to make the world a little brighter, even if only a tiny bit.
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Thanksgiving has come and gone, and it was a roaring success! Everyone got to have fun with the two new babies of the family, enjoy some great tasting homemade food, and most importantly, spend time together. Though our dinner was not without a few challenges along the way – among the 23 of us were 25 total different food restrictions, the oven/stove died mid-prep, a pie almost took a trip into the washing machine, and several cut fingers indicated we could all could benefit from some knife courses before the next large family gathering. Given that there is still another popular holiday meal coming up for most folks in less than a month now (yay Christmas!), I thought it might be helpful to share how we got on. I hope our tips and experience can help others who are planning what may look like a complicated or daunting set of food requirements, and also to show that it is totally possible to accommodate several food restrictions.
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Welcome to this month’s winners of DMBLGIT! Thank you so much to everyone who participated, it really was a lovely set of submissions. We received a grand total of fifty-six entries! And a huge thank you goes out to each of our amazing judges Tim, Ilva, Vanessa, and Alessio, who were all so wonderful willing to donate their time and thoughts critiquing and scoring each of the images.
Not sure what DMBLGIT is? Read my announcement post from earlier this month detailing the event.
You can also read about and meet the judges for this month’s event.
You can also check out the Google+ album to see all the 56 submissions.
Images are judged on three categories – aesthetics, originality, and edibility and the winning images are decided based on the scores of each of the judges. So let’s check out the winners!
Overall Winners:
First Place
First place goes to Kristin of Pastry Affair - Butternut Squash Cake and Cream Cheese Icing.
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