A Couple in the Kitchen: award

3.12.2013

Today Was a Good Day for ACK

Today was a good day for A Couple in the Kitchen (aka ACK) and we wanted to share it with all of you.

First, we received a very nice comment from Lillian of My Recipe Journey nominating us for the Liebster Award. Lillian has a post about the award on her website that you can check out. We also did a little research ourselves and found out that the Liebster Award has been circulating for a few years now and it is awarded from one blogger to another to let them know they are "liebster" - German for "beloved." While Lillian's version of the award came with some tasks, we found a loophole during our search that allows one to accept an honorary version without doing the tasks. Since we teachers have enough tasks to complete, and we like our blogging tasks to be food-related, we're going with the loophole. Thank you so much, Lillian, for thinking of us. We are honored!!!

Next, we got an email from the Blogger Outreach Program at OXO and they are going to be sending us some egg tools to try out and review. Just in time for Easter (although we wish we had that egg separator when we made that Meyer lemon curd!)!!! So that's something to look forward to.

And finally, we had entered our Moonshine Sticky Wings recipe into a recipe contest and found out today that we won an Editor's Choice award (which, happily, also happens to come with a little bit of prize money!). The contest was called "Stick a Fork in It" for SplashPad Mobile's new Android app "Top Recipes." You can get the app here if you are interested! Look for our recipe, which is designated by this special ribbon:

So, yeah! It was a good day for ACK!!! Time to uncork a bottle of vino and celebrate!

2.17.2011

Stylish Bloggers, We Are!

Many thanks to "Lo-Mo" at Little Kitchen on the Prairie who bestowed upon us a Stylish Blogger Award. It's our first award, and we are both honored to receive it and proud to be part of the ever-growing, always amazing food blog community!

There are some rules that come with acceptance of the award, and we are happy to follow them. They are:

#1 - Thank the person who awarded it to us and link up to their blog. (DONE - see above)

#2 - Share 7 things about ourselves (DONE - see below)

#3 - Pass the award on to 15 recently discovered great bloggers (WILL DO!)

#4 - Contact those bloggers to tell them about their award (GOT IT!)

Seven things about us:

1. We got engaged in Italy while we were traveling along on someone else's honeymoon (yes, we were invited!).

2. We had our wedding reception in a museum.

3. Because of #2, there was a mummy at our wedding reception.

4. We love to travel and in our going-on-13-years together have gone: up and down the East Coast of the U.S.; to St. Louis, Las Vegas, Los Angeles in the U.S.; to Italy, France, Czech Republic and Hungary; and to Montreal, Toronto, and Newfoundland in Canada.

5. We are both teachers in "real life."

6. We have two cats - Newfie (named so because we got him shortly after we came home from Newfoundland) and Louie (named so because we got him shortly after we came home from St. Louis).

7. We both just got smart phones (I-Phones) and we are becoming addicted to them already.

We hereby pass the Stylish Blogger Award to:

Debby at A Feast for the Eyes

Laurie at Food is Love

Janis at Bite Me New England

Cathy at Wives with Knives

Raven at RavieNomNoms Blog

Krissy and Daniel at The Food Addicts

Chrystal and Amir at The Duo Dishes

Adriana at Great Food 360

Kat and Matthew at A Good Appetite

Cheryl and Adam at Picture-Perfect Meals