Food Blogger Potluck Party

On Sunday, I went to the May Food Blogger Potluck, put on by the Soup Peddler, David Ansel. In preparation for the event, I made Nutella with Macademia nuts cookies. I pretty much just used a peanut butter cookie recipe and added nutella instead of PB, as well as some macadamia nuts. They turned out to be more like a nutella crisp though, which is great by me, but interesting nonetheless. Below you can see a picture of them up close.

Here is about 1/3 of the entire batch. EEK!!

At the Food Blogger Potluck, we got to sample a TON of amazing food. The upside of a potluck with a bunch of food bloggers is that you get really tasty creative food. Below you can see my plate. There is a caprese sandwich, some edamame/lava bean pesto on a crostini, Cesar salad, Vietnamese rice type roll, beat salad, goat cheese w/ blackberry and pecan pasta salad, roasted potatoes with corn and onions, etc, and a piece of sausage that I ended up not eating because I was afraid it had chicken in it.

Here you can see me eating my tasty blackberry, goat cheese, pecan pasta salad made by Teddy from Funwithyourfood.

Here is Teddy nibbling on what I think is a portabello mushroom pizza type thing.

And here is Mike enjoying his first Food Blogger potluck ever.

I forgot to take a picture of my entire plate of desserts. There were a million things to try. Including an Irish Car Bomb cupcake, vegan cupcakes, cookies, tirumisu, pecan tart, pina colada cupcakes, cobbler, brownies, etc. Here is a picture of what Teddy, Mike and I brought home.

Other than the food blogger potluck, I also went to Uchi for my first time ever on Saturday. It was AMAZING. It was a runner up for a James Beard award in the region, and is also known as the best restaurant in town (as in actually acclaimed by all the food critics, publications, etc). I thought I didn't like sushi before I went, because the seaweed grosses me out. But this was so amazing I didn't even notice the seaweed. It was pure heaven and I am just dreaming of ways to go back there again. hahahaha. Too bad it is on the pricey side.

Other than those two amazing food events, I also sang my heart out to some oldies but goodies with Teddy, watched an amazing storm, and had a Lost party on Sunday night at home.

What did you do this weekend?