The Great Noblegarden Egg Hunt 2012

Just a quick note to let you know, if anyone is still out there!

The Great Noblegarden Egg Hunt is on again, hosted once again by the awesome Kamalia.

Sign up here, hide an egg on your blog and join in the fun on Noblegarden Sunday (April 8th)!

Pilgrim

Pilgrim's Bounty has arrived! Stuff yourself silly, level up your cooking and get messy in a food fight!

Above anything else, however, the most important thing to do this week is sign up for the Blog Azeroth Thanksgiving Event! Amerence has come up with this lovely way for bloggers to show how thankful they are to the community around them, so make sure you join in and you could win some great prizes! Check out the Blog Azeroth forum for more information.

Time To Hunt Egg

Happy Noblegarden!

Here in Australia the day is already almost over, but the Great Blog Noblegarden Egg Hunt II is about to begin!

There is an egg hidden on R&R. It's pretty easy to find so I won't give any clues just yet.

If you'd like to take part in the hunt and have a chance to win some great prizes, Kamalia's blog has a full list of participating blogs. You have until midnight UTC on Thursday April 28th to send in your list of egg locations!

Big thanks to all the bloggers hiding eggs this year, and to Kamalia for doing the organising.

Good luck, hunters!

Almost Hunting Season

The Bunnies are busy at work!

Remember the Great Blog Noblegarden Egg Hunt?  Well it's about to happen again. Can you beat Rades and Poneria this year?

Watch this space for more information!

Harvest Festival Bake-off: The Winner!

The Harvest Festival is upon us and the Bake-off entries have been reviewed. The judging has been very difficult, as I'm sure Anea and Deyndor would agree, but we can now reveal that the winner is:

Vidyala's Unconjured Cinnamon Bun Frost Cookies!

"Some of you non-mages, without access to a good mage… you’re going hungry. My heart goes out to you. I have devised a clever way for you to enjoy something very akin to true mage delights. They aren’t conjured. But they’re the next best thing."

Vidyala has put together not only a delicious and fairly easy-sounding recipe using Azerothian ingredients, but also illustrated her mage, Millya, creating her recipe!



Special Commendations 
Beruthiel's Granny Smith's Shattrath Surprise
An Azerothian version of her Mom's Apple Crisp - always a winner for entertaining.

Liala's Alterac Breakfast Strata
Very funny and also delicious-sounding breakfast to "get your blood pumping and bloodlust racing."


Thanks so much to everyone who entered!  I really do recommend going to have a look at each recipe, they all sound so delicious.

Not all the entries were submitted as blog posts - some were sent in by email.  Over the next few days I'll post up those recipes from Nienna and Rezznul, but here's a list of the other blogpost entries.

Ali's Squashling and Sweet Potato Soup
An autumnal classic to warm you northerners up in the cooler weather.

Anexxia's Dalaran 7-Layer Brownies
Completely delicious-sounding brownies, complete with yeti milk for extra creamy flavour.

Heston Blumentroll's Perfect Steak (by Hugh)
A perfect steak turns kind of controversial in Azeroth... I guess Hugh didn't know that Ang's main is a Tauren ;) Still very funny!

Kamalia's Westfall Stew
A least favourite quest with weird ingredients is turned into something that actually sounds quite tasty!

Keeva's Gourmet Fish Feast
Keeva brings the fishies to this raid.

Pewter's Stormwind Brie, Darnassian Bleu and Zangar Cap Fondue
Very funny and with delicious sounding ingredients, Pewter's recipe sounds just perfect for a dinner party!

Congratulations to the winners and thanks again for all the entries! Also special thanks to my very helpful fellow judges, Deyndor and Anea for helping with the difficult task of reading and drooling over all these awesome recipes.

Edit: One more special mention to the nice folks at MMO Melting Pot who kindly featured the competition and even put up a reminder for me - you guys are awesome, thanks!

Harvest Festival Bake-off: Entries are now Closed

The Harvest Festival has begun! The Bake-off has now closed for entries, and I'm pleased to say that we got an amazing 11 entries! Thanks everyone!

If you have sent in an entry and your name is not on this list, please email me as soon as possible as I many have missed your email: Anexxia, Ali, Beruthiel, Vidyala, Kamalia, Nienna, Keeva, Hugh, Rezznul, Liala and Pewter.

Let the judging commence!  Give Deyndor, Anea and I a few days to go through the entries, and keep an eye on R&R to find out who the winner will be!

This competition has made me so hungry... :)

Harvest Festival Bake-off: A Reminder

This is just a small reminder that it's only a few days now until the Harvest Festival starts.

If you haven't got your entry in for the Harvest Festival Bake-off, make sure you get it in!  We only have a few so far and I'd love a few more yummy recipes, so dust off your recipe books and get creating!

You have until Thursday.

Harvest Festival Bake-Off: An Update

There is still just over a week to get your entries in for the Harvest Festival Bake-Off! So far I have received two entries, and they look delicious!

• Beruthiel - Granny Smith's Shattrath Surprise
• Ali - Squash and Sweet Potato Soup

These entries are from bloggers, but please note:  You don't have to be a blogger to enter, and if you are a blogger you don't have to post your recipe on your blog if you don't want to.  Send your entries in, and I'll post them on R&R after the close of the competition.

Don't forget, Harvest Festival starts on the 16th - make sure to get your recipe organised!

Competition: Harvest Festival Bake-off!

Image from worldofwarcraft.com and is fanart submitted by Redford

The Harvest Festival is approaching - this year it starts on Wednesday September 16, and runs until the following Monday.

Harvest Festival is a time for honouring fallen heroes and for commemorating those who have fallen in battle. Members of the Horde should pay a visit to the memorial to Grom Hellscream in Ashenvale, and Alliance can make the pilgrimage to the tomb of Uther Lightbringer in the Western Plaguelands.

There aren't any special achievements or titles associated with this holiday, but the Harvest Festival is also a time for feasting and merriment, and in the spirit of the event I'd like to present to you:

The Harvest Festival Bake-off!

For this competition, we'd like you to put on your Chef's Hat, and send us your favourite recipe, with an Azerothian twist!

How to enter:

1. Simply create a recipe (or modify your favourite existing one) that includes Azerothian ingredients! Please let us know what the real-life ingredient might be if it's not obvious.


2. Tell us a bit about the recipe and why you chose it. Anything from two sentences to a poem or story!


3. We'd love it if you actually cook it and include pictures, but it's not a requirement so don't worry if you aren't able to.


4. Send your recipe to the R&R gmail address (you can find it on the right sidebar) before the in-game start of the Harvest Festival! The judging will be complete by the time the festival ends.

Note: The recipe does not actually have to be for baked goods like cake or biscuits - any dish will do!

Further note: Please do not send a recipe that has already been posted on the Nourish! website! We love their work so please don't pinch it!

The entries will be judged by myself and my partners in crime fellow judges, Anea and Deyndor. The winning recipe will be the one that we think sounds the most delicious!

The winner will receive some cookies in the real-life mail! If you'd prefer not to tell me your actual address, you can choose a pet from the Blizzard store instead.

Here's an example to start you off.

Argent Vanguard Cookies

(also known as Anzac Biscuits)

Image from http://www.1bestcuisineguide.com/anzac-biscuits-cuisine.html

These cookies keep very well so they are ideal for baking to send to Icecrown for the troops still stationed there.

Ingredients:
1 cup Simple Flour
1 cup Rolled Oats
1 cup Powdered Sweetroot (Brown sugar)
1/2 cup Corpse Dust (shredded coconut)
125g butter
2 tablespoons Goldenmist Special Brew (Golden syrup)
1 tablespoon Spring Water
1/2 teaspoon Arcane Powder (Bicarbonate of soda)

1. Preheat oven to 175C / 350F.
2. Sift the flour into a bowl. Add the sweetroot, rolled oats and corpse dust.
3. Melt the butter and add the goldenmist special brew and water.
4. Stir the arcane powder into the liquid mixture.
5. Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
6. Place walnut-sized balls of mixture on a greased tray and bake for 15-20 mins.
7. Biscuits may be soft when they come out, but they will harden once cool.

What are you waiting for?  You have two weeks. Get cooking!