I thought this, the second part of my blogathon link-love post, would be about food AND gardening. Nope. Not going to work. I have to break it up. My gardening blog love is tied up with some hippie chick homesteading/crafting/living on the cheap blog love. So food today, the rest tomorrow.

Now go get a snack, because these blogs will make you hungry. I’ll wait.

HerbanKitchen is full of luscious things this month, like cherries. And also cherries. And things on the grill. Here in the upper left hand corner of the country, grills are used in the rain and sleet and snow, but I use actual wood charcoal, so I tend to only grill in the nice weather. I consider some of the pictures on this blog to be inflammatory. I won’t be pulling the grill out for another couple weeks. Otherwise it’s in and out and in and out. And yes, this is another blog I’ve linked to multiple years. Look at the pictures: can you blame me?

I could be wrong, (I’m too lazy to go back and look) but I think Babette’s Feast was the first food blog I loved during my first blogathon three years ago. I love the pictures, the writing, and the recipes (when I try the: mostly it’s just rubber-necking). The post on my birthday covering recipe development was one of my recent faves, because it offered a real behind-the-scenes look at the life of a food writer, which is one of the things I want to achieve in the second half of my life.

Darci Swisher’s blog has a title that makes it worth following all on its own: He Eats What I Make. However, this is the blog where I learned that Pimm‘s is a gin-based liqueur and more recently, got the idea of putting whole carrots on the grill — the crunch with the carmelization all together! She didn’t think they worked, but I think if you sliced them thick — think zucchini sliced for the grill — you’d get the right toothiness, the heat throughout, the grilled taste. And I think the lemon would be great. Or lemon thyme. I follow this one, mostly rubbernecking, but sometimes I pull the trigger on a recipe, too.

What I’m loving about Farm Fresh Feasts right now is that I’m swimming in greens, and author Kirsten Madaus writes about what she’s getting in her CSA box and how to use it. Which apparently is a lot of kale and chard and other greens. Thank goodness!

Stay tuned for the rest of my blog love blogs tomorrow — 11 more that you’ll want to click on, and maybe follow.