It’s the end of another month and the opportunity to sort through the GourmetGetaway archives to choose a submission for Spicie Foodies “Your Best Recipe.” I really enjoy this exercise because it reminds me just how much, (or in the case of March) how little I accomplished. This month I had a lot of delicious desserts to choose from so it was hard to choose just one for “Your Best Recipe”

I decided to choose the Strawberry & Rose Teacup Cupcakes because I was overjoyed when these little starlets were voted into the “Foodbuzz Top 9.” I really try hard to make my recipes taste delicious and be styled to look irresistible, so when I made the top 9 I was extremely proud of my accomplishment and extremely grateful to everyone who chose to “buzz” my little teacups into that position.  Thank you again everyone.

I have used one of the images from this shoot to make invitations to my daughters’ birthday party.  I uploaded the file to Vistaprint and have since received the cute little invitations, they look gorgeous. So tell how you use the images you spend so long in producing. Do you have cards printed, as I did, or do have another use for your images?

Please go over to the Spicie Foodie website, and take a look at the other delicious submissions for April “Your Best Recipes”.

We have drawn to the end of another month and another year! I hope everyone had a great New Years Eve and are not suffering too much today.  I am looking forward to the coming year and I have set myself some goals, both personal and blog related.

This year my philosophy will be to "enjoy more of what I love!" This includes making more time for the people I love, both friends and family, and the things I love to do, being food, travel, wine and photography.

For the moment though, being that 2010 is now a memory it is time to showcase another recipe that I feel is my best.  This month the lovely Nancy, from Spicie Foodies has suggested that we should choose our overall best recipe for 2010.

The recipe which I feel is my best for the year is the delicious Char Siu, or Chinese BBQ Pork.  It is a recipe which I found on Rasa Malaysia site and it is an authentic Chinese Pork which is just magic. I chose this dish because it is the one thing I have made this year that I could not live without making again. The flavour is glorious! I was particularly happy with the dish because it was all new flavours and techniques and it came off tasting great. I really hope you will try the dish for yourself.

Now that I have given you a quick peek at my favourite recipe for the year please head over to Spicie Foodie and have a look at all the other participant’s best recipes for 2010. This is a great way of discovering some fantastic new recipes from all over the world!

I am curious to know what my readers think of New Years Resolutions?? For me the first day of a new year is exciting because I have the opportunity to nominate where I want to be by the years end. So I use the "New Years Resolution" tradition to reflect and evaluate on my lifes desires, set goals and then map a path to acieve the outcomes.

I wish all my readers a happy and prosperous year, and I hope all your hearts desires are realised to the fullest.