In May, my workload generally lightens up, and lately I've had a little more time to deal with my blogs. You may have noticed a few changes on CQ, and I thought I'd give you a little news of where the blog is going and what I've been up to in the kitchen and in cyberspace.
1.) Some of you were kind enough to leave comments about my new blog design, so it's time to give credit where credit is due. CQ and La France Profonde's new templates were designed by Madeline Miller of Made by Madeline, and I know that one of my sidebar pals, Jann of Traveling Food Lady has also treated herself to a Madeline makeover. It is definitely fun to get away from the Blogger template rut. Thanks for a great job, Madeline!
2. May also saw me try my hand at starting a blogging event. My announcement of it on Food Blog S'cool was unceremoniously booted off the site -- I know, I now know, that's not where one announces food blogging events but somehow in my enthusiasm I missed reading that!
The event took place nonetheless. I was the only participant, and I managed to make just one of the five recipes I chose for the first edition of "Mid-month Meal Inspiration."
Other than that, I think we can say the event was a rousing success and I WILL be launching the June version in a few days.
3. I have also decided to give CQ a tad bit of star quality by introducing you all -- at least my readers who don't live in France -- to Cyril Lignac, an up-and-coming young French chef and food show star. His web presence is fairly low-key for the moment, but he just started a cooking magazine -- clearly aimed at a much younger demographic than the one I belong to, ahem -- that I think is great fun. It could even help me get my daughters more interested in cooking, which would be smashing for June because the eldest finishes school next week, so wouldn't making dinners with Cyril's help be a great idea to keep her busy?
I also have another reason to take a special interest in Cyril's career -- can anyone guess?
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