Sesame Cupcakes with Honey Meringue Frosting

Hello everybody!

Finally I can share this amazing news. Today, I am guest posting Sesame Cupcakes over at Just One Cookbook! Nami - my blogger friend and the unremitting source of beautiful and delicious Japanese home cooking recipes - is away on a well-deserved family trip to her native country and took good care that her blog won't be neglected meanwhile.

Please head over to Just One Cookbook and check out Nami's recipes!

Hoisin Beef on Pak Choi Spoons

Aren't food-bloggers a peculiar little folk? Always seeking for inspiration, trying hard to add something of  value and entertainment to the ever-growing  niche of online writers. And while I guess that most of us don't write for fame or fortune (ehrm...), I am always very appreciative of any feedback I get, may it be through mails, comments or in this case, an award given to yours truly by children's book illustrator, food blogger and New Yorker Melissa Iwai of The Hungry Artist fame.

Solyanka

"Hnguh" was the first word Valeriya managed to press through her dry, crackly lips. If you can call that a word but at least it was something. Well done, she thought to herself sarcastically. The last time she has had a night like this she could not talk for a whole three days from singing, shouting and fighting. Not that it really mattered - nobody was actually talking to her in that dead-end job she was clinging to, anyway. The big city is full of opportunities. That was what people were saying in that forlorn village in the middle of nowhere up there in Lyubye.