March has been an interesting month, we’ve been run off our feet.. in a good way.

Since I’m posting more over on Curious Confections most of the interesting stuff we’ve been up to has been written up over there.

Techmunch was a fantastic day. I learnt plenty, that I’m trying to gradually put into practice. I met lots of wonderful people (my blogroll increased tenfold!) and ate plenty of good food! Well, no one’s going to host an event for food bloggers without making sure there’s some good food on hand. Our food was provided by Parkside, a restaurant on 6th St here in town, that also happened to be the venue. And we had cupcakes from Sugar Mama’s.

I’m trying to involve myself more on the Austin Food Blogger scene, they’re having a potluck in the park next month that I’d like to go to and meet some more people.

We had a jaunt to New Orleans for a birthday party, with a cake in tow. We had the party on the Saturday and we ate our way across the town on the Sunday. Good times! It was a whistle stop visit, but I even helped with some of the drive!

Last week I started my new job. Regular scheduled hours, knowing that I will actually finish when I’m scheduled to finish, near enough to cycle to and from (even if the from trip seems much harder!), fun and entertaining, I’m learning lots and I get tips.. even if I have to declare them so I’ll get taxed on them. I’ll be working Easter Sunday, and on Saturday so I’ll miss half of our crawfish boil.. I’m still making sweet treats for it though.

I can’t believe it’s the end of March, time is flying, I need to get my bike tuned up while I can get it for free, there’s a food and wine festival coming up next month that looks interesting, and my favourite people from the farmers market – Full English, are working to open their own cafe not too far from here!

I home a lot now, and I’m still not finding time to post here, how very careless of me!

I have been working on turning the Curious Confections blog into an up and running food blog, talking about what we’ve made, what we’re doing and what we’re eating..Have you visited the site recently, you should do, go visit there now then come back to me!

It’s taking a surprising amount of work, planning out what I want to make, especially for events such as Pi(e) day, and St Patricks day, so I have something appropriate to post. Making it, I’m still failing to remember to take progess shots most of the time, but I’m working on it. And then I have to move the photos to my computer, resize and tinker with them, then upload them. Finally I get to actually write the post on the item and publish it.

I’m aiming for a fairly regular posting schedule, Mondays and Fridays.. Wednesdays if possible.. we’ll see what happens.

As part of this I’m going to be attending TECHmunch, a food bloggers conference that’s running during SXSW. It’s being hosted by Steamy Kitchen and Bakespace. I am very excited about it, I can’t wait. Aside from looking exceedingly interesting and having seminars on great topics relevant to running a successful food blog it will provide a great networking opportunity, and also hopefully be good fun. I will of course be giving a full write up on that one!

Life has been life. Job hunting aside. We have two beers brewing now, and just started one mead, it’s all very exciting, and a fascinating process even for me who doesn’t drink beer! DmentD should (at some point) be writing his own posts on the brewing front so I’ll leave that to him.

On Saturday we took a road trip to Rogers in North Texas to visit Walkers honey farm in order to pick up some delicious orange blossom honey for the mead.. and a little for ourselves. They had an astounding range and we’ll definitely be back there to pick up some new and exciting honeys for further mead making.