IFC Foodie Challenge #3

Hello, and welcome to the third IFC Foodie Challenge! It may seem there's an awful lot of time between each swap, but it's so you have the time to try the recipes. I'm counting 4 weeks for the journal to travel, and 3 weeks for you to try the 3 recipes.

The swap works like this:

1. You buy or make a journal, notebook, or even an exercise book and you write the swap name, your Swap Bot Username, and your name & address on the front page or the inside of the cover. Then you fill the first couple of pages with 7 recipes. The recipes must have pictures and they must be in English because these little notebooks are going to travel. If you don't know where to get the pictures from, you can print recipes from the internet. You can also cut them out of magazines, cookbooks, or take the photos yourself. WHEN ADDING RECIPES, KEEP IN MIND THAT: you can't use recipes that have 'local' ingredients (usually when it's a certain brand). For example, while you have access to 'Philadelphia Spicy Cream Cheese' your swap partner may not. So try to pick recipes with ingredients that are available everywhere (eggs, cane sugar, vanilla, olives, baking soda, stuff like that). Also, this is not mandatory, but it's fun if you use recipes that require something out of the ordinary, like a cooking technique (au bain-marie for example) or a certain ingredient (something you can't find in the supermarket but at a grocer).

2. You send the notebook to your swap partner. Your swap partner then rates you, and you receive a notebook from another swapper.

3. From that notebook you pick 3 recipes you're going to try. For each recipe you try, you must write an entry in the journal. Write how it went, if you managed to make it, if you liked the taste, etc. Each entry must be at least 10 lines, and don't forget to add the date and your username! You can also add pictures, drawings, doodles, or you can let your partner/kids add a comment.

4. When the next swap starts, you send the journal on its way to your swap partner, and you receive a different notebook, and you're going to try those recipes, and so on.

5. When the journal is full, you return it to the owner. Then you can choose to make another notebook to join the next swap or just to wait until your notebook gets returned to you.

The point of this swap is that we - as foodies - get to try different kinds of foods and that we get to share our experiences. If you like, you can add your email address under your entries in case you want people to get in touch with you.

And, well, this is the idea for the challenge.

All in favor say aye!

P.S. Don't make the journal too thick, it'll take longer to get full!