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Food Blogger Prop Swap

8/5/2013

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Flattened Masa Awaiting the Grill for Homemade Tortillas, Floral Linen from Everyday Maven
Back in May, Alyssa of Everyday Maven and Faith of An Edible Mosaic put together the inaugural Food Blogger Prop Swap. A simple premise: in an effort to help connect the food blogging community in a more real, interactive manner, each participant packs a box full of gently used, photogenic kitchen items and sends them along to a fellow food blogger to inspire a new post that each participant publishes on the same day. 

Now I consider this blog to be slightly more unconventional than most. With a focus on the people and experiences surrounding the food world, I rarely have the need for, "props," per se. However, I am always game for extending beyond my comfort zone and embracing a new and exciting challenge. So, I filled my USPS medium sized flat rate box with jars, bottles, linen (and a sieve for good measure) and mailed it across the country to my match: Julie of SavyEats. 

Eagerly I awaited the box from my match like a puppy by the windowsill searching longingly for my owner. What would be in there? How could I use each piece? Who was my mystery counterpart? 

Every day I anticipated the delivery, but as the days strung along, I grew increasingly weary that my match had forgotten me.

On reveal day, June 17, I had no box, and nothing about which to blog. 


A few weeks went by, and when I returned from my camping trip in southern Utah, a medium sized, flat rate box sat at my doorstep. With a glimmer of hope that my mail had just been delayed, I cautiously looked at the return address. 

The package was from Everyday Maven herself, filled to the brim with bowls, plates, and a delightful hand-written note. 
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My Food Blogger Prop Swap Box from Everyday Maven
With such a sweet and unnecessary gesture, I was motivated to return the favor in kind, using each of the items at my breakfast taco brunch that very Sunday.

The two brown bowls were perfect for serving the harissa-roasted red potatoes and my roommate's "schmoo" - peppers and onions reduced down in Armstrong Brewing Company's Smoked Pale Ale.
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Harissa-Roasted Red Potatoes and Schmoo
One of the bowls also doubled as an improvised tortilla press for the fresh masa we purchased. 
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An Improvised Tortilla Press
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Our bright red mortar was almost too perfect for our guacamole.
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Avocado, Salt
And what breakfast taco would be complete without eggs, nested comfortably in this ceramic dish?
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Scrambled Eggs en Boat
Colorful toothpicks for colorful fruit, a pinch bowl for cilantro, a small dipping tray for limes and some of our own dishes made for a complete breakfast taco bar feast!
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Let the Taco Feast Begin!
DIY tacos.
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So thank you for the incredibly thoughtful prop box, Alyssa! This brunch never would have been the same without you. 
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My Breakfast Taco: Hand-Pressed Tortilla, Egg, Chorizo, Bacon, Avocado, Cilantro and Schmoo. Lime Squeeze.
Nosh on,
Josh

4 Comments
Alyssa Brantley link
8/5/2013 03:18:51 am

Josh - so glad you were already able to use everything!!! Thanks again for being such a good sport and I hope that whoever dropped the ball didn't sour your experience :)

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Josh link
8/8/2013 05:58:38 am

No, thank YOU for putting this on! I had a blast, and this didn't sour the experience at all! In fact, it probably made it better :)

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Dan Luchi
8/8/2013 03:32:52 am

Awesome post and some excellent photography of what looks like very tasty food. I'm glad you were finally able to write your prop swap article. I know how excited you were to participate.

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Josh link
8/8/2013 05:59:10 am

Thanks Dan! Wish you were here to enjoy it with us!

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