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Taking the plunge
After three years of blogging here I finally have decided to give in and buy a proper domain name for this blog. Welcome to the new www.bruleeblog.com! Your old bookmarks and favourites will still work, but you may want to update them just in case.
Along with the new domain name, I also decided to change up the design of the site with a new theme. It’s got a lot of different colours from the old site. What do you think?
I know I haven’t been blogging too much lately (lack of time, unfortunately), but I do have a few surprises coming up for you all in the very near future. Stay tuned!
My third blogiversary
I started this blog back in 2008 on this day. When I began, I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting myself into. I thought that I would run out of things to say, or would want a total change of topic before I got to this point. I’m glad to say that working on this blog has increased my interest in food rather than lessened it. I’ve had some great experiences due to this blog, and I’ve got some great things planned for the next year. Thank you for reading my blog and sharing in my food adventures. I can’t wait to see what happens next!
Tetley Tea contest
I love tea. So much so that I have a whole shelf in my kitchen filled with different kinds of tea. Green tea, black teas, flavoured teas, herbal teas… you name it I probably have it or have at least tried it once.
The Tetley Tea company sent me a sample from their new Tetley Colour Therapy herbal tea line to try. Titled “dream,” my sample was chamomile lemon flavoured. The chamomile taste was dominant, while the lemon part was almost non-existent. I have to admit that chamomile isn’t my favourite kind of tea; I actually prefer Tetley’s honey lemon ginseng green tea. Some of the other flavours in the Colour Therapy line look more interesting to me, like the “soothe” (ginger mint) tea.
But don’t take my word on the quality of this tea; Tetley is offering my blog readers a chance to try it yourselves by winning a tea basket of your very own. The winner will receive two containers of tea, a canister/tea pot and 50 mood influencing greeting cards. To enter, simply reply below and tell me what kinds of moods you find yourself in when craving a cup of tea. This contest is only open to addresses within Canada only, excluding Quebec. One entry per person only, make sure to include your e-mail address so that I can contact you if you are the winner. Entries will be accepted until end of day January 19, 2011.
*This contest is now closed. Congratulations, Mary!*
2010 in review
WordPress sent me this lovely summary.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.
About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 40,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 75 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 447 posts. There were 2 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 55kb.
The busiest day of the year was November 19th with 256 views. The most popular post that day was Pandan Agar Agar recipe.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were Only Here for the Food, eating is the hard part, Loosen Your Belt and Eat Around Edmonton, A Canadian Foodie, and The Celiac Husband.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for baked portobello mushrooms, agar agar recipe, kabsa, gurney drive hawker centre, and langkawi food blog.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Pandan Agar Agar recipe June 2010
18 comments and 2 Likes on WordPress.com
Baked portobello mushrooms March 2009
3 comments
Bellagio Buffet and Wynn Buffet, Las Vegas August 2009
4 comments
Kimchi scrambled eggs February 2009
4 comments
Langkawi food March 2009
3 comments

