thursday things ~ big harvest potluck recap
by Katie Webster
October 2, 2014 (updated 3/11/21)
‘Member how I told you I was afraid of flying? Well I still am.
So I didn’t go to the biggest food blogging conference in Miami back in the spring. I may or may not have made the decision to stay home safely on the ground due to the fact that I am a complete wimp when it comes to flying. Or maybe it was that I had a race and another weekdend away from my family already planned for that month. Or possibly it is that I am in need of an A-Team-style intervention (a la BA Baracus) to get me on a plane to go to the next big food blogging get together.
Then I heard about The Big Harvest Potluck from my friend Brandy of Nutmeg Nanny. Guess what? It is held in Bucks County PA, not too too far by car (6 ½ hours.) And also happens to be where I grew up. So I was able to stay with my Dad while I was there. Cool huh?
But really the best part wasn’t the not flying thing. The best part was that this event was tiny. Like only 60 bloggers or something. So we all got to meet each-other and hang out the whole time. And eat. And talk. And eat. And laugh. And hug. And there was a little crying. And writing. And meeting of really inspiring food world people. And things being checked off life lists. Now that I think about it there was a bit of flying. Did I mention there was eating?
And we did some learning too. It was pretty incredible I have to say. Below you’ll find my photos from the trip. All of them were taken with my phone. Do you see anyone you know? I’ll be back tomorrow with a new recipe and a cookbook giveaway!
Happy Cooking!
~Katie
Pumpkin Ice Cream
Lauren and me
Joanne, Brandy, Caroline, me and Miryam
Hot air balloon ride!
Lauren and me
Plum Gallette at the home of Pam.
Katie Webster
Katie Webster studied art and photography at Skidmore College and is a graduate of the New England Culinary Institute. She has been a professional recipe developer since 2001 when she first started working in the test kitchen at EatingWell magazine. Her recipes have been featured in numerous magazines including Shape, Fitness, Parents and several Edible Communities publications among others. Her cookbook, Maple {Quirk Books} was published in 2015. She launched Healthy Seasonal Recipes in 2009. She lives in Vermont with her husband, two teenage daughters and two yellow labs. In her free time, you can find her at the gym, cooking, stacking firewood, making maple syrup, and tending to her overgrown perennial garden.
It was so great to meet you. I hope we get to see each other again soon!!
It was so great to meet you and commiserate about being overcommitted! Ha ha. What a fun time.
It was so great to meet you last weekend! The Big Potlucks are my favorite. I’m glad you came up and the balloon, too. (And cute pic of us!)
The balloon ride was so unexpected and fun. I loved meeting you Lauren. You are great in person (I guess I am not surprised!) I am def going back next year, maybe we’ll carpool.
I went to the one in California and it was definitely my favorite blogging event I’ve ever been to! I wish we lived on the same side of the country so we could have gone together, but I’m so glad you loved it too!
I saw the pics from the one in CA, wasn’t Aran Goyoaga a presenter? I would have loved to go to that. YES! I know, we’ll have to go to an event together, though again the whole plane thing. Arg.
Being able to give you a big fat hug and have lots of laughs together was surely one of the highlights of my weekend! You are awesome! And wow…don’t we just look beautèful? 🙂
Caroline, meeting you was the highlight for me too. For real! What fun we had. I am lol-ing about the beautèful comment. Ha!
Oooh, I’m so jealous! Such beautiful scenery with awesome food and even more awesome bloggers — hope you had a great time.
It was great Julianne, you would have had a great time. Next year make the trip up. There were some folks that had come from across the country.
So did you go up in the ballon? I’m afraid of flying in planes as well and I can tell for sure I would never be able to go up in a hot air ballon! Looks like a beautiful day for it though!
It was tethered to the ground, so I did it. There was something a lot less scary to me about it than an airplane. It seemed like if something went wrong, we would just float down. I am sure I was totally irrational in that line of thinking, but it was great and I am so glad I did it!