Seen and Heard in Edmonton

You know that feeling where you really can’t eat another bite but oh, that looks so good, and you must? That’s what diving back into Edmonton’s blogs has been like. Just one more, and one more, and suddenly you have a very full roundup. Let’s begin, then, with food.

Lillian Tse of Beyond Umami and Julie of Julie’s Kitchen Adventures look back at their personal years in the kitchen, while Sharon Yeo looks at the year in food in the city. (Those candied cranberries you see above, by the way, are ones my daughter and I made from Lillian’s blog.)

There are some pretty scrumptious-looking recipes here from Valerie Lugonja at A Canadian Foodie, Lindsay at Edible Woman, Angela at AllwaysAngela and Cathy Walsh at Walsh Cooks, plus a super-fun cooking video from Alexis Hillyard at Stump Kitchen and some extreme eats in Lacombe with the Kitchen Magpie family.

It’s the season for resolutions and goal-setting: Hannah Hamilton has hers down to one word, and Katie at Frugal Can Be Fab and Gabby at The Broke Girl Blog have money-related goals.

Lori Godin at Frugal Edmonton Mama sets some family goals; Kristina Lynne is getting reading for her first year as a mom; and Cassie is looking forward to making mistakes.

Tracey Sawatzky sets herself a physical challenge; if beekeeping is your goal for 2017, Dustin Bajer can help; and Brandon Schatz has some important goats in mind.

Loving yourself is a good thing: Erika Ensign at fangirlknitsscarf has been working on that, and Megan at Mastering Health has some good suggestions for showing that love. Loving someone else is good, too, as Lyndsey at Over My Styled Body knows.

Looking for some media to consume? Laura Frey at Reading in Bed lays out her plans; Danica Leblanc finds some patriarchy-smashing reads; Adina J looks back at her reading year on Blue Collar Red Lipstick; Matt Bowes does his annual inventory of media consumption on This Nerding Life; Dave Cournoyer of daveberta.ca lists his favourite podcasts; and Liz Nicholls previews a pretty funny-sounding local web series on her new blog, 12th Night.

What else can you do? YEG Uncovered urges you to embrace winter, which you can do, as Lincoln Ho suggests on yegventures, at the Deep Freeze festival; or, as Amy at Passports and Pigtails suggests, at the Edmonton Ice Castle; or, as Robyn suggests on Musings of the Edmonton Tourist, you could just take a walk in Mill Creek Ravine. Prefer to stay inside? Jenna Marynowski previews a play on After the House Lights, and Angela Ostafichuk praises the Edmonton Public Library’s storytelling project.

Aaron Paquette and Jennifer Quist share their thoughts on where author Joseph Boyden went wrong.

Troy Pavlek crunches some photo radar numbers; Chris at Yeg Weather Nerdery explores a real cold snap; and Duncan Kinney at Progress Alberta hails a sign that Bill 10’s efforts to support LGBTQ students is working.

Chris LaBossiere pays tribute to a friend who was there when he needed him; Rev Recluse’s Vintage Edmonton digs up some local news from 1882; and David Climenhaga takes a look at St. Albert’s civic election on Alberta Politics.

Finally, a little bit of business-y stuff: Danielle Higdon shares some social media advice from various Twitter folk (including me!) on The Social Pen; Tema Frank collects the best customer experience advice from her Frank Reactions podcast guests; Blaine Bertsch of dryrun explains what a good accountant can do for you; Nadine Riopel suggests ways to network outside of events; and Kim-Ann Samuda of Divine Class Consulting suggests some different ways to go job-hunting.

That’s what caught my eye this time around, but you can always find more on ShareEdmonton and in previous blog roundups. I also collect my picks in a Flipboard magazine.