One of my favorite recipe blogs is Lori’s My Wooden Spoon. It is a great place to go for a Key Lime Pie recipe or some of the greatest contests ever. She is always willing to lend a hand and answer any question you may have. She has the best pictures when she shows you how to make the various recipes. I wish I had the time to do that with my cooking blog (I think two little ones hanging off me makes it a tad more difficult). She also has the funniest tag line ever: Where it’s perfectly legal to use a little pot. I giggle every time I see that (is that wrong?). I also love that with her recent contests she is also giving a wooden spoon as part of the grand prize. It is just so fitting. If you want to read a great cooking/recipe blog, My Wooden Spoon is your one stop shop.

If you have been Google slapped like myself (not on this blog but my other one was), you probably are trying to find new ways to get your site out there to more people (not that traffic helps PR but linkbacks do). The newest Social Media, Social Networking site out there is EarthFrisk. It is a combination of Digg/Thoof/Sk*rt and MyBlogLog/Blog Catalog. However, you get to choose what you want in your widget (as compared to the latter). You can definitely lose several hours of your days reading posts and watching videos (so make sure you have some free time while viewing). The site itself has several interesting facets to it.

I even enjoyed this:

I know it is so wrong (but very funny). It is hard to get comments. That being said they are running a pretty cool contest right now for cash and prizes (who can turn down a great contest?). Actually, they are running several different contests.

The first contest is for the largest network of friends. Right now, no one has over 80 friends, so you have a chance. First prize will net you $2,000 among some other cool stuff (but the cash should have gotten your attention. It is super easy to enter. First, you need to join (you know, fill in a couple of blanks with your information). Then get all of your friends to join too! The next contest is for the most submission and you can get yourself $500 for winning this one. You can also win by making the most commens on their boards and that will win you $500 too. Lastly, you can win $100 for the best looking/original homepage. Seriously, there is something for everyone to try for. Go check it out!