Oh, my... It is so dusty in here! Can't believe it's been so long since I was here. Just too much going on so the cooking and food experiences unfortunately had to be put on the back burner for a while. Now I have finally managed to get my head above water and find some time to breathe, so time to do some catching up.
Last month have been very hectic. Merger of companies I work for, new apartment, visiting the south west of Ireland for a friend's birthday, pressed for time at work delivering a site for a well known Swedish restaurant guide company...
Everything has gone well though, and I must say I am very proud of what my team of Swedish web developers over at Infogate have delivered for White Guide, which I certainly should mention here since it has a bit of a Swedish foodie connection to say the least.
White Guide is THE Swedish restaurant guide book, listing and reviewing the best restaurants in Sweden. They also hand out a number of awards every year to the restaurants that truly excel in various ways.
Over a very short time line we have gone from nothing but a printed guide book to a full fledged digital restaurant guide web site, links to our booking engine, a member section activated through individual codes distributed in the printed guide, e-commerce functionality for buying online memberships if you feel a guide delivered on dead trees is a bit old fashioned, decent web publishing tool in the back end to make it easy to maintain and a way of distributing all that restaurant content to my employer's restaurant booking web sites. It even looks good, if I may say so myself.
Yesterday was the big launch at Berns in Stockholm, in my opinion one of the most beautiful looking venues in the city, and traffic has been good on the site.
Feels food to have the launch behind us, knowing that everything went well. Now we need to sort out the list of tweaks, features and additions that didn't make it in there in time, which willl be pure fun now that the pressure is off. And, I can start cooking and playing with food again!
Mum always told me not to play with my food when I was a kid. One of the few advice she has given me over the years that is obviously plain wrong. ;) Of course food should be played with!
Made a great meal for me and my friends last Saturday, thanks goes out to the "Three gils in the kitchen" blogging in Swedish over at www.ragazze.se. Based on their recipe for Cevapcici we had a great dinner with Bosnian meatballs, oven roasted vegetables and that olive mixture they came up with. I added some finely chopped chili to the olive mixture, which made it more exciting.
Phew. Just thinking about all the stuff I should blog about makes me dizzy. The Kava from Pille, challenges from Paz and Anne, about the food in Ireland... Not short on topics, to say the least. And this weekend I am going to Paris, to meet a special someone. We have booked the blind place, Dans Noir, I am sure that will be an interesting experience...
URL: White Guide - the best restaurants in Sweden
URL: Infogate - building better webs (in Swedish)
URL: Ragazze - Three girls in the kitchen (in Swedish)
