Last weekend, the editor of AllFreeCopycatRecipes and I had the absolute pleasure of attending the International Food Bloggers Conference in Seattle, Washington. Traveling to the pacific northwest, meeting food bloggers, attending sessions on such exciting topics as food photography and recipe development, and eating incredibly delicious food made for one amazing weekend. I miss it already.
The Food
Seattle is a famous food city, so it made perfect sense to hold the conference here. Even if you’re not a seafood lover, you can’t deny that the seafood here is out-of-this-world. Why? Because it’s fresh! Bristol Bay Sustainable Salmon provided food the first night. This consisted of three salmon appetizers, including salmon brioche and salmon cakes. Yum! There were also a ton – A TON – of bite-size desserts. Cupcakes of all sorts – “normal,” gluten free, and vegan – as well as cake balls and mini turnovers.
On Saturday night, we attended “A Taste of Seattle + Gourmet Fair.” This was more fun than dinner because we got the opportunity to sample all sorts of food instead of just a few items. One dish that really stood out to me was the Asian fusion chicken and waffles from Kaisho, a local restaurant in Seattle. Besides being delicious, it was served in a Chinese take-out box, complete with a dropper full of syrup. I give it ten points for taste and ten points for presentation.
The People
One of my favorite things about attending blogger conferences is meeting bloggers we currently work with. It was so nice to meet and chat with such lovely people, including Nicole from Or Whatever You Do, Sarah from The Magical Slow Cooker, Joan from Chocolate, Chocolate and More, Taylor from Food Faith Fitness, and Elise from Simply Recipes. They make delicious recipes (and take excellent photos!). Here is a sampling of their work:
Farmers’ Market Beef Stew
Fat Man’s Layered Delight
Wholesome Pizza Lasagna
Cheddar Bacon Scalloped Potatoes
Slow Cooked Boston Baked Beans
The Giveaway
*This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to the winner, Thomas!
One lucky winner will take home this swag bag, which includes:
- Wooden spoon from Anolon
- Butterball apron
- Crisp zester
- “Cuts of Beef” dish towel
- Bigelow tea
- Measuring cups
- The official International Food Bloggers Conference tote bag
- And more!
How to Win:
Just leave a comment and answer our question below and you’ll be entered to win the Swag Bag. It’s as simple as that! You have until October 14th to enter.
Giveaway Rules:
- Contest open to US and Canada residents 18+
- One comment/entry per person per blog post.
- Contest closes October 14th at 11:59pm CST.
- Leave a comment on this blog post answering the question below to be entered to win. The winner will be notified via email on October 15th.
What is your favorite type of seafood?
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Scampi is my fave
Spicy Cajun Style Boiled Shrimp
I love shrimp too!
I love shrimp!
Shrimp
i love fried shrimp
I love grilled shrimp.
sea bass is my fave, it’s the high fat content that makes it sooo delish!
Broiled Lobster is my favorite seafood served with garlic butter
It was SO great meeting you both at IFBC! Don’t enter me in the contest, but I wanted to comment and thank you for linking me, and tell everyone how AWESOME this swag bag is! Great products, and great people. <3
It was so great meeting you, too!
I love making shrimp scampi.
Lobster roll is my favorite seafood served with homemade french fries ;)!
Lobster, I love it and can’t get enough
I am allergic to seafood so I don’t have a favorite.
I love shrimp.
I love shrimp! Thanks.
I love shrimp!
Shrimp or Haddock!
shrimp is my hubby’s fav.l and mine. ty
Salmon!
Shrimp is my favorite.
My favorite type of seafood is Shrimp, I love coconut shrimp!
My favorite type is crab. I love crab rangoons.
OYSTERS! OYSTERS! OYSTERS! Three cheers for Oysters!
Shrimp with butter and garlic
I would have to say crab legs! 🙂 not a fan of seafood but in Culinary school so love cooking for others and pleasing them! 🙂
Yikes – that is a tough call. I love lobster and crab, so clearly I love butter. But salmon is amazing, and tuna salad is a staple in my house. Hopefully I can pick a few! 🙂
I can’t get past the smell of seafood = no favorite.
I love fresh trout. I also love salmon.
I love shrimp.
Seabass for sure!
I love Whitefish!
I love seafood so its hard to pick my favorite but I’ll say Dungeness Crab! So many ways to prepare it too!
I love all types of fish.
I am totally in love with crab
Fresh salmon and king crab!!!! Though, it’s been years since I’ve had either. I miss living in Seattle.
I love boiled shrimp. I want to thank you for this awesome sweep 🙂
I love maryland blue crabs.
I love Fried Shrimp
Scallops, breaded, grilled or steamed, I love them, can never get my fill.
I love shrimp.
CRAB! CRAB! CRAB what more can i say!!
Lobster rules!
It’s a toss up between Lobster and shrimp.
Nothing like fresh flounder or shrimp! Hopefully together!
Fresh boiled Dungeness crab or broiled lobster with dipping butter.
Lobster
Too many to chose!! But I am partial to MahiMahi and Rockfish
Shrimp is my favorite type of seafood
Fresh Louisiana Shrimp
My all time favorite seafood is broiled sea scallops!
Our favorite seafood has to be shrimp!
Boiled Maine Lobster and Steamed Little Neck Clams with fries, coleslaw and hushpuppies on a mid-August evening just off the beach.
Grouper!
Lobster with lots of butter!!
I have a tie. I love love love Chilian Sea Bass and crab meat equally!!!! YUMMY!!!!
I am not fond of seafood.
I love all sea food!
My fave is shrimp!
I love cod or haddock.
i love most all seafood! Yum.
I love fried clams!!!!
love shrimp
Anything with shrimp
Fried catfish and fried medium size shrimp! Yummy 🙂
I love cat fish.
I like shrimp and lobster with butter.
I love crab with butter!
My fave is a big plate of crab legs with a li’l melted butter on the side!! Ooohh, yeah!
my Fav seafood is NONE!!!! my Hubby can’t get enough of it
Love fried Calamari!
My favorite is broiled shrimp with cocktail sauce. Yum!
LOBSTER!!!
Love lobster cooked anyway. Also oysters – again anyway including raw. Would love to win
Grilled Shrimp is my favorite seafood.
It was so nice to meet you girls! It was a blast!
Salmond. It can be prepared in so many different ways.
Fried shrimp is my favorite!
Shrimp is it!
I don’t eat seafood–I don’t have a favorite. Thank you for the giveaway!
I love crab cakes.
Lobster is my favorite.
I like shrimp and crab.
Coconut shrimp
Crab legs, Alaskan King crab legs, and more crab legs 🙂 My favorite thing in the world I think.
I love sooo many kinds: crab legs, oysters, calamari….but my favorite is probably raw tuna…mmm
I would love to be part of this giveaway.
i love shrimp any kind
tuna fish
I love shrimp scampi! But I also like scallops, snow crab, tuna steak and swordfish steak done on the grill – so many tasty things from the sea! Yum!
Living close to the Bay of Fundy, I have to say both Bay Scallops and fresh dug clams. Yum!!!
Go I’m hoping to win the prize it looks very awesome!
I love Salmon, I could eat it every day, I even love it cold the next day.
Crab cakes or Bonefish Grill’s Bang Bang Shrimp
My cat and I both love shrimp.
Scallops
I love shrimp, oysters, crab and a couple others like scallops, lobster and scampi 🙂
Actually, if it was all cooked on a Fisherman’s Platter, I would eat everything … lol
Delicious grilled Maine lobster grilled right out side my door!!!! Yum! I can taste it now!
I love grilled shrimp and salmon
I like salmon.
I absolutely love shrimp.
I also love salmon or just about any fish.
Pick Me!!!! The contest ends on my birthday!
My favorites are salmon and scallops.
Smoked Mullet
Orange Roughy for me!
I can’t say there is a seafood that I haven’t liked. Would have to say my alltime favorites would be shrimp & scallops. Thank-you for the chance to win this prize package. It sounds awesome!! :0)
Has to be4 cheese covered salmon.
Shrimp…..
My favorite would be Blackend Grouper.
lobster any way
My favorite is TALIPIA FISH & SHRIMP..
My favorite is Shrimp, Red Snapper Fish, Crabs, Lobster. All seafood are favorites!
Crab Cakes!
My favorite seafood is crab cakes!
Shrimp
My favorites are shrimp and tilapia
My favorite is fish chowder with Haddock
Spicy, steamed shrimp is my favorite seafood. Red Snapper is a close second.
Shrimp, crab, lobster, and salmon!
I adore shrimp… but once in a blue moon, I enjoy lobster (as long as it is not the substitute Langostino Lobster!! — yuck!! — and it isn’t even real lobster).
A nice whole tasty crab!
Shrimp and mostly because I love ceviche!! That lemon squeezer will sure come in handy!! :))
Shrimp
I love shrimp, but I also love lobster, crabs, scallops & calamari! I grew up camping at the beach on vacation & I learned to love seafood at a young, tender age!
I love seared scallops best
Fried catfish with hush puppies have been favorites for a very long time!
Being from New England – Boiled Lobster is my favorite seafood.with melted butter for dipping.
It doesn’t need the embellishments
Salmon – any way you fix it.
I love anything that comes out of the ocean or water.
I love seafood. For shrimp it’s like hearing Bubba on Forrest Gump! My favorite may be scallops, broiled and dipped in clarified butter.
I’ve actually always liked cod.
Lobster and crab yum!
My favorite type of seafood is Maine lobster.
I love sea scallops wrapped in bacon, seasoned with Old Bay and cooked over charcoal.
I love salmon cooked in olive oil, lemon juice and Tony’s!
Rainbow Trout or Arctic Grayling fresh out of the river
Oysters Rockefeller
My favorite type of seafood is crab!
Crab !!
My favorite is crab
I love all seafood!! But, I am going to say lobster tail dipped in garlic butter sauce. Mmmmmm. Now I’m hungry!
I love peel and eat shrimp but all seafood is what I gravitate toward
Grilled or baked scallops. Yum!
I like Blackened Salmon
Gueyducks
i love crab. any kind of crab. on anything. just crab.
I love Fish & Chips 🙂
Shrimp!
I love beer battered shrimp. It is really good especially dipped in tartar sauce
I love shrimp!!!
I don’t really like seafood other that fish sticks.
I’m not a big seafood eater, but I do like lobster. I will never ever cook it, though. I’m not comfortable cooking seafood in my kitchen. I always go out for it.
I love squid!…& Top Pot donuts!!
I love fried shrimp.
tuna
Shrimp scampi.. we love it!
My favorite is Maryland steamed crabs.
Salmon is the best !
I like crab cakes.
A nice, grilled, well seasoned halibut filet!
cooking is fun
I just love Fra Diavolo, shrimp, scallops, mussels clams and fish in a spicy tomato sauce over spaghetti is heaven.
My favorite type of Seafood is Lobster
I like salmon.
My favorite would be king crab legs
I like grilled shrimp.
I love shrimp and lobster….really cannot choose one over the other it all depends on how they’re served.
My favorite seafood is salmon.
I WOULD HAVE TO SAY SHRIMP
I heart the shrimp!
shark
I love coconut shrimp! Yum
yummy spicy cajun shrimp
I love fish and was great to go fishing with my dad to catch our own dinner. I sure do miss him.
My favorite seafood is shrimp. I love Coconut Shrimp the very best.
I love most of it, but shrimp and lobster are my favorites.
My favorite seafood is crab.
I love shrimp scampi!
Definitely LOBSTER!
My favorite seafood is butterfly shrimp.
Shrimp is my favorite
My favorite seafood is Mahi Mahi fillet with artichokes and sun dried tomatoes!
I love fish!
I love Calamari. I like it steamed but also when it is grilled with a little bit of a mixture of butter and garlic.
I love King Crab (with lots of butter)
I really love crab legs and fried shrimp.
Shrimp is my favorite
Lobster is my favorite.
I love shrimp anyway it’s prepared.
Crab alfredo
Boiled peel n eat shrimp with Old Bay!
Fried flounder.
Steamed clams is my downfall :-). Thank you so much for the chance to win this.
my favorite type of seafood is definitely shrimp and I love it all kinds of ways !
KC
my fave is crabs, crab legs- crab cakes mmmm
cod, straight from Alaska!
tricky one! I love shrimp though most ways! Maybe stuffed with crab would be best! Thanks so much for the chance to win
I love all seafood. Lobster is my favorite but very expensive so we eat shrimp scampi a lot.
My favorite is Buttered Lobster!!!!
Favorite shrimp is shrimp cocktail
i love shrimp scampi, it’s my favorite
I’ve always loved shrimp. There’s so much that you can do with it, hot or cold!
Alaskan snow king crab legs!
I like lobster.
Honestly, I am not a fan of seafood and don’t eat it. I take vitamins with omega.
i love fried shrimp
A well done scallop is my favorite. I like a crispy outside and creamy inside.
Lobster, shrimp and crab are my favorites.
I love seared tuna steaks with lime.
I love shrimp, crab and lobster.
I like shrimp
Shrimp is my favorite!! Mmmmmmm
Definitely lobster. Favorite food in general.
Shrimp is my favorite.
Fresh hot Crab Legs.
Shrimp sauteed in garlic and butter- that is my favorite.
My favorite type of seafood is crab
We love Scallops —> Linguine With Scallops, Brown Butter, and Peas
Salmon! I love salmon so much.
I love Mahi Mahi!
I love oysters!