I don’t know about you, but I am READY for 2010 start.<\/p>\n

2009 hasn’t been the easiest year for me — not so good job news for both of us and family health scares are some of the biggies.\u00a0 But enough harping on bad stuff.\u00a0 Plenty of good stuff happened on this blog, so that’s what I’m going to focus on!<\/p>\n

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1. I posted every month this year.\u00a0 Those of you who have been faithful readers from the beginning know how sporadic I was about posting.<\/li>\n
2. I joined FoodBuzz and became a Featured Publisher.<\/li>\n
3. BSI contests!<\/li>\n
4. Meeting so many wonderful people in the blogosphere<\/li>\n
5. Bento!!<\/li>\n
6. Making my blog my own — I moved over from Blogger to my own domain earlier this year and then revamped everything and even renamed my site recently.\u00a0 I wanted my blog to be a good fit for me and I think it’s getting there!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

   After seeing some of you doing this on your blogs, I decided to put together a list of some of my favorite bento and recipe posts from this year (in no particular order):<\/p>\n

   A Bento Breakthrough<\/a><\/p>\n

   Red Enchilada Chicken<\/a><\/p>\n

   A Short and Sweet Treat<\/a><\/p>\n

   Playing With Your Food Can Be Fun<\/a><\/p>\n

   Raspberry Lemon Mini-Cheesecakes with Gingersnap Crust<\/a><\/p>\n

   Lightning Fast Fried Rice<\/a><\/p>\n

   Thunder Snow and Some Good Eats<\/a><\/p>\n

   Spicy French Toast<\/a><\/p>\n

   Double Header: General Tso’s Chicken and Veggie Lo Mein<\/a><\/p>\n

   Tangy Salmon Cakes<\/a><\/p>\n

   Herbed Ricotta Gnudi with Shrimp and Pesto<\/a><\/p>\n

   Sweet Strawberry Samosas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

   I don’t know about you, but I am READY for 2010 start. 2009 hasn’t been the easiest year for me — not so good job news for both of us and family health scares are some of the biggies.\u00a0 But enough harping on bad stuff.\u00a0 Plenty of good stuff happened on this blog, so that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,8,38,48,17,16,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spicesbites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spicesbites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spicesbites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicesbites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicesbites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicesbites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spicesbites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicesbites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spicesbites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}