Wednesday, March 12, 2008

E for Excellent and Nice Matters Awards

Recently I've been awarded the "Nice Matters Award" by Vaishali of Holy Cow! and the "E for Excellent" by Veggie of So what do vegetarians eat anyway?. Girls, I am speechless! I feel so honored because I only started blogging a little over two months ago and it feels good to be recognized in the blogging world already. Thank you girls, you made my day :-). And now it's my turn:

Amanda of Walking the Vegan Line definitely deserves a Nice Matters Award for her numerous nice activities to spread the message of veganism in Texas, "the land of barbeques and rodeo". Not the easiest place, it seems.

Second, I admire Chocolatecoveredvegan for giving up time to volunteer in an animal shelter to walk dogs. There's a well-deserved Nice Matters Award.

Third up is Vegan Dad who does a wonderful job of making a nutritious, healthy, and yummy vegan dinner every single night for his boys. Now, what is nicer than really taking a lot of time to make sure your kids grow up on a healthy diet when fast food is so easily available and socially accepted. Amazing job, vegan dad!

The E for Excellent is a little bit harder. I'm still relatively new to blogging and most of the blogs I know have received the E already. However, one of my favorite blogs which happens to be a non-food blog (albeit with a vegan sister blog), is What do I know. The author introduces herself as "an American living in Britain, a beautiful island in the North Atlantic. I often write about my adventures on the island, which is populated by friendly, dog-loving natives." I love her blog for its witty, pointed writing and good measure of irony so it's a clear E for KathyF.

The blog I probably adore most is Lucullian Delights. However, this blog is of a quality that I hardly dare award it anything cause that makes me feel like an ugly duckling assessing the beauty of a swan. Lucullian Delights features excellent, creative recipes, most of them veggie-based, and stunning, stunning photos. The most excellent blog I know!

So, congrats to all who recently have received one or the other award through me or somebody else. All your blogs are excellent and all of you inspire me so much with your cooking styles and your photos. And lastly, thank you again to Vaishali and Veggie who considered me for the awards.

8 comments:

ChocolateCoveredVegan said...

You are just such a sweet person; you've made me so happy (seriously, as dumb as it may sound, I have tears in my eyes right now). Thank you so much; it means so much to me that you thought of me. And, I know I said it before, but it's still true-- YOU are definitely very deserving of this award as well.

Vaishali said...

Anke, congratulations on the awards you received. You definitely deserve them! And I can't wait to visit the blogs you are passing on the awards to- they all sound fascinating.

J said...

Congrats on your awards! You really deserve them!

Vegan_Noodle said...

Aw, that really made me smile, and I definitely needed that today. :-) Thank you so much for the Nice Matters award! Your blog is so enjoyable and your amazing heart really shows in every one of your posts.

Anonymous said...

awe, congratulations - that's awesome!

Unknown said...

Congratulations!

Vegan Dad said...

I love getting awards! Thanks!

Ilva said...

Thanks Anke, sorry for being so late to comment! I feel really honoured by this award and I can tell you that I cherish what you wrote about Lucullian, it feels so good to read things like that! Thanks and a big hug!