Link Love: Entertaining and Cooking Blogs

What makes great cooking and entertaining blogs? Smart and engaging content that focuses on a particular subject matter, accompanied most often by great photography and a hefty dose of opinion. The Daily Meal is dedicated to sifting through the vast array of content gracing the food blogosphere in order to deliver a daily sampling of the stories worth reading and the blogs worth following.

• Crispy eggplant chips with a cilantro pesto dipping sauce. [What's Gaby Cooking]

• Indivudual peaches and cream cobblers — baked and served in glass mason jars. [Life, In Recipes]

• A clever way to get picky children to broaden their culinary horizons. [Dinner: A Love Story]

• A dairy-free recipe for mushroom and asparagus risotto. [Clean Green Simple]

• Celebrating the season's produce with a dinner party, and a recipe for green gazpacho. [Not Eating Out in NY]

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