It’s hard to believe it’s been 3 years since I wrote my first post, unsure of where it would take me. Since then, I’ve published 447 articles, and went from having a couple hundred page views per month to over 20 thousand!
If my life was a smooth, uneventful ride, I would bake a cake for the occasion. A cake chosen from the several options suggested last year in the comments, fingers crossed that it would be as gorgeous as this baby:
Instead of uneventful, our life seems to follow the script of North by Northwest. 😉 All kitchen stuff is now divided between two homes, we are surrounded by boxes, and constrained by deadlines. No cake this year, I’m afraid. Instead, I celebrate by bringing you the first giveaway in the Bewitching Kitchen!
Leave a comment on this post from now until the end of June, and on July 1st I will draw the name of the lucky winner. The prize?
A copy of “The Brazilian Kitchen“, a book I recently fell in love with and wrote a post about. Everyone is welcome, from all over the planet, as long as the mail service can reach you! 😉
To all my readers, subscribers, followers, friends (in real life and those special friendships formed through the blogosphere) thank you for your support! And a special thank you to Fer, from Chucrute com Salsicha, who (maybe without ever being aware of it), was my main source of inspiration to become a food blogger.
I close this post sharing two photos from our new home: the view from our kitchen window, and a spot at the corner of our backyard. Just a teaser, we are not moved in yet, but sort of camped there for a couple of days last week. The two of us, a bed, a kitchen table. and the amazing performance of fireflies outside the window during the night…
ONE YEAR AGO: The Bewitching Kitchen turns two!
TWO YEARS AGO: Bewitching Birthday!
THREE YEARS AGO: Welcome to my blog!
Bewitching Kitchen 
Ooooh oooooh, pick me, pick me! And if you don’t I may just have to buy that book for myself. Good luck with the move, those two shots look tantalizing. Great yard! Can’t wait to hear/read what year 4 brings.
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Congratulations on your third blogging anniversary, Sally. I hope that when you do make your celebratory cake it is delicious.
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congratulations dear sally! i remember that i discovered your amazing blog with the kind help of celia (fig jam and lime cordial) and joanna (zeb bakes). thank you for all kindness, generosity, inspiration, creativity you convey through your blog! should you consider me for your gift, please feel free to consider me for the international generous giveaway of yours. i wish the book was written in portuguese! thank you! eu queria que o livro foi escrito em português! obrigado! hellenic summer greetings and love to you!. gina 🙂
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Congratulations on your Birthday. Every year is a testament to you, your talent, and your dedicated readers, of which I’m very happy to be one of the newest.
I look forward to reading many, many more posts. 🙂
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Bon Voyage, Sally and Phil…..May the wind be at your back….
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Always an inspiration, even as you move forward to new beginnings! Happy 3 years blogging and I’m sure the fourth will be spectacular. The teaser pics are just that, expecting more thorough views of your new home as it evolves to become yours!
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Sally, good luck in your new home! We miss you already.
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Your blog anniversary is on Bloomsday. That seems auspicious to me as does your move and all of the things which are going on. Hectic, but things look lovely in Manhattan and so will you. 🙂
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WOW!! Here’s to three more years, and thank you for sharing all your kitchen adventures with us. I enjoy the posts!
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Sally, parabéns pelos três anos––realmente o tempo voa na blogosfera! estou surpresa e muito honrada pela sua menção. mas fico imensamente feliz por ter inspirado um blog de tamanha qualidade. super beijo!
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Congratulations on your third year “blog-iversary”. How generous of you to think of sharing this cookbook with your readers in the midst of this move.
Your new kitchen and garden both look amazing. Your going to enjoy living there a lot it seems. 🙂
Another new cookbook would be wasted on me as I still haven’t cooked anything from the last cookbook I was lucky enough to win in a blog (Sushi Day) draw, please leave me out of this one. Best of luck to everyone in the draw.
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I have new Brazilian family and am thankful for your blog as I attempt to surprise them with their native foods when they visit. I love the culture and the cuisine. Thank you.
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Happy anniversary! I’m so thankful your blog is here, it’s been a great support as I’ve endeavored, and floundered, on the sourdough road. Best wishes as you settle into your new home and for many successful years to come. I will look forward to a cake post in the near future. 😉
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Sally, your new home looks beautiful! I wish you the best of luck in your home and with your blog. Congratulations on your third anniversary! I always enjoy your blog.
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I would love to have this book also! I love reading your posts and look forward to each and every one! Here’s to another 3 years and another after that and another after that!
Donna
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3 years!! That really is an amazing feat…congratulations Sally 🙂
my dear friend is from Brazil and has taught me to love the food – wonderful fresh flavors.
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Congratulations on your 3 year mark – and on your new lovely home!
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I didn’t know your blog existed until today! I read your entry at EAT AT! I guess I have a lot of catching up! Looks like I’ll be visiting often. Thanks!
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Happy Birthday!!! 🙂
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Sally, eu descobri seu blog há pouco tempo, acho que uns dois meses atrás… A verdade é que minha paixão por pão fez com que eu visse algumas das suas experiências. Achei vc uma pessoa muito interessante, e resolvi seguir seu blog. Tenho a maior inveja dos produtos que vc acha por aí, principalmente essas últimas fotos que vi sobre os grãos que vc pode moer e levar fresco pra casa e fazer um pão maravilhoso!! Uau!! Aqui em Fortaleza é difícil até achar um pão mais saboroso imagina esses grãos!!! Um beijo pra vc e boa sorte na nova cidade! Bruna Torfs.
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Hi, hope the move and unpacking goes well. You may well discover some books you’d forgotten about! Thanks for your blogs, I too discovered you via Zeb and Celia, and would love the book! thanks and good luck.
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Hi, good luck with your moving and unpacking. You may discover some forgotten treasures in your books! I too discovered you via Zeb abd Celia.
Good luck, and I would love the book! thanks.
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Mazel tov, Sally! A visit to Bewitching Kitchen is always worth the trip.
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Sally, I am so excited about your new house! It has a garden! And that window looking out is just so wonderful! Good luck with the move! And congratulations, three years, it’s been an honour to know you all that time, dearheart! xxx
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congrats on 3 yrs of blogging. and good luck in your new home which from the pictures you shared seems to be in a very nice location w/ lots of green.
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Wow Sally, 3 years, that is fantastic. Well done. And a new home as well. I hope the move goes smoothly. It looks like a wonderful spot.l
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Always enjoy your posts. I loved the local food we tried on our too brief visit to Brazil and was thinking I might need to purchase this book. It would definitely get used! Good luck with the upcoming move-always an exciting adventure.
Mo
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Just see what you’ve accomplished in 3 years.. good on you!! I have enjoyed reading your posts and look forward to the next three or four or..
xo Smidge
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Congratulations Sally! You were the first blog we started reading regularly and I’m so glad Miss A picked Brazil so long ago in our adventures so that we found you. 🙂 Your backyard looks gorgeous! I can’t wait to see the kitchen (and what you whip up in there). Good luck with all the moving, packing and unpacking. I’ll be thinking of you. And you reminded me of how we used to lay in bed watching the fire flies outside our bedroom window at night in Minnesota. I still remember the first time we saw them – it’s a brilliant show. 🙂
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Oh, I would LOVE to get that cookbook, I’ve been looking at it on amazon.com ever since you wrote the coconut piece.
but, more important than anything: Happy 3rd year, Sally! So glad I found your blog almost at the very beginning, but not quite (I read the whole blog already, though)
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3 years, oh my! I remember when you first started and look how far you have come! Bravo to you!
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That’s great. I always enjoy coming here, even when you get all P90X on us.
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Sally, I absolutely LOVE your blog. I have made many recipes from it, and you constantly inspire me to cook and bake. I am of Portuguese origin, and enjoy the Brazilian section. Congratulations on your third anniversary.
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What a view!! I can just imagine how excited the two of you must be… camping is very romantic too ;-).
Happy, Happy 3rd Year Anniversary Bewitching Kitchen! Sally, you were the very first food blogger I ever reached out to. I will never forget your kindness. All the best to you and Phil as you journey into this next phase in your lives… looking forward to your new kitchen adventures :). Bon courage mon amie – xo.
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Congratulations on your third blogging anniversary, Sally 🙂
Wishing you many more amazingly successful years
The view from your kitchen looks amazing and I can’t wait to see the recipes you will prepare in it
All the best of luck in the move my friend
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Happy Bloganniversary and to many more! A great book and a wonderful view.
Cheers,
Rosa
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You always post awesome blog and your blog have a quality content.Congratulations on your third blogging anniversary
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Happy 3rd blog anniversary and many more! that book looks awesome. Check out my blog too, also have a contest going on for my 5th blog anniversary.
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Happy Blogiversary!!
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A general thank you, wish I could address each of you separately, but at the moment it’s not possible. Thanks for all your comments, loved to hear from quite a few “first time commenters”, nice surprise!
Moving set for tomorrow, and of course, stormy weather predicted for the same day. No idea how it will affect us and the timing of it all
as I said before (quite a few times): Moving: not for sissies!
Now, back to frantically packing…… (sigh)
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Wishing you safe travels and a smooth move!
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Happy birthday to your blog, Sally, and good luck with the moving!
Liana
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What a beautiful view! I love those windows. I was about to say “I hope your move goes smoothly” but I’m catching up and just saw your latest post – UGH! I feel your pain re: moving – we’re on day 3 of unpacking and it SUCKS. We were lucky enough to have the company pack for us, but unpacking it all now – I wish I’d packed it myself. The boxes are mishmashes of random things wrapped in SO MUCH PAPER I could literally fill the garage to the ceiling with it. I have no idea where my salt is. Or our stereo speakers (we suspect they may be tucked into a box labeled “suits and coats”). Moving is so frustrating – I hope things start moving along quickly for you now and the rest of the move goes smoothly. And at least now I know if I ever need a reference from a cookbook I can ask you…my goodness, 10 boxes?! lol I love it! 🙂 (P.S. What is UP with the tape dispensers?! I broke 2 of them just doing some preliminary packing…I was relegated to using my teeth to tear the tape!)
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All the best for your move. Anne MC
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Congratulations on three years with this wonderful blog, sharing your adventures with us. Thank you, Sally. I’ve learned a lot, tried some new recipes, and always enjoy the pictures of your pups.
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P.S. I’m a different Anne from the one in the previous comment.
🙂
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Big congrats on your blogging success! Your new home looks stunning–hope to see more pics of your new digs as you settle in. Caryn
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