I have almost forgotten how to blog, it feels strange to be so absent from something that has been such an integral part of my life for five years because the 27th of September Lucullian Delights passed its fifth anniversary! All alone and forgotten by me. That is bad but now I am trying to amend for my neglect.
These past five years have been long, it feels so much longer than many other five years periods that I have passed in my life and I often wonder why this is so. One reason is that many things have changed in my life but then many other things are still the same. Maybe it is because both my parents died and that slowed down everything because it seems as if I have been missing them for an eternity while it obviously isn't so.
One thing is sure and that is that food blogging has changed immensely over the years, when I started very few people started food blogging with the view of earning money by it, it was still almost possible to follow and read most of the active food blogs out there. To be honest I liked it more then than now because it was less about stats and more about community but I think that the food blogging community still is one of the friendliest and nicest that there is in the blogosphere and I still enjoy food blogging a lot. And the major reason to why I like it is YOU, I feel as if I have the best readers in the world and without you and your support, my life would be so much emptier. I know I often go on about this but it is really how it is and do you want me to lie?? or not appreciate you?? noooo that wouldn't be fair would it so I will go on about that as long as I blog! So I would like to dedicate this cake to you and say Thank You for these wonderful five years that I have spent with you, some of you even from the start, and I hope you will keep on reading Lucullian and looking at my photos!
Love &Peace
Ilva
Love &Peace
Ilva
Happy blog birthday and thank you for the wonderful cake!
ReplyDeleteThank YOU! Tack själv! I do think like you too. About the community. Kind of miss that and think it's harder to really connect and communicate with new bloggers. At least I try to keep up with my blogging friends from "back then" ;) like you for instance. You'll always have a special place in my thoughts, in my computer and also when I'm writing in my own blog.
ReplyDeleteJag kommer läsa och följa dig så länge du håller på, så länge jag har möjlighet och så får framtiden helt enkelt utvisa vad som kommer ske.
Grattis i efterskott då till "engelskabloggen" :* /åsa
Congratulations on five years! I agree, food blogging has changed a lot, but the readers are wonderful (more wonderful) now and there are still friendships being made through blogging that would never have been possible in any other way. Here's to another five years of Lucullian!
ReplyDelete;) We will enjoy the cake and continue to enjoy your delicious recipes and stunning photos. Congratulations!!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats and to many more!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you!
Cheers,
Rosa
Congrats Ilva, it's been a great pleasure knowing you and your blog. Wishing you many more years to come..
ReplyDeleteWow what delicious cake. Happy Birthsday. Looking forward to the next five years.....
ReplyDeleteWow what delicious cake. Happy Birthsday. Looking forward to the next five years.....
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Ilva!
ReplyDeleteYou must have been one of the first bloggers I "met" and I have been an admirer of your cooking and creative talents ever since.
I hope you do make it to Vienna soon,
then we shall celebrate the Viennese way.
Hugs,
Merisi
I hope Lucillian Delights will go forever. I love everything about it, your recipes, your absolutely beautiful imagery, your insights. I just hope you'll never stop sharing these with your readers, regardless of what food blogging is all about. Thank you for your hard work over the last 5 years, and here is to many, many more.
ReplyDeleteHey hey - Happy anniversary, all I can say it that yours has inpsired many an entry on mine, and that I still aspire to take such great shots of food that you do.. lets make sure we are still here in another 5 years ;o)
ReplyDeleteHappy Five years, and I think I have known you for most of those five years. Someday we will meet in person, I just know it.
ReplyDeleteI do miss some things about the early days too, but we can't really go back to it so I guess we have to just try to keep what we can of the sense of community.
Thank you for your wonderful food blogging and introduction to so many new lovely things to eat :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats, belatedly! x
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!! :)
ReplyDeletePlease,continue the way you are writing!
I enjoy it a lot!
Congratulations for 5 years of all those wonderful posts and images. I'm a relative newcomer and keeping up with the plethora of talent and wonderful things you want to read can be a challenge - I envy you for diving in a few years ago. However I have loved the genuine warmth and encouragement I've received from the food blogging community across the world. Looking forward to another 5 years.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Ilva on your half decade of blogging! I truly appreciate your work, keep on giving us great moments, great food, great pictures and above all, all your passion!
ReplyDeleteHello my dear Ilva I cannot believe it is 5 years ,, Well done and it has been such a pleasure coming over to your blog and seeing what delights you have for us each day, and your fantastic photography. Keep up the wonderful work, we all enjoy it. :-D
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful photograph and cake! Again it is such an inspiration seeing your artwork in the kitchen and in your photo studio.....even if if is "at a back door in the kitchen where you find the best light." However, I do not think that this cake found the back door........
ReplyDeleteHappy 5th Anniversary........!
A belated happy anniversary! Your blog has always been my overall favorite one and continues to inspire me not just about food & flavors but I love the way you ramble on about life in general. :)
ReplyDeleteKeep Blogging, your recipes are wonderful, and your musings delightful.
ReplyDeleteLeggo volentieri il tuo blog e gli|vi auguro 100 di questi anni felici, un atorta degna di questo blog grazie
ReplyDeleteIlva you were the first food blog I ever read and followed, you're still amazing after 5 years! Don't stop, you're an inspiration and an encouragement to all your readers. Happy Blogoversary!
ReplyDeleteMarie
Grattis till femåringen! Jag håller med dig i det du skriver, ibland längtar jag tillbaka till den tidigare bloggtiden. Sen är det naturligtvis kul med alla nya roliga bloggar också. Numera är jag dålig både på att hinna blogga och att läsa andra bloggar. Tänker att jag ska sätta fart men tiden räcker inte till. Du har varit så flitig hela tiden och regelbundet lagt ut underbara recept och fantastiska bilder. Kul att du fortsätter och att du fortfarande verkar ha så mycket inspiration! Tack för att jag får ta del av allt detta! Kram/Eva
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Both beautiful and practical. Thanks so much for all your lucullian delights!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations not only on five years of blogging, but for having one of the most beautiful, thoughtful and delicious blogs available. Your warmth and wisdome is a bright part of all of our days. Big hugs! Jeni
ReplyDeleteFive years! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are the best in the blogosphere - you have an incredible eye in finding beauty in tableaus that others don't notice. I am sure you are that way with people too, if the feelings and musings you choose to write about are any indication. Your relationship with your audience is simply 'real' - and in every post you answer the question 'And how are your today?" honestly, the same way you would comment to a good neighbour - over the back fence.
It's the same with your recipes; you cook naturally and do it instinctively - not having the need to toot your own horn about how new wave 'natural' cooking is .... because you've cooked honestly with unprocessed ingredients from the 'get-go'!
I have only been following you for about eighteen months, but I am putting on my 'to do' list to occasionally go back to your early posts, and see how your photos and recipes have evolved over the years.
Happy Anniversary Ilva, and I hope to delight in your Lucullian ramblings for many years to come!
Five years! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are the best in the blogosphere - you have an incredible eye in finding beauty in tableaus that others don't notice.
I am sure you are that way with people too, if the feelings and musings you choose to write about are any indication. Your relationship with your audience is simply 'real' - and in every post you answer the question 'And how are your today?" honestly, the same way you would comment to a good neighbour - over the back fence.
It's the same with your recipes; you cook naturally and do it instinctively - not having the need to toot your own horn about how new wave 'natural' cooking is .... because you've cooked honestly with unprocessed ingredients from the 'get-go'!
I have only been following you for about eighteen months, but I am putting on my 'to do' list to occasionally go back to your early posts, and see how your photos and recipes have evolved over the years.
Happy Anniversary Ilva, and I hope to delight in your Lucullian ramblings for many years to come!<span>
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Five years! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are the best in the blogosphere - you have an incredible eye in finding beauty in tableaus that others don't notice.
I am sure you are that way with people too, if the feelings and musings you choose to write about are any indication. Your relationship with your audience is simply 'real' - and in every post you answer the question 'And how are your today?" honestly, the same way you would comment to a good neighbour - over the back fence.
It's the same with your recipes; you cook naturally and do it instinctively - not having the need to toot your own horn about how new wave 'natural' cooking is .... because you've cooked honestly with unprocessed ingredients from the 'get-go'!
I have only been following you for about eighteen months, but I am putting on my 'to do' list to occasionally go back to your early posts, and see how your photos and recipes have evolved over the years.
Happy Anniversary Ilva, and I hope to delight in your Lucullian ramblings for many years to come!<span>
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Five years! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are the best in the blogosphere - you have an incredible eye in finding beauty in tableaus that others don't notice.
I am sure you are that way with people too, if the feelings and musings you choose to write about are any indication. Your relationship with your audience is simply 'real' - and in every post you answer the question 'And how are your today?" honestly, the same way you would comment to a good neighbour - over the back fence.
It's the same with your recipes; you cook naturally and do it instinctively - not having the need to toot your own horn about how new wave 'natural' cooking is .... because you've cooked honestly with unprocessed ingredients from the 'get-go'!
I have only been following you for about eighteen months, but I am putting on my 'to do' list to occasionally go back to your early posts, and see how your photos and recipes have evolved over the years.
Happy Anniversary Ilva, and I hope to delight in your Lucullian ramblings for many years to come!<span>
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Ilva, Happy Belated Blogging Birthday!
ReplyDeleteI am always so happy to read your posts and see your beautiful photos. I do hope you stick around so we can 'see' you for a long time to come.
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Ilva, Happy Belated Blogging Birthday!
ReplyDeleteI am always so happy to read your posts and see your beautiful photos. I do hope you stick around so we can 'see' you for a long time to come.
:-D
Ilva, Happy Belated Blogging Birthday!
ReplyDeleteI am always so happy to read your posts and see your beautiful photos. I do hope you stick around so we can 'see' you for a long time to come.
:-D
UhOh...I have no clue why so many of my comment posted at once, sorry about that!
ReplyDeleteIlva, your blog has changed my life. I read it every day... and each time I think about you in Italy... blogging and cooking in your beautiful little kitchen. I am amazed at what you create and your passion about what you do. The beauty in each delicious dish. The stories of your life, your family, friends, photography. Watching your growth for the past 5 years has been amazing. I support you from afar every day. You are the best.
ReplyDeleteIlva, I've only been with you for about a year, hiding in the background. ;)
ReplyDeleteI normally don't write comments, but five years is a great reason to celebrate!
I want to say that I have really enjoyed your stories and photographs of your beautiful home/landscape.
Congratulations!
Congratulations! In two months I will come up on my five year anniversary. It is a long time. I hope you have printed the posts out in book form. On rare occasions I go back to read mine, and I kind of go, I said that? Your photos are beautiful, but what I have especially liked are the charming little recipes that are sort of the grandmother recipes out of the main stream. Best wishes to you.
ReplyDeleteThe blog world would not be as nice without your blog Ilva. I came to know you via HOTM, and now I read and enjoy post every picture of yours. You find beauty in unexected places and let us find it too. Before I get too emotional..XOXO
ReplyDeleteHugs
Soma
i think YOU have changed many things in a few people's lives too. at least in my life you came and kicked me in the butt when i needed. life would not be the same if you were not in it ilva and i would not have met you if it wasn't for your space here. so happy big 5 my bella! you rock!
ReplyDelete5 years seems a long time - it was 5 years ago that I started reading food blogs - and I am grateful to people like you who went before me and showed the way - and glad you are still blogging - here's to another 5 years
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, dear Ilva.
ReplyDeleteA bit late, but better late than never! I've showed your blog for many friends and they all get impressed by you, like I do! Remember then you mailed me and said that you had started a food blog, the whole idea of food blogging and blogging was new to me, but thanks to you I have read and learnt so much! And been inspired and hungry.
ReplyDeletePch så lite på svenska; det är alltid en fröjd att gå in på din blogg, både text och bildmässigt. På söndag åker jag till Italien i en vecka, till min väns hus längst ner på "klacken". Ska bli super-duper-härligt! stor kram
Congratulations, Ilva! For everyone that leaves a comment, I know there are hundreds more who have been touched by your presence here! Thank you for sharing your amazing photography, super recipes that even I can prepare, and words that come straight from the heart. We are glad to know you!
ReplyDeleteThat's so sweet, Ilva. Congratulations on your 5 wonderful years of food blogging and spectacular photos. I look forward to many more years of reading your posts.
ReplyDeletePuss o kram fina Ilva!
ReplyDelete<span>Ilva, I am glad you are here because to tell the truth YOU have changed things in my life since we have become so close. You encourage and inspire, you make me laugh and help me scream out my frustration when I am going crazy and you help me see things clearly. I love chatting about blogging and family, gossiping and dissing and planning and building and creating. You are a true friend and one of the most talented bloggers, cooks, stylists, photographers in the blogging world. And my friend. xoxo
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Dear Ilva... I know I'm late (forgive me) but still, allow me to congratulate you for these AMAZING five years! Thank you for the countless inspiring recipes you've shared, and for showing us the stunning beauty of the place where you live - I wish YOU and LUCULLIAN DELIGHTS all the best!
ReplyDeleteCheers!