I usually take a few minutes at lunch to catch up with several blogs, not all of which are food blogs.  I do read some stuff that might not be typical for food bloggers… Ok, there are plenty of football fans, but how about gun blogs?  I also read some Christian blogs, many of which are unfortunately pure garbage.

So at lunch today, I pulled up my Google Reader, and I noticed that my food blogs may be themed a bit narrowly (nothing against any of them, of course).  I read several food blogs for a few reasons:

• The person that writes it has a good style in their blog
• The photos are really great, and I hope to learn something from them
• I’ve corresponded with the person and found them to be very nice, which tends to show in their blogs, too.

So what’s the problem today?  There’s a blog site called “The Daring Bakers Blogroll“, and 4 of my usual 20 or so regular reads are apparently participating.

Without too much research, it appears that the site puts out a theme now and then, and the bloggers on the blogroll make their version of the item and post about it.  Pretty straight forward, and you’d think things would be pretty much the same, but there are some really divergent takes on the same dish, it seems.

The blogs I read today had versions of Lemon Meringue:

• Dessert First
• i shot the chef
• Use Real Butter
• Wild Yeast

All have great photos, and, though I’m not a fan of lemon thanks to the dentist I had when I was a child (who used lemon fluoride… not a nice thing at all), I still think these look worth trying.