The Liebster Blog Award!

I am honored to announce that Chez Sasha has been nominated by three fellow food bloggers for the Liebster Award. Thank you Eyechow, Kitchen Notes and Other Sundries and Food:Digested!

“Liebster” is German for favorite and the award is given by bloggers to other bloggers who have 200 or less followers. Now, the rules of the award are a bit fuzzy as some of ya’ll include questions for your nominees to answer and some don’t. Also, some bloggers nominate five and some nominate eleven blogs. To be fair, I will follow the rules posted by Eyechow because Valerie was the first to nominate me. Thanks again and here we go!

The Rules of the Award:

1. Post eleven facts about yourself. (I’m gonna go ahead and skip this one. I talk about myself all the time so I’m sure you already know plenty!)
2. Answer the questions the tagger has set for you and create eleven questions for people you’ve nominated.
3. Choose eleven people (with fewer than 200 followers) to give this award to and link them in your post.
4. Go to their page and tell them.
5. Remember, no tag backs.

Valerie’s Questions:

1. What’s the last place you’ve traveled to? Traveled with an actual suitcase and passport via plane was Paris. More recently though, I visited Boston with my friend Michelle and Bear Mountain in upstate NY with Rene.

2. And the next trip you have planned or place you wish to visit? No plans yet but I am dying to go to Rome, Buenos Aires and San Francisco.

3. What’s your favorite TV show? Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Homeland, Dexter, Sex and the City - can’t choose one :/

4. What music are you listening to now? Pink Martini Pandora station

5. Favorite restaurant where you live? Los Mariachis

6. What dish or item was your biggest cooking or baking fail? The first batch of chocolate chip cookies I ever made came out to be burnt crackers.

7. Where were you born? Odessa, Ukraine

8. Coffee or tea? Coffee, coffee, coffee! Can I have some more coffee, please?! Ah, coffee!!!

9. Book or magazine? There’s a time and place for each.

10. What do you do during plane rides? Reminisce.

11. What book do you think we should all read now? Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

11 Questions For My Nominees:

1. Name one food you find irresistible.

2. Name one movie you never get sick of watching.

3. Describe your favorite childhood memory.

4. If your personality were an animal, which would it be?

5. Name six people (dead or alive, famous or not) you’d invite to your fantasy dinner party.

6. What kind of clothes do you enjoy wearing most?

7. Of the five Breakfast Club characters (the brain, the jock, the princess, the basket case or the criminal), which one were you most like in high school?

8. Three favorite musical artists:

9. Describe your most memorable travel experience.

10. Where are you dying to travel to?

11. What would you say the strangest thing about you is?

And the blogs I nominate are (not sure how many followers these have, though):

1. A Palate Transcribed

2. Bites Out of Life

3. The Tasty tRuth

4. Yummy Brooklyn

5. Mango & Tomato

6. Curious Cuisiniere

7. Cooking in College

8. Liberty on Less

9. The Porto Bellas

10. Savory Simple

11. Quiche-a-Week