We're a creative bunch, we food bloggers, endlessly curious, thriving on risk and experimentation. We seek out happy accidents. We celebrate the hits and laugh off the misses. Here are some of the successful kitchen experiments making their way into the food blogosphere.

EXPERIMENTS with RECIPES, TECHNIQUES & TOOLS

Becks & Posh ~ had two failures before perfecting her recipe for Asparagus with Asparagus Sauce

Cafe LynnyLu ~ sacrificed pounds of fresh ginger and gallons of cream, just to perfect her recipe for ginger ice cream

Chocolate & Zucchini ~ tried roasting flour -- yes! -- before baking cookies with it

CakeSpy ~ tried six different breakfast cereals to make rice krispie treats (which one was best? it's a surprise!)

Simply Recipes ~ learned a new way to make blue cheese burgers, with blue cheese in every bite

Cupcake Project ~ wanted to know if you could bake cupcakes in a crockpot

Andrea's Recipes ~ is growing crocuses to harvest her own saffron

Baking Bites ~ you know those peanut butter cookies made from a tube of cookie dough that won $1 million in the Pillsbury Bakeoff last week? Nic converted the recipe into Double Delight Peanut Butter Cookies -- from scratch

EXPERIMENTING with BACON - it's the latest thing!

Never Bashful with Butter ~ experiments with chocolate chip cookies with bacon

Brownie Points ~ would you believe bacon vodka?!

NOT FOOD BUT these would open up time and money for kitchen experiments!

City Mama ~ has given up cable!

Food Mayhem ~ tries the "new Starbucks", Starbucks' attempts to review its 7100 locations

Foodgoat ~ tried giving up coffee entirely

YOUR EXPERIMENTS

Have you been experimenting in the kitchen? Then you must-must-must become a Blogher member -- it's free -- to report your results! Then you can (1) Leave a comment! (2) Write your own post here on BlogHer, a great option for people without blogs and bloggers who want to blog off-topic.(3) If you're a blogger, write a post with an intoduction paragraph here on BlogHer, then link to your own post detailing the experiments. Be sure to use the free tag 'Kitchen Experiments' and to use good anchor text - it helps with SEO and helps readers know what to expect, too.

This week BlogHer food editor Alanna Kellogg experimented with no-oil and less-oil versions of Eggplant Steaks for her food blog A Veggie Venture. Which one was better?!