Announcing Kid's Delight-Fat Free Kid's Friendly Recipes

Its been a year i hosted one of my favourite event called Kid's delight created by Srivalli, am happy to say this month am hosting this event with an interesting theme 'Fat Free Kid's Friendly Recipes'. Its really hard to feed kids now, they just love junk foods and they cant give up them for any reason. But trust me, those oily,fatty junk foods can be prepared at home in a healthy way and they can be eaten without any guilt. This theme is going to be bit challenging, but am sure many of us can come up with wonderful dishes which are completely fat free.

Take this theme as challenge and cook up dishes which can be prepared completely fat free either by steaming, broiling,baking or simply as raw.You have nothing to do apart from bringing me some kid's friendly fat free dishes. Cook up and just link it back to this event. This event will be definitely an eye opener for those who think that we cant cook kid's friendly recipes as fat free.

You need to:

1)Multiple recipes are permitted.
2)Recipes submitted to other events are also permitted.
3)Recipes from archives can be accepted ONLY if updated as current posts.
4)Both Veg and Non veg recipes are accepted
5)Recipes from those who do not blog can be accepted.
6)Link to this announcement as well as to Srivalli's Kid's Delight Announcement Page
7)Add your entries in the linky tool below.
8)This event runs from today to 15th May 2014.

Annoucing Bake Fest # 29

Baking has became a passion for me, if i feel stressed or very happy the first thing i want to make is to bake something. If my oven can speak, trust me it will cry. Sometime i can bake for a whole day, yep i love baking that much. You would have noticed that am a part of many baking events going around in this immense virtual world. No doubt that i love hosting baking event in my blog as well.Am hosting Bake Fest, a fabulous baking event by Vardhini of Cooks Joy during this whole month. This event is all about baking, just dedicated for baking.

This baking event doesnt have any theme, so obviously you can send me anything that you have baked just with your oven, sounds easy na. Dont forget to link me your entries during this whole month.

Rules: 

1. Send in any recipe that has been baked / broiled.

2. Only veggies are accepted.Eggs are allowed.

3. Usage of the logo is appreciated as it helps spread the word.

4. Link to Vardhini's Bake Fest announcement and my announcement page is mandatory. If sending an old entry, it needs to be re-published with the links.

5.You can send in any number of new entries and a maximum of 2 old entries.

Dont forget to link your entries to the linky tool attached below.

Happy baking!!

Announcing Only Dairy Free Event

We know that dairy free means avoiding completely milk,butter,cheese and many more dairy products from our daily meanu. Nowadays some people are allergic to dairy products and they cant tolerate it,obviously we get so many alternatives now in the market. Paneer is replaced by tofu and milk is replaced very well with soyamilk,ricemilk,almond milk or by coconut milk.Do you know that Milk and cheese have no fiber, dairy products can gives constipation to children.However most of us cant give up dairy products as they are main part of our menu.

March is going to be a Dairy free month in my space, yes am hosting Only Dairy Free event, a monthly event started by Pari, this event is running successfully since 2010.Am happy to host this event in my space though i missed hosting once.Eventhough i cant survive without a cup of milk or cheese, i do quite often dairy free foods in my kitchen. Since i want to explore more about this dairy free foods, i opted Dairy free theme for this month's event. Now am waiting eagerly to see all your innovative,delicious, very irresistible dairy free foods.Do cook dairy free dishes and dont forget to link it so that your dishes may be very helpful for many whoever want to cook dairy free dishes in future.

Rules:

Any number of fresh entries can be sent but only two recipes from archives will be accepted.

Only Dairy free entries are accepted

New and old posts should be linked with my event announcement and Pari's Giveaway Announcement.

The entries will not be accepted in case of failing to follow this rule.

Link your entries using the Inlinkz tools. Those participating in the giveaway (anyone who can provide an address in India) enter under Giveaway participation entries category else link under Non participants of the giveaway.Please enter your entry only once in one of the inlinkz tools.

Use of logo is compulsory as it helps spread the word.

In case you have a difficulty in using Inlinkz tool, mail me to Priyasuresh09@gmail.com

Cook book as a giveaway is sponsored by Tarla Dalal.
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The giveaway is shipped only in India and only to the Followers of Pari's Blog. You can follow her blog through Google Friend connect or Google plus publicly.

I cannot win the giveaway being the guest host of this month, also i will post the round up with a week after the event completion.

BCAM - Breast Cancer Awareness Month Fund Raising Event

Hello Friends,

We are feeling proud to announce this useful fund raising event to bring awareness among many people and also to help people who are already diagnosed and need help with regards to the cost of the treatment.

Here, we bloggers joined together to spread this awareness lot faster and in a wider range in the network world.

We would like to sincerely thank each of our blogger friends to put this forward and as well as help with regards to the donation as well.

Here is list of all my blogger friends who are contributing their time and space for this event.

NOTE: Anyone who is interested in posting this event on their website/blog, please feel free to contact Anu at anu (dot) healthykitchen (at) gmail (dot) com

Anu Shoj of Anu's Healthy Kitchen

Vardhini of Cooks Joy

Priya Suresh of Priya’s Versatile Recipes

Manjula of Desi Fiesta

Sangee of Spicy Treats

Nalini of Nalini’s Kitchen

Tanusree of Ma Niche

Priya Ranjit of Cook like Priya

Viji of Virunthu Unna Vaanga

We decided to donate to Susan G. Komen (http://ww5.komen.org/), which was created by Nancy G. Brinker in 1982 who is Susan G. Komen's sister. She is "Fulfilling the Promise" which she gave her sister when she was dying. That promise became Susan G. Komen for the cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. To know more about Susan G. Komen and the organization please visit the above link mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph.

We welcome all my friends to spend few moments here and if you feel its worth donating you can do so.

Here are the details as to how to donate:

 * You can either directly go to their website (http://ww5.komen.org/Donate/Donate.html) and donate in any method that which you are comfortable

* Or you can email Anu at anu (dot) healthykitchen (at) gmail (dot) com, and she will reply to your email and take it from there.

* Event Date Oct 1th - Nov 15th

* Please email me / leave a comment here, before/after you do the donation with the following details

- Your Name

- Your Email ID

- Your Blog/Website URL

- Amount You Wish/Did Donate (This is just to calculate how much we have collected at the end of this event, We are not concerned as to how much you would like to donate)

Note: If you have any questions or concerns, please email me at anu (dot) healthykitchen (at) gmail (dot) com or leave a comment here at the end of this post

On the go, Anu at Anu's Healthy Kitchen will keep updating the list of persons who donate and at the end of the event we will also mention the amount we collected in total.

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ANU SHOJ – Anu’s Healthy Kitchen

Announcing Diwali Delicacies Event

Welcome you all to an Another Interesting Event - Diwali Delicacies.

Diwali or Deepavali popularly known as the "festival of lights," and is Celebrated all over India. Diwali involves the lighting of small clay lamps filled with oil to signify the Victory of good over evil. These lamps are kept in order to Welcome the goddess Lakshmi. And also on the special day Firecrackers are burst because it is believed that it drives away all evil spirits. During Diwali, all the celebrants wear new clothes and share sweets and snacks with family members and friends.

And Diwali is one of my most favorite festival, from my childhood days i have a special liking to this Festival of Light. Mainly because of the more sweets and savories made on this special day. After blogging my liking towards this Festival of Light has increased and this year i wanted to celebrate this Grand Festival with my Fellow Bloggers.

Am so happy to host this Diwali Delicacies Event with my dear friend Sangee Vijay of Spicy Treats. Thank to my buddy Sangee for joining her hands with me and we both inviting all our fellow bloggers to participate in our Diwali Delicacies Event by sending their sweets, savories and all other recipes which you love to cook for Diwali and enjoy with your family and friends.

Rules:
1)Bloggers & Non-Bloggers are welcome to participate in this event and you can send as many recipes as you want.Archived entries are accepted if properly linked back to both hosts pages.

The event starts from 15th Ocotber and ends on 15th November.

2)Cook Any recipes - sweets & savories and also any course of meals both Vegetarian recipes & Non - Vegetarian dishes that you cook during Diwali.

3)Any bakes with eggs are accepted.

4)Using Logo is very much appreciated as is it helps to spread the word.

5)All the entries should be linked back to both this page and Sangee's announcement page.

6) Non bloggers can send their entries through mail either to Priyasuresh09@gmail.com or to sangeethaskitchen@gmail.com.

Optional Rule but its highly appreciated:
Like My Facebook Page & Spicy Treats Facebook Page, If you like do leave a comment here so that we will give you a like back to your blog's Facebook Page.

An InLinkz Link-up

Announcing Let's Brunch On Sundays Event

Sunday are the special days that we always looked forward to. A day to relax , unwind and can afford to be lazy too. But this sort of sets as a routine that our mind refuses to come out and start anything else out of this routine (well..mostly, that is the case)and most of the times it is our blogs, which seems to take the hit. Mine does!!!

So here comes an event,which has no rules, no themes for time being, it is just to cook and share the dish which you would cook for your Sunday special.It can be cooked/baked/Smoothie...anything that you would llike to put together for your family.Let’s join and cook together and motivate each other!!!

How its works:
1)Cook anything that comes under your sunday brunch,lunch or dinner..
2) Both vegetarians and non vegetarians are welcome.
3)This happens twice a month, its means the second sunday and fourth sunday of the month.
4) Link back your entry to the linky tools attached under my post and Veena's post.This helps us to check and comment on ur respective posts.
5)This event is to give a push to your blog, nothing to stress or strain for it, since we dont have any theme.
6)No limit for entries.

Announcing Healthy Diet-Cooking With Wholegrains

After diabetic friendly recipes,am announcing my Healthy diet event with cooking with wholegrains. I do cook atleast thrice a week with wholegrains and they have their important role in our menu.Eventhough wholegrains are bit expensive here, i dont forget to pick from my nearby organic shop. One of my favourite whole grain is Oats, after that i started experimenting with quinoa,foxtail millet,barley and started loving them quite often. Most of the wholegrains are versatile and suits prefectly for making Indian dishes as well as western style cuisine.

What Is A “Whole Grain”?

A grain is the edible seed of a cereal grass. These seeds, called “kernels,” are the means through which the grass reproduces.   A “whole grain” has proportions of the bran, germ, and endosperm similar to those found in the harvested kernel. Whole grains may be intact, but they may also be cracked, flaked, or ground.

Along with the weight loss benefits, including whole grains in the diet has been shown to reduce the risk of developing several chronic disease such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Whole grains also provide fibre, a range of vitamins such as vitamin E and B vitamins, minerals like magnesium, zinc, iron and selenium, and phytonutrients. But, you won’t get these benefits from processed, refined grains like those in white bread – instead stick to whole grain varieties like whole grain bread, oats, barley or quinoa (a pseudo grain that is technically a seed).

You need to do:

1)Cook anything with whole grains, both vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes are accepted from today to 12th August 2103..

2)Post as many dishes as you can in your blog from today onwards..many entries per person are allowed..

3)Link back your entry to this Healthy Diet event  announcement page..

4)I'll accept the old entries, if they are reposted with this page link..

5)Using Logo is very much appreciated..

6)Please take care to send all your delicious entries before 12th August 2013.

Announcing Healthy Diet-Diabetic Friendly Recipes

Time to think about diabetic friendly dishes, yep this month's Healthy diet is going to be diabetic friendly recipes. If you have diabetes or are cooking for someone with diabetic, dont forget to send your entries.Any dishes from breakfast,lunch and dinner that suits prefect for diabetic peoples are welcome for this event.Living with diabetes is a challenge but still we can make food easily with many healthy stuffs in it. Finding a delicious diabetic recipe doesnt need to be difficult. We can make thousands of recipes for diabetic peoples which also includes numerous dessert recipes for diabetics to satisfy their sweet tooth too.

You can eat well with diabetes,so dont forget to send diabetic friendly recipes from today onwards, so that it may be very useful for peoples who are all searching for diabetic friendly recipes. They could  learn and enjoy the foods you share for this event.

You need to do:

1)Cook anything as diabetic friendly dishes, both vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes are accepted from today to 12th July 2103..

2)Post as many dishes as you can in your blog from today onwards..many entries per person are allowed..

3)Link back your entry to this Healthy Diet event  announcement page..

4)I'll accept the old entries, if they are reposted with this page link..

5)Using Logo is very much appreciated..

6)Please take care to send all your delicious entries before 12th July 2013.

Announcing Flavours of Spain

We are all now on our culinary journey to Spain in the “Flavors of Series 4 around Europe” by “simply.food”

Spanish cuisine consists of a variety of dishes, which stem from differences in geography, culture and climate. It is heavily influenced by seafood available from the waters that surround the country, and reflects the country's deep maritime roots. It is a Mediterranean diet (as per wikipedia).

Since Spain is not far away from France, this cuisine is very familiar for me and i do quite often their famous Paella whenever we have a get together.Tapas and their patatas bravas ( fried potato served with tomato sauce) is our family favourite. Spanish cuisine varies depending upon the regions and most of their foods are spicy as like our Indian cuisine.

So in case if you are making any dish from this vast spanish cuisine,dont forget to send it to me.

Am sharing few internet links to help you to know about this cuisine to cook for the event.

http://gospain.about.com/od/fooddrink/tp/vegetarian-dishes-in-spain.html
http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/browse-results.asp?category=Spanish+Vegetarian+Meals
http://www.worldsofflavorspain.com/recipes/directory
http://www.simplespanishfood.com/

What you need to do is:

Cook any dish from Spanish cuisine is allowed (both vegetarian and non vegetarian)

Multiple entries and Achieved entries allowed if reposted.

Entries must Include link back  to simply.food and of course this event announcement  link

 Please link you entries to the linky tool attached below this post..

 Although use of logo is not mandatory,i'll appreciate if you add it in your post this helps to spread the word.

Announcing Cooking with Seeds-Peanuts

Am here again to host my own event Cooking with seeds, the host of this month was bit busy with her personal life and she couldnt able to guest host this month's event. Obviously am hosting this month's event, without any delay this month's seed choice is Peanuts. You may think whether peanut is a seed or a legume,but peanut is a fruit,a seed and a legume at the same time.

Peanuts are well known as ground nuts, eventhough they have so many other names like earthnuts,monkey nuts,goober peas and pig nuts.Peanuts are not nut eventhough they looks like nuts but they are a legume.

Peanuts are rich in energy and have so many health benefits like nutrients,minerals,antioxidans,vitamins which are quite essential for our health.  These nuts are excellent source of Vitamin E and minerals like manganese,copper,potassium,calcium,iron,selenium,magniesum and zinc.

If you are cooking anything with peanuts,dont forget to send me, so that many peoples around the world may learn to cook or bake with peanuts.

Peanuts either raw,cooked,roasted or as paste like peanut butter can be used.

                                                   Logo courtesy: Divya


Wat you need to do:

1)Cook, bake or create dishes with peanuts as anything(vegetarian, vegan or non-vegetarian are accepted)..

2)Many entries per person are allowed..

3)Link back ur entry to this announcement..

4)I'll accept the old entries, if they are linked with this page..

5)Using logo will be appreciated..

6)Once you are done with your peanut recipe, dont forget to link it back to the linky tool attached below.

Please take care to send all ur entries before 31st May 2013.

Announcing Home Bakers Challenge

We are a group of friends who love baking have joined hands together.

Our motive is to learn and excel in baking, helping each other. One fine day, we were discussing about Baking and its techniques and suddenly we got an idea what if we start a group and bake together, so that we can learn things together.

Thus this group, Home Bakers Challenge was born.

This is how it works, every month one person of the team will suggest a recipe and all the members have to bake the recipe and reveal it on the said date. By doing this we get to learn new techniques and explore the side of baking which otherwise we would not have ventured so. With the support and suggestions from the group members this is possible.

Do you find this interesting?

Do you love baking?

Do you want to learn new techniques? If your answer is yes, then come and join hands with us.

We have created a group in Face book, do join us there, for more information on the group.

Our Facebook Page..

Announcing Flavors of Cuisines - Italian

Italian cuisine wasnt that much familiar to me until i lived in India, we hardly get the macaroni and mom usually cook as a spicy dish with it, apart from that i never tasted this famous cuisine. But once i came to Paris, my MIL prepared the famous spaghetti pasta with bolognase sauce the next day itself, i thought that spaghetti pasta is noodles, than later came to know that its an another variety of pasta. Now twice or thrice a week,i have to prepare pastas coz my kids just love this food and its quite like a staple food for us.

This month am hosting a new event started by Julie of Erivum Puliyum called flavors of cuisines, when she announced the event i didnt hesitate a second to ask for hosting this event and she immediately accepted my interest for hosting. So this month's flours of cuisine is going to be Italian foods.Anything from Italian cuisine is welcome and you can make any course of food from this famous cuisine.

1.The event runs for the period 1st April to 30th April.

2.The theme for each month is "Italian ".It can vary from starter,main dish ,side dish,soup,dessert or any other recipes,sweet or savory anything but strictly from that particular cuisine with the same ingredients & spices.No modifications or fusions or alterations is accepted.

3.Bloggers and Non bloggers can participate.Bloggers can link their recipes using the linky tool.Bloggers who find it difficult or find some problem to link can also send &Non-bloggers can send in their recipes to my mail  Priyasuresh09@gmail.com with the following details-
Your Name-
Recipe Name-
Recipe Details-
Pic of the Dish

4.Recipe must be linked to thi announcement page and to Julie's announcement page.

5.You can link both Veg & Non Veg recipes.

6.Send in any number of entries.You can link in two old or archived posts.No need to repost the post just add the link & logo.

7.Usage of logo is appreciated for all entries as it would help spread the word.

Announcing Cooking With Seeds-Dals

I cant imagine my pantry without dals, usually we never failed to cook or have dals atleast once a day. One of the important ingredient of Indian cooking is dals. We cook variety of dals and obviously dals are consider as seeds. For this month's Cooking with seeds event its going to Dals, even a simple tempered dal to a creamy dal makhani goes prefectly under this theme.

Dal have many nutritional value especially proteins, vegetarians consumes atleast a day a dish prepared with dal for proteins.Dals are rich in vitamin B, thiamine and folic acid also several minerals especially the iron and zinc The word dal derives from Sanskrit and its means split, nowadays dal is cooked and eaten with rice as well as along with Indian breads.If you are cooking anything with dals,dont forget to send me, so that many peoples around the world may learn to cook dals.

Wat you need to do:

1)Cook or create dishes with dals as anything(vegetarian, vegan or non-vegetarian are accepted)..

2)Many entries per person are allowed..

3)Link back ur entry to this announcement..

4)I'll accept the old entries, if they are linked with this page..

5)Using logo will be appreciated..

6)Once you are done with your dal recipe, dont forget to link it back to the linky tool attached below.

Please take care to send all ur entries before 31st March 2013.

Announcing Valentine's Day Recipe Contest - Win E-gift Vouchers

Cant believe its already 15th January 2013, by the way am here to announce an interesting recipe contest. Yep I was planning to conduct a contest , obviously valentine’s day is one of my choice as its nearing very much quickly. We don’t need to celebrate the love on that particular day but somehow 14^th February is quite a particular day for many of us.

Honestly I came to know about this day once I landed here, before that I never heard this valentine's day and obviously I don’t even have an idea about how to celebrate this day and what is the purpose of celebrating this day. 

My better half took me to a fabulous romantic dinner and he gave me a perfume for our first valentine’s day. Nothing will replace the first ever valentine’s day. After that,we had so many parties and celebrations for valentine’s day but every time we never forget to talk about our first valentine’s day.

Am really happy to announce this my first recipe contest and this contest is going to be very much interesting. CupoNation was kind enough to help me to organize and sponsor this recipe based contest. Obviously am the happiest person in the world and immediately I accepted this sponsorship.

You can win e-gift vouchers and you can use to buy through flipkart.com. This recipe contest is opened to everyone, you can use your e-gift voucher through their site and can send your gift to your beloved ones in India or else you can use it completely for your personal use if you live in India.

What all you need to do is:

Prepare a fabulous, romantic dish for two peoples.

Be creative, be original. Don’t copy the recipe or pictures from the other’s site. You can search in webs to get an idea.

You can cook both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes you would like to serve or enjoy with your loved ones.No archived entries please.

You must link this announcement page in your entry,its a compulsory.

Adding logo will be appreciated.

Cooking methods should be mentioned clearly.

Link your recipes through the linky tools added below.

If possible tell me how you would love to celebrate this year’s Valentine’s Day with your love.

Following me it’s a must, you should  follow my space through Facebook, don’t forget to mention your Facebook’s name in the comment section.

Now coming to the interesting part:

The winners will get an e-gift vouchers offered by flipkart.com

First prize - 1000Rs worth e-gift-voucher

Second prize - 500Rs worth e-gift-voucher

Third prize & Fourth prize - 250Rs worth e-gift-voucher.

I'll select the winners through random.org.

To be honest am spending the complete total amount offered by CupNation for this contest.

Anyone can win this contest so don’t forget to link your entries and leave me your face book’s name in the comment section.

Announcing Tried & Tasted - Sharmis Passions

Am honoured and happy to annouce that am hosting Tried & Tasted for this month of december, an event started by Zlamushka, which was taken over by Lakshmi of Kitchen Chronicles.Its a great pleasure to say that i have choosed a wonderful,super blogger Sharmi of Sharmis Passions as this month's T&T blog for this event..The motto of this event is to try and taste the dishes from our fellow bloggers by re-creating them in our kitchen.

Coming to Sharmi's space, most of us would have crossed her blog atleast once a while in this blogsphere since her space have many beautiful,healthy,nutritious, traditional,egg free dishes and her speciality is her step by stepwise pictures, even a novice cook or a novice baker never goes wrong with her recipes..You can see many traditional dishes to many bakes at Sharmi's beautiful space, i love her bakes and now we have no excuse to try and taste many beautiful dishes from her space.

So friends, do try any dishes from her space and send it to me anytime before 15th January 2013.You have few rules to follow, just go on through them before sending your entries to me..I'll be adding soon the logo as Lakshmi is actually creating the logo for this month's T&T event, a special thanks to her for creating the logo.

What you have to do is:

1)Cook any recipe(s) from Sharmi's Sharmis Passions and post about it. Stay as true to the original recipe(s) as possible. Therefore, there is no need for re-posting it, simply link to the original post..

2)There is no time-frame for the original recipe. It can be as old as my grand-mother or as fresh as a mung bean sprout.

3)Have you cooked from Blog of the month before? As this event is all about tasting and reflecting on the taste, older posts are also welcome. Simply link to this post and mention T&T event.

4)Link your post to link announcement and to Lakshmi's Announcement Page . Please always link to both sites, so both blogs are given credit and you are avoiding copyright fuss.

5)Dont forget to link your entries in the linky tool below.

6)Deadline is the 15th January and the round up will be posted within a week.

7)Non-bloggers are more than welcome to participate (after all, our posts are mainly being written for them). Simply e-mail me with your experience of what you cooked and please include a picture.

If you are interested in hosting this beautiful event, dont forget to send a mail to Lakshmi to her mail id- kitchenchronicles1@gmail.com

Do cook more from Sharmi's space and enjoy sending me all your beautiful entries before 15th January 2013.

Announcing Cooking With Seed - Channadal

I couldnt able to host an event since few months, finally this month's cooking with seeds is going to hosted by myself.I chosed channadal as this month's seed, i do cook much with channadal and moong dal. Channadal is also known as bengal gram and its quite a popular legume in India, a staple food in Indian diet, this dal is very much related to chickpeas.

Bengal gram have a mild sweet flavour and they can be used in soups,dips or in salads. If i make stir fry with veggies, i usually add either channadal or split moongdal. Obviously you may know why i chosed this dal. Coming to channadal, they tastes delicious,nutritious,low fat, high in protein, prefect for vegetarians. They contains a good amounts of iron, vitamins and calcium.This dal is great for diabetics as they wont cause spike in their blood sugar.

Wat you need to do:

1)Cook or create dishes with channadal as anything(vegetarian, vegan or non-vegetarian are accepted)..

2)Many entries per person are allowed..

3)Link back ur entry to this announcement..

4)I'll accept the old entries, if they are linked with this page..

5)Using logo will be appreciated..


6)Email me to Priyasuresh09@gmail.com with subject as CWS-Channadal with following details:

Your Name:
Blog's Name:
Recipe Name:
Recipe url:
A photo

Please take care to send all ur entries before 31st december 2012 ..

7) If you dont have blog, no problem..pls do send your entries to the above mail address, i'll include them while doing the roundup..

Do prepare your dishes with channadal and send me through mail, really waiting to see all ur delicious entries.

Baking Partners ~~ A New Baking Group Announcment

Baking a homemade bread, cake or cookies will give the best outcome. However in order to achieve the best results, a  perfect recipe and  right techniques are required.

We are a small group of home baker friends, Reeni (Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice) , Julie (Erivum Puliyum) Tina  (Pinay In Texas Cooking Corner ) , Priya (Priya's Versatile Recipes)  , Suja (Kitchen Corner -Try It),Archana (Tangy Minds), Prathibha (Cook Ezee), Reshmi (Easy Cook) and Swathi  ( Zesty South Indian Kitchen) who love and want to learn more about the nook and corners of baking.


 We are planning to try out recipes from books/magazines and cooking shows.  Every member gets a chance to present their choice of recipe and share important points with the rest of the group.


Main purpose of this group is to learn the techniques, critic the procedure if there are ways to improve, and to eat a delicious food.

Rules are simple, we will choose one recipe  and send it out to the group by 16th of every month and  the reveal date will be 15th of the next month . On that day we will  blog about it. A linky tool will be open during that time and each member can link their post.

First month we are going to do a recipe, 2nd and 3rd month will be a theme and the 4th month we will be back at  a recipe. By doing in between recipes, we will able to learn more.

All enthusiastic bloggers interested in baking are welcome, please email me  at favoriterecipes12@gmail.com.

We will appreciate the use of logo or worded link that will help to spread the word.  A bunch of thanks to Tina for designing this beautiful logo.

If you   want to make it a gluten or vegan free diet, you can do those modifications also.

Announcing Celebrate-Olympic Games Event

I love participating in various food events, these food events will definitely pull us to come with creative dishes. For this month of july, am hosting a wonderful event called Celebrate-Olympic games, this event is owned by Jagruti of Jagruti's Cooking Odyssey. July is going to be a celebration month in London coz of Olympic games. I love watching olympic games,definitely i'll support Indian team virtually to the core.Obviously guest hosting an event with olympic games as theme will definitely going to be more fun.Thanks a lot to Jags for letting me to host this event and am so happy for it.

Coming to the theme of this event,you can cook anything from starters to desserts from the countries participating in Olympic games,the dishes you are sending should be cooked in any country participating this Olympic games in London to be a part of this wonderful event. Even if you dont live in those countries participating Olympic, its will be really interesting to give a try to their foods. Wat a lovely chance to explore different cuisines na.  So friends, do cook many dishes and its time to try and taste different dishes from other countries.Thanks again to Jags for making this logo for me.

Here are the participation details :

1. Cook Any Dish from Any Country participating in Olympic games for the event.Post vegetarian /non Vegetarian recipes for the event.

2. Entries posted from 1st - 31st July 2012 is acceptable.

3.Please link your entries using the linky tools here.

4. Please use the event logo and its not compulsory. Your entry post should contain the link to this event announcement and Jagruti's Event Announcement.Its mandatory.

5. Multiple entries are welcome. If any of your previous posts qualify for this theme, you can send them too, provided it is re posted with the link to the event announcement.

6. Non-bloggers are invited to participate in the event. You can mail me your recipe and a photograph of the dish to the mail id Priyasuresh09@gmail.com.

Looking eagerly your creative and delicious entries.

Announcing Microwave Easy Cooking Event

Its been a while i hosted food related events, finally am here with an event 'Microwave Easy Cooking' well known as MEC was initially started by Srivalli. Thanks to Srivalli for giving me this opportunity. Am damn sure that many of my blogger friends will come up with their delicious microwave entries.If you are using your microwave oven just for reheating rice or gravies, its time for you to give a try to cook different dishes.You can cook any kind of dishes using microwave oven, since i got a microwave oven at home my life became easier as am using it almost once a while to prepare a complete meal with it.You can make a simple omelette to baking cakes through them.

 Calling all food lovers to cook up dishes using microwave oven, to participate in this event. We dont have any themes for this event, you can cook any sort of dishes from appetiziers to desserts using microwave oven.

Here are the participation details :

1. Cook Any Dish for the event. The entire cooking has to be done in the microwave. You can use food processor for grinding and the like. But no stove top cooking to be done. Post vegetarian /non Vegetarian recipes for the event.

2. Entries posted from 1st - 30th June 2012 is acceptable.

3.Please link your entries using the linky tools here.

4. Please use the event logo and its not compulsory. Your entry post should contain the link to the event announcement and Srivalli's MEC Announcement.Its mandatory.

5. Multiple entries are welcome. If any of your previous posts qualify for this theme, you can send them too, provided it is re posted with the link to the event announcement.

6. Non-bloggers are invited to participate in the event. You can mail me your recipe and a photograph of the dish to the mail id Priyasuresh09@gmail.com.


Looking forward your creative and delicious entries.

Announcing Kid's Delight-Eggless & Vegan Bakes

We all would have had or having hard time in feeding our teddies with healthy foods, eventhough they never says no to junk foods..Am very happy to host Srivalli's beautiful Kid's Delight, the concept of this event is to feed our teddies with healthy foods..For this month's kid's delight, i choosed eggless and vegan bakes as theme..Before entering to this wonderful blogsphere, i always run behind the eggs for making my baked goodies, slowly i learned from other fellow blogger buddies how to skip eggs in our bakes and how to replace them..Now i can bake tons of eggless and vegan bakes without any hesitation..Thanks to Srivalli for letting me hosting this beautiful event..

You can replace the famous eggs with silken tofu,yogurt,buttermilk,baking soda, fruits puree,white vinegar or fruits based vinger like apple cider vinegar,egg replacer powder..Do prepare your eggless and vegan bakes from today and do post them in your space..Dont send me your entries through email simply link them to the linky tools i have posted in the end of this announcement..

You need to do:
1)Bake anything as eggless or vegan,eggs are not allowed,entries are accepted from today to 15th March 2012..
2)Post as many bakes as you can in your blog from today onwards..many entries per person are allowed..
3)Link back your entry to this announcement page and Srivalli's announcemnt page..
4)I'll accept the old entries, if they are reposted with this page link..
5)Using Logo is very much appreciated..
6)Please take care to send all your delicious entries before 15th march 2012..
7) If you dont have blog, no problem..pls do send your entries to my  mail address Priyasuresh09@gmail.com, i'll include them while doing the roundup..