Thursday, October 16, 2008
I - day 2008 Roundup
With my head over the heels, I was tightly busy with all possible things you can imagine. I am thankful to all of you who cared to inquired about my well being , well I was not sick except one virus attack- rather I was just busy doing other things for my professional life. A warm big hug to all of you sweet hearts there.
without much talks here is the round up of Independence day 2008.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Happy 61st Independence day to my Indian Buddies...
Take some time to respect the nation and culture we belongs to. From the bottom of my heart I salute those who took steps to bring freedom to India and helped it to preserve the rich culture we belongs to.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Mango pulp - Theme of the week Saffron white n Orange
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Although I am not a sweet lover, I always loved sweet mangoes, specially the one which we get in season , ripe and firm , not too sweet (yeah you heard it correct- not too sweet ) and full of flesh .
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Monday, August 11, 2008
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Vegetable of the Week -Bottle Gourd Round Up
We have 8 to cherish :) .
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Theme of the Week is -
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Once again I am back with Theme of the week - Independence day. With the sincere hope that it will bring peace and prosperity to India . May my beloved Martubhumi - India get all the things written in the national Song (not National Anthem) -"Vande Mataram" and God save her from all the man made and natural disasters.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Happy Guru Purnima
गुरु देवो महेश्वरः
गुरु सक्षात परमब्रह्म
तस्मै श्री गुरु देवो नमः
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Friday, July 18, 2008
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Bottle gourd Rajgara paratha Canapé .
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This is one starter item made using Bottle gourd and rajgara flour. Rajgara flour is normally we use as staple food for the days when we observe fasts. At my mom’s place certain religious days like Shivaratri, Ramnavami and Janmashthami are the days for fast .
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Bottle gourd with bean sprouts
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Haandvoh-Mom's recipe
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
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Labels: bottle gourd, Brunch, Vegetable of the Week
Monday, June 30, 2008
A post full of Hope
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Monday, June 30, 2008
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Vegetable of the Week is -
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Sadly no one guessed it correct and here I am to announce it.
Call it Dudhi(in Gujarati ) , dudhi bhopla(in Marathi ) , lauki( in Hindi) Sorakaya( in Telugu??? ) , or simply bottle gourd .
This light to digest veggie has many benefits to consume it . I am going to try making something this month which might help the haters of it to convert into its lover .
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
VoW- JFI "Bell Pepper " Round up
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
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Thursday, June 5, 2008
One Post 2 Guests- for VoW-JFI Bell Peppers...
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Here is her recipe of Quesadilla in her own words...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
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Labels: Bell Peppers, Guest Post, JFI, Vegetable of the Week
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Tawa Vegetables, clicking Beans n lentils & Mango Manthram :D
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Tawa vegetable means vegetables cooked on flat styled pan (Tawa) adding some spices to it. They normally fry (shallow/deep ) each veggies and paneer.Then together cook it for a while adding all the spices and paneer cubes for a while. Tastes always too good, and who count the amount of fat you deposit when you eat out :)).
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
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Labels: Bell Peppers, click event, Henna designs, Mahendi, Potato, Vegetable of the Week
Friday, May 16, 2008
Capsicum Rice -A Guest Post
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1 cup chopped mixed bell peppers (I used red, yellow and green)
1.5 cups of cooked Basmati rice (Ensure that rice grains are well separated and not over cooked)
1 tbsp Oil
1 big Onion chopped
3 Garlic pods chopped fine
0.5 tsp red chilli powder, Garam masala powder/Kitchen King (Increase/decrease as per taste)
2 tsp Lemon juice
Few Coriander leaves chopped fine
Salt as per taste
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Daal Bati
The idea of making it started with movie" Jodha-Akbar" , it reminded me of how much we used to enjoy Daal bati dish in India at "Sanjha Chulha " restaurant ,which was famous for its Daal bati . Now here , no luck so far to have such delightful dish to enjoy ready made from some restaurant. So I thought to give it a try . And there was RCI-Rajasthan announced then , not only that , it perfectly suits to the idea behind this book makes me cook event of bhags :) .
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This Daal Bati is one of some dishes which Maalika-E- Hindustand Jodha made for Jalaluddin Mohammed Akbar in movie " Jodha-Akbar".
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Monday, May 12, 2008
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Lets celebrate completion of 2 brilliant year of JFI together....
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Saturday, May 03, 2008
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Labels: Bell Peppers, JFI, Vegetable of the Week
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
VoW-Bitter gourd awards goes to...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Jihva for Love
Not only that, Dad is a foodie too and he keeps on sharing his experience with cooking many times. Even when I was not active in kitchen I was keen on those tips of dad. And I remember many times I observed Mom on how she cooks while chit chatting with her specially in the evening times when I normally get back from job after a long tired day .... Before that when I was studying in schools and college I think I never gave it a slightest attention on how these cooking things are done and which dish needs what ingredients... ahhh.... those carefree days... :D.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
The award for VoW-bitter gourd ....
With 2 categories we have “TIE” and to choose one from those you can vote in the poll widget on the side bar.
And well, you can start cheering up for The Best Presented Recipe Award.
This goes to Kalai for Bitter gourd Tamarind Masala. I can hear cheerful sounds and clapping now :D
Enjoy the award Kalai.
We will present awards to winners of other 2 category as soon as we finish with poll. Vote them now.
Check out my entries for "click-Au naturel" and "MBP-One pot wonder" here.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
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Friday, April 18, 2008
VoW-Bitter gourd Round up and Voting starts from now....
Bitter gourd – you love it or you hate it. There is no other options for that. Yeah people like me could be exception who is slowly trying to consume it knowing the enormous benefits it has. Not only to control sugar level , it is very helpful to cure Cancer, Constipation and piles, blood-disorders, respiratory disorders, alcoholism, cholera and Numerous infections.
We have a saying in Gujarati – “Kadva Kaarela na Goon na hoy kadva” meaning Karela tastes bitter but it has many is having many qualities in it. I know back in India sometime mothers used to give Juice of it to child for fever. We never realize those values when we were in India , I am glad that I came to USA that made me aware of what a rich legacy of everything we had. Anything of today’s technology seems dull compared to deep knowledge of those things our people had. May it be counting the distance between starts, or deciding time by the length of shadow. We had people knew these things thousands of years ago even. I know some people who even today guess time by the position of sun on their head while working in farm in day time.
Ayurveda- is another thing which I started exploring very much after I came here. Even up to that extend that I feel like going back to India and do detailed study on that:D.
Well, coming to round up of Bitter gourd recipes , we have 60 great entries to enjoy bitter gourd now. With these entries this - liking and hating things -is also visible. As some choose to skip it this month while some choose to send more than 1 entries for the same. We have 10+ bloggers with more than 1 dish from them including --- Asha – 2, Srivalli - 5 , Mythreyee - 3 , Jayashree - 2 , Kajal – 6 , Meera - 3 ,Sandhya - 2 ,Kalai - 2 , Rina-2 and Trupti-2, Jan- 2. I must say they are all wonderful in cooking bitter gourd in wide range - from pickle to Pulao… :) . Thank you all for sending in your delicious recipes to cook bitter gourd with. It surely is a good chance for people like me to start eating it more and more to try each dish with.
Bitter Gourd as Starter dish
![]() | Bitter gourd with eggs By Dhivya |
![]() | Bitter Gourd peels Thepla by Meera |
![]() | Bitter Gourd-Ragi Utappa by Trupti |
Karela Pulao by Mythreyee |
Do check it carefully and at the end of that don’t forget to vote for three categories as you did here.
Categories are
Most authentic recipe , Best presented( by picture shown here) and Most creative recipe.
Please mention your votes in separate comment along with the category name( please note that my entries are excluded from this ). Those comments will be moderated for 1 week .The voting time is from today to 23rd April mid night. It's a good idea to value someone’s effort , so take little time and drop in your vote for your choice of entry .
Keep voting, keep rocking and keep cooking , And if you have some more time, help me with my click-confusion.
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So stay tuned and keep rocking gals... hugs to you all.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
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Labels: bitter gourd, Round up, Vegetable of the Week