Food Event: Your Favourite Festive Eats and A Giveaway

Annarasa ~ Essence of Food, my flagship food blog has been on the web for 7 years and I recently wrote my 400th post on it. To celebrate this milestone, Annarasa is hosting some food events and giveaways over the next few months. Celebration is the keyword and as we are right in the midst of the festive season, I would like to invite all my readers, friends, and blog visitors to join me in preparing some of their Festive Foods and entering a giveaway right here on Annarasa!

Food Event: Your Favourite Street Food / Dhaba Food and Giveaway

For its first ever giveaway Annarasa ~ Essence of Food is teaming with CUPONATION, India’s largest coupon portal. CupoNation has generously offered a giveaway for 2 lucky winners. The two winners will each receive a flipcart egift voucher worth Rs. 1000.00 – the winners may purchase their favourite items for this amount via the filpcart website!!

CupoNation is India’s largest coupon portal, specially designed to meet the requirements of online shoppers. It has a broad collection of coupon codes with deals and offers from top online retailers like Flipkart, Naaptol, eBay.in, FabFurnish, Future bazaar, Jabong, Myntra, Home shop 18, Pepperfry and many more. To know about CupoNation and the many deals it offers, visit WEBSITE. To get daily deal details, join them on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+

 

To Enter this contest:

1. Make your all time favourite Dhaba Recipe / Street Food Recipe and post it on your blog between 23^rd March 2013 and 20^th  April 2013. As this is a vegetarian blog, kindly send in vegetarian, egg free, or vegan recipes only.
2. Mention and link back to this recipe contest and giveaway in your post before the recipe.
3. Like Annarasa ~ Essence of Food and CupoNation on Facebook. 
4. Archived Recipes related to the theme of this contest may be entered. They must be re-posted as per the rules of this contest. 
5. Non-Bloggers are welcome to join the contest. Send your recipe(s) and picture to annarasa[at]gmail.com and like Annarasa on Facebook. Follow rules of the contest as well as the Guidelines below for additional entries to contest. Be sure you mention details for all entries in your email when you send in your recipe(s).

 To have additional entries in the contest: 

• Follow me on Twitter and re-tweet this post for 2 additional entries.
• Join my food blog Annarasa ~ Essence of Food via Google Connect for one additional entry.
• Any additional recipe you post as per the contest rules above makes you eligible for one more entry.
• Leave me a comment on this post letting me know where you have joined the site.   

Guidelines: 

      Please note flipcart ships only in India, so it is a must for you to have an address in India where you may
receive any purchases you make on their site using egift voucher. This contest and giveaway is open to: 

• Anyone residing in India.
• Anyone with a mailing address in India.   
• Anyone who would like to purchase gifts for friends/relatives in India.

The winner will be picked using a Random No. Generator. The winner will be announced in the week following the completion of this contest. DO check back for the announcement so your egift voucher can be mailed to you.

      Kindly use the Link Tool below this post to link your recipes. Thanks for joining in!!

   

Disclaimer: This recipe contest and giveaway is organized by CupoNation at Annarasa ~ Essence of Food. The total giveaway amount is Rs.2000.00 (Two Thousand Rupees Only). This amount is divided into 2 flipkart egift vouchers of equal amounts of Rs.1000.00 (One Thousand Rupees Each). As the host of this Giveaway, Annarasa ~ Essence of Food and its author Apu has received NO compensation whatsoever in any form.

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100 Yummy Diwali Recipes: A Free eBook by IndusLadies

With the festive season upon us, I am sure we are all busy making goodies and our homes redolent with the aromas of sweets and savouries. I am also sure that we are juggling demands for making favourites of our familie while trying to decide which delicious new recipes to try this year:) Well, our work just got easier!!

Here is a lovely gift from the IndusLadies and your fellow food bloggers that will make life literally sweeter. IndusLadies has compiled an eBook for this Diwali consisting of 100 Yummy Sweets & Desserts Recipes! You are invited to download it @ Diwali Sweets.

Thanks to IL for this wonderful effort to to all my blogging friends for sharing their favourites with us. My recipe Shahi Tukre | Double ka Meetha aur Kesariya Rabri | Crispy Bread Pudding in a Pistachio Saffron Sauce is on page 35!!

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Warm Autumn Sunshine @ Annarasa

My plants have been doing well all summer. And now as autumn has traipsed in, I am still getting a small bounty of vegetables!! Here is some produce from my Patio Garden: juicy pear tomatoes, yellow tomatoes, some okra, and chilies!!

I also grew and got some cucumbers, sweet peppers, and zucchini - all of which we consumed before I got the change to whip my camera out:)

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A Gift, A Beautiful Red Tulip, and Eyesight for Colton

A few weeks ago Carol Egbert @ carolegbert.com asked a simple question!! The question concerned the name of a certain fruit that I love: the Loquat. A correct answer won me a wonderful gift :)

Pomegranate: The Healing Food for May

The Healing Foods Event focuses every month on a single item of food. The aim is to highlight the health benefits and nutritive value of that food. This food event which was initiated by Siri @ Siri's Corner challenges you to share your recipes via the blogosphere in their most healthy form. This May, I will be the guest host for Healing Foods. The food I have chosen to highlight at this event is the Pomegranate!!

How Does My Garden Grow?

Its nice to be back, more so as spring is in the air!! Its warming up quite rapidly in this part of the world, the snow has all but disappeared, and fresh green shoots of grass have made a welcome appearance. We are expecting the temperature to be in the 70s the next couple of days and I can't wait to begin prepping my patio and pots for planting. So, here's a small trip down memory lane - flowers from last summer :) before I head back to getting the house in order after 3 weeks of break!!

Sunflowers!!

I grew sunflowers this summer :)
And here they are gracing my dining table!!!!


Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!!

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Happy Diwali

Wishing you a very HAPPY DIWALI and a prosperous NEW YEAR!!

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An Injury, a Tag, and a Time to Give Thanks!

While cooking is my passion, I had a rather unfortunate encounter with a kitchen knife this weekend. I injured my finger as I attempted to chop some really tough coconut. This has put me out of action for the last few days:(


Well, the good news is that after 4 days of concern, the cut is now well on its way to healing, and I am able to type without much pain!! I thought I'd take this time to pen a non-recipe blog. To begin with, I have been encouraged this last month by several words of appreciation from fellow food bloggers. These are displayed on the left margin of this blog. I would like to thank http://simpleindianfood.blogspot.com/and http://kitchenflavours.blogspot.com/ for their thoughtfulness:)

Kitchen Flavours also tagged me with the job of presenting my most unspectacular quirks (odd habits). Funny how one never really thinks about such things.

1. Fresh fruit is a great treat after a meal.
2. Shopping is a chore.
3. A daily swim is refreshing.
4. Whenever I go to the ice-cream shoppe, I get always try a new flavour.
5. Sunday papers are a fun read.
6. I like cloth kerchiefs!

Here goes the rules for the game:
1. Link back to the person who tagged you
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they have been tagged.

I would like to invite the following bloggers to share their unspectacular quirks via this tag:

Easycrafts
Rashmi
Srivalli
Mythreyee
Jayasree
Red Chillies

Have a great day everyone!!

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