Thanks Again

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Awards, Part of Wordpress family award, Versatile Blogger Award, Wonderful Team Member Readership Award, Writing Process Blog Tour

It always motivates us when some one recognizes us. Though I am just a 4 months old blogger have got introduced to many more bloggers. They read through my work and appreciate me, some fellow bloggers give me good suggestions. I thoroughly enjoy this blogging. I enjoy reading each one of your blog. To be frank I don’t get into Facebook as much as I wait for my fellow bloggers recipes 😀 these days. Thank you everyone.

This is going to be a little longer post 🙂 Lots of award mention on the way.

Ahila @ A Taste of Sri Lankan Cuisine had nominated me for the WordPress Family Award. She brings in variety of Sri Lankan food and me as well being a Tamilian extremely enjoy the songs that she brings up in every post. And to my surprise I have the same taste as her’s in the song selection 🙂 Got to know her through the Fiesta Friday and I enjoy all her post. Thank you very much Ahila for the nomination.

My nomination for this award are

• Lori @ Creating beauty in the kitchen
• Chitra @ Chitra’s Healthy Kitchen
• Charanya @ Yes! I’m Vegan
• Vidya @ Traditionally Modern Food
• Aiswarya @ My Kitchen Moments
• Tina @ My Masala Life

Thanks a lot Ahila for this nomination 🙂

Writing Process Blog Tour

Vidya @ Traditionally Modern Food invited me to participate in the Writing Process Blog Tour. Vidya’s blog as her blog name suggest is totally a traditionally modern food blog. I really admire her patience in preparing her recipes and way of writing her posts.  She is one of my regular readers and religiously gives comment, very thankful to her. Thanks Vidya for this opportunity.

A Blog Tour basically is a way to help your readers understand your view on the blog. The blogger who invites you to the writing process answers 3 questions about their blog and asks you to do the same. The cycle continues.

 

1. What am I working on?

I always believe that everyday is a learning process. I learn from the mistakes that I make and this is one more quotation(tuned) I like ” Practice and mistakes molds a person” .Till few days back I had no idea of baking and now I am learning it slowly. Food photography is totally new to me again starting to learn this. Refine my blog ways of writing posts.

2. How does my work differ from others of its genre?

Everyone is unique in their own ways. I started this blog just for time pass which has totally changed now. I have taken it seriously and I am loving it. To give away some points that I work on differently is to get healthy recipes. I try to get the health benefits of the ingredients that I use in my recipe. I add up my personal touch why I love that recipe, add my chit chats 🙂 I try to build any recipe from scratch if possible, with the available raw materials. For any traditional recipe that I give I always try not loose its originality just by substituting some other healthy item (if the recipes demands to change for the health benefits).

3. How does your writing process work?

Few recipes are planned , some of them are on the go when I prepare. If I start planning I will first sort out the ingredients write it down. Then assemble them get it pictured. Then I start picturing every step possible. Once I end up preparing with the recipe, start with getting the health benefits written down. Then start the blog post. I post the recipes only if I am satisfied with the outcome. My hubby is so sweet that he never interrupts me in anything and he leaves me to explore and be independent. This is such a great boon for a person like me.

Nominating 3 more bloggers for the writing process blog tour

• Charanya @ Yes! I’m Vegan
• Ahila @ A Taste of Sri Lankan Cuisine
• Lori @ Creating beauty in the kitchen

Friends please answer the same questions and Please nominate 3 fellow bloggers to do the same.

Versatile Blogger Award

This is my second time of Versatile Blogger award, nominated by Lori @ Creating beauty in the kitchen I am sure no one would need an introduction to this lovely lady 🙂 she is extremely a kind person I have seen. She is the one who recognized me in my earlier blogging days and introduced me to many people. She got me to Fiesta Friday where I am meeting a lot of people around. I would say, I started enjoying to blog just by seeing her blog and her way of interacting with people. Thanks a lot Lori , you make me smile all the time 🙂

Here are the rules

• Put the Versatile picture in your post
• Link to the blogger who nominated you
• Give 7 facts about yourself
• Nominate 15 people

7 more facts about me

• I love Friends sitcom, I can watch it anytime 🙂
• I watch at least 2 to 3 movies a week either English movies or Indian movies
• I can’t sleep easily 😦 have to toss around for hours…
• I can talk for hours together without sleeping also, but my hubby seldom talks 🙂
• I can’t tolerate someone who tries to dominate me, my concept is everyone is equal and must be treated equal.
• I hate to do someone else’s eaten plate, I feel disgusting 😦
• I like plain sober cotton clothes, I feel very comfortable with it.

As I have already nominated in my earlier award of the same and when I see most of my fellow bloggers have already received this awards and I really don’t want to dump more so, please excuse me from this.

Thanks again Lori 🙂

Wonderful Team Member Readership Award

This award was nominated to me by Poojita @ Kitchen Equations and this again my second time. I enjoy reading her blog and she covers wide variety of food. Her recipes make me salivate 🙂 Thanks a lot Poojita for considering me to this award.

I have already nominated my regular supporters and really don’t want to impose more on them to find another 14 bloggers. Recently there are 2 new friends who have been constantly supporting me, so would like to nominate them for this award.

• Nimmi @ Adorable Life 
• Indu @ Indu’s International Kitchen

 

Thanks Poojita for this award 🙂

Thanks a lot everyone for your patience reading through this long post 🙂

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More Awards

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Awards, Liebster, Liebster Award, Wonderful Team Member Readership Award

This post is with awards which my friends have nominated me. I am very grateful to these people.

My dear friend Lori @ Creating Beauty in the Kitchen has showered with an award called ” Wonderful Team Member Readership Award” She has done research on it, I am sure its new for many of us. Its similar to the Dragon’s Loyalty Award. Thanks a lot Lori. You are so sweet, kind and encouraging….She is my gluten free friend who comes up with all new and creative recipes, specially with strawberry and Lemon 🙂 Thanks again Lori for this award 🙂

To the rules:

1. Give this award to at least 14 more people.
2. Mention the person who nominated you.
3. Don’t forget to include the picture of the award.

I appreciate each and every one who has supported me through out. For those who are constantly in touch and who encourage me so much, here is to them.

Chitra @ DrCHDietfood
Maria @ Dinner Bank 
Charanya @ Yes I am Vegan
Simi @ Acasadisimi
Agile Writer @ Food 4 Your Mood
Sanjana @ Feeding the Sonis
Meaghan @ 4 Son R US
Nancy @ Feasting With Friends
Alice @ A Life Moment 
Chloe @ Food Like Cake
Deepa @ Madraasi 
Nataly @ Kitten Crafts
Liz @ My Favourite Pastime
Vidya @ Traditional Modern Food

Thank you friends for your constant support.

Next award is the Liebster Award, this is my second time. Chitra  @ DrCHDietfood and Charanya @ Yes I am Vegan have both nominated me for this award. Chitra is a Dentist and she has a great blog with all diet food and very healthy recipe. She is my another Bangalore friend , with her recipes I take back my memory to my Bangalore days 🙂 Charanya Finally I got her name recently, otherwise I call her my Vegan friend 🙂 . She inspires me with each and every of her recipe to become a vegan, but I am not sure if I can 😛 I totally get amazed by these two ladies with awesome recipes. Thank you friends for showering your awards to me.

“Liebster Award” is… Generated in Germany, this award is a beautiful way of recognizing lesser known blogs. And “Liebster” means, “dearest, beloved, sweetest, nicest, valued” etc.

Rules:

• Thank and link back the person who presented the award to you.
• Have the award on your post.
• Answer the questions that has been asked.
• Award the same to up to ten other upcoming blogs.

For Chitra’s Questions

Show us something you like around you or outside your place. Maybe you already know I like flower photos. But it’s your choice.

Yes I love Flowers, As I have already posted about it. This time I am giving a different one. I love Cartoon characters. Specially Mickey and Minnie. When I see these character I get so excited and would start jumping 😀 When we went to New York city, we were roaming around and there were some people dressed as Mickey and Minnie. That’s it, I got so excited and jumped ,went near them and asked my hubby to get pics.  He was surprised and told me I guess I have married a kid 😀 I argued with him that many like cartoon characters 🙂

Tell us something about your favorite book(s) or authors. And I’d be very pleased if you talk about your favorite fantasy if you have that taste.

In my old Liebster award I had mentioned about this author Kalki Krishnamurthy a Tamil writer whom I love the most. No change to it now.

I also like creative people. Show us how you are creative!

Ok, again I do some paper crafts, sketching. Some of them for you…

Next let me go to Charanya’s Questions

1. What’s your favorite cuisine? Indian 🙂
2. What would be the last meal you will love to eat? I would have desserts , I am a sweet tooth, and I love aadi kummayam a south Indian dessert. I would love that…..
3. What is your favorite vege? Okra
4.  Do you watch Game of Thrones? No , I haven’t watched
5.  If you are vegan, why? If not, do you think you could be one for few days? For few days I guess I can, but not sure If I can let it go with milk for many days 🙂
6.  Is there anything your life wont be the same without? Ahh that should be my family.
7.  What’s your favorite movie? So many ….Troy, The Proposal, Princess Diaries, Devil Wears Prada, 27 dresses, many more on my list 😀
8.  Is there any color you loved as a kid? sky Blue and same till date 🙂
9.  Is there anything you would change in your life if life had a rewind button?Stay back in India , get work permit visa entry to US. Hopefully If I had done that I could have worked now
10.  Do you own an iphone or an android? Android
11. 3 words that could describe you: Smart, Quick, Affectionate

My Nominations:

Lori @ Creating Beauty in the kitchen
Deepa @ Madraasi 
Poojita@ Kitchen Equations
Ahila @ Srilankan Cuisine
Avni @ Cofee By the Window

Here are my questions:

Your Favorite tourist spot?

Weekends what do you do?

Have you done anything crazy?

Who is your favorite Actor/Actress ?

Something which you love to do other than cooking:

Thanks and Congrats to all my nominees 🙂

Have been nominated for Liebster award by Radhika, Andy and Ahila. Since I have already been nominated twice, I am linking it with this post. Thanks you so much friends, it is really nice of you to nominate me. Please do visit their blogs 🙂

Deepa, has nominated me for Dragon Loyalty Award which I had already been nominated twice. Thanks a lot Deepa for considering me for this award.  Linking it to this post. Please do visit her blog.

Ahila and Nimmi had nominated for I am a part of WordPress Family award, linking it to this post. Thank you lovely ladies for nominating me 🙂 It is a great pleasure to be a part of WordPress Family 🙂

 

Dragon’s Loyalty Award

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Awards, Dragon Loyalty Award

My dear friend Lori had nominated me with this pleasing award sometime time back :), I am a bit late to bring it on. An award which is actually to say “Thank You” to those who visit our blog often, likes and comments. It’s actually you Lori, who has given more comments in my blog 🙂 I am so grateful to you. Lori is such a wonderful person who found me and encourages me in what ever possible way. She has got the most Influential bloggers award for which I am very happy. She has influenced me in many ways. Thank you so much Lori, load of hugs 😀

 

I am sure most of my circle friend bloggers are from you. You wouldn’t need any introduction 🙂 If some one is new, please do visit her blog http://creatingbeautyinthekitchen.wordpress.com

Thanks to each and everyone who has stopped by my blog and given your thoughts and likes, grateful to each one of you. I would like to pass this on to few members who have also given me more encouragement as Lori did.

Vidya @ Traditionalymordernfood

Aiswarya @ Mykitchenmoments

Apsara @ Eatingwelldiary

Yesiamvegan @ Yesiamvegan

Sanjana @ Feedingthesonis

Thanks ladies for all your encouragement.

Rules for this award :

• Nominate Bloggers
• Add the Dragon Loyalty logo
• Give 7 facts about yourself
• Tell the nominated people on their nomination

7 facts about me :

• I got married on November 7th 2013, been in the wedlock for 7 months now 😀
• I am 5’1″ of height and my hubby is 5’11” we have 10″ of height difference 🙂
• I love to walk, specially in the evening time, its so plesant and refreshing
• I have this habit of washing my face before sleeping , I don’t know why but I am used to it and my hubby laughs at it 🙂 But I feel its a good habit LoL!
• I am crazy about nail paints, I had too many when I was in India, had to leave them with my sister 😦 she was telling me that we can have a nail paint shop opened with what ever you have left hehehe 😀
• I somehow feel uncomfortable to cook in someone else’s kitchen , I feel they would try to control me asking how do you do it this way, it has to be done other way, let me give you hands 🙂 it spoils the total cooking. And I feel totally helpless at the end, not getting desired results hahahaha 🙂
• When I was born I was just 1.5kgs/3 lbs of weight. I was on observation for more than 3 months, things changed later hahaha, being the first grand child of my family ,I am pampered and celebrated by everyone at home. I am simply blessed 😀

 

 

 

Liebster Award

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Awards, Kalki Krishnamurthy, Liebster, Liebster Award

Aiswarya from Mykitchenmoments has nominated me for Liebster award. Its a great pleasure for me. Thank you very much Aiswarya 🙂 She has got a beautiful list of Indian recipes and all her photographs looks amazing, I am trying to learn from her. Once again Thank you very much Aiswarya.

About Liebster Award, “Liebster Award” is… Generated in Germany, this award is a beautiful way of recognizing lesser known blogs. And “Liebster” means, “dearest, beloved, sweetest, nicest, valued” etc.

The rules ask you to,

• Thank and link back the person who presented the award to you.
• Have the award on your post.
• Answer the questions that has been asked.
• Award the same to up to ten other upcoming blogs.

So, here I go..

Show us something you like around you or outside your place. Maybe you already know I like flower photos. But it’s your choice.

Yes I love flowers, Where ever I go out, I try to get some good pictures of flowers. Some of them which I have photographed recently are below

Tell us something about your favorite book(s) or authors. And I’d be very pleased if you talk about your favorite fantasy if you have that taste.

I used to read a lot of novels. Sidney Sheldon, Dan Brown are my favorites in English. Since my mother tongue is Tamil, I read some Tamil novels also. I am crazy about the author named Kalki Krishnamurthy, who has written Tamil novels during 1960 – 1970’s. I used to read his books without break. Any Tamilian would know about this novel called Ponniyin selvan written by Kalki which is a historic novel. Its totally a 5 book series. I wish Kalki could have written more books 🙂

I also like creative people. Show us how you are creative!

I do some paper crafting, pencil sketching, embroidery works. Some of them which I have done

My Nominations:

vegetariansimplicity
Pattyspilgrimage
Katinks
Emily
backwhenwewereyoung
bodyisyourtemple
Taylor
grownuplivingblog
throughthemagicdoor 
kahiaupaper

Versatile Blogger Award

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Awards, Versatile Blogger Award

Ok here is this The Versatile Blogger Award…..I have been nominated by Lori creatingbeautyinthekitchen.wordpress.com and Nataly kittencrafts.wordpress.com , Its feels very nice when you are nominated for an award. As Lori mentioned it makes us feel encouraged 🙂 It is a great pleasure for me, thanks you very much ladies 🙂

Lori’s recipes are Gluten free dishes , looks wonderful and healthy. Nataly’s craft section , I just love her crafts and the beading. They look amazing 🙂 Again thanks ladies and I am as well trying to learn from all of us around….

7 facts about me:

More than anything in this world, I love to sleep in my grandma’s lap who is a great cook.

I drink around 3 liters of water a day

I can’t hold my anger for a long time with my husband 🙂

I love Banana’s, at least 1 per day is a must for me

I am a tea addict

I love to travel and visit places

I am trying to decorate my house these days 🙂

My Nominations: ( in no particular order)

1. Madraasi – a tamilian tales 

2. BridgetCrafts25

3. CokkiesandSangria

4. Cooking With Volga 

5. Try Small Things

6. kookycookyng

7. theblondetressedrunner

8. justasillysomething

9. heythatsmyrecipe

10. suescraftyblog

11. Health Matters with Alexis Mathews

12. Healthy Girl

13. Adeleson’s 365

14. Ghee is Good

15. Food for the Soul

Congrats to all the nominees 😀

***To my nominees – If you choose to participate then post the award badge on your blog, share seven things about yourself and nominate 15 other bloggers!