Contest of the Month

Contest 2012 May

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Everyone including myself makes big cooking mistakes from time to time. Sometimes I feel they always happen on important occasions. For this month’s contest, I would like to hear your cooking blunders. Maybe you were preparing for a big dinner party and things went very wrong. What did you do? Were you able to save the day? What did you learn from that day?

You needn’t send any photos for the contest.  All you have to do is post your story to the disucussion forum on the Cooking Blunders topic that I have created.

The winners will be selected randomly from all the forum post entries.

Below is my checklist:

  • You will not have email me anything this time. You can simply leave a posting on the Cooking Blunders topic.
  • If you are creating a new account for the forum, please enter your email address so that I can contact you after the contest is over. Don’t worry, your email address will not be public (only I will be able to see it).
  • The deadline is May 31st.
  • The winner will be featured on the homepage and a link to their website (if available).

1st Prize: $100 gift certificate from Amazon.com
2nd Prize: $25 gift certificate from Amazon.com

**Anyone can join this contest**



Contest 2012 April Winners

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Sorry for the delay in posting the winners for this month. There was a lot of color and variety in the recipes submitted and they all looked great. I would to thank everyone who participated. You all did a great job. Here are the top five recipes and two winners from those:

1st Place: Nav Sidhu (Quinoa Salad)

2nd Place: Adelina Srinivasan (Thinking Outside the Lettuce Head)

Congratulations to both of you!!

Thank you to everyone else that also participated in the contest:
  • Mamtha
  • Hidemi Walsh
  • Ranjani Narayan
  • Deepti Dongare
  • Jeni Kim-Pandey
  • Shweta Agrawal
  • Keshu Patel
  • Flora Kim
  • Nibedita Das
  • Ketan Patel
  • Allyson Bossie
  • Lavanya Raj
  • Kalmi Horvath
  • Sapna Mehta
  • Hasmukh Patel
  • Neha Patel
  • Raji Vivekanandan
  • Raksha Mishta
  • Laura Bregman
  • Deepa Krishnan

Contest 2012 April

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To celebrate spring, this month’s contest is to make a colorful spring salad. It must be accompanied by a homemade dressing. The salad can include fruit as well as vegetable. The vegetables may be cooked also. Mostly, I am looking for a healthy spring salad that is colorful. The specific rules for April are the following:

  • Any type of salad with fruits and/or vegetables.
  • You must also make a homemade dressing to go with the salad.
  • It must be vegetarian and also egg-less.
  • Please submit only ONE recipe.
  • Please see my salad recipes for examples.

In general I will only consider recipes that I feel are complete in regards to ingredients, measurement, and instruction. From there I am looking for creativity and a recipe that my viewers would enjoy to prepare on their own. I will be judging on overall recipe and presentation also.

Below is my checklist:

  • Be Creative!
  • Ingredients should be listed with measurements.
  • Method must be explained clearly, so it’s easy to follow.
  • Please include your name along with the recipe (as you would like it to appear).
  • Search the web for ideas. There are many resources available.
  • Please send me a detailed recipe to contest@manjulaskitchen.com
  • You must also send original picture(s) of the recipe – do not simply grab a photo from the web. Otherwise your recipe will not be considered for entry.
  • The deadline is April 27th.
  • The winner will be featured on the homepage with the new recipe and a link to their website (if available).

1st Prize: $100 gift certificate from Amazon.com
2nd Prize: $25 gift certificate from Amazon.com

**Anyone can join this contest**

Contest 2012 March Winners

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I was happy to see so many bread recipes last month, but it was a lot more work this time to review, try and select the winners.  Thank you to everyone who participated and you all did a great job. However, I did have to disqualify some due to missing photo or copied recipes. Please make sure to send original photos in the email and if adapting a recipe from elsewhere, please don’t simply copy the recipe word for word. Here are the top five recipes and two winners from those:

1st Place: Haddas Friedman (Colorful Antipasti Bread)

2nd Place: Sapna Mehta (Indo-Chinese Bread)

Congratulations to both of you!!

Thank you to everyone else that also participated in the contest:
  • Priyanka Mathur
  • Reshma Sinha
  • Surabhi Surendra
  • Deepti Rao
  • Sneha Aralikatti
  • Lakshmi Swetha
  • Padmavathi G.
  • Priya Suresh
  • Aafreen Ansari
  • Sucharita Roy
  • Divya Kudua
  • Shubha Satish
  • Kalmi Horvath
  • Monika Zielinski
  • Vijay Boopathi
  • Trasie Sikka
  • Safia Hassan
  • Devi Parvati
  • Maria Lombardi
  • Anima Khaleel
  • Akhila Suparna
  • Caitlin Cooks
  • Shyamala Rao
  • Parul Patel
  • Ruchika Srivastava
  • Richa Gupta
  • Nav Sidhu
  • Vinitha Krishnan
  • Prachi Chaitanya Kumthekar
  • Jaya Lakshmi Yamma
  • Kavita Krishnan
  • Saurabh Kumar
  • Nibedita Das
  • Vidya Sundararajan
  • Radhika

 

Contest 2012 March

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This month’s contest is to make bread! It can be any kind of bread (for appetizer, desert, etc). The specific rules for March are the following:

  • Any type of bread recipe.
  • It must be vegetarian and also egg-less.
  • Please submit only ONE recipe.
  • Please see my bread recipes for examples.

In general I will only consider recipes that I feel are complete in regards to ingredients, measurement, and instruction. From there I am looking for creativity and a recipe that my viewers would enjoy to prepare on their own. I will be judging on overall recipe and presentation also.

Below is my checklist:

  • Be Creative!
  • Ingredients should be listed with measurements.
  • Method must be explained clearly, so it’s easy to follow.
  • Please include your name along with the recipe (as you would like it to appear).
  • Search the web for ideas. There are many resources available.
  • Please send me a detailed recipe to contest@manjulaskitchen.com
  • You must also send original picture(s) of the recipe – do not simply grab a photo from the web. Otherwise your recipe will not be considered for entry.
  • The deadline is March 27th.
  • The winner will be featured on the homepage with the new recipe and a link to their website (if available).

1st Prize: $100 gift certificate from Amazon.com
2nd Prize: $25 gift certificate from Amazon.com

**Anyone can join this contest**

Contest 2012 February Winners

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Just like last year, I really enjoyed reading everyone’s Valentine’s Day stories. Thank you for sharing them with me. Here are the two winners that I selected at random from the posts. Congratulations to both of you.

1st Place: seema872006

2nd Place: Cynken

Thank you to everyone else that also participated in the contest.

Contest 2012 February

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This month’s contest is another easy one. I very much enjoyed reading all the valentine’s day stories last year and I would like to do the same this year. All you have to do is post your story to the disucussion forum on the Valentine’s Day topic that I have created.

You needn’t send any photos for the contest. I just want to hear your valentine’s story – what did you do for your husband, wife, girl/boyfriend, or other loved one? If you cooked something, please describe the menu that you prepared. Did you surprise your loved one? The more details, the better!

The winners will be selected randomly from all the forum post entries.

Below is my checklist:

  • You will not have email me anything this time. You can simply leave a posting on the Valentine’s day forum topic.
  • If you are creating a new account for the forum, please enter your email address so that I can contact you after the contest is over. Don’t worry, your email address will not be public (only I will be able to see it).
  • The deadline is Februrary 24th.
  • The winner will be featured on the homepage and a link to their website (if available).

1st Prize: $100 gift certificate from Amazon.com
2nd Prize: $25 gift certificate from Amazon.com

**Anyone can join this contest**

Contest 2012 January Winners

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I really enjoyed seeing all the photos for January’s contest. Here are the two winners that I selected at random. Congratulations to both of you.

1st Place: Monica Prashar

2nd Place: Tonya McDaniel

Thank you to everyone else that also participated in the contest.

Contest 2012 January

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To start off the New Year, January contest will be an easy one and I hope everyone will participate.

Create any recipe from Manjula’s Kitchen website and post the photo on facebook or google plus. That’s all there is for this contest. Two winners will be chosen at random.

Please be sure to tag Manjula’s Kitchen Page onto the photo on facebook.

If you are using google plus, my link to the Google Plus page is here.

Add me to facebook if you haven’t already done so:

Also, you can find me on google Plus:

Below is my checklist:

  • You will not have to email me anything this time.
  • Simply tag a photo of any one of my recipes  on facebook or google plus.
  • The contest will be open until January 31th.
  • The winner will be featured on the homepage and a link to their website (if available).

1st Prize: $100 gift certificate from Amazon.com
2nd Prize: $25 gift certificate from Amazon.com

**Anyone can join this contest**

Contest 2011 December Winners

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I received many really good recipes this last month and I had a tough time deciding on the winners. Thank you to everyone who participated and you all did a great job. Of course, I can only select five, so here they are and two top winners from those:

1st Place: Akhila Bhatt (Pineapple Kesaribaath)

2nd Place: Shanthi Bhuvan (Double Decker Burfi – Apple Coconut and Pineapple Burfi)

Congratulations to both of you!!

Thank you to everyone else that also participated in the contest:

  • Ramya
  • Swarna Sridhar
  • Prachi Chaitanya Kumthekar
  • Lyan Alsabti
  • Avanti
  • Teena Mary
  • Vani Hegde
  • Mohana Natarajan
  • Linju Praveen Jacob
  • Tazeen Siddiqui
  • Sobha M Das
  • Hidemi Walsh
  • Misha Pratheesh
  • Maiah Albi
  • Priya Suresh
  • Lakshmi Swetha
  • Jamuna Gopal
  • Sumedha Bailur
  • Neeraj Sonkar
  • Melanie Booth