It was really nice to see so many entries this month and it was great for me to see many creative ideas for plating dishes. The contest is now over – The top final winners are below. Thank you everyone for participating. For anyone just visiting this page for the first time, this contest is [...]
The summer has started and it is getting really hot. This month’s contest is to make a refreshing beverage with the following fruit: melon (watermelon, cantelope, honeydew, or other melon fruit) berries (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, or other berry) You can create a smoothie, or punch, or a lemonade twist. It is up to you, but [...]
It was great to see all the recipes submitted last month. I know it can be challenging to take something simple like a drink or smoothie recipe and make it stand out from the rest. I’ve selected the top 5 best recipe submissions and chose two winners below. The winners are: 1st Place: Laura Bregman (Cucumber-Honeydew Cooler with [...]
Become a fan of my facebook page and enter to win a free Amazon certificate. Two winners will be chosen at random (like the last month). Spread the word, tell your friends on facebook – become a fan. Below is my checklist: You will not have to email me anything this time. Simply add me [...]
For this month contest, I thought it would be great to do a fresh spring salad. Contestants will create a bean salad with spring colors, and home made dressing. You will be judged on creativity, and presentation. I will be selecting the top 5 and let the viewers vote for the winners as in past [...]
This month’s contest is an easy one. Because Mother’s Day is approaching in a few days (May 8th), I thought it would great to hear some stories. I would like to hear about the special things you have done for your mother. Or as a mother, you can write what your kids have done for [...]
Thank you. I really enjoyed reading all the wonderful stories about everyones mother’s day experiences. Here are the two winners chosen at random from all the comment postings: 1st Place: Anke Jain (view story) 2nd Place: Neeta (view story)
I really enjoyed all the entries for last month. Many people used butternut squash in the recipes. In fact, four of top five are all recipes with butternut squash. Here are the my top five entries and two top winners from those: 1st Place: Sangeeta Jagan (Butternut Squash Badam Halwa) 2nd Place: Jayne Miller (Butternut Squash [...]
There were many entries last month for the appetizer. As usual, it was tough selecting the winners. Here are the my top five entries and two top winners from those: 1st Place: Divya (Chaat Bites) 2nd Place: Dipti Joshi (Mushroom Sesame Fingers) Congratulations to both of you!! Thank you to everyone else that also participated [...]
As school has just started, many of my viewers have been asking about meal suggestions for kids. For September contest, you can make any kid-friendly recipe. I will be judging on the following criteria: The meal should be health conscious and nutritious (example: avoid deep fried foods, or high sugar foods) You are preparing this [...]
Thank you to everyone who took part in September’s Content. Here are the winners for 1st and 2nd place: 1st Place: Nibedita Das (Paneer Curry Pasta Salad) 2nd Place: Dipti Joshi (Colorful Veggie Wrap) Thank you to everyone else that participated: Poonam Jadhav Sreedevi.R Sushma Rupal Patel Payal Choudhary sugandha kortikar Meena Panchal Hem Srivastava Mike [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
Similar to last month, April’s contest will be based on chickpeas or garbanzo beans. You can may choose to do any dish as long as chickpeas are the main ingredient. I’m eager to see what you all come up with. Good Luck. Using chickpeas, create any type of variation. Be Creative! Search the web for [...]
For this month, the contest is similar to November. Create a unique variation for Papdi Chat: You can easily make it vegan by omitting the yogurt. There are so many ways to transform papdi chat into something unique and mouth watering. You can scour the web for ideas. You will be judged mostly on creativity, [...]
FIRST PLACE: Seema Kukanur created Hara-Bhara Palak Papadi Chat. The full recipe is listed below. SECOND PLACE: Richa Agarwal from Massachusetts created a variation called Bread Dahi Vada Papdi Chaat (also listed below). Other top contributions are also worth mentioning here. Thank you for participating: Murali Anantha Meeta Asarpota Prajakta Deodhar Ravi Vinayak Hamsaveni H.T. [...]
