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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Bake-A-Thon 2011 - Final Roundup

Happy New year everyone. May the year 2012 be filled with health, happiness and prosperity. For some reason, everyone looks back into the entire year during this time. I think it is a great practice, to learn from our own mistakes, make resolutions to do better and correct the mistakes in future. If you have New Year resolutions for this year, I wish you all the best with that/them.

If there are people who are glad that 2011 is over, I am one of them. Year 2010 was bad enough in my personal life, but 2011 was worse. I am hoping, praying that year 2012 has good stuff for me/us.

On a side note, I have been really busy this month with this Bake-A-Thon. I do not know if you all enjoyed reading these daily baking adventures, but I certainly did. Am I going to do something like this again? time only will tell.
But for now, enjoy the summary of all the posts written for this Bake-A-Thon -

Day 8: Julekage
Day 19: Caramel Corn
Day 25: Coconut Bars
Day 31: This post 

Be safe and you will get to read this blog in the new year.

Enjoy.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Mid way recap of Bake-A-Thon 2011

As you all know, I have been baking every day this month and posting the recipes. Today, I am taking a break not because I cannot bake, but because I want all the cookies that are on my kitchen counter to vanish before I bake anything else. We had a few visitors yesterday and one of them is a baker. She brought a box of homemade cookies for the kids and another person bought cookies from the store and brought it. Together, there are about 7 varieties of cookies on my kitchen now along with the cake I baked the other day. I chose to do a recap of what all I have baked so far as a categorized summary. I hope you enjoy it.
Breads - Yeast breads/Muffins/Quickbreads






Cookies/Bars






Cakes





Something different


Check out all the things that my fellow bloggers have baked here -
Preethi of IsingCakes,
Veena Krishna Kumar of VeenasVegnation,
Priya Suresh of Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes.

Enjoy.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Bake-A-Thon in December 2011

It is Thanksgiving in two days. That means November has come to an end and it is time to gear up for the holiday season and baking. I love this season (when it doesn't snow to be honest) mainly because of baking. I had a crazy idea of blogging every day of December for the entire month on baked goods. Then, when I posted the idea on facebook, I had few blogger friends who were interested in joining me in this crazy, but fun adventure. So, here is a post about the details of this Bake-A-Thon.

The group is limited to 10 people. You will have to post every single day of December. Post has to be about a baked good, or a tip about baking (you can bake anything from a cookie to bread to cake or a pie. No meat. You can use eggs or chose not to - no restrictions on that). You get it right? Something in the line of baking.

We will link each other as a group. And try to spread the holiday spirits by commenting, constructive criticism if any, cheering up etc. Bottom line is to have fun. We start on December 1st and end on December 31st. Those who want to be a part of it, email me at versatilekitchen@gmail.com.

Now, having said that you have to post everyday of the month, I understand it is crazy and hard to do. So, here is a breather for anyone who wants to take it. Everyone will get a turn to not post once every 10 days. That day, they will just write about the blog posts of the rest of the group. No need to elaborate on anything. Just share what others are baking with links. If everyone uses this breather, you still get 3 days off of the whole month. If few people chose not to use the breather, you will get more days off.

Oh, but please commit to this if and only if you can do it. Need any tips how to handle the situation with a busy schedule? ask me via email.

Readers, I hope you will all have fun reading about all the baking experiments and hopefully it will be a treasury of baked goods once done. I hope I can do this again next year.

Have a great day.
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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Final Roundup for Kid's Delight - Mini Bites

This is the final roundup for Kid's Delight - Mini Bites. I sincerely thank all of you for sending me wonderful events. Thanks to Srivalli for letting me host this event this month. If I have left anyone's, please let me know and I will add it to the list. Don't you think you can find couple of dishes that your kids might love here? I certainly think my kids will love many of these mentioned here.

Have fun browsing through these..

Kalva from 'CurryinKadai' made these 'Potato Stuffed Mushrooms'.
We have 'Indian Style - Oven Roasted Baby Potatoes' from 'Krithi's Kitchen'.

Denny from 'Oh Taste n See' sent us these 'Vazhaipoo Kola urundai'.
 I made 'Beetroot Brownie Bites' for this event.
Harini-Jaya duo of 'Tamalapaku' made these awesome looking 'Mango Coconut Burfi'.
Rajani from 'My Kitchen Trials' made this 'Baked Dosa/Flat bread'.
Zareena from 'My Experiments with food' made these 'Roasted Urad dal Laddoos'.

Kaveri of 'Palakkad Chamayal' sends her second entry to this event - 'Rajma Soya Tikki'.
From the blog 'UK-Rasoi' sends yet another entry - 'Mini mango pancakes'.
Nupur from 'UK - Rasoi' has sent 'Quesadillas'.
We have 'Mini Banana Blossom Cutlets' from the blog 'Gayathri's Cook Spot'.
Saraswathi from 'Sara's Kitchen' sent these 'Crispy onion pakoda'.

Beautiful 'Strawberry Muffin' from 'Torviewtoranto'.
We have 'Ruby Berry Crumble' from the blog 'Tadka Pasta'.
Nupur of 'UK - Rasoi'  made these 'Sesame seeds and Oats bar'.
Sumana from 'Sum's Cuisine' made these 'Mini Dosa' for her niece.
Shanavi from 'Kitchen Secrets' sends us these 'Nachos with cheese sauce/dip'.
Radhika of 'Tickling Palates' made this 'Aloo mint chaat'.
Harini-Jaya of 'Tamalapaku' made these 'Eggless Blueberry Muffins'
Padma Mukund from the blog 'Zest up your palate' sends in 'Fudgy Brownie Cupcakes'.
Padma Rekha from the blog 'Plantainleaf' sent us 6 goodies. Here is her list.
Srivalli, who started this event and who blogs at 'Spicingyourlife'made a lot of 'mini bites'. Her list is as follows:

Roha of 'Hyderabadi Cuisini Recipes' made these 'Red Velvet Cupcakes'.
Ever energetic 'Priya Suresh' sends us 6 entries. They are -
Denny from 'Oh Taste N See' sends in 2 entries - 'Crustless Broccoli and Chedar mini Quiches',
and 'Blueberry Orange Spelt Mini Muffins'.

Next comes 'Baked Sabudana Wadas' from 'Sin-A-Mon'
Kalyani from 'What's Cooking' sends us these 'Eggless Carrot and Oats Muffins'
Sravani from 'Srav's Culinary Concepts' made these 'Paneer Frankie'.
Kaveri from 'Palakkad Chamayal' sends us 'Ammini Kozhukattai'.
Harini-Jaya duo of 'Tamalapaku' sends us these 'Mango Rabdi and Mango Rabdi Kulfi'.

Dhyuthi from 'Mélange !' made these 'Jaggery Dosa' for this event.
Krithi from 'Krithi's Kitchen' sends us these 'Baked banana blossom fritters'.
Gayathri of 'Gayathri's Cook Spot' made these very innovative 'Pumpkin Samosa'.
Archana of 'My Culinary Endeavours' has made 'Chocolate Rolls'.
Richa of 'Hobby and More' sends these 'Strawberry Beet Semolina Oat Laddoo (Vegan)'. Truly an innovative recipe.
Jayashree of 'Luvgoodfood' made these 'Goli Baje' which is a mangalorean (part of Karnataka) speciality.
Srivalli has sent 'Cheese Toast with Thyme, red chilli flakes'.
Next comes is Srivalli's 'Ajwain Mini Samosa'.
Here is a baked goodie - Srivallli's 'Eggless Butterless Banana chocolate muffins'.
Srivalli made 'Palak Poori' which was a hit among her kids.
Archana of 'My Culinary Endeavours' has sent 'Paneer Paratha'.
Archana of 'My Culinary Endeavours' has two entries for us. First one is 'Monaco Mini Bites'.

Her second entry is 'Bread Bonda'.

Jayashree from 'Luvgoodfood' sends us these 'Maddur Vade'. These are crunchy discs of dough with onions and chillies which are deep fried. It reminds me of home.

Sadhana from 'Sensibleveg' made these mini almond flour pancakes which are gluten free. She has posted the recipe with blueberry, strawberry syrup here.
Srivalli from 'Spicingyourlife' who, conceived this event idea made 'Bread Rolls', which she remembers from her childhood days.


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