My First LIEBSTER award

Woo hoo my First LIEBSTER award:

               I think this March month is extremely special for me. It all started with an Event win and now with my first liebster award from my blogging buddy - Saranya Palanisami of Sara's Tasty Buds. Thank you Saranya because - a person needs a big heart to share and a bigger heart to appreciate. You have one.

Something about Liebster Award:

• Liebster is "Dearest" in German. This is  like a chain letter, a blogger to blogger award.
• Thank the person by whom we were nominated and answer the questions they have for us.
• Write some random facts about us. 
• We nominate bloggers with less than 200 readers and prepare our special questions for them and pass on making them aware of the award - isn't that cool.

Below are some Random facts about me

1. Chocolate is my favorite flavour.
2. Books are my sleep medicine.
3. I do what I love to do - so I don't blame any one for the end results.
4. I don't trust future, so I live my TODAY.
5. I am proud to carry my dad's name as surname.
6. I am crazy in cleaning my kitchen - cannot sleep well leaving my counter top dirty.
7. Have a crazy habit of keeping the things in the same place. I mean if its sugar next to tea powder, I don't let coffee powder bottle to come in between - crazy right!
8. Coffee freak.
9. Music is something I love. From hearing to singing I give a try :).
10. Not a double minded person.
11. I always choose "Heads" in coin toss.

Questions From my Nominator

1.Tell us about yourself?

    Independent woman who loves to work with total dedication in anything that I take up. Crazy for chocolates and never worried about calories.

2. Your likes and dislikes?

    Likes : Chocolate,Coffee,Puppies,Chicken,Photography,Walking and more.

    Dislikes : Caramel,Raw milk,Competition,Comparison and more.

3. Your childhood passion?

    Nothing in specific.

4. Tell us about your love to cooking?

    Not sure when my love for cooking started. I am very specific that people who eat my food should feel satisfied and that is how I started to cook.

5. Tell us about your role model?

    My Dad - Only person who dedicated his life time and happiness for making my mom, me and my sister happy. Now he is doing it for my daughter too - love you dad!

6. Your first experience with cooking?

    I still remember that was Pavakka poriyal for my dad's lunch when I was doing my 9th standard.  

  

7. Other than cooking , what are all the hobbies you have?

    Painting, Photography, Craft making.

8. When was your blog started and whom was your inspiration ?

    I started my blog by Oct'11 but my first post was on July'12 and i would say July 20th 2012 was when everything started. My Inspiration is Radhika Vasanth of Food for 7 stages of life. She is the reason am blogging today. 

9. How will you select the recipes for your blog ?

   "Where are my recipes from?" Many recipes are the ones I learnt from my Mom, Grand mom and MIL. It includes my inventions, recipes from my friends and colleagues. There are bookmarked recipes from Magazines and inspired one's from blogs that I note in my recipe book but I take the method and input my ideas to twist these recipes. just replication will not serve the quality of my blog and recipes you know. I look up to thank the author's of the blog in my post too.  

10 . What is your favorite recipe which you cook ?

       "Pacha ulli Thamandhi" - I simply love it and I make that everytime when i have my dosa.

11 . Do you think blogging has got you more friends and introduced you to more people. How do you feel about that?

      Absolutely. Blogging helped me get new buddies. More friendly people who appreciate my work and also advice. It makes me feel happy and motivated.

       

 Questions For my Nominees

1. Why did you choose "Your Blog's name" for your blog?
2. What made you blog and why?
3. What makes your blog special from others?
4. What was the difficult recipe to cook till now(more time, ingredients, preparation etc)?
5. What was one creative recipe from your blog?
6. Do you have any dedicated recipe for someone on your blog post?
7. Do you have any viewer suggested recipe in your blog?
8. Your best food critic from family?
9. How did you feel about your first comment for the first recipe you posted on your blog?
10. Advice or Suggestions for new bloggers, if any?
11. Are you going to pass your Liebster award?

With all these above questions am happy to pass this award to the below blogging buddies:

Priya of The Humpty Dumpty Kitchen
Naaz of Ammi Rasoi
Hetal of Gujarati Zaika
Nimmy of Nimmy's Kitchen
Nisha of A food express to unleash your inner foodie
Vidhya of Akshaypatre Recipes
Shree of Shreez Kitchen
Aparna of Home Style Veg food
Preetha of Preethi's Bhojan 
Helen of All about my world 
Vaish of A side of food


Would really appreciate if you guys could post me after your acceptance. Thank you guyz...

Dishing Wins its first recognition!

           

              My Egg curry recipe has the maximum hits in my blog all due to participating in Spicy Chilly's giveaway event "My Spicy Recipe".. was not sure how to thank you enough for that but winning third prize is just the icing on the cake.. being a new blogger, i will cherish this win close to my heart as Dishing wins its first recognition... !!!

                  

     Thank you very much Bharathi, Spicy Chilly.

Winning Recipe from Dishing

Most Encouraging Words about Dishing from Bharathi, Spicy Chilly

" 3rd
The first impression is the best impression!
While the entries were coming in, this new blogger stole my heart with her simple but good photography, presentation and the extra love she gave me :)
I saw my logo not only under the recipe post but also in her side bar, throughout! Simple and good Egg Curry sent over by Divya Shivaraman from Dishing with Divya bags the third prize."

       Bharathi, I appreciate your excellent round up, respect for new bloggers, criteria of considerations. i am so happy that i could participate in such a event hosted by you. Heart felt congrats to my blogging buddies and winner's, Jaleela & Asiya. i salute you guyz for your patience and capability of managing two different blogs.  Thank you once again.