Announcing "Royal Feast - Biriyani" and a Giveaway..

Hello friends,

My blog second anniversary is here and I am glad that I have reached this milestone. Actually I started this blog 2 years back but began to blog for real a year back. I want to say "Thanks a million". It was all possible because of  the love and support of you guys.

Actually I should have prepared a yummy dish to celebrate but I am happy just drooling over the dishes in all your blogs. Then it struck me, why not announce an event?

Yes, I am happy to announce my first event "Royal Feast - Biriyani" . Coming to think of it, this is the season of baking cakes, cookies and anything and everything to do with a oven and there are so many events happening in the blogosphere.

Do we need really need another event ????

Yes, yes, yes.... because of the theme...:) Personally I love biriyani, anytime anyday...

Biryani, who can say no to a plate of this dish which is fit for the royal. Do we have any occasion that goes by without this dish being served? Be it vegetarian or non vegetarian, wedding menus, party food, Birthday treats, Sunday lunch or just a meal for two, this dish fits in perfectly. Absolute comfort food...

There are umpteen number of varieties of preparing biriyani and just by varying the spices and cooking method and process, different flavours can be obtained.

In TamilNadu , we have Ambur, Dindugal, Arcot, Vaniyambadi, Thalapakattu, Kongu etc varieties of biriyani prepared in various parts of the state.

To know more about this dish and the origins please visit the page dedicated to this dish Journey of the Biriyani.

Rules for the event :

Because of popular demand I am including pulao/pilaf recipe also to be linked to this event..:)

a. Just cook a biriyani or pulao dish - veg or non-veg and post it in your blog from Dec 06 to Jan 25 2012.
b.Please link to this announcement page and usage of the logo is mandatory.
c.Archives are welcome only if reposted and linked back to this announcement page.
d.Use the linky tool at the end of the post to link your recipes.
e.If you are having any problems linking up, just send me your recipe with your name, blog and recipe Url, pic to my email:kaarasaaram@yahoo.co.uk.

Coming to the interesting part, as this the anniversary for my blog , I am having a giveaway to celebrate this occasion "50 Great Curries of India" by Camellia Panjabi.
It is a wonderful book by a world class business women who has her roots from Mumbai . She is credited to have introduced regional Indian food to the outside world. The testimony stands with ever full house restaurants in Central London, not one but four... "Amaya", "Chutnay Mary", "Veeraswamy" and "Masala Zone".

Infact "Veeraswamy" is the oldest Indian restaurant in UK opened in 1926 and is still running without a frizzle or fuzz like a naughty toddler.....

Need more convincing , hop to the following pages to know more about the restaurants and the author....

Veeraswamy.com  and  What we really eat - Camellia Panjabi .

I own this book [another copy] and I wanted to give it to two of you. Don't worry I will not give you the used one. The one that you see in the pic is a new book, fresh from the printers.

Believe me, it gives us so much insight into Indian cooking. Some of the recipes are - "Chicken Pistachio Korma", "Madras Fish Curry", "Crab Curry" etc with a whole lot of vegetarian curries, rotis, sides and desserts..... and it is all yours.

What you need to do to enter the give away:

1.Of course you need to link your recipe to this event.
2.Follow this blog [button on the right hand side]
3.Follow me on Twitter [button on the left hand side]

Leave me a note in the form of a comment after doing all the three. Your recipe will be counted for the giveaway only after completing the "step 2 and 3". If you are already following my blog, just mention so.

Each recipe link is counted as one entry. Feel free to link up as many recipes as possible as each and every one counts as an entry. The book can be sent to anywhere in the world, to any continent to any country....

I will select two winners by the end of Jan and announce their names ..:)

So friends start linking up and make this event a success..:)




Enjoy...


Scribbled by Reva