Showing posts with label contest entries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contest entries. Show all posts

Friday, May 10, 2013

P.I.Z.Z.A.

I had joined this group called the  Home Baker's Challenge , a monthly baking event for both bloggers & Non bloggers initated by Priya & team with the intention of learning new recipes and for the possibility of baking atleast once in a month.




when i found the month's theme as pizza, i thought of letting the week go because we dont get cheese at our place, but luckily my brother had to attend  a meeting at another place and he was sweet enough to search for a super market and bought the pizza cheese and 2 pizza breads too. The first time i tried pizza using pizza base and tasted it- it was kind of good and that boosted me to try again from scratch. Homemade pizza base was definitely more tastier than the readymade pizza bread.





The topping was same for all the three (only variation is the chopping and dicing of the veggies)  - onions, tomatoes, capsicum and cheese.





Pizza using pizza breads:

1. Spread tomato sauce on the pizza bread, grate some cheese over it.
2. Add the toppings as required, and a generous amount of tomato sauce and grate cheese all over all the toppings and drizzle some olive oil on the top.
3. Bake, slice and serve.

chopped veggies


pizza bread, and the GO cheese

different toppings


cheeeeezieee :)
 pizza with homemade pizza base:

Mix maida,salt,sugar and yeast in a wide bowl.
Heat water and milk to lukewarm and add to the dough and mix in gently.

Cover the dought with a damp kitchen towel and leave it to rise. After resting and rising, punch down the dough and knead well.

 shape the dough into  thin or thick flat discs as required.. Transfer to a greased baking sheet. Prick all over with a fork and bake for 2-3 min.


Spread tomato sauce, grate some cheese over it, the toppings, tomato sauce again and grate pizza all over the veggies.
Bake for 12-15 min or until the crust  becomes golden.

Slice and serve.  :)


Linking this to Home Baker's Challenge this month happening @ Divya's Culinary Journey.

 

Friday, March 22, 2013

my surprise gift from divalikes

HI all!! This is the surprise gift package i had received from Lavanya of divalikes.com. I was selected as a random winner from the participants who had contributed to "write for us". A very active blogger and a very sweet person she is. She had received a total of 114 entries for this  "write for us" contest. She had the patience to post a recipe every day. She made to sure post only one recipe a day so that everyone could notice our hardwork. Very thoughtful indeed!! Eager to know what is inside??? scroll down...







yippeeeeeeee a stainless saucepan with a glass lid, i have been thinking of a pan with a glass lid for quite some time and the saucepan indeed is a big surprise to me....thankyou lavanya

Do check divalikes.com to find out the first three winners and their winning entries here.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

WEEK 10 of "The fifty-2 weeks of 2013"

HI all!!

"Cinquain" is the theme for week 10 of "The fifty-2 weeks of 2013". When i read the word Cinquain, i was sure i would skip this week as the last thing i would do is to write a poem, but then googled it for info and it is not as difficult as the word sounds. 

A cinquain is a five line poem that mainly comes in three formats:

I had to search on google to get its meaning and found info here



Cinquain Pattern #1
Line1: One word
Line2: Two words
Line 3: Three words
Line 4: Four words
Line 5: One word

Cinquain Pattern #2
Line1: A noun
Line2: Two adjectives
Line 3: Three -ing words
Line 4: A phrase
Line 5: Another word for the noun

Cinquain Pattern #3
Line1: Two syllables
Line2: Four syllables
Line 3: Six syllables
Line 4: Eight syllables
Line 5: Two syllables
I chose the second one and have tried to write one on  "Facebook"

FACEBOOK
HIGH SCHOOL VIRTUAL REUNION, SOCIAL UTILITY
LIKING,COMMENTING,SHARING
CHECKING FOR UPDATES FROM FRIENDS
"ADDICTION"





This is my third entry for the fifty two weeks of 2013.