You find that even the most healthy lunches and meals you can buy pre-made, have an inconceivable fat content. There are lots of benefits to you not trusting the labels, and eating a home-made and healthy recipe while you catch up on a Foxy game of bingo, or watch TV after work.

Saturated fats – There are two types of fat. Good unsaturated fats which your body needs to maintain its health, and saturated fats aka the ones that make you put on weight. It’s the saturated fats that you want to avoid. If you create a meal from a recipe with reduced saturated fats, then you’ll notice a steady weight loss over time.

Lower cholesterol – When you opt for meal recipes that use healthier meats and plenty of vegetation, you are reducing your cholesterol, which in turn gives you more energy and reduces your chances of getting heart disease. It’s a simple case of cooking the salmon dish instead of the steak one. Your intake of cholesterol should be less than 300 mg per day.

Fish over red meat – Yes, you may not be a fan of fish, but it is a much healthier meat to take in than red meats like beef. Oily fish contains omega-3 which helps to reduce your chances of getting cardiovascular disease.

The way you cook – When you fry food, you are making it less healthy for you to cook. That’s why you’ll notice a healthy eater will boil or poach their eggs instead of frying them. By baking, roasting, steaming, boiling and broiling your foods, you are making the recipe healthier.

Karen at  Lavender & Lovage has this beautiful Boozy Toast for entry

Ruth at Makey Cakey has this entry for the Jammy Baked Porridge

Rudra at Moms corner has this Maraba Tamer recipe

C at Cake, Crumbs and Cooking  has made this Sticky Bluberry Jam Bread

Kate at What Kate Baked sent this entry named Rhubarb and vanilla

Krithi at Krithi’s Kitchen has this delicious Dried Figs and Dates Spicy Jam

Vardhini of Zesty Palette has this Strawberry preserve

Thanks everyone for sending in their entries for the breakfast club and I am sure a lot of my readers will love this special treat.

So here is the round up of the entries..

vaishali sabnani from  Ribbon’s to Pasta’s has sent this entry for  Zesty fruits

Raksha Kamat from Raksha’s Kitchen has this Sabudana Khichdi

Thanks for the entries and happy Diwali to all ..

With much ado here is the round up for the Create and Carve Event that I hosted in August

Selena Ze Arteest from Fruit Carving Arrangements and Food Garnishes  has sent these two entries which are

Vegetable Pop Art

Cucumber Knots For Rolls Garnish

Nayna from simply.food has sent in Apple slice carvings

Nayna from simply.food has sent in Orange basket

Nayna from simply.food has sent in Courgette boat with carrot flowers

Thanks everyone for sending their entries.

Well I am delighted to host the Breakfast Club #15  where the theme of this month is Conserves which means marmalades, jams, honeys & spreads

So

How do you join Breakfast Club? Well it is easy and simple like making Breakfast! Create something special which has the marmalades or jam or honey or rather any breakfast spread

• Mention Breakfast Club in your post and use the logo
• Link to this post and the Breakfast Club page
• E-mail me at samleekan@gmail.com with a link to your post and a photo (no larger than 300 pixels, please!).
• Send a previously posted recipe if you like, but please add the information above and republish.
• Entries can be sent to other events, but please check their rules about submitting a post to multiple events.
• If you tweet please tweet using #breakfastclub and hit me up @fussfreeflavour so I can RT you.
• If you do not have a blog, send a photo and details to me samleekan@gmail.com
• Deadline for submissions is 30th September;

I will post the round up by 7th of October .

Note Note : Helen is looking for hosts so rush and email her at helen at fussfreeflavours dot com real quick.

Giveaway Announcement

This month, Pari has announced a special giveaway!! There will be two giveaway books from  Tarla Dalal for the Indian participants only. International participants can also opt for the giveaway in case they can provide an address in India as the book gets shipped only in India. Read ahead for more eligibility rules ..

Rules for giveaway

For winning the giveaway the participants after sending the entry to me have to leave the link of the entry in Pari’s event announcement page here and have to clearly inform Pari how they are eligible for it as

1. they need to follow her blog publicly and

2. they have to be a fan on the face book page in her blog.

The winner has to provide Pari with the address at cookingoodfood@gmail.com so that she can make arrangements for getting the giveaway delivered.

The winner will be chosen by Pari using random.org and the winner will have to provide Pari with an address in India  within two days of the winner declaration else a new winner will be chosen by her.

Moving on here are the rules for sending in those delicious Fasting foods entries that you will be preparing during the fasts to feed you and your family.

Rules of The Event

1. Any number of fresh entries can be sent but only 2 entries from the archive will be accepted. Archived entries to be reposted, else will not be accepted.
2. Only vegetarian dishes accepted.
3. Use of logo is mandatory as it helps spread the word.
4. The entry should be linked back to my event announcement page and Pari’s ‘Only’- Fasting Food giveaway  page here.
5. The winner of the book from Tarla Dalal will be chosen by Pari by random. org at the end of the event from the links left in her event announcement page.

6. Format of entry
blog’s name
blog url
recipe name
recipe link
pic  resized to 300pixel
Country

7. I will post the round up within 7 days of event completion unless there’s an emergency.
8. I can not win the giveaway as I’m guest hosting it.
9. Non bloggers can also participate, in that case they can send entries to me and I can post them on their behalf.

10. Send in your entries to : samleekan@gmail.com before the 1st of October with the subject as ‘Only-Fasting Food’

Note : Please stick to the Format of Entry above as it helps me post the roundup faster. Thanks in advance !

FOOD tips for Navaratri and other fasting foods  – This will help you prepare the dishes and will also be of help to find the right kind of ingredients.

Spices that you can use – Red Chillies, Turmeric and Cumin Seeds

Salt – This is only “Rock Salt” or called as Senda Namak

Flour – Kuttu ka Atta or Singada ( Water Chestnut Flour)

Vegetables – potato, tomato, lauki or “bottle gourd”, kakdi or “Cucumber”, carrot, sweet potato

Special things that you can eat – sabudana or “Pearl sago” and chaulai or “Amaranth”

So, what is prohibited

No Grains to be used

Only Vegetarian food is allowed

Regular salt is not allowed

Fruits are allowed

I love a few things that can be prepared with Kuttu ka Atta and Saboodana and of course Potato can be used in almost any sort of vegetable. So get on ladies  Jai Mata Di !

been promoted by Nayna and it is something which will help you go creative with fruits and vegetables like never before. Believe me it works.

Here are the rules for sending the entries.

Well before you get started let us first talk about how will you create and carve your food entries. So here is the tutorial to help you do that.

Read this tutorial to create some cool creations .http://simplysensationalfood.blogspot.com/p/fruit-and-vegetable-carving-tutorials.html

Instructions for sending the entries.

Using fruit or vegetable show a garnish or carving you have created. You can post instructions on how to create your garnish / carving although it is not compulsory. If you use an on line source or video to help you, please do not forget to link the source due to copyright reasons and of course to give full credit to the owner.

You can use cookie cutters, knives, fancy garnish cutters, graters any tool to help you create your piece of art. You may send entries where you have used your garnish or carving on a cooked dish, but remember the main emphasis should be to show the carving /creation.

Mandatory Stuff so that I can accept your entry.

· Use of logo is mandatory as it helps spread the word about the event.

· Multiple entries and Archived entries allowed if reposted

· Entries must Include link back event to simply.food

http://simplysensationalfood.blogspot.com/p/simplyfood-events.html as well as to my hosting page which is http://dinnerrecipesguide.com/august-create-n-carve-fruit-and-vegetable-event/

Format for sending the entries

Name:

Blog Name:

Post Name:

Post URL:

Image no larger than 300 pixels as attachment.

Please email me your entries at samleekan@gmail.com

Looking forward to the entries and hope you enjoy cutting and carving your food in many ways and styles.

Thanks everyone for posting your entries and for participating. I must say that Father’s day means a lot to me and this was a way to saying thanks to my Father for everything that he has given to me in life.

R&R from Tadka Pasta has sent this entry for Pop’s Peppery Chili

The second entry R&R from Tadka Pasta has sent is the A Puffy Pie for Peachy Dad

Priya Sreeram from Bon Appetit has sent this Eggless Golden Cake

Deepika from   My Life & Spice has sent in this entry for father’s day special which is Chane ke saag ki chutney

Anamika has sent in the entry from Taste Junction which is called as Mango Fool

Nutan Dodbele  from Rice N Spice has this yummy Nankhatai for Father’s day

Thanks all for participating and the next event host is Rice N Spice where the theme will be Independece Day which will mean the colors will be Indian Flag colors for the food items or any related theme.

Very excited to do this round up of the event called Celebrate Sweets – Cakes. Thanks to all who participated and it feels nice to have so many entries even though I can tell you that I am just beginning and yes did not do much marketing for the event , should have done. So in future I will at least have it on facebook/twitter and hope to see much more response.

I have posted all the entries which I received in my mail box however if you think that I have missed out on any entry please do let me know.

First Entry is from Anamika  Arun of Taste Junction and she has sent an entry for Chocolate Vanilla Marbled Pound Cake

Next one is from  Gayathri Kumar  from Gayathri’s Cook Spot with her entry which is Eggless Pumpkin Cake

This entry is from saffronstreaks and the entry is lemon blueberry loaf cake

This entry is from Raksha Kamat from Raksha’s Kitchen whose Mango Eggless cake looks yummy

Vidya from the blog Kurryleaves has sent this Orange cake entry

Kaveri from Palakkad Chamayal has posted this Eggless Microwave Chocolate Cake

Harini Shrinivas from the blog Sugar ‘n’ Spice has this Eggless Carrot Cake recipe entry

Rajani from my Kitchen Trials has this entry from the Pound Cake

Sravani from Srav’s Culinary Concepts has this wonderful Orange Pound Cake

Ambreen from Simply Sweet ‘n Savory has sent in four entries and here are these

Recipe Name : Almond cake

Recipe Name :  Marble Cake

Recipe Name :  Pineapple Cream Cake

Recipe Name :  Rainbow Cake with Pink-butter Cream Frosting

Thanks Ambreen for these delicious cake entries

Trisha from My Hobbie Lobbie has sent in six entries for the carnival and here are those lovely cakes

Candy Lovers Cake

Strawberry Cupcakes

Japanese Cheesecake

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Rustic Chocolate Cake

Vanilla Cupcakes

and Finally Nivedita from NIveditas Kitchen has sent in five entries for the Celebrate Sweets – Cakes event and here are these

Basic Egg Less Sponge Cake(Food Remake)

Black Forest CakeVegan Mango Cake

Cakes(Re Mixed and Re posting)Banana & Carrot Eggless Cake in Cooker

Divya from Easy cooking has sent this entry which is Roasted Banana Rum Cake

Priya Sreeram from Bon Appetit has this Eggless Golden Cake

Roha from Hyderabadi Cuisine has sent this Red Velvet Cupcakes

So I have this round up done and hosting the event was really cool and enjoyable. I truly think that hosting an event is a nice way to get all recipes and also it is a truly enriching experience in terms of  getting to know other food bloggers as well. Thanks Nivedita for allowing me to host the event.

Cakes as a sweets is something which gives any event and any milestone in our lives a special meaning. Birthdays and anniversaries are nothing without cakes. Graduation cakes to fathers day cakes is also something which gives each event a special meaning. I even baked a cake to celebrate the Indian World Cup victory.

Well put your baking hat on and bake a cake on and send an entry to samleekan@gmail.com by July 7th, 2011.

Here are the rules

• The entry must be posted on your blog between June 7th and July 7th , 2011.
• Post as many cake recipes as much as you want and multiple entries are allowed.
• Please link to this announcement page as well as Nivedita’s announcement page
• Older entries are accepted if they are reposted with this post link
• Please use the logo as it helps spread the word
• Email me at samleekan@gmail.com with the subject Celebrate Sweets – Cakes with the following details
• Your Name :
• Blog’s Name :
• Recipe Name :
• Recipe URL/Link :
• Picture of the cake

Please make sure to send the entry by July 7th, 2011.