Wednesday, February 2, 2011

'ONLY' SALADs Event Round up and the Winner

Firstly, I would like to thank Pari of FoodDelicious for giving me this wonderful opportunity to host her event 'ONLY' Salads which is in fact the first event I have hosted.I have received 73 entries in total for this event which I can say is really a big number to make me scream that my first event is really successful. I personally do thank all the blogger friends and non bloggers who have sent entries for the event and made it successful.Well for me, I managed to add a few more bloggers to my network. I would have to admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and more importantly this also made me aware of the pain that my fellow bloggers take in putting together the round up's for the event. I tried to put up all the entries which I have received,If I had missed any of your entries I apologize for it and please let me know so that I will include them to the round up.

First let us check out the International entries which I got for the event in the order I recieved.
I got my first entry from Soumya of Soumya's Kitchen from USA.She has sent four amazing nutritious salads which are very healthy.
Next comes the colorful entry from Pavithra of Dishes from my Kitchen from USA,whose blog is admired by everyone,including me.Look at the way she has wrapped the salad in those beautiful soy wrappers which is appealing to our eyes.
Madhu of SweetSPiceySour from CANADA has sent a beautiful and healthy Italian Salad.
Tossed Italian Salad
Mythreyi of Yum Yum Yum from USA has sent a Poblano pepper-Avocado-Mango salad,check out the way how she has presented that salad in the form of a beautiful tower.She has also sent Crunchy cucumber salad.
Now check out the beautiful fruity Orange Salad and Chickpeas salad sent by Jyoti of The Veggie hut from IRELAND.
Orange Salad
Chickpeas Salad
Malli of chillilovesmalli from USA has sent a healthy warm Quinoa,tempeh and butternut squash salad which is just perfect for this cold weather.
Warm Quinoa,tempeh and Butternut Squash salad
Lakshmi of Taste of Mysore from SINGAPORE has sent a seasonal and traditional karnataka salad,Fresh Chickpeas Salad which is apt for the season.She has also sent a cooling Kadabele Mosaru sasive/Chanadal in yogurt salad.
Fresh Chickpeas Salad/Kadalekaalu Kosambari
Veggie Rainbow(Warm) Salad
Soumya of Soumya's kitchen from USA has sent a very different Spaghetti Salad which looks really yumm.
Spaghetti Salad
Pavani of Cook's Hideout from USA has sent a beautiful warm Lentil Salad with Grapes which is perfect for this cold weather.
Next comes the Quinoa Tabouli,a twist to the regular tabouli from Honey bee of Honey bee cooks Jackfruit from USA.She has also sent a colorful veggie salad.
Hasna of Kachuss Delights from UAE has sent two entries Penne in thousand Island dressing and KFC Coleslaw for my event.
Priyanka of Asankhana from SINGAPORE has sent a healthy Spinach and paneer salad for the event.
Krithi's kitchen from USA has sent a tasty Paneer Green salad with ginger lemon dressing.
Reva of kaarasaaram has sent a very colorful Carrot and Orange salad and also Eggplant Feta salad with mint pistachio dressing.
Akila of Learning to cook from SINGAPORE has sent Carrot-Beetroot salad.
Next comes the five entries from our super blogger Priya of Priya's easy and tasty recipes from FRANCE.
Denny of Oh taste n see from USA has sent two entries for the event.

Sanyukta of Creative Sayukta from USA has sent two entries for the event.
Kiwi summer salad
Green chickpeas veggie fruit salad
Jaleela of cookbookjaleela from UAE has sent a protein rich salad.
Mixed Pulses Healthy salad
Swapna of Swapna's cuisine has sent a colorful and wonderful Greek Salad,which is really a treat to eyes.
Greek Salad
Usha of MySpicyKitchen from USA has sent two entries for my event.
Cabbage cucumber salad in Mustard yogurt dressing
Chickpea salad
Greens-Fruit-Veggie-nuts salad with yogurt honey dressing
Harika of Harika's Kitchen has sent a delicious and nutritious chickpeas salad.
Chickpeas Salad
Next got the entry from My creative Flavors from USA,A date with strawberry,yeah you read it correct that is the name of salad..sounds interesting right?
Anshu from USA has sent nutritious Black Chickpea salad.
Next comes the entries from our Desi Bloggers,I mean the entries from INDIA.Check out what our Desi bloggers have brought for us.
Aparna of Ap's Kitchen has sent a famous karnataka style salad called Kosambari with a twist to the regular one.
Dr.Sameena of My culinary Creations has sent a cooling Yogurt salad.
PJ of Seduce your taste buds has sent three wonderful salads.Look at the colorful Dragon fruit salad which is served in a nice fruit shell.
Dragon Fruit Salad
Green Salad in Peanut sauce
Next comes the entries from Pari of Foodelicious who is the brain child behind this event.She has sent my favorite Som Tam Thai salad and Mixed Veg salad with a rich n spicy mayo-yogurt dressing.She has prepared these salads exclusively for our event and I am thankful to her to send those entries.
Preeti of Khaugiri has sent colorful Chilled Melon Ball Salad,look the way how the melon's are beautifully scooped.
Chilled Melon Ball Salad
Priya Sreeram of Bon Appetit has sent a Minty tomato cucumber salad which is called salad-e-shirazi in Iran.
Shobha of Food mazaa has sent a lovely Mixed vegetable salad which served in edible exotic pine apple birds.Check out for the beautiful pine apple bird carving in her blog.
Roshan of Roshan's cucina has sent Babycorn salsa.
Savitha of savitha's kitchen has sent a different and colorful Peanut salad with cucumber.
Kanchan of Kitchen gossip has sent Egg salad which can be used as a filling for your sandwich.
Egg Salad
Sweatha of TastyCurryLeaf has sent two wonderful entries for the event.
Waldorf Salad
Eggplant Salad-Salata de Vinete from Romania
I have recieved one non-blogger entry too.
Ashwini from UK has shared a different Radish salad which her mom prepares to make her two year old fussy grand daughter.I am sharing the recipe in her own words.
Radish Salad
Ingredients:
Radish - 1 cup grated
Green Chilles - 1/2 tsp finely chopped
Tomato - 2 tbsp finely chopped (remove the seeds)
salt - to taste
lemon - as desired
Method:
Mix all the above ingredients and serve immediately,as it leaves water when kept for a long time.
And finally the four entries from your host,urs truly Prathibha of The Chef and Her Kitchen.
Steamed Babycorn and Raw Mango Salad
Red Pumpkin-Yogurt Salad
Sprouts Salad-Chaat Style
Tabbouleh
And now coming to the winner of 'ONLY' Salads event.I have use random.org to select the winner and the lucky winner is Sweatha of TastyCurryLeaf.Congratulations to Sweatha for winning the event,you have won Tarla Dalal's 'Healthy Soups and Salads'.

Pari will choose the winner for the CSN give away,so please stay tuned to see who will win the give away at her place.


30 comments:

  1. Congrats Prathiba this is such wonderfull roundup and great job dear each and every salad looks so delicious and healthy.Congrats to sweatha

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  2. Wowww loads of delicious,healthy and filling salads to try from, congrats to SWeatha..

    Thanks a lot for this beautiful roundup Prathy..

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  3. UNBELIEVABLE ! My eyes are popping out. This surely is unbelievable.I am speechless

    Love the round up and am very HAPPY that I could be a part of it.

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  4. wow that was a wonderful roundup dear.... bookmarked....

    congrats swetha for winning the book....

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  5. Hi dear.
    very well made round up, can see the pains you have taken to do it and a lovely array of salads to try. Thanks for hosting.
    Congrats sweatha, kindly mail me your address pls.

    FOODELICIOUS

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  6. wonderful roundup prathibha and congrats swetha for winning... Keep rocking..
    Reva

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  7. OMG, what a huge roundup.... I'm really tired just going through it...will have to look all the recipes in detail:-

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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  8. superb round up pratibha...gr8 work dear...
    Super Yummy Recipes

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  9. This is a must bookmark page to me,i am very bad in eating/making salad,good to see somany at one place,great job hosting!

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  10. This is a great round-up! Good to see a bunch of healthy recipes.. thanks for hosting this event..

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  11. Congratulations on your first event and that was an awesome round up :)
    Here's to healthy eating!

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  12. HI Prathy,

    My Cheers to you for Great Hosting and for the pain you have taken to put together all these entries. Wow, A very Nice Collection of Healthy Salads at one place. You have made my day. I have book marked this for future reference. Congratulations Sweatha for winning this.

    Yum! Chef
    -Mythreyi

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  13. wonderful round up!!...wow so many salads to try!

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  14. Wonderful roundup Prathy... I bookmarked it. Wonderful hosting and wonderful roundup great job !!!!
    Congrats Swetha.

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  15. Beautiful roundup Parthy :).Bookmarked it.And congrats to Sweatha

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  16. Wow...superb roundup Pratibha...
    Thanks for including my entry...

    Congratulations to the winner!!!!

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  17. Excellent roundup..likes all the entries!

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  18. wow on roundup. This is a post worth saving with so many mouth watering and healthy salads :)

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  19. Un arte en la cocina te mereces muchos aplausos y yo te doy uno muy grande ,felicitaciones por tu blog una maravilla que hay que visitar a diario,abrazos y muchos cariƱos.

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  20. wonderful roundup Prathibha! Now I know where to stop-by when I am looking for salads :D
    Thank you!

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  21. Congrats on your first roundup, you have done a great job! Such healthy and colorful salads!

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  22. That is real treat and great Job Gal!

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  23. Lovely round up and congrants to the winner. So many lovely ideas, have book marked the page. Will be real handy for any salad lover.

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  24. Fantastic Pratibha. 73 awesome salads. Next time around I would come to this place to pick a salad rather than searching them :D

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  25. What a beautiful salad display...good job prathibha.
    Congratulations to Sweatha!!

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  26. Lovely round up! Will try some of these salads very soon..

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