Awards, Awards, and more awards

Yay!!! Today was a good day. Today I received, not one, not two, but three awards. How cool is that!!! I am so happy, I am confused. Where do I start. These awards really encourage me to cook more and post more, but how much can one eat in a day??
Well, the first award is one I have received twice before, so this is the third time. Sudeshna has awarded me "Blogging Friends Forever Award". Since I have already passed it on, I can't think of anybody else to do so. Thank you so much Sudeshna for thinking of me. I will treasure it forever.
My second award of the day was from Kitchen Flavours. She has passed on the "Brilliant Weblog" award to me. Thank you so much for including my blog in the list of brilliant bogs. I appreciate it a lot. Thanks a million.

Brilliant Weblog is a prize given to sites and blogs that are smart and brilliant both in their content and their design. The purpose of the prize is to promote as many blogs as possible in the blogsphere.

Here are the rules to follow :-When you receive the prize you must write a post showing it, together with the name of who has given it to you, and link them back.Choose a minimum of 7 blogs (or even more) that you find brilliant in their content or design.Show their names and links and leave them a comment informing they were prized with ‘Brilliant Weblog’.Show a picture of those who awarded you and those you give the prize (optional).

It was not easy to choose as there are so many blogs out there that deserve this. I had to think for a long time. But I finally came up with these names:

1. Mona

2. Sudeshna

3. Illatharasi

4. Veda Murthy

5. Priti

6. Jayashree

7. Solai Chidambaram

The last person to pass awards to me was SriLekha. These are the "Beautiful Site Award" and "Best Blog Darts Thinker Award". I don't know if these are two awards or just one.

Anyways, I am really thankful to SriLekha for this. Really encourages me. Again I had a tough time selecting people. I pass the award to:

1. Skribles

2. Andhra Flavors

3. Mishmash

4. The Singing Chef

Once again I thank everyone for thinking about me and passing on the awards to me.

Nimki, an award and thanks

I remember when I was a kid, my mom used to make nimki for my sister and me for snacks and we loved it. My sister loved it more when they were put in sugar syrup to make it sweet. Since we loved it so much, I thought that my boy would also like it, and I thought correct. He loved it. He was playing with two girls who are eight, and his dadda and among the four of them (one adult and three kids), they finished it. Yay!! It was very difficult for me to save some for a picture.

When I started making it I realized that this needed maida (refined flour) and had to be deep fried. Now I got paranoid with the combination of maida and deep frying which are both not very good for health, so I substituted maida with atta (whole wheat flour). Also I used less oil for frying. Thought it might be different, but it was very much like what I ate as a kid.

Ingredients:

Atta (Whole wheat flour): 125 gms

Ghee (clarified butter): 1 tbsp

Salt: 1tbsp

Kalo jeere(kalaunji/nigella seeds): 2 tbsp

Water: as required

Oil: for frying

Method:

1) Mix the ghee, atta and salt together.

2) Add the kalo jerre and water, and knead into a dough just like we do while making roti.

3) Divide the dough into balls.

4) Flatten the balls and then roll them out in circles, dusting with flour when required.

5) With a knife, cut criss cross strips on the rolled out dough. They should be diamond shaped. I know mine are not good shapes, but that is the idea.

6) Heat oil in a kadai and fry.

7) Drain on kitchen paper.

8) If kept in an air tight container, it can last for up to 2 weeks.

I also wanted to thank Dibs for the Blogging Friends Forever award. She is the second person to do so, and I thank her with all my heart. I will always cherish it Dibs. I have already passed it on to 5 people earlier.

I received a lot of wonderful comments for my last post. I want to thank everyone for the kind words. This really encourages me to do better.

My First Award

This morning I got a wonderful surprise for my blog. Suma Rajesh has awarded me with the "BLOGGING FRIENDS FORVER AWARD". I really appreciate that. This is my first award. I am very happy. Thank you so so so so much Suma. It means a lot to me.

The following rules apply to this award:
1. Only 5 people are allowed to receive this award
2. 4 of them followers of your blog.
3. One has to be new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. You must link back to who ever gave you the award.

Since my blog is relatively new, I am not very sure if I have any followers, but still, I choose:

1. skribles

2. Solai Chidambaram

3. Illatharasi

4. SriLekha

5. Sireesha: she is new and in France.