Friday, April 29, 2011

Fast Food NOT Fat Food March- April Round Up + Breaking News

Dear blogger friends, IT was an overwhelming response to the March- April edition of my blog's event,
Fast Food NOT Fat Food with 85 entries - I am humbled by the number of outstanding and creative recipes that were submitted, starting from salads, to burgers, to idlis to chaats, pizzas, biscuits, noodles - the variety was mind blowing - I am so bad at picking favorites - And picking 5 is near impossible - So I would like to particularly recognize 20 of the recipes from different categories of dishes entered I thought best fit all criteria of the purpose of this event -
Sugar &Spice sent in baked version of  popular Indian Fast Food
Mad Scientist's Kitchen made a quick and healthy corn toast
Allotment to Kitchen Sent a wonderful Harissa Burger recipe
Spice and Sugar Tales Anjali sent in an yummy Instant Idli Tomato Chaat
Red Spice In sent in a really simple yet very satisfying fast snack idea
Raksha's Kitchen whipped up an onion Bakri
Priya's Easy and Tasty Recipes sent in a delicious Wheat and Green Apple Salad
Mythreyi of YUM YUM YUM sent in an uber healthy Scrambled Tofu Veggie Wrap
Ambrosia made a very veggie and healthful version of Dokhlas
Ms.Not So Perfect & Nicks n' Jits Kitchen entered a very healthy Pizzas using minimum oil
Shoba or Food Mazaa entered a wholesome sprout stir fry
Cooking with all my Heart sent in an instant Veggie Ragi Idli recipe
Sobha of Good Food entered a wonderful desi Pasta - quick fix
Devi's Blog sent in a wonderful instant chaat
Raks Kitchen entered a wonderfully healthy paratha
Malli's Mint and Mimosa sent in an off beat, yet healthful Iranian recipe,
Bon Appetit's super healthy Poha Chivda
Meditterranean Inspired Foods Spinach Salad
Rasoi's smart thinking left over burger
My Spicy Kitchen's Tandoori Tofu Pizza and last but not least,
Amaaandababy's healthy and appetizing Vegetable Bread roll
There were some entries that were awesome but did not fully meet the rules of the event  (no links, wrong links, No logo etc) which I had to sadly eliminate from consideration.
Here is list of wonderful blogs that participated in the event (other than the ones mentioned above)
Spice ur Senses
Krithi's Kitchen
Harini's Corner
Magpies Recipes
Cuisine Delights
Apy Cooking
Malaysian Delicacies
Veggie Foodie
Eat Hearty Stay Healthy
Srav's Culinary Concepts
Sesnible Veg
South Indian Recipes
Ruchik Randhap
Jaya's Kitchen
Recipe Junction
Family Stamping &Food
Samayal Arai
Effortless Cooking
Jaya's Recipes
Dee's Kitchen Welcomes
My Tasty Treats
Kachuss Delights
Torview 
What's cooking?
My Saffron Kitchen
Ponderings of a Working Mom
Divya;s Easy Recipes
To check out all the entries in greater detail please on click this link 
If I've missed anyone, It is unintentional and please don't hesitate to email me @ priyamahadevan@hotmail.com and I will rectify at once.

Here is an award for you all to proudly display on your blogs for the wonderful thought and effort you put into finding a healthy version of a fast food. Congrats all and hope for the same FAT volume of participation again.
Love you all!

Fresh Food


BREAKING NEWS -
FAST FOOD NOT FAST FOOD 3 edition starting May 1- June 15 will be hosted by my soul sister, wonderful friend and awesomel fellow blogger, Priya Sreeram of Bon Appetit. I was totally touched by her response to my enquiry which was so instantaneous and enthusiastic!  I cannot think of a better person to kick-start the guest hosting of my pet project to search for healthy recipes and my blog's very own first event :)
If anyone is interested in hosting this event in the future, kindly email me at priyamahadevan@hotmail.com.
Please check out Bon Appetit  for details and event rules.


20 comments:

  1. What a great roundup!great job priya!

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  2. hard work seen priya.nice round up.wishes to priya sreeram for her hosting.

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  3. wow!! thats a huge list there..gotto check each of them at leisure!! congrats!!

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  4. Happy Hoots Priya - will post my announcement first thing tomm morning - love n cheers !

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  5. Superb team effort, very humbling and exciting. Priya, keep up the good work.

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  6. Congrats on successful completion of the event! Some very delicious recipes lined up here for foodies like me at one glimpse... Great job :)

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  7. Wow,what a great event,nice round up.Congrats.

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  8. Funtastic round up very tasty. Lots of new recipes for me to fiddle around.;)

    Thanks for choosing me as one of the entrants. Its truly humbling!

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  9. Fabulous roundup, happy hosting to Priya..

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  10. The round up is too good. U did lots of hard work which can be seen here

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  11. Wow that was a great round up.

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  12. Nice round up dear..feeling proud to get the contributor award..:)

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  13. Thanks for stopping by my blog, great opportunity to get to know yours and this post is so inspiring, love the idea of fast food, not fat food, congratulations on this amazingly healthy idea! Pleased to meet you!

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  14. Fantastic round up!!!
    Prathima Rao
    Prats Corner

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  15. wow, 85 entries, great job done !!! Thanks for hosting dear as it inspires us to try something healthy with fast foods :)

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