Award time again

Punitha of http://southindiafoodrecipes.blogspot.in/ and Beena from http://cookingatmayflower.blogspot.in/ has passed on this award. Thanku so much to both of u.

Hema of  Aromatic Cooking passed these awards to me a long time back. 

But I was in the middle of shifting then and couldnt post it for so long. Thanku so much, Hema...it means a lot to me.












I've been tagged by her. the rules are as follows:
RULES:
1. Post the rules.
2. Answer the questions set for you in the tagger's post and create new set of eleven questions.
3. Tag eleven people and link to them on your post.
4. Let them know you have tagged them.

Now to my answers
1. Introduce yourself
   I am Sojo, a mom to two lovely kids.
2. What's your favorite hobby or how do you love to enjoy your time?
   Reading is my FAVOURITE hobby. I can read anything and everything.
3. When it come to blogging, how supportive are your family members?
   Well, I dont include anyone in this area and they done even know when I click pics or when I key in the recipes!!!! :) :) This is something which belongs only to me and this is done for my kids.... so they can wait till they grow old to see this.... :) O by the way, my hubby refers to this when Iam not in town.... :)
4. What's is your fav. food?
   Kottayam style fish curry with anything!!!!
5. What inspired you to create a blog?
  Well, I wanted to save all my recipes for my kids. That is how I started this.
6. How do u feel while u get an award /Tags from other blogger friends?
   I feel so very happppppppyyyyy!!!!
7. Talk about food photography..do you judge a recipe by the photo posted by the bloggers? and when searching for a recipe in a search engine like Google, do you look for just recipe or look by images?
    I never judge by the pictures!!! A good cook needn't be a good photographer.
8. Have you tried recipes from other bloggers? What's the result?
    Ive tried with mixed results. Some recipes were super duper hit at my place while there were a few disasters too...
9. How happy you will be in getting a comment for your recipe?
I love comments, especially if someone tries something and lets me know.
10. How about taking part in events hosted by other bloggers?
    I do take part on and off.

Now I would love to tag the following friends, Supriya , Reshmi , maayeka , Gauri ,Sushmita ,  Chandrani Swapna , Srivalli , Nisa Homey , Shama Nags , Akila
Since I loved answering Hema's questions, I am going to pass on the same set of questions.

Award..and loving it!!!

I really feel like a kinder gartner each time I receive an award!!! really love it and Iam all smiles :)

Deepa of hamaree rasoi has passed on this award to me...Thanku so much Deepa.

and sheena of Sheena Babus Kitchen has given me this award... Thanq sooooo much, sweetie..

Ive already posted 7 facts about me... so heres some other facts....

1) I badly want to reduce 5 kgs, but cant say NO to food

2) Which means, my shopping is never complete without Galaxies and Mars and also Twix

3) Which I compulsorily have after dinner

4) I am a big Mohanlal fan from when I can remember....but now I like both Mammooty and Mohanlal and cant decide whom I like more... Ok... I admit... I like Mohanlal more.. or is it Mammooty? seriously cant decide.

5) I also like Kamal Hassan and Rajni Kanth and Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bacchan and Amir Khan.. but Mohanlal will remain my all time favourite...

6) I love waking up to a squeaky clean Apartment which is a luxury these days with my kiddos...but still I try my very best.... and succeed 40 percent of the time...and how did I come up with that maths...dont know!!!! :)

7) I can have Kerala red fish curry with almost anything and everything...I even eat it with Banana fritters... now can u beat that??????? which reminds me I still havent posted the recipe of my favourite food!! meen kudampuli itttu vevichathu aka red fish curry.

These Awards belong to each and every1 of u.... You are all amazing cooks and I love reading through all your recipes.... Iam allowed to pass it on to only 15 of u... so heres the list..

TINA

RINI

LISSIE

VARSHA

SUHAINA

PRASU

SHARMI

LISHA

SHAHANA

SWARNA

PRIYA

VIJITHA

 RESHMI

 VIMITHAA

All u have to do is:

1.Accept the award. Post it in your blog with the name of the blogger who has given u this award with a link to his/her blog.
2.Pass it on to 15 other blogger friends.... to keep the ball rolling.
3.Let the nominated blogger know about their award [leave a comment in their most recent post]
4. State 7 facts about u

Award!!! and Iam in 7th heaven!!!!!!!!!

Well, what do I say? Don't know what I did to deserve all these awards...Such a great honour. I would love to thank Vimitha for being such a sweetheart and passing this on to me.




Now 7 facts about me:

1. I have menu panic when I have guests for dinner.

2. Iam an animal hater... I know u guys would want to throw stones at me...but can't help it!!!

3. I can't draw or paint. My 5 year old is much much better than me!!!

4. All my life I hated children...well, till the day I miscarried my first one... after that incident my whole life turned 360 degrees and now I just love em like crazy!!!! Sometimes u learn it the hard way!!!

5. As a child, wasn't allowed to watch television much...so at school, I wouldnt understand anything my frens talked about that particular show or whatever!!!!

6. I love to watch Friends reruns....and also FullHouse!!!! n number of times

7. I love chocolates and even steal my kids choco bars!!! I know...bad Mom....

Now to the passing on ceremony... This goes to:

Archana Vivek of My Culinary Endeavours
Jessica of Portuguese girl cooks
Elizabeth of Cooking Finland
Denise of Epoch Recipe Box
Swetha of Our Cherished World
Shubhash of kuchmeredilnekaha
Maria and Lisa  of The art of two tarts
Nancy of A recipe a day
Nicole of The galley gourmet
Bobbies baking blog
cookin with goodlookin
Jay of A tasty appetite
Asha of a tasty challenge
Fajeeda of fajis hot pot
Reina of Is It Bloggable?

Rules:

1.Accept the award. Post it in your blog with the name of the blogger who has given u this award with a link to his/her blog.
2.Pass it on to 15 other blogger friends.... to keep the ball rolling.
3.Let the nominated blogger know about their award [leave a comment in their most recent post
4.Write 7 facts about u

Award again!!!

I got my 2nd award a week back...but its been a very hectic week and all of a sudden Cairo temp dropped..so u know, we had our bout of cold and coughs... and you know how the common cold is so troublesome. So cudnt post earlier... Iam as excited as I was the first time...ThankYou so much Reshmi Mahesh  of Easy Cook for remembering me...it means so much!!!!

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Iam passing this on to:

Mitu of Mitu's Kitchen Delights
Urmi of khanamasala
Sayantani of a homemakers diary
Shoba of food mazaa
Nithu of Nithu's Kitchen
Vimitha of My Culinary Trial room
Anshu of Rajasthani cuisine
Divya of divyaz easy recipe
Bhagi of idli burger
Cooking Foodie of cookingfoodie
Uma of 100 recipes


Rules:
1. Post the award in ur blog with the name of the person who gave you.
2. Pass it on to 15 other people.
3. Do drop a comment in their recent post informing about the award.


Thanks again, Reshmi... Its such an honour....and each of u, my friends, U all rock!!!!
Love,
Sojo.

Award

The first thing I did this morning was log into my blog and guess what I see... an Award...YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! My very first award... Started this blog in 2009 but was very lazy..... became active only from 2010 December and from then only I started posting the pictures...till then it was just recipe alone....
Thankyou so much Vimitha of My culinary trial room .. Iam on cloud 9.


Now I have to pick 15 bloggers to pass this on to....

Asha of Atastychallenge
Reshmi of Leckerandyummyrecipes
Maya of Yummyteam
Sangeetha of Kothiyavunnu.com
Tina of Kaipunyam.com
Swati of The weekend epicurean
Neenu of My experiments with cooking
Fajeeda of Faji's Hot Pot
Shn of Mishmash
SheenaBabu
Ayeesha of Taste of Pearl City
Priya of Now Serving
Jay of Tasty appetite
Sarah of Vazhayila
Savitha of Savitha's Kitchen

O my God, it doesn't end here...wanted to give so many of you.... so sorry, can pick only 15...
Now to the rules

1.Accept the award. Post it in your blog with the name of the blogger who has given u this award with a link to his/her blog.
2.Pass it on to 15 other blogger friends.... to keep the ball rolling.
3.Let the nominated blogger know about their award [leave a comment in their most recent post]