Announcing Walk Through Memory Lane - December and Winner of November WTML

I am late in announcing this month's WTML due to some busy schedule. Last month's WTML was hosted by Shailaja at Sahara Recipes . She has received a wonderful number of entries. Among the 117 recipes she got, I selected a winner using random number generator. The winner of last month's WTML is entry number 42 - Easy Tomato onion Side Dish by Sangeetha. Please contact me at gayathriraani@gmail.com with your Indian address and phone number to claim the prize

This is the final month of this year and from next year, I am thinking of modifying the event a little bit. Will keep it as a surprise for you all for the new year. This month's event is hosted by Poornima of Poornima's Cook Book. This month also there is a book giveaway for the lucky winner. The winner will receive a copy of Non Fried Snacks by Tarla Dalal. This will surely be the New Year Gift from Gayathri's Cook Spot. So please send Poorima your entries and get a chance to win this book and try out guilt free snacks..

Maa Vatral Kulambu - Announcing March WTML and February Winner

For this month's Walk Through Memory Lane, the host, due to some unexpected reasons couldn't guest host it. So I had to jump in. And so this month, WTML will be hosted here at Gayathri's Cook Spot and I request all my friends and readers to support the event by sending in your entries. If you are a regular reader of my blog then you will be familiar with the event I have been conducting for the past two years. This event is about recreating your childhood favourite recipes. Every month a blogger guest hosts the event at her space which has increased the popularity of this event. I am really thankful to all my friends for making this event a great success. 

Today I will share with you a speciality of mom - Maa Vatral Kulambu as the first entry of the event. Every summer, my mom prepares vatral and vadagam which lasts the whole year. One vatral is the maa vatral made with raw mangoes. The mangoes are sliced and soaked in slaine water. Then they are sun dried. This process is repeated for 3-5 days until a salty crust is formed on the mangoes. Then they are completely dried and stored in airtight jars. The gravy made with this vatral tastes delicious. Even when I am typing this post, I am feeling hungry. Just serve this gravy with rice and papad and it will surely make you crave for more. This when prepared in manchatti ( pan made out of terracotta) tastes fantastic.

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Walk Through Memory Lane - January Round Up , Winners and February Announcement

I am thankful to all my readers and blogger friends for the continuous support you are giving me for this event. The entries keep on increasing and I am yet to figure a way to file it all. At present here is a page dedicated to the event which has all the round up links. Srivalli has been very generous in creating a space for WTML round ups at Events and Roundups Blog. I thank her for this great help. This month Amritha of Motions and Emotions is guest hosting Walk Through Memory Lane. Please visit her space for details and linking your entries.

And thank you all for participating in January Walk Through Memory Lane event. I received 135 entries including one from my reader Ravitha. Here is a huge collection of childhood favourite recipes. Please go through it and have a good time.




And now for the winners of January. I selected three entries through random number generator. The winners are Entry number 51 - Prachi- Matar Methi Korma, Entry number 63 - Beulah Arun - Drumstick Leaves Stir Fry and Entry number 135 - Ravitha Pai - Tomato Masiyal.

Walk Through Memory Lane - January Announcement

I know I am a little late in announcing this month's WTML. Walk Through Memory Lane has been going on since 2012 and we have completed two years successfully. As we are entering the third year of compiling all our childhood favourite recipes, I would like to make this month special. As you all know, every month there has been a book giveaway for the past two years and there are 24 lucky bloggers who have got their gifts. I would like to continue the same this year also. To know more about WTML and the recipes collected over these two years please visit WTML Page.

This is the start of 2014 and I hope this year brings all of you joy and happiness. And to mark the celebration, this time I would like to giveaway Silico 16 heart shape chocolate mould to three lucky winners.  To win this cute silicon mould, you need to blog about a childhood favourite recipe and link it to this post. You can also link archived posts but limit it to only two. And don't worry if you are a non blogger. Send me your recipe along with a photo and I will add it to the list and you are also eligible to win this chocolate mould.

Some of the rules to be followed to be eligible for the giveaway:

1. While posting the recipe please give a link to this page.

2. Usage of logo is mandatory. This will be useful to spread the word. 

3. There are no restrictions for the number of new entries.

4. If you are linking an archived entry, please update it with the link to this page. 

5. Two entries from the archives are accepted. 

6. Only Vegetarian recipes accepted. Eggs not allowed.

7. Non-Bloggers can also send in their entries by sending the recipe to my mail ID gayathriraani@gmail.com . I will include it in the round up.
8. Only Indian Regional recipes accepted. They should be the ones your mom  or your granny made for you. It may also from MIL as it would be your hubby's childhood favourite.

I will select three entries through random selection on February 1st and give away the moulds for the selected entries. I request all my readers to help me in making this event a huge success.
Note that the gifts I gives are not sponsored and it is my own contribution to the event.

Winner of WTML October and Announcement of WTML November

Walk Through Memory Lane was started to bring out all those childhood memories and recreating them. This event has been successfully running for nearly two years and thanks to all the bloggers who have guest hosted the event and made it successful. Every month a lucky winner is chosen and is awarded with a cook book from a famous chef/ author. Last month's guest host Asiya of My Healthy Happy Kitchen has done a wonderful job in hosting the event and she is even ready with the round up. But lazy me, because of so many preparations going on for Diwali, I couldn't get enough time to draft this post. Let me first announce the winner of October event before going to the November announcement.I selected an entry from the 148 total entries received using random number generator. It is entry number 27-Paruppu Chutney by Sathya Priya of My Kitchen Odyssey. Congrats Sathya Priya. Please contact me with your Indian address and telephone number to claim the book by Sanjeev Kapoor.

And now coming to this month's host, Shailaja of Sahasra's Recipes is hosting the event this month. Please visit her page for more details and linking up your entries.. For this month the book I have chosen for the giveaway is The Pondicherry Kitchen by Lourdes Tirouvanziam-Louis. Please send in your entries and get a chance to win this wonderful book full of Pondicherry's Authentic recipes.

Diwali Special Announcement and Mom's Special Winner

After Mom's Special as a tribute to my mom, I thought of doing another special event this month. Diwali falls on November 2nd and during the month of October, I will be busy making some sweets and snacks. As a blogger I know you will also be busy with preparations and main thing is that all your beautiful blogs will be full of Diwali special recipes. 

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Walk Through Memory lane- October Announcement and September Winner

Last month has been so hectic for me. As I started Blogging Marathon #32 A-Z theme, I never once imagined that I would complete it successfully. But by God's grace I completed it successfully along with some other challenges of that month. I skipped two challenges as I couldn't squeeze the posts in between. I am planning to do those challenges this month. And it is already first of October and it is time to announce the Walk Through Memory Lane host. This month Asiya of My Healthy Happy Kitchen is hosting the event at her space. And there is a give away this month too. I will select a lucky winner on November 1st and will be giving away a book by Sanjeev Kapoor - Every Day Cooking. As Diwali falls on November 2nd, the winner will be getting this book as her Diwali Gift from me. So what are you waiting for? Take a look at Asiya's page for the details of the event and please link up your lovely entries at her space. 

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