So pleased to share that Jess from Therapy Breads has nominated me for the ‘Dragon’s Loyalty Award’ and also wanted to share that I received more Sunshine awards from these kind bloggers : Chef Julianna from Foodie on Board, Kloe from Kloe’s Kitchen, Nancy from Feasting with Friends and Lauzan from The veggie side of me. I truly appreciate it. thanks so much all of you. I am overwhelmed!
Jess is such an amazing and versatile blogger who cooks not just breads (which she does too!) but all kinds of delicious foods – a couple of my recent favorites were Thai red curry with chicken and Banana cream cheese bread. Do check out her blog to see more of her fantastic creations.
I am happy and pleased to present this award to 15 other bloggers whom I like and greatly admire and who are so ‘loyal’ to me – they are always there to comment on all my posts :). Much love to you guys! Please do check out their blogs – each one of them is fabulous in their own way!
- Elaine from Foodbod
- Apsara from Eating Well Diary
- Julianna from Foodie on Board
- Margerhita from La Petite Casserole
- Linda from La Petite Paniere
- Ngan from Ngan made it
- Patty from Patty Nguyen
- Nancy from Feasting with Friends
- Judi from Cooking with aunt JuJu
- Kloe from Kloe’s kitchen
- Ronit from Tasty Eats
- Krystina from Kouzounas kitchen
- Noony from Noony Tales
- Sonal from SimplyVegetarian777
- Aditi and Nikhil from Confused bawarchis
Now I also need to share 7 interesting things about myself. So here they are … I do hope you find these interesting!
- I was inside a 10 floor building in Mumbai (my workplace was on the 4th floor ) when the entire building started collapsing from the top like a stack of cards! Most of the people in the building were able to escape unscathed like me except for the unfortunate folks who were trapped in the basement of the building. It was quite an earth shattering experience – the noise was deafening and for many years after that I would get very nervous whenever I heard loud sounds.
- I first started cooking when I was in high school and one of my very first successful dishes was ‘sponge cake’ which my family loved and which they still ask me to bake for them whenever I visit India.:)
- I am a scaredy cat and not at all cut out for any kind of adventure sports. Once when my best friends and I went on a cruise together, my friends forced me to go parasailing with them but alas, I couldn’t bring myself to do it and just stayed back in the boat
- I have 3 Masters degrees – one in Pharmacy, one in Business management and one in Pharmacoeconomics – The favorite joke in our family is that ‘If Indu is not preparing for some test or the other then there is something wrong with her’
- I always wanted to learn Indian classical dance and never got an opportunity while growing up in India. Anyways now after having two kids and after turning 40, I am taking ‘Kathak’ lessons along with my daughter and mom and daughter will dance together soon at the recital
- Till I was about 10 years old or so I used to be very scared of cemeteries and once when we were in kerala we happened to pass a cemetery at night while visiting some family. We had to walk for a few blocks before we could board a bus and since I was so scared I was walking with my eyes closed and I fell straight into a ditch! To this day, my cousins back home tease me with that story
- Once while I was driving on the highway, a huge mattress that some stupid driver ahead of me was carrying on top of their car, fell off and landed right in front of my car and I just ran over it – when I got off the exit to check , two of my tires were fully draped with the mattress material!!!
Now the rules for accepting this award are as follows:
1. Display the award on your blog.
2. Announce your win with a post and thank the blogger who nominated you.
3. Present 15 deserving bloggers with the award (in no particular order):
4 Link your winners in the post and let them know of their being awarded.
5. Tell seven interesting things about yourself.
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Congratulations on receiving this award. I see you really love coconut. Your blog says it all!
thanks Liz. yes I am indeed crazy about coconut – hence I also chose to add to my tag line too
Congratulations, Indu! Even I didn’t know that you had been in an earthquake in Bombay :-).
thanks Jaya. And it was not an earthquake – it was just that building collapsing due to structural damage – This was Poonam Chambers that used to be in Worli …you might remember this being in the news! I had just started to work at that time at USV Ltd, a pharma co. Anyways it was a pretty harrowing experience!
Congratulations, Indu! And, it is never too late to dance… Enjoy your kathak journey!
thanks Ahila. Yes I am really enjoying learning Kathak thus far
Congratulations for all the awards Indu!!! keep it up. we all will be there to taste them all with u.
thanks Jeeju! Yes looking forward to having you here!
Congratulations to you!
thanks so much. I appreciate it !
Congrats!
Thanks Laura!
Thank you so much for my lovely nomination xx and congratulations on your well deserved awards. Great to read more about you, 3 masters!!! A collapsing building!! Gosh! And the dancing sounds wonderful ?
Thanks Elaine ? much love to you!
Congratulations on all of these lovely awards, Indu! And thank-you for the nomination as well! That is very sweet of you. I must say that I really enjoyed reading your interesting facts. Wow, 3 Masters degrees is really an accomplishment! I will get to work on a post, but it may take me a bit of time…I am racking my brains trying to think of 7 interesting things about myself
Thanks Julianna I am sure you can come up with a lot of interesting things for yourself too!? And yes absolutely take ur time!
Congratulations Indu Oh, la, la I’m impressed by your background!
Thank you so much again for the nomination! It might take me more than 1 week (You know I’m a little snail). Have a lovely day
Thanks Linda! And that’s ok take your time!?
Those are truly interesting facts about yourself, Indu. And thank you for the nomination. I will have to think of facts in my life now (sigh!) I wish my life were more interesting
Ha ha Apsara. I am sure if you scratch your brains enough you will remember some interesting facts! Everyone does!
Thank you so much, Indu! and congratulations to you too! We’ll be out for a few days starting this weekend but when we are back we are going to write up a post.
You are welcome! And have a great vacation!
Congratulations on the awards Indu! I enjoyed learning more about you… so happy you survived a building collapse… that must have been terrifying! And 3 Masters? I just knew you were a smarty pants
thanks Nancy! Congrats to you too! Hope you noticed that I nominated you too for the Dragon Award!
Aww, thanks! Somehow I skipped right over that…i apologize. I only have my long day to blame. I will re-read it when I’m refreshed! Thank you so much it is so sweet of you!
I fully understand …in the same situation myself. it took me a week to finish the post!
Thank you for understanding! And just a warning…it might take me a week too (wink, wink)!
np. Take ur time!
Congratulations Indu
thanks Sonal. And hope you noticed that I nominated you too for the Dragon’s Award!
I really appreciate it Indu :). Is it okay if I take time to accept it :).
np take ur time Sonal. It took me more than a week to create my post too!
sure. take your time!