Veggie/Fruit A Month Event - Completes One Year !!!

The priya form Mharo Rajasthan's Recipes started this event and it compleated 1yr and entered into 2nd.
The members guest hosted this event for the past year  are Akheela from Torview, Ayeesha from Taste of Pearl City, Kiran from Sumadhura, Richa from Richa's Kitchen, Aipi from US Masala, Divya from Dil Se…, Pari from Foodelicious, Vanessa from Sweet Artichoke, Rupali from Recipe Grab Bag, Reshmi from Rasoi, Savitha from Savitha's Kitchen and Revathi Madan from Kaarasaaram and this event  also continues for this year with the blogger hosts. 

Please visit this link to check the past and future host line-up and past roundups.
All the best and happy hosting

The Blog Engage Monthly Guest Blogging Contest June 2011

Hi everyone and welcome to The Blog Engage Monthly Guest Blogging Contest for June 2011.

Blog Engage will launching a new contest every 30 days until the end of 2011. On the fifteenth of each month we will announce the previous months winners and award all the cash prizes.

Contest Start Date

June 01 2011

Contest End Date

June 30 2011

Click here to go to this contest
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Are you aware of FOODIE BLOG ROLL CONTESTS?

My dear fellow foodies,
 I know every one have registered for foodie blog roll and placed that beautiful badge on your blog at the corner. But how many are you aware of foodie contests go and check the contests form in foodie blog roll, just comment/tweet/like in face book/ spread a word.


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How do I Host a Blog Event?

The number of bloggers are growing leaps and bounds each year especially food bloggers in past three years, despite the fact that the number of food blog events has also grown by leaps and bounds during that time. I have certainly learned a few things from the day since I started blogging, so here are some of my thoughts on running a blogging event.

1. About the Links
True, when you're organizing a blogging event people will be linking to you and you'll be linking to them, which is a good thing. But events that are mainly focused on getting links are not going to last. In my opinion, events which are most successful will be about sharing information, having fun, and building good will among the community more than anything else.

2.Host Manner
When people are entering a blogging event, they deserve to be acknowledged and thanked promptly in the same way you would acknowledge and thank someone if they gave you a gift. As host and creator of event, spend some time every week visiting the blogs of who enters. Try to respond as soon as someone sends me their entry, so there's no doubt I have received it.

3. Keep Rules, But Be Flexible
As host of a blogging event, you should assume that people are giving you their best efforts. Bloggers can be notoriously bad at following directions, so you'll need a few rules about what qualifies as an entry, when the deadline is, and possibly linking protocol. But try to be flexible, especially with people who are newish bloggers who honestly just don't know what to do.

4. About Event Archeving
You probably don't need to maintain an archives for events which are just about sharing photos. But if the event contains content people might like to refer to, or things that might be found by Google, create some kind of organized area in the archives, linked from your main page, so that people can come back later and find something they saw earlier.

5. How this event benefit others
I said it earlier, but I will repeat it again: the long term success of any blogging event is due to the quality of the entries more than anything one person does. Literally hundreds of people who've told me how much they look forward to reading the interesting posts each week. It's the value that people are getting from it that makes the event continue to be a success.
(Parts of this post reviously published at BlogHer.com)

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Some Links where you can post your recipes and increase your traffic

Food Gawker -I found this in the iphone app...Great photos and lovely look will attract more traffic every day.
Recipes2Share - Contains a gallery, but not as elegantly executed.
GroupRecipes - I like to browse GroupRecipes' gallery of awesome photos. These are just recipes located on their site, however; they can't be submitted from other blogs.
ETA:
• Open Source Food -A slightly more good community that includes recipes.

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Contest that can make you win $50

While browsing for some information on net I found this contest.
I do not know weather it is true or not, i just thought to participate in this.
Just you need to answer a simple question by JUNE 17th then through random selection they will announce a winner. The winner will recive a 50$ worth gift card through which you can shop for men only( this is not fair isn't it!!!)...any way you can buy for your dad, bro or sweet heart. :)
All the best!!!
Here is the link Check it out:

Local blogger helps raise over $3K for charity

Local blogger helps raise over $3K for charity

EVENTS

EVENTS JUNE/JULY 2011

• Celebrate Sweets - Stuffed Sweets on June 7
• Drive me nuts - June 10
• Cooking With Whole Foods - Toor Dal / Pigeon Peas - June 10th
• Design a Menu - 3 - June 15th
• Kid's Delight - Cool Comforts June 15th
• CBB Series - Chinese Cuisine: June 15th
• Forever Nigella 6: Sea Fish and Eat It - June 26th
• My Legume Love Affair (MLLA) 36: June 30th
• Cooking with Seeds - Pumpkin seeds: June 30th
• Light Lunches - June 30th
• Breakfast Club #11: Berries - June 30th
• Healthy Lunch Box Ideas: Broccoli - June 30th
• Healing Foods: Banana - June 30th
• Dish it Out - Spinach and Garlic - June 30th
• Serve It - Chilled: June 30th
• Flavours of Rajasthan - Jul 31st
• Spring-Summer 2011 Fresh from your garden - Sep 30th
• MAITRI - A Friendship Chain" in this list. 
• Flavours of Rajasthan: July 31st

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News Bulliton- June 1

Food blogs growing in Sacramento

Blogs on NEWS:
May 30:  Sacramento Press releases a news on the food blogs growing in sacramento.
Link:http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/51329/Food_blogs_growing_in_Sacramento

List of 10 blogs:

Awake at the Whisk
Baked Bree 
Hunter Angler Gardener Cook
Kitchen Travels
Munchie Musings
Poor Girl Eats Well 
The Raw Project 
Sac Foodies 
Simply Recipes
Vanilla Garlic 
Other local food blogs include: 
Adventures of a Food & Wine Diva
Appetizers
Cakegrrl
Chucrute com Salsicha
Dessert for Two
Elaine Baker's Pastry Playground
Everything Rachael Ray
Gluten Free Adventures
Just the Two of Us
Michael Tuohy's All About Food
Peanut Butter Boy
Rookie Cookery
Sacatomato
SacRag
Sacramento Spice
Undercover Caterer
Yumtacos
RoSham Burger
Crazy for crust
52 kitchen adventures

News Bulliton-May/ June

Present Marathons Going by:

There are many blog contest going by this summer you can participate in them by just a single click away.
 
Seven Days of Indian Sweets:Priya Suresh, 

Seven Days of Regional Specials:Harini, Vaishali, Suma, PJ 


Curry in a hurry under 30 min: Aarthi, Divya, Jayashree, Kaveri, Pavani
Seven Days of Colorful Dishes Kid's Special: Kalyani 

Summer Coolers: Jayasree, Kamalika, Srivalli


Seven Days of Microwave Meals: Monika


Food Palette series purple: Torview

Flavors of Bengal - Ends 31st May 2011 

Veggie/Fruit A Month - SPINACH (Guest Hosted @ Rasoi) - Ends 31st May 2011

 Coolers and Mocktails event organised by Naynaand Pari.

MAITRI started by Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal is running successfully.


Cooking with Herbs and Flowers-Mushroom by PJ of Seduce Your Tastebuds and guest host by RS of Relishing Food 


Kiran's "Cooking With Seeds Event(CWS) : Mustard Seeds" ends 31st may