Indulge in 4 winter fruit recipes, 13 mouth watering side dishes and 5 potpourri winter recipes from 9 countries. Feast on the spicy grilled broccolis or the Malaysian style Noodles.

Taste the delicious guacamole with some chips or quesadillas. Savour some groovy winter special recipes from all around the world to pamper your taste buds.

This is the part 2 of Monthly Mingle Roundup. The first part had entries under the categories of soups and bakes. The second part covers the rest of the submissions under fruits, sides and others.

Do let us know which entry you loved the most.

11 days to go for the Durga Puja, and I am overwhelmed with what to write and what to leave out. Here’s a special Bengali style keema curry served hot.
Preparation time: 10min
Cooking time: 15 – 20min
Reading time: 3min

ShareWith many types of rice, it really took me long to come up with the round-up. I would like to thank Hema and Easy to Cook for sending so many recipes for the event. Please let me know if I have missed out any of your recipes. You can see the first part of roundup for this event here.  SGD of  Whims and Wishes also wrote some words about this Harvest festival, and she was very kind to share her thoughts with us.

Bajji’s Platter from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
Bisi Bela …

The Festival received 80 odd recipes. Here’s 30 of them.

ShareFrom my childhood I always wished where ever I am I should be at my home in Kolkata for the Durga Puja. We have a century old tradition of worshiping the deity. But, this time it’s a little different. I am away from home for the first time in my life during the Durga Pujas. I am missing every bit of this gorgeous festival.
If you are in Kolkata we’ll never be able to ignore the arrival of this festive season. With the start of September you can feel the Puja …

ShareDurga Puja is a very special occassion for all of us. All year through we wait to spend these 4 days with the best grandeur possible.
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Wait for the special recipes for the Pujas.

It was a great honour to host this event. As it was, it was the first time I had hosted any event on my blog. It really felt nice to receives lots and lots of recipes from everyone of you. I thank all to make this event a great success. So here are the recipes for the Non-veggies event rnd up.

This is in the order of how I received the recipes:

ShareToday when I logged on to my blog, one thing caught my eyes. The blog stats. It has just crossed the 4000 bar. In just 4 months and 23 days my blog has crossed 4000 hits. It felt real good that people like my posts. Thanks to all my blog visitors. o I thought of celebrating this event with all of you. There were many ideas in mind, but I stuck to this one. Myself being a non-vegetarian I thought of hosting an event to celebrate these 4000 hits of …

ShareIndia’s Independence Day, and everybody home. I was all in a mood to enjoy the day, cooking, eating and of course having fun. I started preparing for a nice and heavy lunch for the day. The menu today consisted of a lot many items, to celebrate the 61st year of our independence. So, the first thing that came to mind of was definitely any chicken preparation. Chicken had always been the way of celebrating, and today was no exception at all.
Sending it to Curry Mela hosted by Srivalli.

Serves 4:
Ingredients:
Chicken (Murgi): …

ShareSometimes back I read about a chilli garlic crab preparation in a cook book. Thought of trying the same preparation but with chicken in place of crab. The experiment turned out to be a very spicy and yummy platter, so here it is sharing with you all.
Ingredients:
Chicken (murgi): 1kg
Red chilli powder (sukhno lankar guro): 3 teas-spoons full, mixed with water to make a paste
Garlic (rasun): 15 cloves , chopped well
Mustard oil (sarser tel): 2 table-spoons
Tomato: 3 small sized, 2 of them grinded to make a puree
Onions (peyaj): 1
Cornflour: 2 table-spoons
Vinegar: …