The festival of colors. Though almost the entire North Indian will be celebrating Holi on Monday, we here in the Eastern part of the country celebrated it this morning.

This festival of colors considered as the National Festival of the country is the largest festival in the sub-continent. The colors, the customs, the rituals is the essence of this spring festival.

We at Cook Like a Bong wish you all a very Happy Holi.

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.

Savour 6 different soups and as many different bakes from bloggers across the world. Tickle your taste buds with the Ukranian Borscht in this chilly winter or the quick and easy to cook butternut squash and chestnut soup.

Bite on the adapted version of the French Gratin Dauphinois or pamper your sweet tooth with the upside down cranberry cakes.

For more entries at the Monthly Mingle: Winter Fruits and Vegetables stay tuned till tomorrow.

Festive season brings cheers, laughter and rendezvous with family and friends. It also brings High calorie foods and weight gain. The last month being the time for merriment and holidays, I’m sure most of you have put on some weight. Most likely, you have made a New Year resolution (oh that annual word!) to have low calories healthy diet at least for next 2 months.

The rich and spicy food during the vacations calls for a month of non-spicy, non-greasy yet tasty food. Lets mark the next 1 month where we cook (and write about) Salads.

Here goes the round-up for Think Spice: Think Turmeric event. Many thanks to Sunita for letting me be a part of this wonderful event.

Winter is here to serve with different kinds of colorful and not so colorful fruits and vegetables. We are glad to announce this month’s Monthly Mingle: Winter Fruits and Vegetables. All thanks to Meeta of What’s for lunch, honey? fame, who permitted us to host this wonderful event for this month.
Rush in your entries between now and 14th January 2010.

The month of October was filled with festivities. Evidently,we at Cook Like a Bong had been going around and could only write 5 posts this months. But don’t worry, there are loads to come for this month.
There is also the announcement for this months Think Spice event. We will be hosting the event for this month, the Think Spice event is the brain child of Sunita. Event ends on 30th November. Hurry and rush in your entries.

15 days to go for the biggest Bong festival of the year. Yes you have guessed it right, its Durga Puja time. To mark the occasion, we are organizing an event, “Durga Puja Food Festival”.

Send in your recipes for the event and win an exciting Prize.

Bonus Takeaway: An eBook will be compiled at the end of the festival with selected recipes.

Deadline: 22nd September EoD

Celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi started only a few year back at our home. Earlier, it was either the calendar or the TV that reminded Bongs of this festival.
I prepared narkel nadu for the God of wisdom, and it turned out to be just like mom’s, the nadu she prepares during Durga Puja.
Ganapati Bappa Mourya!
Preparation time: 15min
Cooking time: 7-8min
Makes 15 naadu

A fort night back I had posted with a week’s resource of “Breakfast with egg”. Egg is the best way to have a wholesome and yummy breakfast. Out of these recipes the Mughlai Paratha recipe has become an instant hit.
Talking about eggs, I am sending this photo to Jugalbandi’s Click contest for this month, the theme being Bicolor.