AMU'S RECIPES: Liebster Award

After a short break from blogging, I saw this wonderful award from Ashwini. I sincerely thank her for passing this award to me.

Rules for receiving award:

1) Each person must post 11 things about themselves.
2) Answer the questions the tagger has set for you.
3) Choose 11 people and link them in your post.
4) Create 11 questions for the people you’ve tagged to answer.
5) Go to their page and tell them.
6) Remember, no tag back.

Rule 1: Post 11 things about yourself

A foodie since childhood. My mom tells that when I was interviewed for Playgroup, I was asked to identify a ‘Brinjal (Aubergine)’. I not only identified that, but also elaborated the recipe of making ‘Baingan ka Bharta’ to the interviewer.
Cooking is my hobby, my passion, my time-pass and everything for me. I can vouch that even if somebody wakes me up during the mid-night and asks me to cook, I will merrily do that.
I love serving new dishes and my creations to my guests and friends. I love playing the host and use my culinary skills to make people happy.
I am a hard-core fan of Yash Chopra films. I love dreamy romantic films, where the heroine wearing a white dress is running on a green lawn. My distant dream is to write, direct, choreograph and produce a Romantic Yash Chopra style film.
Every other day I decide to lose weight and my resolution remains firm only till I find some good dish. Then again I decide to diet and the vicious cycle continues :-)
A week-end blogger. Usually I do not get time for blogging on weekdays, but I make it a point to visit my blog at least during week-ends.
I love photography and love to click photographs on family events and functions. People tell me that my pics come out well.. :-)
I am an Aquarian (Moon sign). But my friends say that I hardly have traits of an Aquarian. I have traits of a Taurian (Again Vrushabh raashi in Marathi). Taurians are generally fun loving and happy-go-lucky people and you can find these traits in me!
When I meet strangers, I generally take some time to open up quickly.
I have few select friends.. but they are friends for life.
Lastly, I always listen to my heart and dont believe in judgment or evaluation.

Answers to Questions by Ash

1) Reason behind your blogging?

As I said earlier, there was no specific reason to blog. I had some free time and just a thought clicked in my mind to start a blog. And this way it started.

2) What do you do when you are free?

Whenever I get free time, I watch Food Food, TLC and NDTV Good-times.

3) What kind of movies do you enjoy?

Yash Chopra’s romantic films are my favorite. Then come large, multi-starrer movies that are shot in Switzerland, European countries. I hate movies that are realistic.

4) What kind of people you like?

Hmnnnn.. very difficult question to answer. But I like people who are honest and sincere.

5) What kind of food you like?

‘Vada-Pav’ is my all time favorite. And I love Gujarati food. My current favorite is Thai cuisine. I also like to try other international cuisines.

6) Why do you follow a blog?

Because I want the other person also to follow my blog.

7) What motivates you to comment on certain blog posts?

When I like a recipe, I can’t resist to tell that person.. Hence I comment.

8) Who is the role model in your life?

My Grandmother

9) What is your favorite blog post and why?

There are many…

10) What blog post you thought would receive most comments and were you disappointed when It did not?

Kashmiri Pulao. I made lots of efforts to make it.

11) What is your take on being inspired? like Plagiarism in covers?

It starts from name of my blog itself. It was inspired from Aaiys Recipes. To be honest, most of my posts are either traditional Maharashtrian recipes or dishes that I have tried somewhere.

But yes, I feel merely copy-pasting somebody’s work is not acceptable. Morally one should not adopt such means.

Rule 2: Answer the question :

Who inspire you for creating such a wonderful food blog and what you think about Indulge blog? Any suggestions for Ash?

I had a habit of surfing blogs and I was a regular reader of Shilpa’s blog – Aaiy’s Recipes. As I said, I do not think much before doing anything, one day I had some free time. Suddenly, a thought struck me – why not start my own blog? And immediately I created this blog. Regarding the name, since I was a keen follower of Aaiy’s recipes, I copied the idea and named by blog – Amu’s Recipes.

And what do I say about Indulge. It’s a colourful blog with yummilicious images and delicious recipes.. A perrrfect blog.

Rule 3: Choose 11 people and link them in your post

I would like to pass on this award to my fellow blogger friends :

Chitra Hegde of http://wwwchitranna.blogspot.in/

Amy of http://foodssrilanka.blogspot.in/

Manasi of http://acookatheart.blogspot.in/

http://khaugiri.blogspot.in/

Deepa of http://hamareerasoi.blogspot.in/

Anjali of http://anjali-cooklog.blogspot.in/

Anjana Chaturvedi of http://maayeka.blogspot.in/

Santosh Bangar of http://santoshbangar.blogspot.in/

Shobha of http://foodmazaa.blogspot.in/

Hema of http://hemakrish-beshanaindiansamayal.blogspot.in/

Pranati of http://pran-oriya-recipies.blogspot.in/

Rule 4: Create 11 questions for the people you've tagged to answer