An award from a blogger friend is an honor and a blessing. I am really touched to be on the receiving end of all these lovely awards which are an expression of their love and acceptance of my work. I would like to thank two amazing bloggers Anugya@TheIndiancurryshack and Shamira@Smilingnotes who have been kind enough to nominate me for the Versatile blogger award and The Love Hate blogger challenge. Anugya has a delightful blog about indian cooking. For all those people who think Indian cooking is difficult and time consuming,Anugya presents delicious and quick Indian recipes with everyday ingredients. Those who haven’t yet been to her blog must take a virtual tour of it to get a peek into Indian cooking. Thank you so much Anugya for the award.   Shamira is a young blogger who loves food and travel. Her blog Smiling notes is a delicious journey of the exciting places she visits and her food adventures. Her recipes are a gastronomers’ delight.Thank you Shamira for nominating me for the Love hate blogger challenge. The rules ask that you list ten (10) things you LOVE followed by ten (10) things you HATE and nominate at least 5 bloggers for this challenge. LOVE LIST: Honesty, smiling people,humility,books,sipping green tea with the morning newspaper,playing literati and solving crossword puzzles,painting,intellectual and/or meaningful conversation and of course Almighty God and my family. HATE LIST: Lies, Arrogance,hypocrisy,unpunctuality,untidy places, hot and humid weather,wasting food , loud noisy places and the craze for branded goods. I would like to nominate the following bloggers for the Love Hate blogger Challenge:

• Susieshy45
• Satyabryne
• Ms.K
• Pearlspotting
• Sabithavantalu
• purehaiku.wordpress.com

Versatile Blogger award: The rules are simple: (1) Acknowledge the person who nominated you by thanking them and posting a link to their blog. (2) Share ten (10) interesting things/facts about yourself. (3) Nominate ten (10) more bloggers. My nominations for the Versatile Blogger award are:

1. loving leisure time
2. rachelmankowitz
3. fashionfoodandflirts
4. stephysweetbakes.com
5. indiancurryshack.com
6. Polianthus
7. cookazido
8. booksi’veenjoyed
9. dorrieanne
10. themissshwet