Cherry Winks / Awards

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   We would like to share some awards and celebrate with a recipe for cherry winks. Please accept the awards and spot them on your sites. We thank you all for stopping by, leaving your comments and sharing your token of appreciations through awards.

      The recipe for the day, cherry winks were made during Christmas. I am still sticking to my no sweets regimen and please pray with me I keep it that way for a while. Blogging has gotten me into a sweet binge and I am trying to cut down for a while. Coming back to the topic of discussion the recipe is from my friend who instead got it from her mother. These were collected in a cook book, brought out by the ladies of her neighborhood in Kansas City, in the ‘40’s. They are crunchy and very pretty spiffed up with the maraschino cherries. I hope you enjoy this time tested cookies as much as I do.
  Kreative blogger comes with some rules.  Namitha and I have shared it with you before.  We request everyone who receives the award to follow the rules. 

  Namitha and I am would like to especially thank you guys who gave us these awards.

From Namitha:
Here is the 7 things that people may not know about me :-)
1. Have a love-hate relationship with rain.
2. Love Photography as much as I love cooking.
3. Get nervous about silly things (sometimes) but I face all the extreme situations confidently
4. Value friendships and glad that I have many friends whom I could count on :-)
5.A dessert maniac, and love almost anything that is sweet.
6.All through my life ,this is one sentence I've heard n number of times "you are getting thinner " :D
7.Love shopping for my kids

We were awarded by:
Renuka from love of cooking has shared the creative blogger award
S from Art, Food and Travel Chronicles Also shared the same award
Kitchen queen (Indu) and Soumya has awarded "happy 101"
Kalai of recipes diary shared Kreativ blogger
Spice of Spicebuds has shared Kreative blogger and beautiful blogger awards
Siddhi from cooked dil se has awarded us 'Happy 101' and Beautiful Blogger


Today's Recipe.

Cherry Winks:



Ingredients:
Flour - 2 Cups
Baking Soda - 1/2 tspn
Shortening - 2/3 cup
Eggs - 2
Vanilla Essence - 1 tspn
Dates - 1 Cup chopped
Baking Powder - 1 tspn
Salt - 1/2 tspn
Sugar - 1 Cup
Milk - 3 Tbspn (add less to start with)
Pecans - 1 Cup chopped
Corn Flakes crushed - 2 Cups

Method:

1. Sift flour, baking powder, soad and salt together
2. Cream shortening, sugar
3. Add eggs in and beat followed by milk and vanilla essence
4. Fold in the dry ingredients and mix
5. Add pecans and dates mix
6. Drop a tablespoon each into corn flakes and roll till the doubh is coated. 
7. Place on greased cookie sheet and top with 1/4 or 1/2 cherry
8. Bake in moderate over (350 D F) for 10-12 min
9. Cool and tin the cookies



Notes:  The dough is sticky.  Rolling in the flakes may seem hard, but if you use the spoon and lightly using your finger tip maneuver, you will be fine.

Contributor: Sunitha

Bran Rolls

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We have a light snow fall today that is dressing the naked braches of trees and carpeting the lawns. The asphalt pavement flanked on both sides with the white cottony snow strikes out brilliantly in the scenary. On a cold day like this I love hot rolls dipped in soup and watch the snow flakes gently make its way to the ground.
Two years back, for the first time, I braved the daunting task of making bread and have enjoyed it ever since. Having made dough for the Indian roti’s/ chapatthi’s I don’t find getting the dough together for bread cumbersome. Today’s recipe is even better since it does not call for any kneading. As you enjoy the recipe and read about some awards friends have generously given, I am going to try and stay warm. Curl up on my sofa, read a book and sneek peek out the french window to make sure the picturesque landscape doesn't change. Yes, thats what I will do today.
You be good and bake those rolls to keep you and your family warm. It must be the snow I feel like rhyming.

Active dry yeast - 1 package
Water - 1/2 cup
Shortening - 1/2 cup
sugar - 2/3 cup
whole bran - 1/2 cup
salt - 1 tspn
boiling water - 1/2 cup
sifted all-purpose flour - 3 1/4 cups
beaten eggs - 1

Method:

Mixing the dough
1. Dissolve dry yeast in luke warm water (110 ⁰ F) and set aside
2. Take shortening, sugar, bran, and salt in a mixing bowl and add the boiling water
3. Stir the mixture till shortening is well mixed with other ingredients and melted
4. Set aside to cool to lukewarm
5. Add the ½ cup flour, the beaten egg and yeast mix and stir with the spatula
6. Gradually add the flour and beat well (You are trying to bring all the mixture together though not kneading)
7. Once all of it comes together place it in a greased bowl and roll it around so the dough is greased all around
8. Cover and chill in refrigerator till ready to use (this can be refrigerated for a couple of days and rolled our to make rolls when necessary)
Making clover leaf roll:
1. Make 3 one inch balls of the refrigerated dough and place in a greased muffin pan.
2. Allow it to double in size around 1 ½ to 2 hours



Baking:
Bake in a preheated oven at 400⁰ F for approximately 15 minutes. Please check after 8-10 minutes the first time since oven temperatures may vary. Adjust the temperature if required the next time.

Notes:
1. If you want to bake the rolls the same day chill the dough for an hour and make your desired shape of the dough and bake


Makes – About 18 – 20 rolls

Awards: We are happy to receive this award from our blogger friend Simply life .  We appreciate your generosity, Simply life



Now we would like to share it with some of our friends:
Sangeetha - Kothiyavunu
Priya -Priya's Recipes
Sonia- Nasilemak Lover
Anncoo-Anncoo's Hobby Oraphan-Easy Veggie
Three hungry Tummies
Priya of Priya's easy and Tasty recipes
Oraphan- Easy veggie
Faiza-Faiza Ali's Kitchen
Malar- Kitchen Tantra
Meeso-For the love of food


We have also been awarded by Mausi, Priya and Saju the 'kreative blogger' award.  We would like to share it with

Latha from culinary delights
Shri
Cham of Spice club
3 Hungry Tummies
Vineetha of Malabar Ruchi
Sharmilee -In my passionate world
SE(Denufood)

Rules for accepting this award:


1) Thank the person giving the award
2) Copy the award to your blog
3) Place a link to their blog
4) Name 7 things people don't know about you
5) Nominate 7 bloggers
6) Place a link to those bloggers
7) Leave a comment letting those bloggers know about the award

Keeping my end of the bargain
Name 7 things people don't know about you

1. Hate folding clothes
2. Love the smell of fresh earth
3. Like to walk in the rain
4. Love the idyllic pastoral scenes and enjoy a crowded musical concert with the same passion
5. Collect pine cones like they are precious stones. My husband has forbidden my bringing anymore home but I continue to sneak them in
6. Only like casual clothes
7. Not a fan of the short black dress

Contributor: Sunitha

Pickled Onions and Green Chilies/ Awards

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   This is an easy pickling process and the taste is so good its polished clean as easily too.    I especially like its color.  It's eye candy and I leave it on the kitchen counter or occasionally on the dinning table and enjoy looking at it everytime I pass by.  The recipe is passed on by my husband's grandmother.  She is a whiz in the kitchen.  It's amazing how she has all the recipes ingrained in her brain and does not consult notes (recipes) while cooking.  You say the word and she will just blurting out the entire recipe. Very fascinating lady indeed!  Fantastic at violin, cooking and sewing I would call her an all rounder.  She is quite old now and unfortunately not too well.  However, I am sure she would be glad to know I am sharing her recipe with you all.  Enjoy it!

This double shade of the onions in the picture below is as its getting marinated but after bottling in 4-5 days all of it gets evenly colored.


Ingredients:
1. Green Chilies
2. Shallots
3. 1 part Water
4. 1 part Vinegar (I used red wine vinegar)
5. Salt


Method:
1. Wash the chilies and let the water dry off completely
2. Peel the shallots and wipe clean with a damp cloth and dry cloth respectively until cleaned dry.  This will make sure the onions will stay longer pickled and not get spoilt.
3.  Boil water and dissolve salt in it
4. Once the water cools down add equal part of vinegar and pour over the chilis and onions filled in a bottle.
5. Keep the bottle tighly closed and it will be marinated enough to eat in 4-5 days

Serving: Its a fun pickle.  You can serve it as it is or cut and add them to your salad.
Decoration: Let your imagination take flight.  Keep them in glass bottles of different shapes and size and they look wonderful enough that your guests will go Wow!
Contributor: Sunitha

We got this cute and sweet award from Bigarade of Bittersweet Bigarades Ramblings

Thank you so much and we really appreciate it :-) Now we would like to share with a few blogger friends

Sreelekha Sumesh of Sree's Recipes
Sadhana & Muskaan of A2Z vegetarian cuisine

Jeyashri Suresh of Jeyashri's kitchen

Ushnish Ghosh of Cooking and Recipes

Nandini of Usha Nandini's Recipes

Vrinda of Sankeerthanam

Sarah of Vazhayilla

Sangeetha of Kothiyavunnu 

Awards!

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This is another proud moment for Collaborative Curry.  We have received more awards than we imagined and we say 'THANK YOU' and take this as encouragement to keep going.  We would like to thank all these friends who awarded us and in case we have missed someone its not intentional.   Please let us know in case we have missed you we will make amends.

Sree, Sangeetha, kitchen queen and Sandhya awarded us:

Sree and Rohini awarded us:

Sangeetha and Lakshmi awarded us:

Priya , Sangeetha, Prasu and Lakshmi awarded us:

Priya and Prasu awarded us:

Sree awarded us:

Prasu awarded us:

Prasu awarded us:

It's time now to award all you absolutely fantastic guys who have wonderful, creative, inspiring blogs.  Please collect the below awards.

Sangeetha

Rohini

 Sandhya

Prasu

Sushma

 Sree

Vrinda

Tina

Lakshmi

Priya

Kitchen Queen

Namitha's meme is included this time and as we go along all of us in Collaborative curry will take turns and update our memes.

Namitha says: Thanks Sree and Sandhya for this lovely award. Sorry that I am posting the meme so late :-)


1. Where is your cell phone? Don't have one :-)
2. Your hair? Black

3. Your mother? Remani
4. Your father? Vasavan Nair
5. Your favorite food? Appam and curry
6. Your dream last night? Don't remember
7. Your favorite drink? Tea
8. Your dream/goal? hmmmm....;-)
9. What room are you in? Bed room
10. Your hobby? Reading, cooking....
11. Your fear? snakes
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? US
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. Something you aren’t? Cynic
15. Muffins? Strawberry
16. Wish list item? none :-)
17. Where did you grow up? India
18. Last thing you did? Blogging :-)
19. What are you wearing? Capri & Blouse
20. Your TV? Off
21. Your pets? None
22. Your friends? Lots :D
23. Your life? Wouldn't have been better :D
24. Your mood? Happy
25. Missing someone? No
26. Vehicle? Car
27. Something you’re not wearing? Bangles
28. Your favorite store? Macy's
29. Your favorite color? Maroon
30. When was the last time you laughed? A few minutes before

31. Last time you cried? Last week when I read about a father who abused his baby son to death :(
32. Your best friend? M
33. One place that I go over and over? Kerala
34. One person who emails me regularly? friends

35. Favorite place to eat? Home sweet home :-)

Other than these awards I am so very happy to tell you about a very special award. My sweet friend Sandhya made okra fry following my recipe and sent me a picture.  What more a blogger can ask for :-) Sandhyakutty, I am so touched and so glad. Words are not enough to thank you :D

First award for us !!

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We are happy to announce that Sangeetha from Kothiyavunu blog awarded us a 'lovely blog' award.  You can see it on the left side of our blog but we wanted to write a special thank you to show our appreciation.  We are new on the blogging scene and its a great honor to receive this award in such a short span.  All at Collaborative Curry are very excited and encouraged  by this generous gesture from Sangeetha.  Thank you for such a warm and hospitable welcome into the food blogging community.  Thank you all . we appreciate it!

   This award prods us forward to do more and bring you more exciting stuff.  We have been concentrating on mostly Kerala recipe's because most of us are from Kerala and this is comfort food for us.  Also, in celebrating our lives it seemed best to start with a collection of what we do on a day to day basis. However, we do like to play with a pallette of diverse cuisine and bring our experiences to you.  Buckle your seats and be ready to take off with us on a journey through more exotic recipes as the week rolls on.