Announcing My Legume Love Affair, Fifteenth Helping

Please Note: We are moving to no phone, no internet area (read new home!) this week, all by ourselves, I won’t be able to answer to any of your emails for next 2 weeks till we get time to breath easily :) Please keep sending your MLLA entries and I will reply to all your emails/questions/queries as soon as we get broadband connection and settle down in our new home. Till then, Happy cooking and blogging!
hugs
Sia

Regular visitors of my blog know my ever going, never ending love affair with legumes. So when Susan, a lovely blogger and splendid photographer behind the delightful blog called The Well Seasoned Cook, invited fellow bloggers to host her monthly event My Legume Love Affair sometime last year I jumped at the opportunity to host it. So here I am, inviting all dear bloggers and non-bloggers to participate in this month’s edition of My Love affair with Legumes-Fifteenth Helping.

A legume is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or a fruit of these specific plants. A 'legume' fruit is a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides. A common name for this type of fruit is a "pod", although pod is also applied to a few other fruit types, such as vanilla. Well-known legumes include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, lentils, lupins, mesquite, carob, soy, and peanuts.
(Source: Wiki)

So for this event we are concentrating on pods like the ones listed in this page and not the plant. Please make sure that you follow the guideline listed below in order to be eligible for the lovely prizes. Yes, there will be not just one or two but three fabulous prizes. One lucky winner will receive two fabulous books specially selected by Susan and a gift from Hurst Bean. The first book is Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library Food) by Gourmet Magazine Editors and Ruth Reichl and the second one is Gourmet Indian In Minutes: Over 140 Inspirational Recipes by Monisha Bharadwaj and they will be shipped worldwide. The third prize is a case of six bags of your choice of Hurst Bean products, suitable for every diet, generously provided by Hurst Bean. Due to shipping restrictions, this prize can only be awarded if the winner is a U.S. resident.

So what are you waiting for? Show me how much you love your legumes. I am looking forward to my mail inbox getting flooded with delicious legume entries all this month. Let the love affair begin…

Guidelines for participation:

1. Prepare any vegetarian/vegan recipe with legumes as the star ingredient. Any cuisine, any course is acceptable as long as it features legumes. For this time I am restricting the entries to only vegetarian and vegan recipes but recipes with eggs are allowed.
2. Multiple entries are welcome (entries in English only please) although only one submission will be counted towards the random drawing.
3. Dedline for the event is 30th September ’09 and please note that late entries will not be included in the round-up. Please provide a link to this announcement page and to Susan’s event page.
4. Send a mail with MLLA in the subject line to sia[at]monsoonspice[dot]com with the following details.
• Your name
• Location (Optional)
• Your blog name
• Name of the entry/recipe
• URL of your post
• An optional photograph of the final dish that is resized to 400 X 300 (in pixels) or 300 X 400 (in pixels) depending on orientation.
5. If you don’t have a blog but would like to participate, send an email with the recipe and the above-mentioned details and your entry will be included in the prize draw.
6. Recipes submitted to other events are also permitted.
7. Recipes from archives or older posts are accepted only if they are re-posted with a link to this announcement page and Susan’s event page.
8. Use of logo is optional.

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