The Chronicles Of #BeautifulFood...

It Was One Of Those Days...

Of Congratulations And Celebrations...

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When The Entire Family Had Gathered...

On The Occasion Of...

Commemorating My Biggest Win...

So Far, In The Blog-o-Sphere...

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Of Course, It Had To Be!

When There's Family Backing You Up...

In Whichever Venture Of Life...

You Ought To Emerge Victorious!

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Remember Not Astrology, It's Gastronomy!?

Precisely, My Point...

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It's Indeed A Cloud Nine Moment...

To Make One's Mark...

To Be Adjudged One Of The Best...

Out Of The Crowd...

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For 'My Beautiful Food'...

And, when my Family had been involved, ever since Day 1...

The Celebration HAD To Be Grand...

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From That Day to This Day...

When...

This Arrived...

On The Eve Of Eid...

July 28, 2014...

Quarter To 5...

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That Was My #BeautifulFood Moment...

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Having Received Such An Exquisite Hamper...

To Adorn My Culinary Creations...

And, Make My Food...

#BeautifulFood...

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Come, July 29...

This was what adorned my Twitter...

@indiblogger @borosilandyou Auspicious Eid - I'd like to present my #BeautifulFood - Sheer Khurma, in artsy bowl. :) pic.twitter.com/uxyTof6f3j

— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) July 29, 2014

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Sheer Khurma, is an annual delicacy, prepared by Yours Truly...

On the pious occasion of Eid, each year, without fail.

But, This Time...

It attained superlative pinnacles...

Because...

It did not remain just Food...

It became #BeautifulFood! ^_^

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Sheer Khurma, The Velvety Vermicelli...
A Delectable Delight - Oh So Heavenly!

The Ever Unmatched Pride Of The Festival Of Eid...
Topped With Almonds, Cashews, Raisins, Elaichi...

The Perfect Companion For The Perfectly Presented Food...
Is That Perfect Glassware From Borosil - #BeautifulFood...

And, So, It Was Imperative, Elementary At The Most...
In My Mixing Bowl, Each Layer, Distinct...
Of This Masterpiece, I Could Rightfully Boast! ^_^

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Because...

As They Say...

अच्छे काम की शुरुआत मीठे से करनी चाहिए।

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And...

After That...

#BeautifulFood का कारवां बढ़ता गया...

और Dishes जुड़ती गईं! :)

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And, On The Next Day ...

Came...

@stiryoursouls We would like to thank you for your contribution to our #BeautifulFood Contest.
— Borosil (@borosilandyou) July 30, 2014

@stiryoursouls #BeautifulFood, wonderful rhymes. Every zodiac sign has certain food favourites? That's new info! Thanks. :)
— Borosil (@borosilandyou) July 30, 2014

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When effort attains recognition...

It is a moment of achievement...

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And, to hear words of gratitude and encouragement...

From A Brand Name...

Which Has Been The 'Heart-Throb'...

Of Many A Culinary Delights...

And, On Many A Special Occasions...

Not Since Today...

But, Since A Decade... For Me, And My Family...

@borosilandyou I'm happy to have been associated with this brand name. I've been using for years now. B'day Cakes find life, every year. :)
— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) July 31, 2014

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The next few days... Pre-occupied my Right Hemisphere's Creative Abilities...
To give this opportunity my best shot...
Was A MUST. :)
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And...
I Returned...
On Friendship Day...
With My Batch Of Freshly Prepared...
Articulately Presented...
#BeautifulFood...
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After All...
'Foodie Friends' Applies Not Only To Us...
But To Gastronomic Delights As Well!

@borosilandyou @indiblogger Presenting Yummy Mughlai Tikka & Tangri Chicken, Onion & Pudina in pristine glassware. :) pic.twitter.com/qGIJWy7yAG
— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) August 3, 2014

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Home - Made, Grilled To Perfection... Succulent Juicy Chicken Creation...
Accompanied By Good To Taste पुदीना & प्याज़... There's Not More You Could Ask For - Not आज! :)
Coming Along With A Hard To Refuse Combination... One Round, The Other Rectangular - Dishes To Woo The Nation! :D
The Mint & Onion Tag Along... In Pristine Vision Glasses - Neither Short, Nor Long!
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Next To Come - Were The Quintessential Lunch Time Companions... @borosilandyou @indiblogger Wholesome Lunch On A Graceful Platter. Nothing Beats Authentic Mutter - Paneer! :) pic.twitter.com/dpz0gOEecZ

— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) August 3, 2014

Well...
What Could Possibly Beat...
Enticingly Soft फुल्का...
Paired With Gorgeous मटर - पनीर! ;)
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The Authentically Delightful Wholesome Lunch... Accompanied By अचार And चना पापड़...
Make For A Heavenly Platter... Which Is Set, The Family, To Flatter!
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Who?
Absolutely Who Could Dare...
To Overlook Tea - Time Comrades?!
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These...

@borosilandyou @indiblogger My #BeatifulFood Continues w/ Sweet 'n' Salty Teatime #Friends In Precious Gourmet! :) pic.twitter.com/j4kLoDHSF7
— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) August 3, 2014

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When It's The Day To Celebrate Friendship... You Cannot Overlook The BFF's...
Be It Your BFF's... Or, Be Them In The Land Of #BeautifulFood...
Of Course, You Have To Acknowledge... The Salty And The Sweet...
My Crispy Soyabean Cups... And, The Melt-in-the-Mouth Tutti - Fruti!
Oh Who! Oh Who! Could Be So Heartless...
To Refuse Them, When Placed... In #BeautifulFood Gourmet Bowls? ;)
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The inquisitiveness of Team Borosil...
Kept Inspiring Me To The Helm...
To Come Up With Ever-so-Novel Dishes...
With Even Newer Styles Of Presentation...
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And, Being A Working Woman...
Sunday Works Wonders...
I Get To Spend The Most Time...
In My 'Kreative Kitchen'...
With My #BeautifulFood...
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This...
Was Prepared...
As A Tribute To My Mother's Magical Cooking...
On A Leisurely Sunday...

@indiblogger @borosilandyou #BeautifulFood Amuses All! Invites U To Gorge On Heavenly Pumpkin Cashew Halwa! :) pic.twitter.com/hSmjq5iyNk
— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) August 3, 2014

An Innovation Dedicated To My Mother's Efforts... Which Were Magically Effortless...
My Innovation, An Attempt... To Prepare A Sweet Medley...
The Pumpkin Cashew Halwa... Food Bursts With Bouts Of Joy...
To Have A New - Found Love... To Become Borosil's #BeautifulFood...
An Inviting Look, A Happy Face... Served In My Artsy Bowl! :D
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Two Days Hence...
Look I Came Up With...
Self - Praising #BeautifulFood...

@borosilandyou Like Evening Coolers? ;) Served Khus Sharbat, Mango Juice #BeautifulFood In Impressive Visions... :) pic.twitter.com/DbIKXrcfTC
— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) August 5, 2014

Do You Notice The Color Coordinated Baby Umbrellas To Match Your Refreshers? ;)

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The Same Day...

You Had To Prepare To Embrace...

My Version Of McD's Soft-Serve...

As A Dinner Desert...

See...

@borosilandyou @indiblogger Dinner Deserts #BeautifulFood. My Strawberry Crush/Chocolate Syrup Adores Vanilla Visions pic.twitter.com/POh38q75s5
— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) August 5, 2014

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How Do You Like These Delicacies?
All In My Clear Visions?

Come Over Some Day...
To Savor Them Personally Too...

All My #BeautifulFood...

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Yesterday, Was A Day...

The Family Went On A Food - Spree...

With An Amalgamation Of Three Different Cuisines...

The Tweets Speak For Themselves! ^_^

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@borosilandyou #BeautifulFood Mexican Cuisine Evening! :) Shining Armor Gourmet Bowls beautify Cheesy Nachos Salsa :D pic.twitter.com/bcqPKiSDzK
— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) August 7, 2014

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@borosilandyou #BeautifulFood Chinese Dinner Spread! Option 1: Veg. Fried Rice, Chilli Paneer, Corn Peas 'n' Mushroom pic.twitter.com/Fyd8VbbISh
— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) August 7, 2014

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@borosilandyou #BeautifulFood Chinese Dinner Spread! Option 2: Chicken Noodles, American Choupsey, Chicken Schezwan. pic.twitter.com/ZYqn9HY6up
— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) August 7, 2014

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@borosilandyou #BeautifulFood Strawberry-licious! :D Frozen ChocoDip Strawberry/Strawberry Milkshake for Tonight. :) pic.twitter.com/bpNbbjvt8S
— Poonam Khanduja (@stiryoursouls) August 7, 2014

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And, For The Last Lap Of My Attempts...
I Prepared These...
Today!
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Look, Which Novelty I Came Up With... You've Heard Of Chicken Biryani, For Sure...
But, Ever Heard Of Stuffing Biryani Into Boneless Chicken? That Is My Chicken Teba For You...
Top With Sweet & Spicy Sauce, Finely Cut Onions... Accompanied By Sliced Green Chillies...
Placed In A Pleasing #BeautifulFood Gourmet Bowl. :)
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My Variation To The Vegetable Biryani... Accompanied By The Enticing Kulchas...
With Gravy To Gorge On!
Presented To You In A Vision Glass And An Appealing Round Dish! :)

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I Started My Sojourn Into The Land Of #BeautifulFood On Eid...

With My Sheer Khurma, Delightful...

I Halt On The Occasion Of  Raksha Bandhan...

And, Leave With You, My Equally Heavenly Suji Halwa...

Topped With Cashews And Almonds To Please...

Transformed Into #BeautifulFood, By Borosil...

For The Umpteenth Time...

Forever And Ever! ^_^

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As All My Readers Would Have Noticed...
My Presentation Is Sans Any Fancy Frills...
As, I Wholeheartedly Believe...
'Simplicity Is The Glory Of Expression'...
And That...
The Ultimate Beautification For My Food...
Would Be My Borosil, Solely...
Borosil Glassware...
And, Nothing Else...
Made My Food...
#BeautifulFood...
Venturing Into Culinary Expression... Was An Enriching Experience... For These Ten Days... And Will Continue To Be So...
Till Eternity...
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This post has been written as a part of 'My Beautiful Food' Contest - Round 2 - 'Pictures, Pictures Everywhere' by Borosil in association with IndiBlogger.

Lights, Camera, Versatile Blogger Award!

First Things First...

Apologies For My Month Long Absence From The Blog - O - Sphere!

Second, and most importantly...

Thanks To Dr. Kiran Acharya of The Conch Blower - Shankhnaad, for giving me the perfect reason to break my absence and the famine of blogging at my personal space.

Thanks Kiran for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award, here!

I cannot thank you enough, and I am humbled after receiving a second recognition in the form of this nomination, after Ipsita's Liebster, here...

So, I've complied with the 'link back to the blogger who nominated you' and 'display the award on your blog' rules.

I am left with enumerating seven facts about myself, and nominating 15 other bloggers.

So, here you go...

7,6,5,4,3,2,1...

Interesting Facts.

About Poonam.

And, about Stir Your Souls, as well! :)

1. I am an optimistic person and believe in peace, balance and harmony.
2. I cannot tolerate injustice at any level - be it personal, professional, or even social.
3. I love Nature & all its marvels - its infinite manifestations.
4. I believe that I possess a great level of intellect and general awareness, which I keep updating from time to time. ;)
5. I love to analyze people's traits according to their Zodiac Signs and Numerology, and according to their basic psyche, too. 
6. I detest corruption, which has already spread its roots to the level it seems tough to strike off. And that's the reason I voice my opinion on Corruption, quite often! :)
7. I believe in everlasting relationships. Beyond that of worldly boundaries, even.

An eighth fact - I had the honor of witnessing the Superstar Of The Millenium - Mr. Amitabh Bachchan - LIVE - On 29 November, 2013 - Thanks To Penguin India! - About which I will be blogging in my next post!

Stay Tuned!

And Now, the 15 Bloggers, whom I pass on this award to.

(In No Particular Order)

Here You Go...
And Here's The Award I Pass To You!

• Jaideep Khanduja of Pebble In The Still Waters
• Harsha Bhuyan of All Resource Updates
• Nabanita Dhar of Random Thoughts Naba
• Sakshi Nanda of Between Write And Wrong
• Meera of A Rat's Nibble
• Rekha Nair of Dew Drops
• Sammya Brata of Deckle Edge
• Karan Sampat of The K Factor
• Saru Singhal of Words
• Ranjana of Ranjana's Craft Blog
• Tomichan Matheikal of Matheikal's Blog
• Rachna Parmar of Much Ado About Everything
• Shaivi Sharma of Shaivi Ka Funda
• Indrani Ghose of iShare
• Rajesh of My Indian Travel

That's all from my side for today...

Looking forward to reading 15 x 7 --- 105 interesting facts about everyone of you! :)

And, also looking forward to blogging about Penguin's Annual Lecture!

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Lights, Camera, LIEBSTER!!!

First Things First!

Thanks To <3 Ipsita Roy <3 Of 'The Kaleidoscope Called Life' From The Bottom Of My Heart...

My First Liebster Came About As A Sweet Surprise From Your Kaleidoscope...

...Six Months Into Blogging & 110 Posts After...

...My Moment Of Recognition...

...Lights...

...Camera...

Liebster!!!

Here's Mine - Thanks To Ipsita...

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Here's what the Liebster represents...

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There Are Rules To Every Game, Dearest Reader.

The Liebster Is No Exception.

Do Not Forget To Thank & Mention The One Who Nominated You!

(Am abiding by the rules mentioned by Ipsita for my answers.

I am giving the Official Rules to the ones I've nominated.)

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Now, Am I Not Answerable To You, Ipsita?

Here You Go, Dear...

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Three Words That Describe You Best.

Balanced, Sensitive, Optimist.

Tea Or Coffee?

Coffee.

Name One Feature In You That You Don't Like (Could Be Physical, Emotional, Psychological...)

My Body System's Slow Metabolism.

If You Could Travel Anywhere In The World And Money Was No Object, Where Would It Be And Why?

Antarctica - to meet penguins, of course!

The First To Come To Mind At The Mention Of 'Rain'.

Peacocks.

Mountains Or Sea?

Mountains!

Opinion About 'Love At First Sight'.

It's All A State Of Mind!

Next On My To - Purchase List.

If I Can - Peace & Justice For All.

Why I Blog.

I want to reach out to and stir everybody's souls through my writing on issues which are oft - ignored and need attention.

Of late, my writing has diversified itself.

One Thing To Change About My City.

Not one but 8 things - enumerated here - in a previous post.
Since it's Delhi I am talking about, one change won't suffice.
There's a truckload of changes needed!

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Here's me passing on This...

To... 

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Wonderful. Bloggers.

Here You Go, Ladies...

Ritu Kalia Tanwar - To Rave About.

Kiran Acharya - The Conch Blower.

Anita - The Explorer Of Miracles.

Pankti Mehta - Musings Of A Confused Gal.

Sugandha Agrawal - Shades Of Life.

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Ready To Go?

Here's Your Rapid Fire...

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What's Your Zodiac Sign?

Your Most Prized Possession?

Which Song Describes Your Personality Best?

Time Warp - Past Or Future?

Your Idea Of An Ideal Vacation.

Tell Me About The First Time You Said 'Cheese'?

Want An Edit Button In Your Life?
For Which Episode & Why?

Diamonds Or Pearls?

Story Behind Your Blog's Name.

Your Crisis Savior?

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Looking Forward To Some Very Interesting Responses...

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