Vegetable Marathon:Event Announcement

Here i am with my second event--Vegetable Marathon. I started APS- Rice event with lots of doubts in my mind. As, i am a newbie to food blogging world, i thought that hosting an event is bit risky. But, i was so determined to host an event n took help from one o four blogger friend. I would like to say thank you to Priya of Priya's Easy N Tasty recipes .  She encouraged me with her kind words, when i told her about my plans to host an event. 
So, with the success of my first event-APS-Rice. I would like to take a step ahead n host another event. This time i choose vegetables as my event theme. This event is going to be an interminable one, as each vegetable occupies each month. 
Source: My Pyramid.Gov
Vegetable usually means an edible plant or part of a plant other than a sweet fruit or seed.
Any vegetable or 100% vegetable juice counts as a member of the vegetable group. Vegetables may be raw or cooked; fresh, frozen, canned, or dried/dehydrated; and may be whole, cut-up, or mashed.
Vegetables are organized into 5 subgroups, based on their nutrient content. Some commonly eaten vegetables in each subgroup are:

Dark green vegetables bok choy broccoli collard greens dark green leafy lettuce kale mesclun mustard greensromaine lettuce spinach turnip greens watercress Orange vegetables acorn squash butternut squashcarrots hubbard squash pumpkinsweetpotatoes Dry beans and peas black beans black-eyed peas garbanzo beans (chickpeas)kidney beans lentils lima beans (mature) navy beanspinto beans soy beans split peas tofu (bean curd made from soybeans) white beans

Starchy vegetables corn green peas lima beans (green)potatoes Other vegetables artichokes asparagus bean sprouts beets Brussels sprouts cabbagecauliflower celery cucumbers eggplantgreen beans green or red peppersiceberg (head) lettuce mushrooms okraonions parsnipstomatoes tomato juice vegetable juice turnips wax beanszucchini

There are three definitions relating to fruits and vegetables:

• Fruit (scientific): the ovary of a seed-bearing plant,
• Fruit (culinary): any edible part of a plant with a sweet flavor,
• Vegetable: any edible part of a plant with a savory flavor.

So here comes the rules for participating in the event: 

1) Prepare any dish with vegetable as main ingredient. It can be either Vegetarian or non-vegetarian.
2) You can send as many recipes as you want.
3) I will accept the old entries, if they are updated and reposted with the logo n link back to Vegetable Marathon event. 
4) Vegetable Marathon is an interminable event.. So i would like to take help from my fellow  bloggers to host this event. If you would like to host this event starting from MAY 1st to end of this year. Please send an email to anitakonasani@gmail.com or drop a comment. I will update it regularly
5) Pls link your post to the event announcement and please feel free to use logo.. Post's without link back to this event would not be a part of the roundup.
6) Round up will be done after first week of event end date. 

So coming to this month's vegetable-- its Abergine/Eggplant/ Brinjal/Begun.

Eggplants belong to the nightshade family of vegetables, which also includes tomatoes, sweet peppers and potatoes. They grow in a manner much like tomatoes, hanging from the vines of a plant that grows several feet in height. While the different varieties do range slightly in taste and texture, one can generally describe the eggplant as having a pleasantly bitter taste and spongy texture. 

Egg Plant contains 10% of dietary fiber and it hosts minerals such as potassium, manganese, copper,Magnesium, folate n vitamins B1,B6,B3. In addition to featuring a host of vitamins and minerals, eggplant also contains important phytonutrients, many which have antioxidant activity. Phytonutrients contained in eggplant include phenolic compounds, such caffeic and chlorogenic acid, and flavonoids, such as nasunin. Source: wiki. pic from greenbytheday

This month's Vegetable Marathon- Abergine/Egg plant will start from February 11th. So entries will be accepted until March 11th

Send Your entries to anitakonasani@gmail.com with subject as Veg-Mar-eggplant with following details:
Your Name:
Blog's Name:
Blog's URL:
Recipe Name:
Category:Link to the Recipe or URL:
Snapshot of the Recipe:

I would appreciate a lot, if you name the picture of the dish by the dish name, and the category it belongs,that you are sending me in email. That makes things lot easier n no shuffling of recipes or images with other names. Thanks a lot.

 Recipes from those who do not blog are accepted. Pls do mail them to my email id-- anitakonasani@gmail.com with your recipe details n a picture of the dish.


*** Those who are hosting vegetable marathon, please announce the event 2-3 days before 10 th of every month and they need to publish logo on their blog.