Wednesday, October 13, 2010

First Blog Anniversary


Nithu's Kitchen completes a year today with 300 posts and 221 friends through Google Friend Connect. Thank you friends for your support and encouragement. Hope, you all would continue to support me throughout this journey. My special thanks to my Hubby, Dad, Mom and Sister for their constant encouragement.

To celebrate this great day, I made Eggless Carrot Cake. I know, most of you here are good bakers with a wonderful skill for icing. This is the very first time, I tried my hands to do some designs on a cake :-)) So, please bear with my extremely non-professional icing :-(




On this special day, I would like to share few important happenings of Nithu's kitchen for the period of one year (13th Oct, 2009 - 13th Oct, 2010).

Milestones / Important Posts :

1. 100th Post on Feb 28, 2010 - This post was an event announcement to mark the completion of 100 posts. It took me nearly 4.5 months for 100 posts.
2. 150th Post on April 13, 2010 - This post marked 6 months completion of the blog. This was just a recollection of six months important happenings in Nithu's Kitchen.
3. 200th Post on June 4, 2010 - This post was an event announcement to mark the 200th post.
4. 250th Post on August 5, 2010 - This post was my first guest host event announcement.

Events Conducted :

3. CWF - LB : Chickpeas (Guest hosted)
5. Vegetable Marathon - Bitter Gourd (Guest hosted, Ongoing event)

Giveaways Hosted :

1. 100th Post giveaway ($25) - Champa won the event for more number of entries.
2. 200th Post giveaway (Cook Book) - Krishnaveni won the event
3. UPrinting giveaway - Swapna was randomly selected from the comments left.
4. CSN Giveaway ($35) - Amritha Kalyani was randomly selected from the comments left.

Guest Posts :

I started this Guest post series on March 8th,2010 to mark the International Women's Day. My sister kick started the series well. On Mothers Day, my Mom was the special guest. So far 30 guests (bloggers & non-bloggers) were introduced in this series. Thanks to all of you for your support.

Food Fiction :

First time, I tried Food fiction for Aqua's event. Click here and here to read my food fictions.


8. Bubble Chocolate giveaway winner at Foodlovers (Yet to receive the chocolates. Will be blogging about it soon)

Other Awards :

My blogger friends have passed me many awards as their token of love. Thanks to all of you for the awards. Click here to see the awards received.

I'l catch you all with the recipe for the Eggless Carrot Cake in next post. Till then enjoy the cake:-)




56 comments:

Menaga Sathia said...

congrats nithu..keep rocking!!

Torviewtoronto said...

happy anniversary and lovely summary :)

Bharathi said...

Congrats Nithu for the successful completion of one year of non stop blogging.

Keep going...

Have a great 1st blog anniversary dear.

Umm Mymoonah said...

Wow! That's really a lot what you have achieved. Congratulations congratulations!!!!

Swathi said...

Congrats Nithu on Blog anniversary.Wishing you many more to come.

Amritha Kalyani said...

congrats nitu on your blog anniv. Wish you all success and good luck now and ever...

Santosh Bangar said...

congs on anny.. and many achievment wish u more successin future

Unknown said...

Congrats Nithu!! on the superb journey...may u have many more to come!!

Satya said...

Congrats Nitu on this wonderful milestone n happy birthday to ur blog baby ...U n ur baby achieved a lot in this one yr n i wish u many more ...all the best dear

Satya
http://www.superyummyrecipes.com

Binys Recipes said...

1 year and soooo many accomplishments!!!!!wow...good going Nithu,keep it up

aipi said...

Congratulations on your achievement. Wish you many many more such milestones!

US Masala

harini-jaya said...

congratulations!!

suneetha said...

Congrats nithu..Keep Rocking

Jaleela Kamal said...

Congrats Nithu for the successful completion of one year and my best wishes

Sanyukta Gour(Bayes) said...

congrats dear on all ur achievements and blog anni....best luck ahead...cake looks pretty..keeping busy these days ..wil catch up with all my blogger frnds soon...

Suja Manoj said...

Congrats Nithu on your first blog anniversary..wish you more and more success

Asiya Omar said...

congrats nithu for the first blog anniversary and the great achievements.

Indian food recipes said...

Congrats Nithu dear...cake luks perfect...beautiful color combo!!!

Lisha Ajish said...

Congratzzzz Nithu for this achievement......Hope 2 c you blogging for long timeeeeee........

Rachana said...

Congratulations dear Nithu! You rock girl!

Priya Suresh said...

Congrats Nithu, happy blog anniversary and wishing u many beautiful things in this blogsphere..

Mrs.Mano Saminathan said...

Heart congratulations for your blog's anniversary Nithubala!!

Dori said...

Congratulations! Nice work :)

Elaichii said...

Hearty Congrats Nithu! What a wonderful journey you had in the last year! Best wishes for many more to come!

Nithya said...

Simply fantastic way to celebrate :) congrats dear :) you are indeed a very talented cook :) love your blog :) keep it going always :)

swapna said...

Congrats...wish you many more to come...

Hayley said...

Congrats Nithu...lovely cake..! keep rocking girl..!

Mahi said...

Congrats nithu!Wish you many more happy blogging years!!:)

/completes a year today with 300 posts/hmm..only 300 posts? Where did the other 65 go?? Try to balance it in the coming year! ;) :)

Sangi said...

Congrats nithu..

Nithu Bala said...

Thank you friends for your wishes:-)

mamtc said...

Congrats Nithu on ur achievement. This is a real accomplishment. Got to hve party :)

Love2cook Malaysia said...

Happy 1st Blogoversary and 300th posts to nithubala.com! ;)

So happy for U, Nithu! U've did alot past 1 year! Loved ur blog...

Wish U more to go! All the best! :D

Unknown said...

Congrats dear..you really rock...best wishes...

divya said...

Congrats Nithu, happy blog anniversary and wishing u many beautiful things in this blog sphere..

sonu said...

congratulations..the icing looks fab nithu..and lovely achievements in less time..way to go gal !

vanathy said...

congrats!

Nitha said...

Congrats nithu..

Unknown said...

Congrats Nithya!!!

Ms.Chitchat said...

Congratulations and best wishes on the first anniversary of ur blog.

Chitra said...

Super! Congratulations!

Anu said...

Congrats Nithu... Keep rocking..

Priya Sreeram said...

Hi Nitha!
many congratulations to ur lovely blog. wishing u many more such milestones in this amazing world !

Anonymous said...

Congrats nithu,icing is well done

Prema said...

congrats nithu for ur blog anniversary...

Panchpakwan said...

Congarts Nithu..Keep rocking...

Jayanthy Kumaran said...

Congrats Nithu...keep on rocking...happy blog anniversary...

Tasty Appetite

Kiran said...

Dear Nithu,

Congratulations on your 1st Blog Anniversary.Wish to see many more such wonderful years of anniversaries and thousands of posts.

Foodie Ann said...

Congrats Nithu...U have a lovely space...:)

NIDHYA said...

Congrats on our achievements and wish you many more.

Aaha Oho

Unknown said...

Congratulations on your 1st blog anniversary , Nithu..Wishing you many more!

ஜெய்லானி said...

ஒரு வயசு குழந்தைக்கு வாழ்த்துக்கள்..இன்னும் தவழ்ந்து ,நடந்து ஓடியாடி விளையாட வாழ்த்துக்கள்...!!

Ushnish Ghosh said...

Dear Nithu
Congratulations and many happy returns of the day

Nivedita Thadani said...

HI Nithu
Congratulations and wish many more years for your wonderful blog.

Vijiskitchencreations said...

congrats Nithu. Keep rocking.

www.vijisvegkitchen.blogspot.com

Unknown said...

Congrats Nithu on completing wonderful one year.You have achieved a lot and may many more come your way. Loved your cake, I can't even do that, so you rock :)

Tanu said...

Congratulations Nithu..I was surfing net and saw your website ..good to see that you are updating your site time to time.I am a new comer to this blogging but not in cooking :). So lets see when I'll reach this milestone as yours.
Happy cooking!!
Cheers!!
Tanu
http://tanu-triedntasted.blogspot.com/