Miscellaneous Archive

2January 3, 2012
Best of year 2011

A new day, fresh and crisp, new beginning, unfolds with lots of promises, a day dawn with new thoughts which gives warmth and comfort like oodles of warm sunshine and spreads happiness everywhere, the first day of a calendar year, a new year starts and another become a history. Wishing every one a Happy, Yummy and Prosperous year ahead. Before moving ahead, a small retrospect of the year gone by is worth mentioning. Best of year 2011 @ saffronstreaks is…
1December 22, 2011
Welcome to our new home

Hello Dear, Welcome to our new home : Saffronstreaks, a food and travel blog with new format and new look. After enjoying blogging for more than a year and half, we have decided to move here : our new domain which we lovingly called as our new home. It will remain primarily as a food and travel blog, but we are planning to introduce more content rich features as well. Please allow us to show our new site for everyone’s…
1October 18, 2011
diwali sweets e-book by Indus Ladies

This is a special post for Indus Ladies e-book featuring 100 Diwali sweets. A great idea and an equally great job to compile such a huge selection of sweets and for us it will be definitely a prized possession. We are happy to announce that our Strawberry Phirni has been selected as one of the entry : Entry no 87 out of eight other Sweet Recipes that we have selected to send for Diwali Sweets : Kalakand Mango Sandesh Rasgulle…
11October 6, 2011
diwali sweets – a special blog post for Indus ladies

In India no celebration or festival is complete without sweets and though Diwali , the festival of light is still couple of weeks away, the homes, bazaar, the streets are already buzzing with the fervor of Diwali, lights, decor and the Diwali special sweets and when it comes to Indian sweets the list is almost endless. Wont it be better, if we have 100 selected sweets specially made for Diwali or any other festive occasions, and keeping this in mind…
3March 3, 2011
100th post and an introspection

100th post and 20,000 unique visitors ! Does this milestone means anything? Nothing if you are looking at it from a SEO perspective but for me it meant a lot. I was blogging for a while, but was progressing at a very snail pace. There were times when it was lying dormant for months, work, home and travel kept me busy and it was becoming very diificult to continue further. It was the passion for cooking and travel which brings…
0January 30, 2011
post a day 2011

Dear Readers, Announcing my participation in WordPress challenge “postaday2011″. 2011 and its time for some change ! No, Not any New year resolution, because I don’t believe in that. Every day is new to me. So one fine morning it has dawned upon me that I have neglected my blog for a while, lots of food and travel stories and recipes are eating up the spaces in my computer’s hard drives and off course I have not done any justice…
0January 22, 2011
saffronstreaks won nominations in blogjunta polling

Dear Readers. With your constant support and encouragement, I am pleased to announce that “Saffronstreaks” has been nominated in the final round of BOIB 2010 polling by “blogjunta” in both travel and foodblogs category. If you think that my articles and food photos awakens your gastronomical senses, then vote for saffronstreaks in the foodblogs category. please vote here or in the facebook Also, if you think that my travelogues inspires you to trails through the off beaten track and the…
2December 23, 2010
happy new year 2011

Dear Readers, Life has its shares of joys and sorrows, ups and downs, and I am in a difficult phase of my life. But I am sure to come out of it. Till then bear with me. Will come back soon. Saffronstreaks wishing its readers a very Happy christmas and Prosperous New Year 2011. Love Sukanya
1October 20, 2010
10,000 visitors and counting

On 15 th of October we had topped the 10,000 unique visitors for the first time. I know it is not a big figure but for us it is highly encouraging. With less than 50 blog post and 10,000 visitors is definitely very overwhelming for us. Thanks to all of you who dropped in to see what saffronstreaks is all about, contributed with their comments and feedbacks and given us much encouragement and support. Stay with us as we are…
0July 1, 2009
…an epicurean’s journey few years back…

I don’t remember quiet well whether I love to eat in my growing up years but food and health was major concern for my parents and family docs. They experiment with every kind of tonic on me…iron, calcium, magnesium to name a few. It was in the undergraduate years when I first step into the kitchen!! Well it was my hostel’s kitchen with very basic amenities, a gas stove, vessel, knife and few spoons. I had to prepare something for…
0July 1, 2009
….first day, first show

Sitting in the corner of a house with a laptop, I prodded upon the very idea of blogging. When it was started many many years ago I was not very sure about it joining then. But the growing number of netizens and the ever increasing temptations of another life eventually drove me into this virtual world. It was hardly one year passed since I launched my first website www.saffronstreaks.com and travel.saffronstreaks.com that I was diagnosed with ‘blog o mania’ or…