Healing Foods -Event Announcement

This month Seduce Your Tastebuds hosts Siri’s Healing foods.Thanks a bunch Siri for giving me this wonderful opportunity to explore the beautiful and beneficial world of healing foods…

This month I have chosen a vegetable [actually categorized under fruits]

• That was once considered to be poisonous!!Its botanical name translates into ‘wolf-peach’ giving us the idea that it is cannot be consumed.
• It is native to Western South America and Central America.
• It is available all through the year.
• It is nutritious and very versatile.
• The french call it ‘Love apple’!!!

Yes,yes,I am talking about the TOMATOES !!!!

Everyone sure does know about the benefits of Tomatoes.Here is a small recap…

• Purifies the blood
• Improves complexion
• Natural antiseptic
• Antioxidant rich
• Rich source of Vitamin K
• Nicotinic acid in tomato helps reduce cholesterol.
• Decreases the risk of several cancers
• Anti inflammatory property

With loads of health benefits,this has become the star of the month on the healing foods calender…

There are umpteen ways in which tomatoes are used in our day to day cooking like….

• Soups
• Salads
• Chutneys / Dips / Sauces / Ketchup
• Pickles / Preserves
• Curries / Gravies / Stews
• Baked goods
• You can also share cooking tips and techniques/tips and techniques to preserve tomatoes

If you have more ideas do send them in…

Now a small reminder about the rules

1. Cook any Vegan / Vegetarian dish using TOMATO as the chief ingredient and blog about it this month.[Eggs are allowed in baked goods only.]
2. Link back to this announcement and to Siri’s Healing foods page is a must.If you have tried a recipe from another blog, link it to that post as well.
3. Multiple entries are always welcome.
4. Archived entries are accepted as long as you link it to the announcements and update the post .
5. You can share the recipe sent here with other events as well.
6. Non bloggers are most welcome to participate
7. The deadline is August 31st 2010.
8. Once you have blogged about your dish, mail the following details to seduceurtastebuds@gmail.com with the subject – Healing foods-Tomato

• Your name
• Blog name
• Dish
• URL of the dish
• Share a couple of lines on the dish you prepared.
• A picture of your creation.

Looking forward to your tasty dishes….