Provocarea lunii octombrie "Dulce Romanie"/ October's "Sweet Romania" Challenge

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Am participat in ultima vreme la cateva provocari, la "Vinerea foarte dulce" si la provocarea canalului tv Cooking Channel pentru prajiturelele de Craciun. Mi-a placut foarte mult sa particip, sa ma gandesc ce sa gatesc cu un anumit ingredient sau cu o anumita tema.

Asa mi-a venit ideea sa lansez o provocare pentru bloggerii culinari romani (si nu numai!) si sper ca ideea sa fie preluata si mai departe. Am numit-o "Dulce Romanie" (sau dulce-amara Romanie :) si se poate schimba daca cineva vine cu o idee mai buna).

In ce consta provocarea: in fiecare luna un blog tine o provocare cu un anumit ingredient sau cu o anumita tema, si cu un link la provocarea lunii anterioare. As vrea ca ingredientul sau tema sa fie romanesti, dar reteta poate fi din orice parte a lumii si poate contine orice ingredient exotic. Orice persoana care vrea sa participe poate sa gateasca ceva cu ingredientul respectiv, sa il posteze pe blogul personal (daca are) cu un link la postul care a lansat provocarea si sa trimita la adresa bloggerului care a lansat provocarea o poza cu mancarea, numele, si adresa unde poate fi gasita, pana la o data limita. Daca cineva nu are blog, dar vrea sa participe, este binevenit.

Dupa cateva zile, blogul care a lansat provocarea va posta toate pozele cu linkurile respective, anuntand la sfarsit blogul care va tine provocarea lunii viitoare.

Ingredientul sau tema sunt alese de bloggerul care lanseaza provocarea lunii respective.

Si ca sa incep, ingredientul lunii octombrie o sa fie DOVLEACUL. Cine vrea sa participe poate sa gateasca ceva interesant folosind dovleac, dulce sau sarat, si sa posteze reteta pe blogul personal.

Trimiteti la adresa de e-mail p_michaela@yahoo.com numele vostru, orasul din care sunteti, numele blogului, adresa postarii si o poza lata de 300 px cu mancarea respectiva. Puteti sa spuneti si cum v-a venit ideea sa gatiti mancarea respectiva.

Data limita este 20 octombrie 2010.

Pe data de 22 octombrie voi posta pe blogul meu adunarea tuturor celor care au participat.

In acelasi timp, astept oferte cine vrea sa tina provocarea lunii noiembrie.

Abia astept sa vad ce idei inedite vom avea!
Gatire placuta :)



Lately, I challenged myself to cook for “Sugar High Fridays” and for Cooking Channel TV some Christmas cookies. I liked to think what I’m going to make with a certain ingredient or theme.

That’s how I got the idea to launch a challenge for my fellows Romanians cooking bloggers (and not only Romanians!) and I hope the idea will go on. I named it “Sweet Romania” but the name can be changed if somebody has a better idea.

What’s the challenge: every month one blog launch a challenge for a certain ingredient or a certain theme, posting the link to the previous month challenge. I would like that the ingredient to be something popular in Romania, but the recipes can be from anywhere and can have any exotic ingredients one like.

Anybody who wants to participate can cook a meal or bake a dessert with that month’s ingredient or theme and post the recipe on their personal blog (if they have one) with a link to the challenge post, and send at the challenger’s e-mail address a picture with the food, their name and the address where the recipe can be found, until a set date.

If somebody doesn’t have a blog and wants to participate, it’s more than welcome.

After few days, the blog that launched the challenge will post all pictures of all participants and the recipe link, announcing at the end the blog that will keep next month’s challenge.

The ingredient or the theme will be chosen by the blogger that launch the challenge that month.

So, let’s start. The October’s ingredient will be: PUMPKIN. Anyone who wants to participate can cook or bake something interesting using pumpkin, sweet or savory and post the recipe on their blog.

Send at the e-mail address p_michaela@yahoo.com your name, your blog name, the city where you’re from, address where recipe can be found and a 300 px wide picture with the food, until October 20th, 2010. If you like, you can tell me how you came up with the recipe.

On October 22nd I will post on my blog the round-up with all entries.

Meanwhile I’m waiting for offers who want to keep the November’s challenge.

I can’t wait to see all the new ideas!
Happy cooking :)