In the Wine and Dine Section in the Crest Edition, is an article that provides a “grazing platter of delicious food blogs” and The Purple Foodie is one of them! I am tickled pink to be mentioned alongside some really amazing food blogs (wohoooo!)
For those of you outside India, the Times of India is India’s #1 newspaper in terms of circulation, with 3.14 Million copies circulated daily!
The Purple Foodie belongs to a purple colour-loving Shaheen Peerbhai who works with a bakery. There are no simpering excuses of ‘secret recipes’ here. Knowledge and discoveries are generously shared, like a post in which she substitutes yeast for baking powder and comes up with “an amazing, light, lavash-like cracker in a lot less time than lavash”. All her posts are garnished with striking visuals. Sample her post on apple muffins: out of focus chrysanthemums add a blurb of magenta next to bright green apples lined up near scrumptious apple cinnamon streusel muffins; all are offset by a blue tablecloth and a book in shades of yellow, parrot green and pink.
Much thanks to the author, Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal.
PS: Sorry about the excessive exclamation marks.
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>Congratulations Shaheen! You have an AMAZING blog!!
>Congratulations! Very well-deserved. :0)
>Congratulations! I'm so happy for you! (more exclamation marks!)
>congrats! well deserved!
>Congrats Congrats Congrats there's noone like you!
>Congratulations Shaheen!! This is really big news (literally)
Totally understand the exclamation marks(!)
>Congratulations Shaheen!
>WOW WOW WOW!!! What an honor!!! Congratulations!!!! You deserve it.
>Lovely right up..congrats!
>hey girl….congrats…doing a wonderful job…n most of all…im happy to c ur dream cum true…
wish u luck
>hey!! congratulations!!! you deserve it
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>thank you!!! i did read your pav bhaji article. just forgot to comment!
>aww thank you!
>thank youuu!
>thanks, tunali
>thank youuuu!
>and this would be nothing without you!
thank you so much, Kauser! that's so, so sweet of you!
Thanks you all for your support! This really would be nothing without your readership! (and now I sound like I'm giving an Oscar speech)
I am SO proud of you. You totally deserve this. And very well written write-up that does complete justice to your blog, I say
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Hey congratulations gurl! I had gone thru ur blog earlier (Tho i didn't comment…) …. n loved it…. its something i can completely relate to! Good going!
Congrats, Shaheen! You deserve every word. (Tried to only use one exclamation point.)
hee hee congrats
was searching for the link and come to your post. High five!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was out for a week and when I check your blog, voila, you have moved to a different domain and are all over the papers!!!
Awesome work. Lovely article!
By the way, I just made some of your hummus this morning. It turned out very nice. Thanks!!
Hey Purple girl! Happy you are excited! Was well deserved!
I ate at this fab new place in Singapore. 2 AM Dessert bar it is called. It is a bar devoted almost exclusively to desserts and the occasional tipple but what desserts…. More like art on the plate… Anyways there was one called Purple it was inspired by a painting the owner did. It reminded me of you not just for the purple but also because it seemed like something you would do… made me think of you so I took a picture and will send it to you….
Congrats! This is great news
Congratulations! You must feel famous!
Congrats, that’s fabulous news!
Hope your blog gets lots and lots and lots of new visitors!
Definitely an occassion for excessive use of exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome!
~ingrid
Congrats!! That is so exciting, I hope you went out and to celebrate!
Congratulations!!!!
You absolutely deserve all the exclamation points possible! I’m glad you’re getting recognition “outside of the virtual world.” I hope you are written about more and more in the future =)
congratulations S – very very well deserved indeed, so happy for you !!!
Hi Shaheen, I had read the article, and have been visiting your blog. Love it, especially the visual appeal:-) But I haven’t dared to bake yet! I have two children. My daughter is 5 years old who loves chocolate and cake, so I am eager to bake. My son is only 2 months old and it will take me some more time before I can start experimenting with baking. I don’t even own an OTG or microwave oven, and am planning to invest in a Microwave convection grill oven and hope to use it for baking as well. Would you recommend baking in such an oven?
Thanks, Shreya!
I’m not a fan of microwave ovens because they don’t brown the cakes well and added to that, that they only get heated from the top. I have an OTG which I love because it gives me fantastic results. I have a Nova OTG oven.
I was introduced to your site via Times Crest and really loved your photos and food.
i have tried herb butter mushrooms..they are my partner’s fav now..
I m looking forward to making the hasselback patatoes and the stuffed eggplant..
It was really suprising to find that you are from mumbai.. I am from mumbai too and miss it immensely..
hope to see more of you!!
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