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Nominated for the Best Healthy Cooking Blog – Homies 2012

This is one of the rare occasions in the last six years that I’ve been blogging, I’m kicked enough to do some self-promotion and ask you to vote for me as the Best Healthy Cooking Blog in the Homies 2012 awards conducted by thekitchn.com – This is the first time they have a Healthy Cooking Blog category in their awards and I’m happy that my blog fits the bill quite neatly.

The voting process is a little tedious, you need to log in with your twitter or facebook id over here.

and then go to the nominations page here for Healthy Cooking Blogs, search for ‘Saffron Trail’ and vote for me.

This is the first round of voting for nominations which is open until March 1 (midnight EST) after which the top six contenders will be open to votes once again.

Looking forward to your support!

Once again – the links

To log in – http://community.apartmenttherapy.com/sign_in

The voting page – http://www.thekitchn.com/best-healthy-cooking-blog-nominations-the-homies-2012-166622

Thanks a lot!

(c) Nandita Iyer 2006-2015

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  1. Kamini says: March 1, 2012 at 11:33 am

    Congratulations! Unfortunately (in this instance) I am on neither Twitter nor Facebook. Is there any other way that I can vote?

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  2. Srimathi says: March 1, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    Nice, I like your blog. All the best, will check out the link.

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  3. nandita says: March 1, 2012 at 5:17 pm

    @Kamini – You then need to register to apartment therapy website (sign up) so you can cast a vote. Sorry but it is kinda roundabout. Would really appreciate your effort.@srimathi – thanks

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  4. Jayashree says: March 2, 2012 at 6:11 am

    Congratulations. Will vote for you.

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  5. Kamini says: March 3, 2012 at 11:57 am

    Will do, Nandita. It is worth any effort!Kamini.

    Reply

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