Jihva for Ingredients is a monthly food blog event that has become immensely popular over time. This event, started by Indira of Mahanandi, created a meeting point where food bloggers could share their expertise on a regular basis.
Its been an eventful 3 years since JFI has been around and its my priviledge to be hosting it for you this month. It also happens to be the birthday of a special person in my life, my baby doll turns two on 1st March. Its double celebration time for me.
I remember last year around this time I was running a bit late for the birthday preparations and I could not make the lemon tarts I wanted to send for JFI-Lemon. Speedily one year has gone by. We had the birthday celebrations yesterday. About 50 kids running around and my dear friends helping me make some sense of it all. Anyway, it was good fun, thankfully baby had completed her afternoon nap and enjoyed herself through the party.
Coming back to the ingredient of the month. Since JFI primarily focusses on Indian Ingredients I thought of picking Wheat, the staple food of Northern India. India is the second largest producer of wheat, first being China. We produce an average of 70 million tonnes of wheat per year! Now thats some serious food for thought. Either we provide that much internationally or we just eat that much 
Rules :
1. Prepare a recipe featuring wheat or wheat based products
You can choose any of wheat’s forms :
- Wheat grass
- Wheat grains
- Coarsely ground wheat
- Broken wheat
- Wheat flour
Lets leave its refined version maida out.
2. Post the recipe on your blog by March 31st, 2009 ( sorry to shorten the deadline, I will be on vacation between Apr 1st – Apr 12th, 2009 )
3. Please link your entry back to the event announcement. You can use the logo provided.
4. Old posts can be re-posted and linked back to the event announcement.
5. Please email – the link to your post and a photo of the entry , 175 pixels in width to romaspace@gmail.com with the subject “JFI- Wheat”
You can find the nutrition value of this Golden Crop at Wheat Foods Council, interestingly Wheat is also used for decoration
Wow! That is a wide range. Great Theme. Surely will send some entries.
Lovely choice for JFI. Nice logo.
An easy way to add wheat bran to the diet is to put it in breakfast cereal bran cereals. Friends
thats a lovely choice. I guess you will be flooded with entries
Siri
Nice choice roma, and nice logo!
ms
Great choice of ingredient,it will be so very easy to participate in the event without losing sleep to decide wht to send as an Entry.
Happy hosting and best of luck
Very nice ingredient for JFI, count me in.
Count me in!! Wonderful choice. are old posts allowed?
Thats super cool ingredient!
Great pick for JFI. Happy Hosting.
Great!!!u will be showered definitely with loads of delicious wheat entries, am
damn sure!!
Sure Meera, old posts can be re-posted and sent across. Let me add that to the list of rules.
lovely choice ROma..count me in
Great event idea Roma, count me in !
Thats a good and easy one! will surely send something
Hey Roma just mailed you my entries. Happy Hosting.
Dear All, Thanks for your enthusiasm.
Sanika, just received your entries. Thanks for participating.
gr8 ingredient.. will try to send something..
Glad to have found your space..so many nice dishes..healthy ones too..am so addicted to wheat,grains n healthy stuffs now..bake whole wheat breads too..will sure repost n link to you..Thanks for the yummy healthy event..:)
Very beautiful logo, love the earthy tone to it. Have sent in my entry. Wish you all the best for this event.
I’ve posted my entry Roma, will send you the mail shortly.
Hi Roma,
Very nice ingredient. Lots of thing could be done. I will send my entry shortly.
Rama
I’ve sent you my entry
Received your entry Raaga, thanks for participating
sending you one entry soon. I will use your poem in my blog I hope you don’t mind
Sure Lakshmi, you can use the poem.
Mailed u my entry.
Received your entry, thanks for participating.
Do you take multiple entries? I am a wheat freak and have more than u can chew..so wanted to check
Glad to know that DK, send them all in
Thanks for being a dear Roma. I have done a summation post here http://culinarybazaar.blogspot.com/2003/03/wheat-recipe-godown-all-in-name-of-jfi.html although I have added the event to each of those post. Will send a mail soon with the links.
[...] This is my entry for JFI-Wheat which is a brainchild of Mahanadi and hosted by RomaSpace. [...]
Just mailed you my entry.
http://www.ecurry.com/blog/breads/vegan-banana-orange-nut-loaf/
Received your entry, Thanks for participating.
just mailed you my entry
http://thechefandherkitchen.blogspot.com/2009/03/wheat-jowar-salad.html
Received your entry, Thanks for participating.
[...] by romaspace under Uncategorized I’ve received a mind-boggling response for the JFI-Wheat event. A big Thanks to you all for taking out time from your over marked calendars to participate [...]
Hi, Happy Sri Rama Navami!
I am a brand new baby to Jihva. I came across May 09 Jihva event which said the last date was May 31st. So, I assumed April 30th would be the last day for Wheat event. In any case, if possible, you can include my first trial. http://picasaweb.google.com/pranella34/Jihva2009AprilInstantGodhumaWheatDosa#
I need a link to a blog post, Pranella