Best of 2009

Best of 2009

Hope you had a wonderful holiday and is all set to rock the 2010!

I thought I will start blogging this year by quickly taking a peek into last year. Blogging wise, 2009 was a good year for me. I celebrated 3 years of blogging and became a lot more active with this space. I started getting more feedback/comments from you, which is a great motivation for me :). Mariasmenu’s reader base increased to new heights and above all I got some very good friends  through my blog.

My very first magazine interview was published last year and also I won first place in a recipe competition for kids conducted by Mummy’s Yummies in December. My veg omelette recipe got me the first award. I was very happy mainly because it was a competition aimed at finding  healthy & tasty recipes for kids, who are the most fussiest eaters ;).  Thank you Heba. So, all in all, we had a good time at MariasMenu. I know it happened only because of you, so a big THANK YOU from us :)

I posted 45 recipes last year including a post by the biggest patron of MariasMenu, my dearest husband Jose :).

One more thing, last year we started a new category called Reader’s choice. This particular section has the photos of the recipes from MariasMenu, which were successfully tried by some of you. Please have a look at it and hey don’t forget to send in more pictures, we are happy to post them :)

I thought I will post some of mine as well as the reader’s favorite recipes of 2009. Check it out:

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  • http://ammuscanvas.blogspot.com/ ammu

    Congrats to you for accomplishing great things in 2009 and thanks for sharing so many of your wonderful recipes with us dear..the time and effort that bloggers take to share their culinary delicacies with others is amazing! proud of ya sis ..rock on..

  • http://ammuscanvas.blogspot.com/ ammu

    n a very happy new year to u too

  • Priya & Jamie

    A big congrats for your success in Mummy’s Yummie’s recipe contest!Wish u a happy and prosperous NewYear:)

  • http://mykitchentreasures.blogspot.com/ Happy Cook

    Happy newyear.

  • http://mykitchenantics.blogspot.com Nisha

    Hi maria,
    Congrats on achieveing this milestone..i have been following your blog for a long time and have tried out quite a few recipes of yours. How do i send you the pics of some of the stuff i tried from your menu?

    • http://www.mariasmenu.com Maria

      Hi Nisha

      Thank you :)

      You’ve a beautiful blog, I liked your style of writing :).

      You can email me the pictures at maria.jpmartin@gmail.com

      Cheers
      Maria

  • http://www.splitpearsonality.blogspot.com Ann

    Happy New Year to you, Maria (and Jose!). Wish you the best in blogging and all else this year! =)

  • http://www.mariasmenu.com Maria

    Thank you all for your kind words and wish you all a very happy new year!!

  • Raji

    Hi Maria,
    Congrats on your achievement, love your receipes and they are so colorful even my son loves the receipes even before I cook it for him. Have a wonderful year and please post receipes on Indian Sweets.
    Thanks have fun blogging.

    • http://www.mariasmenu.com Maria

      Hi Raji,

      Thank you so much :)

      Special thanks to my little reader too ;) I will try to post some sweets recipes if I get good ones.

      Cheers
      Maria

      • Raji

        @Maria,
        Thanks

  • Shammashaikh

    Really like the way you present your recipes.  You appear to really enjoy what you are doing .  Way to go.

    • http://mariasmenu.com Maria Jose

      Thank you Shamma! Yeah I do enjoy this :)

      Cheers
      Maria