Announcing JFI July- Jihva for Tamarind

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Jihva for Ingredients aka JFI as it is known among the food bloggers is one of the most popular food blogging events out there. JFI is the brainchild of Indira of Mahanandi, who started this event to celebrate and showcase a different natural ingredient every month. The pleasure of hosting JFI this month is all mine, thank you Indira for this opportunity!

The chosen ingredient this month is Tamarind. Tamarind is an essential ingredient in Indian cuisine and is widely used in other Asian, Latin American and Caribbean cuisines. It is also one of the main ingredients of Worcestershire sauce, a popular condiment in the Western cuisine. In other words, Tamarind is truly a universal ingredient, so I am sure there are tons of recipes out there using this very versatile fruit. The popularity of tamarind is evident from the fact that there is at least one restaurant called Tamarind something or Something Tamarind in most cities.

Tamarind is available for purchase in most speciality food stores and Asian and Latin American grocery stores in the form of paste, pulp, juice, concentrate and even as a whole fruit form when in season. I just picked up a large box of Sweet Tamarind from Whole Foods market. So there are no excuses like you can’t find Tamarind! Let’s get those creative juices flowing, you can make anything edible using any form of Tamarind.

Sweet Tamarind

Rules for participation

Prepare a dish from any cuisine using Tamarind in any form and post it in your blog in the month of June. The deadline is July 1st. There is no limit to the number of entries you can contribute.
Make sure your post includes a link to this announcement and to the main JFI page. Feel free to use one of these logos.
Please use the entry form below to submit the details, this way none of the e-mails will get lost in spam and will also help the round up process. Please, only if you have trouble using the form, send me an e-mail with the required information. My e-mail id is maillivetoeat (@) gmail (dot) com .
If you want me to include an image in the round up, please enter the link to the image in the form below. To get the link to the image, follow the steps below:

–If using Internet Explorer, right click on the image and select Properties. The link is shown in Address (URL) field, you can use your mouse to select and copy this URL and paste it in the field below.

–If using Firefox, right click on the image and select Copy Image Location. Now you should be able to paste this using Ctrl + V in the field below.

Please let me know if you have any questions. If you don’t enter a path to the image, I will use the first image in the post.

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Comments

69 Responses to “Announcing JFI July- Jihva for Tamarind”

Siri on June 2nd, 2008 6:52 pm

Great choice for JFI Sig… I made sumthing today ..will post and send the details tmrw..

Siri
Indira on June 2nd, 2008 7:02 pm

Love the tamarind, and can’t live (=cook dal) without tamarind.
Thank you Sig for featuring this excellent natural ingredient for Jihva.
Swati Jain:Sugarcraft India on June 2nd, 2008 7:16 pm

Tamarind is a favorite with all of us.. My husband loves it too ..ha ha
Maheswari on June 2nd, 2008 7:22 pm

Excellent choice.For us everyday cooking needs tamarind…
JZ @ Tasty treats on June 2nd, 2008 7:45 pm

hmmm, interesting choice! shud find something interesting to make!
Jayashree on June 2nd, 2008 8:23 pm

Lovely choice……
Uma on June 2nd, 2008 8:33 pm

tamarind is a wonderful choice, Sig! I have something for this event,shall post it soon.
jayasree on June 2nd, 2008 9:30 pm

Great choice… The word tamarind is enough to make my mouth water.
Srivalli on June 2nd, 2008 10:38 pm

lovely sig..will send something in !
swati raman on June 2nd, 2008 10:53 pm

umm hmm … good good… will prepare southie coz of this.. and garg will have to have it…
Happy Cook on June 2nd, 2008 10:54 pm

Hey sig I know why you choose tamarind, you want all of us to try Siv’s famous with tamarind.
I am in as one use tamaring a lot.
Great choice
Rashmi on June 2nd, 2008 11:22 pm

Fun theme
Mythili on June 2nd, 2008 11:28 pm

That’s super cool an ingredient! Awesome choice babe.
rachel on June 2nd, 2008 11:56 pm

great choice
musical on June 3rd, 2008 12:02 am

Lovely choice, Sig! And very neat design to send entries for the event! You are one creative gal
Nandita on June 3rd, 2008 12:07 am

Love your styles of formatting
Tamarind is the perfect ingredient, anyway as I’m doing a traditional lunch series, I could send you one entry every day But i wont do that as I like you very much…
Only if you’ll try and figure why my posts don’t appear on Taste of India
Hugs
Raaga on June 3rd, 2008 12:19 am

ooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. No limit to the number of entries, right??? Love you Sig
arundathi on June 3rd, 2008 12:25 am

fantastic idea, sig. gotta find something unusual for you
veda on June 3rd, 2008 12:31 am

Count me in Sig!!!!!
sunita on June 3rd, 2008 12:49 am

That’s a nice theme
sia on June 3rd, 2008 1:14 am

girl, count me in!!! that a lovely, lovely pic of tamarind:)
Nirmala on June 3rd, 2008 2:27 am

This is amma’s most favorite ingredient. We cannot simply live wihtout this. I will be having quite some entries Sig!
Padmaja on June 3rd, 2008 3:22 am

Sig!!
Wowww!! Tamarind eh!! I cannot make dals or sambhar without using tamarind. I just love it!!!
Can’t wait to cook something for u now!!
Shankari on June 3rd, 2008 5:57 am

I will definitely make something with tamarind, provided I find the tamarind I want. Just one look at the picture and I knew what to make…a good pick Sig!
sukanya on June 3rd, 2008 6:55 am

That was a nice choice Sig.
sangeeth on June 3rd, 2008 6:57 am

my entries are coming right away….tamrind…i use it almost daily …u have made it easy for me
RAMYA BALAN on June 3rd, 2008 7:15 am

WOW AWESOME CHOICE, AND THE PICTURE IS TOO GOOD WITH THE REDDISH PULP SHOWING.
Kalai on June 3rd, 2008 7:33 am

I love tamarind!!! It’s definitely one my favorite ingredients! Will try to make something worthy of this choice!
Laavanya on June 3rd, 2008 7:46 am

Lovely choice of ingredient Sig and an entry form? How cool is that?!
Aparna on June 3rd, 2008 8:23 am

Hey Sig,
First off lovely site and lovely pics. New to the food blogosphere; Had a question about JFI does the recipe have to be our brain child or can it be a spin off of something that our moms have cooked or something that you would find off of the net (with proper references of course) and how do you deal with duplicate dishes sent across? Hope you find sometime to answer, looking forward to the event
-Aparna
http://threemangoes.blogspot.com
Aparna on June 3rd, 2008 8:24 am

P.S: Indira’s site is down hence bombarding you with all the q’s
shilpa on June 3rd, 2008 11:45 am

Wow..what a nice way of announcing the event Sig. I love the cute form you created to send the entries.
Latha on June 3rd, 2008 4:03 pm

Good choice Sig! I should be able to send u a bunch of entries what with us using tamarind all the time! Cute logo and smart form
Aparna on June 3rd, 2008 6:03 pm

Hey sig,
Thanks a bunch for answering all my questions. Will send you some recipes by the scheduled date. Hope to see see you around
-A
Ramya's Mane Adige on June 3rd, 2008 7:22 pm

oh wow!! I should be able to come up with something for this…. Tamarind is used in almost all curries in south india!! love the pic, btw!
Purnima on June 3rd, 2008 9:07 pm

A beautiful choice.. The bared tamarind is making me =P~ !
Asha on June 4th, 2008 7:42 am

Great choice. I can make a dish and send to 3 events this time!
Rajitha on June 4th, 2008 8:40 am

tamarind is a great choice..you know it has been weeks i have used it!..aah finally
sangeeth on June 4th, 2008 1:03 pm

Hi, mailed u my entry because I cudnt submit the form…hope u got it….
Suganya on June 5th, 2008 2:18 pm

Aha! What a wonderful pick. I am all set.
Siri on June 5th, 2008 9:59 pm

Sig - I just sent u my entry. Hope u received it!

Siri
Asha on June 9th, 2008 10:36 am

I sent it too with first photo at Aroma post, but didn’t get any confirmation like Bee’s form. Wondering if you got it!:)
sangeeth on June 9th, 2008 10:39 am

Sig- I just sent you my second entry..hope u recieved it…
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Raaga on June 12th, 2008 5:39 am

I sent my first entry
Miri on June 14th, 2008 1:41 am

Just sent in my entry - looking forward to the round up!
nags on June 16th, 2008 10:53 pm

i love the entry form idea! its really cool!!

have sent u mine
sabita on June 18th, 2008 7:10 pm

hi sig i sent my entry for the JFI tamarind , plz let me know if u got it or no.
Take care
sabita
Maya on June 21st, 2008 4:25 pm

Hi Sig, just sent you an entry :)..Thank you for hosting.
Coffee and Vanilla on June 22nd, 2008 4:55 am

What a pity, I posted tamarind balls recenlty but it was in May. Anyway, I’m looking forward the round-up to see what other’s will make

Margot
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Srivalli on June 26th, 2008 4:01 am

hey sig..thats a lovely form…I am now thinking I should also have something like that..

just entered my details..not got the confirmation mail…but you know I have an entry for you!
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you have a very nice blog and i have send my entry for JFI - July. plz let me know once u get my mail.
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I just sent u my entry, just in time, I hope… I hope you have received it.
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