I am so pleased to announce that Virginia-based company, PostMarkChef, is now featuring my work! It is a really fun concept: you sign up and purchase a kit to make a meal and they send you a kit with all the spices, ingredients everything pre-measured. All you do is add the fresh stuff and pull together a fun meal. They are featuring many wonderful chefs like Michel Richard and fantastic writers like Domenica Marchetti. i am honored to be included.
My kit with them helps you throw a wonderful Indian-themed party! You will make several great dishes and have, of course, wonderful drinks that you can make as well.
Included in the kit featuring my work are ingredients for:
(Below is information from the PostMarkChef website)
Hors d’oeuvre: Pomegranate Shrimp
Ready in a few minutes, with a modern twist on Indian flavors, this appetizer is sweet, sour, and savory all at once. This dish is prepared using heart-healthy and flavorful coconut oil and a marinate of pomegranate molasses, coriander and cayenne among other spices.
Hors d’oeuvre: Garam Masala Chicken
Made with the quintessential Indian aromatic and warming spices of cardamom, cinnamon, cumin as well as cayenne and turmeric, this comforting dish is finished with the rich flavors of coconut milk. This easy-to-prepare dish also uses heart-healthy coconut oil.
Hors d’oeuvre: Spice, Crackle, And Pop
Using exotic Indian spices such as asafetida, black mustard seeds, dried mango powder and fennel seeds, this snack is easy to find on the streets on Bombay. Also containing familiar accents like cashew nuts, peanuts and golden raisins, it is sweet, salty, tangy and crunchy and pairs well with cocktails.
Cocktail: Chai Rocks
A clever spin on the popular ‘Chai tea’, this aromatic, sweet & creamy vodka cocktail contains a unique chai syrup and is the taste of India in a glass.
Cocktail: Pomegranate Delight
A gorgeous ruby red in color and perfectly pairing with the pomegranate shrimp, this tangy and sour rum cocktail is a show stopper!
The folks at PostMark are offering you a discount of 15% to try these kits. The code is valid only until Monday so do enter now.
GIVEAWAY: We are also giving away one free kit to a US-based reader. Please leave a comment here to win. Winner will be announced on Nov 28th.
AND — if you want to order the kits for your friends and family as a gift, Post Mark Chef is offering a coupon code for all the kits on their website for 15% off (valid until Jan 21st, 2012). Just use the code – MONICA
Would love your feedback once you try the kits!!
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What an ingenious idea! I’d love to win one, especially if it’ll make me cook like you
What a great concept – congrats! And your kit sounds absolutely delicious!
This is amazing! I would be the luckiest person ever to win your kit.
Danielle Omar – You win this kit! Please email me your information so we can get the kit over to you.
Brilliant idea!
Monica, my husband would love it if I could cook Indian, so count me in the drawing. I also shared this on Facebook and hope others will, too. Great idea. And, congratulations on this newest, exciting venture!
Nice concept. Would love to see their packaging as I have similar kits as gift ideas for the holidays
oooh, me, please! I’m still intimidated by the idea of cooking Indian food at home, and getting all the right spices, so this is exactly what I need to get started. I even already have your book!!
Monica, you are ever ingenious….terrific idea! I’m crossing my fingers. And planning, finally, to learn how to cook Indian dishes. Yum.
Sounds like a very interesting concept.
This is such a wonderful idea! I have a lot of friends who would like to learn how to cook some ethnic dishes, but lack the ingredients. I would love for my daughter to have one of your kits, as she is quite a fan if Indian cuisine.
Amazing!!! I just met Monica Bhide and I found her to be an amazing person. I can’t wait to try some of her recipes.
At last! Someone with the isngiht to solve the problem!
What a great idea! I wish you great success with it.
I can wait to try the pomegranate shrimp – it sounds so refreshing!
Monica, your readers are wonderful! I am so glad they like the idea of Postmark Chef and Recipe Kits. Hopefully they can check out the website (www.PostmarkChef.com) for other recipe kits and use their 15% discount using the code “MONICA”.
Thanks, Monica!
AWESOME idea!!!
Sounds like a fun idea for a party. Would love to win it.
An amzing idea! Beats the ready cooked, heat-and-serve food packages. My son loves to cook and eat gourmet food. He’s doing his residency, and so doesn’t have much time to cook. Kits could make it easier and faster for him to get delicious food with a home-cooked touch.
A very appetising idea . Wish this catches on and spreads
to other locations as well
so that someone like us can enjoy and do a tension free cooking
This is a great idea, and a nifty gift item!
What a novel idea!!
Monica, this is a brilliant idea and a droolicious menu! I would love to try this and any kits featuring your other recipes. (They should have made one for Thanksgiving
)
Love this idea.
Oh!! This sounds great! Great idea. I love the idea of putting together all the ingredients, pre-measured, to make a GOOD meal at home. It combines the best of both worlds–good food and EASY.
This kit sounds really neat, and I’d love to check it out!
That is one amazing giveaway! Would love to win!
What a fabulous gift idea! Love it. I’m going to check out the website
It would be an honor to win the kit and to try your recipes. Thank you so much!
This is very cool. And of course, I would love to win one (I’m hungry after reading the description).
I have lots of homemade peach chutney just waiting for an Indian feast . . .
What an innovative & interesting concept…I shall have to pass on the giveaway .. Being vegetarian, there is no way I could do justice to the entire kit.
I would love to win — what a great idea for a small dinner party during an already busy week!
Kits are getting a lot of traction now. I’ve seen kits to make soup, to make cookies and pies…
This “Indian” kit is even more interesting as I always felt uneasy using Indian spices correctly.
What a clever, yummy idea! My son would love this gift.
Love it and I could really impress my husband with this as he is from AP and cooks the most yummy Indian dishes.
I just made the dishes in this kit. Wow. That was so easy. Everything was delicious.