I know how much time it takes to create a new recipe and so would like to thank everyone who took part in this month’s contest. There were some very good entries and I had a hard time selecting the five best ones. It came very close. There were a couple of very good recipes that I had to disqualify simply because of incomplete recipe instructions. So please make sure next time to submit a detailed method and ingredient list.

Update (2011-02-02): I checked the voting logs and yes there was a huge discrepancy among the top 2 winners (charu and ruma). Additionally the other entries also showed something strange in the logs. So I’ve decided to discredit the votes altogether and select two recipes that I thought were the best out of the five. I set up the voting because I thought it would be fun and interactive for the users (actually many of you requested it), but never expected the abuse as we’ve seen in this month’s contest. In the future, if the voting is reinstated, I will make sure it is robust enough to thwart such abuse.

The winners that I’ve manually selected are the following:

1st Place: Aditi Gupta (Crunchy Bean salad with beetroot and fruits)

2nd Place: Spoorty Prasad (Bean Sprouts Salad Spring Roll)

Congratulations to both of you!

Which recipe should win for March 2011 Contest?

I would like to very much thank the other participants this month:

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