We are delighted to be able to offer for sale our very own Mamta's Kitchen Embroidered Chef's Apron.

Made by a catering industry clothing specialist, this apron is made of heavy-weight 100% cotton. The corners are reinforced for strength and the anti-tangle ties are long enough to cross behind your back and tie around the front, should you prefer. We particularly like the generous width and length which provide more protection than other aprons we have tried. Even with the (beautifully detailed) embroidery, the apron can still be machine-washed at 40 degrees.

If you'd like to buy an apron in which to strut your stuff in the kitchen, to give to a friend, to hang on the wall as art or just because you'd like to show your support for the Mamta's Kitchen team, visit our new shop.

Just a quick note to let you know that we've moved hosting companies over this weekend - hopefully it shouldn't be apparent to you (although it feels faster to me!) but if you do find anything not working quite as expected, drop me a line at webmaster@mamtaskitchen.com!

2006 has been a busy year for us here at Mamta's Kitchen: Mamta has been busy travelling the world as well as raising funds for the MS Society, a UK based charity. Pete and Kavita have also been travelling as well as working on some interesting IT training and software development projects for new and existing clients. They've also launched a new photographic prints website and continue to enjoy their photography.

In between all of that the three of us have been adding new content to the site (recipes, festivals and a recommended ingredients supplier) as well as working behind the scenes on improvements to the site (some of which should be ready to install pretty soon).

As always we've enjoyed communicating with our visitors, new and old and look forward to hearing from many more of you in the year to come (via our discussion forums or email).

Here's wishing all of you a wonderful new year full of happiness, health and friendship and, of course, good food!

Mamta, Pete & Kavita

Today is a very special day for all of us here on mamtaskitchen. We have reached a milestone, we have crossed the one million mark of visits to this site since we started! I would like to raise a toast to all of you who have visited us and made us a success. And, a very special toast to my daughter Kavey and her husband Pete, without whose hard work and support, this site would not be here today. Thank you all!

Eagle eyed regulars may have noticed that our hit counter on the home page is very close to recording 1 million visits to Mamta's Kitchen since the website's creation in May 2001. We hope you'll join us in a toast to all the wonderful meals that have been cooked up around the world using Mamta's Kitchen recipes and help us reach the next million hits.

Enjoy the site and do pop into our forums to and drop us a note of your thoughts and stories about the site - have you cooked any special meals using our recipes for example?

Eid Mubarak to all our Muslim visitors! Have a great day.

21st of October 2006

We wish a very happy Diwali to all our visitors. May the light of Diwali lamps spread peace and goodwill on earth.

May you have a happy, healthy and prosperous life with your family and friends!

Best wishes form all at mamta's kitchen!

Read about Diwali in 'Upcoming festivals' section.

Feel free to leave your own Diwali message on the Forum.

Congratulations to Mrs Patricia Courtney of Malvern, England who is the winner of the Spices of India Gourmet Spice Basket!

The Gourmet Spice Basket contains Asafoetida powder, Curry Leaves, Fenugreek Leaves, Black Cardamom, Panch Puren, Tamarind concentrate, Pure Butter Ghee, Gram Flour, Turmeric, Birds eye Chillies, Ground Coriander, Cumin powder and Garam Masala and will be delivered directly to Mrs Courtney's door.

We hope you enjoy cooking up a storm of Mamta's Kitchen recipes, Mrs Courtney!

In the meantime, you can learn more about Spices of India by clicking on the Advice link at the top of the page and selecting Suppliers.

Many of our kind readers have offered to send us photographs of our recipes (during preparation stages and when finished) for use on the site.

Please read these guidelines to ensure that we get the best out of all the pictures you send and are able to use them on the website.

Many thanks!

Kavita

Our hosting company had a major outage and took a disappointingly long time to get things back and running - infact the other site we host with them is still not available. Please let us know if you have any difficulties accessing any part of the site or notice any oddities... we think this site has come through unscathed but might have missed something.

4th May: Another brief outage (unannounced) while our hosting company fixes the same problem. I'm starting to wish we'd never moved!

Thanks!

Pete & Kavita