Javelin Warrior's Cookin w/ Luv: Made with Love Mondays

Each week I host Made with Love Mondays as a recurring weekly series to promote, share, and celebrate foods make entirely from scratch. Always Fresh, Always From Scratch. No transfats, no food dyes, no high fructose corn syrup. Browse Recipe Index

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How to Participate | FAQ | Guiding Principles | Ingredient Restrictions | Badge Codes

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Recipe Index return to top

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This Week's Featured Recipe

Canela Kitchen: Berries, Lemon and Thyme Muffins with Crumble Top

Course

Cuisine

Desserts

Breads

Cooking Method

Baking | Frying | Grilling | No Bake | Roasting

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How to Participate return to top

Made with Love Mondays is a recurring weekly link-up series that always begins on Mondays at 12:00 AM EST and ends on Sundays at 3:00 PM EST. ANYONE can participate.

The challenge: make a recipe (any recipe) entirely from scratch - no canned/jarred shortcuts, no preprepared ingredients, no food dyes or premade decorations.

Share Your Recipe

Make any recipe entirely from scratch - see the Guiding Principles for details and restrictions
Blog about your experience (if you don't have a blog, see below for non-bloggers), then share your recipe post with Made with Love Mondays by clicking the Add your link button
Provide a link back to Made with Love Mondays in your recipe blog post (or add the badge code to your recipe post)

For Non-bloggers: You can also participate - see the Guiding Principles for details and restrictions. To participate, email javelinwa77ior@gmail.com the following information (non-bloggers only):

First Name (or your preferred online avatar/pseudonym)
Recipe Used (a link to the recipe is preferred if available, but you can also type up the recipe manually if a link is unavailable or does not exist)
Photo of Food (send only photos you own and please do not send massive photo files)
Twitter name (optional)

Be Featured

Your recipe and/or blog will be featured and appear in the following areas of Made with Love Mondays:

Recipe Index on Tumblr
Recipe Archive By Date (bloggers only)
Featured Contributors
Pinterest Board (if a photo is available)
The subsequent Made with Love Mondays post on Mondays
Randomly featured in weekly "Blast from the Past" section

In addition, if you use Twitter (and I know your Twitter name), you and/or your recipe will be promoted via Twitter:

You will be mentioned each week you participate in the Made with Love Mondays series
A link to your previously submitted recipes in the Recipe Index on Tumblr will be tweeted to my followers
Your challenge-related tweets that include #MadeWithLuv will be re-tweeted

FAQ return to top

Q: What are Blast from the Past random features and how are they selected?

A: Any previously featured Made with Love Mondays recipe is eligible to be featured as a Blast from the Past in a subsequent week. Each week, I use the Tumblr randomizer feature to randomly select a previously submitted Made with Love Mondays recipe. If the Tumblr randomizer selects a recipe featured in current week's roundup, I continue to press the randomizer until a recipe from a previous week is selected. Try the randomizer yourself

Q: Do I have to be a blogger or have a blog to participate?

A: No. Anyone can participate! If you do not have a blog, follow the instructions for non-bloggers in How to Participate

Q: I don't know if my recipe or an ingredient qualifies as "from scratch". What should I do?

A: Email or tweet me with any questions about ingredients or restrictions. You can also review the Guiding Principles and Ingredient Restrictions for immediate help

Q: Can I submit multiple recipes each week?

A: Yes. Each recipe must include a link back to Made with Love Mondays (or the badge) and each recipe must be added individually to Made with Love Mondays (links to round-ups or collections will be removed)

Q: Do I have to share new recipes or can I share recipes from previous weeks, months or years?

A: You can share any recipe as long as 1) you made the recipe, 2) the recipe adheres to the Guiding Principles and 3) you have added link back to the Made with Love Mondays in your recipe blog post (or you have added the badge to your recipe post)

Q: Can I submit my recipe to other blog challenges and blog hops?

A: Yes. You can submit your recipe to as many blog challenges/blog hops as you like - multi-tasking recipes are awesome!

Q: Do I have to participate every week?

A: No. Whenever you have a recipe to share, just drop by the Made with Love Mondays series and add your link.

Q: How do I share my recipe? Do I have to email a link and a picture to you?

A: If you are a blogger, you do NOT need to email me pictures or links. Just click the Add your link button to share your recipe. You will be asked to provide a link to your recipe post and your email address.

Q: Do I have to add a label/tag to my blog in order to participate?

A: No. The only requirement is that your recipe includes a link back to Made with Love Mondays so that visitors to your blog can find this series (or you can add the badge to your recipe instead).

Guiding Principles return to top

The following restrictions are intended to preserve the spirit of Made with Love Mondays: Always fresh. Always from scratch. Please review these Guiding Principles, see the Ingredient Restrictions for examples/exceptions, and feel free to contact me if you have questions.

Do NOT use:

Ingredients from cans, jars or boxes
Preprepared shortcuts or mixes
Frozen if you can obtain fresh
Products containing transfats (partially hydrogenated oils), high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) or artificial food dyes - check product labels
See Ingredient Restrictions details and exceptions

If you use other "finished foods" (see Ingredient Restrictions for examples):
- provide a recipe for the finished food in your blog post OR
- provide a link to a recipe for making the finished food

Ingredient Restrictions return to top

Prohibited Ingredient Examples (do not use)

Store-Bought Canned or Jarred Examples (do not use)

Canned tomatoes
Canned beans
Canned vegetables
Canned fruit
Canned tuna/salmon
Canned soup
Canned whipped cream
Jarred pasta sauce
Jarred artichoke hearts
Jarred syrups/toppings
Jarred jellies/jams
Jarred marshmallow fluff
Bottled barbecue sauce
Bottled mayonnaise
Bottled dressings
Bottled/canned soft drinks such as cola

Prepackaged/Premade Shortcut Examples (do not use)

Pie crust
Pizza dough/crusts
Biscuit dough
Cookie dough
Frosting
Mac and cheese (boxed or frozen)
Bisquick (or equivalent)
Dry cereals (e.g. corn flakes)
Crackers (e.g. Ritz, saltines, graham crackers)
Cookies (e.g. Oreos, Chips Ahoy, Girl Scout Cookies, etc.)
Cake/cookie/muffin mixes
Pudding mixes
Flavored baking chips (e.g. butterscotch, peanut butter, raspberry, mint, etc.)

Premade Finished Food Examples (do not use without providing recipe)

Bread
Pasta sauce
Candies (e.g. M&Ms, rolos, sprinkles, red-hots, etc.)
Chips (e.g. potato chips, corn chips, pita chips)
Croutons
Marshmallows
Ice cream
Whipped Cream/Cool Whip
Artificial Food Dyes (gels, pastes, liquids, etc.)

Exemptions (ok to use)

Organic stock/broth (avoid cans)
Wonton wrappers
Puff pastry
Ketchup
Mustard (all types)
Chocolate (e.g. powder, plain chocolate bars/chips)
Tomato paste
Dry pasta
Peanut butter (natural or organic)
Tahini paste
Chili Paste
Fish Paste
Oils - refined or natural (e.g. olive, peanut, grape seed, canola, etc.)
Honey
Vinegar (all types)
Worcestershire sauce
Dried herbs/spices
Butter
Plain yogurt
Sour cream
Bread crumbs
Gluten-free baking mix
Plain gelatin (non-flavored)
Real cheese (not processed cheese products)

Badge Codes return to top

In order to be included in the Made with Love Mondays series, your recipe/blog post must include a link back to the Made with Love Mondays series homepage (this page). If you really want to be truly awesome, you can add this badge to your blog - just copy the code below and paste it into the HTML of your post.

If your food is already part of Made with Love Mondays, you can share, highlight and link-to your Made with Love Mondays from-scratch Recipe Gallery using one of the badges below.

How to Add a My Recipe Gallery Badge

Copy and save HTML code for the My Recipe Gallery badge of your choice below
Go to the Made with Love Mondays Contributor List
Locate your site or blog in the Contributor List
Click the Featured Recipes link below your site's name
Your recipe gallery will open - copy the URL of this gallery from your browser's address bar
Replace YOUR-MWLM-RECIPE-INDEX-URL in the HTML code for your badge with the URL you copied in Step 5
Example:
HTML Before: <div align="center">
<a href="YOUR-MWLM-RECIPE-INDEX-URL" target="_blank"><img alt="Made With Love Mondays Gallery" height="132" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8182/8054180776_66b1b52db3_m.jpg" width="165" /></a></div>

HTML After: <div align="center">
<a href="http://madewithlovemondays.tumblr.com/tagged/cookin-w-luv" target="_blank"><img alt="Made With Love Mondays Gallery" height="132" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8182/8054180776_66b1b52db3_m.jpg" width="165" /></a></div>
Your badge is now complete and ready for use

My Recipe Gallery: 165 pixel width

My Recipe Gallery: 250 pixel width

Optional Weekly Themes return to top

This week's theme: From scratch recipes featuring Homemade Shortcakes
Next week's theme: From scratch recipes featuring Pistachios
Please note: Themes are intended to provide you with inspiration if you're not sure where to start or what to make. Themes are completely optional and you can always share any from-scratch food post that meets the Guiding Principles

Featured Contributors return to top

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