For the Baking Partners Group Challenge, Swathi shared with us four cookies recipes from around the world. The Chinese Almond Cookies were suggested by Suja of Kitchen Corner Try It. As usual I made it into an eggless recipe and it turned out wonderful. Though it didn’t seem like the…
For this month’s Home Baker’s Challenge, host Manjula of Desi Fiesta gave the members 4 recipes to try out. Among the recipes the Anadama bread was the one which was in my to do list. So I picked it up. Anandama bread is a traditional yeast bread of New England…
As Shruti is becoming allergic to store bought snacks, I have to try hard to please her with home made snacks. She needs varieties. If I give her the same snack continuously for three days, she gets bored and asks for something else. When I prepared mango ice cream, she…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group Challenge, according to the wishes of the members, I selected a savoury recipe. I selected a recipe for meat pies from Saveur. These meat pies have a flaky crust made with flour and shortening and has a meat filling. Our challenge is to substitute…
Mangodis are small nuggets made out of moong dhal. This is usually available at stores but making mangodis at home is also easy. As in Tamil Nadu we don’t get mangodis, I opted to try it at home. It is very easy to make mangodis at home. You need to…
For this month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge, as the host was taken ill, Lis asked us to make any recipe from the previous challenges. I joined The Daring Baker group during October 2010 and since then I have participated in most of the challenges except 2 or 3. And one among…
For the final day of Blogging Marathon #30, under the theme savoury bakes I made these crispy Sooji toasts for our evening snacks. The sooji/ semolina is mixed with curd and spices, applied on baguette slices and baked until crisp. The curd gives a nice tang to the toast. I…
For the second day of Blogging Marathon #30, final week, under the theme Savoury Bakes, I made this delicious and simple garlic bread. As mentioned earlier, I had a loaf of French Baguette with which I made this snack. I alo made a creamy pumpkin soup to go with the…
Bruschetta pronounced as bru-sket-ta is an Italian dish made with crusted Italian bread and toppings. Before two weeks I made the French Baguette following the Bread Baker’s Apprentice. I ended up with three cute baguettes but had no idea how to use them in various recipes. I googled for recipes.…
When Kalyani of Sizzling Tastebuds, who is a dear friend of mine asked to do a guest post for her blog, I was super excited. Even though we have not met in person being part of her group Magic Mingle, we keep contact through mails. I took a long time…