For the third day of Blogging Marathon #30, under the theme tea kadai menu, I selected ragi cookies / kelvaragu biscuits. I have seen and tasted ragi cookies but had no idea what ingredients go into it. So I used my wheat cookies recipe and substituted half the wheat flour…
When Swathi announced the challenge for this month’s Baking Partners, I was thinking of skipping it. The two cakes she gave are based completely on eggs. The chiffon cake and The Russian Honey Cake are the cakes suggested by members. Saraswathi of Sara’s Kitchen has suggested this chiffon cake which…
For the third month in Home Baker’s challenge, Viji of Virunthu Unna Vaanga set the challenge for cookies. She provided us with 4 recipes and we are free to choose any recipe we want. I selected the peanut butter cookies as I have never tried it before. The original recipe asked…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group challenge, Priya Suresh of Priya’s Versatile Recipes suggested a delicious muffins recipe from Technicolor Kitchen. These muffins with jam swirled into them were so delicious and my daughter loved it so much. I gave her two and sent the remaining muffins to hubby’s office.…
For this month’s Daring Baker challenge, the host- Rachel of Pizzarossa chose Life of Pie as the challenge. She gave us four recipes to choose from. One among those is the crack pie, which I have never heard before. But the recipe was nice and I wanted to try it.…
For this month’s Baking Partner’s challenge Swathi has given two recipes using choux pastry- one is the chocolate eclairs and the other is French Laundry’s Gourgeres. Chocolate eclairs is the sweet version whereas the gourgeres are the savory version. You can see a lot of recipes converted into eggless ones…
Home Bakers is a group started by Priya Suresh of Priya’s Versatile Recipes. A group of bloggers have come together in this group and we will be attempting a dish per month. I joined in the last month itself but the pizza I prepared for the challenge was a disaster.…
This month’s Baking Eggless challenge was quite challenging. Sowmya of Nivedhanam suggested we try Tiramisu – The famous Italian dessert for this month. Tiramisu means Pick me up. As a resident of Madurai, I can never get mascarpone cheese here. Once when I visited Nilgiris in Coimbatore, I saw a…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Challenge Priya of Enveetu Kitchen suggested Amazing Dinner Rolls from cooking classy. Even for the Baking Partners challenge we baked bread this month. So this month my house is full of freshly baked bread’s aroma and it is wonderful. I have made some dinner rolls…
It is nearly a week since I posted in the blog. Last week was kind of hectic with Sruti falling ill. She recovered and I got ill. I am not in a bad shape today and suddenly I remembered the Daring Bakers Challenge. First I thought of skipping it but…