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…
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.…