For the second day of cook by Capital Cities, I chose Riga for R, my chosen alphabet. Riga is the capital city of Latvia, which is a country on the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Estonia. I saw so many interesting recipes for Latvian cuisine but the one recipe I came to again and again is […]
Chenna is the soft paneer used mostly in sweets in West Bengal and Orissa. I made a different version of chenna years back, but after I started with my low carb diet, I have started using a different recipe. In the first recipe I used to use curd to curdle the milk resulting in soft […]
Read on to know The Best Homemade Cream Cheese Recipe. I have made cream cheese at home already which is my go to recipe till now. You can watch the video and read about it at Home made Cream Cheese. But after I started using the liquid rennet for my cheese making, I was searching […]
Tomorrow I will be starting another interesting theme for the Cooking Carnival which is Milk Sweets. I am an ardent fan of milk sweets from childhood and in that I am partial to Bengali sweets. My mom and dad lived in Calcutta for a few years when I was a toddler. Though I don’t remember […]
Ever since I started blogging, I have been obsessed with home made ingredients. Whether it is cheese or any other, if there is a method to make it at home, I am interested. You can view this page for my attempts at home made recipes. I have made a post on tofu at the beginning […]
I have been so much addicted to making cheese at home. After Haloumi, Feta, Ricotta, Mascarpone and Cream cheese, the next thing on my to do list was Mozzarella. I have lost count of the videos I have watched and blog posts I have read before attempting. During my first attempt, I used the regular […]
I have been obsessed with a lots of things during various periods of my life. Once I was so much interested in painting that you can see me any time of the day painting. Then it was fashion designing and embroidery. Then came butter cream decorations on cake, and then blogging, and then came egg […]
Ever since I started blogging, I have been obsessed with home made ingredients. When preparing an international recipe, the main ingredient will not be available here in Madurai and I search for how to make that particular ingredient at home. It is true for the cheese also. I don’t get most of the cheeses used […]
Update: Ever since I made this recipe, it has been my go to recipe for all cream cheese based dishes. But recently, I tried one more recipe which I can say that is the best I have made till date. it is so creamy and turns out beautiful in all recipes including frostings. If you […]
For the next post in Baking Basics series, I chose a simple yet delicious homemade cheese recipe. Pronounced as Mahs-Car-Pone, mascarpone cheese is an Italian cheese largely used in making the famous Italian dessert Tiramisu.Mascarpone cheese is not easily available here in Madurai and when I saw a pack of the cheese in Coimbatore Nilgiris, […]