For the sixth day, we travel to Finland for the alphabet F. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland is one of the five Nordic countries and it is situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It shares its boundaries with Sweden to the west, Norway to the north, Russia…
Today we reach Egypt for the month long International A- Z Blogging Marathon for the alphabet E. Egypt is transcontinental country, spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia. Most of its territory lies within the Nile Valley of North Africa and it shares its boundaries…
For the alphabet D, I take you to one of the countries in the Carribean Islands. Dominican Republic is one of the countries in the island of Hispaniola. Its capital city is Santo Domingo which is the largest city in the Carribean region. Christopher Columbus landed here and this is…
And today for the alphabet C we travel to Czech Republic in central Europe. Czech is a landlocked country sharing its boundaries with Germany to the west and north west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the north east. Prague is the capital city. Czech…
For the second day of Mega Blogging Marathon – International, we travel to Bolivia which is one of the Latin American countries. Latin America is the sub region of America which has 22 countries where Spanish and Potuguese are spoken. Bolivia is a land locked country and shares its boundaries…
Today I am starting another Mega Blogging Marathon. If you are a regular reader of my blog, you would be familiar with the Blogging Marathon group which I am part of. Every year there would be two Mega BM during the months of September and April. Last year during September…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group Challenge, I wanted to select an easy yet so good looking bread. When I came across the Swedish Tea Ring aka Vetekrans, I know this would be it. The recipe is so much like the cinnamon rolls but it looks different. There are so…
Babka is an easter speciality made in Eastern Europe. The Jewish version of babka is usually baked in a laof pan with twisted dough filled with cinnamon or chocolate. The yeasted cake is topped with streusel, a crunchy topping made of flour, butter and sugar. This month’s Baking Partner Challenge…
For this month’s Home Baker’s Challenge, Pallavi of Thou Shalt Cook, suggested the members three recipes. As I have made zebra cake and cake pops earlier, I wanted to try out the patterned swiss roll she suggested. I was googling for some patterns on the cake and stumbled upon a…
This month’s Baking Eggless Challenge was suggested by Priya Srinivasan of Enveetu Kitchen. As this year would be only breads at Baking Eggless, Priya suggested this Norwegian Christmas Bread which is loaded with raisins and candied citron. If you are not familiar with citron, it is nothing but naarthangai which…