Today is the turn of Alphabet K and I chose to do an International recipe. This is an Arabic pull apart bread which is filled cream cheese and soaked in a honey flavoured syrup. Khaliat Nahal means bee hive in Arabic. The dough rolls are arranged like a bee hive…
I recently bought my favourite book with a flipkart coupon which I won at a competition conducted by Fortune Rice Bran Oil. The Bread Baker’s Apprentice by Peter Reinhart has been in my list for so long and I was so happy to hold that book in my hand. If…
I was first introduced to French Toast when in school. I visited my aunt on a vacation and she made that eggy bread slice which was sweet and soft and I just loved it. But mom never made it for me. After I became a vegetarian, I stayed away from…
Pronounced as Chow Chaw, this is a Burmese dessert with agar agar/ china grass and coconut milk. I know Chumkie from the Quilters group- Desi Quilters. She is a wonderful quilter and when browsing through her collection of quilts, I was awestruck. And last week I came across her kitchen blog…
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…
Last month I made New York style pizza and for that I made this sauce. The New York Style pizza sauce is slightly different from the pizza sauce I usually make. And it is very easy to make. It is thicker and has onions in it. Though this tastes good, I…
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 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…
This month, I have been staying inactive as my blogging is concerned. Sruti is on her vacation and I have been travelling on and off. When at home, it is really very tough to concentrate on the blog. So this month I am only posting the recipes for the challenges…
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…