Happy Valentine’s Day!! When I think of Valentine’s, I think of chocolates and cakes and candies and the colour red..But hubby dear is quite opposite to me. He is not a great fan of chocolates. He loves regional sweets and even when I do chocolate based desserts, he tastes them…
Whenever I see someone using a vanilla bean, I imagine myself doing so but it just remained in my imagination until I saw a pack of vanilla beans at Nilgiris in Coimbatore. I had only three and was priced at 135 INR. It was so costly but I bought it…
Amond paste is an important ingredient in many pastries. This can be used to make cakes, cookies, and used as fillings in tarts, pies and many pastries. It can be readily available in markets but in Madurai, we don’t get it. I needed almond paste to make the German Tree…
Happy Pongal To All My Readers Hope you all are celebrating Pongal today. Though it is Pongal, I am writing a post on cookies. I am that crazy. Last week, I wanted to try my hand at glaze icing the cookies. I have already posted my adventures with Buttercream…
Yule log is long and hard log burned during traditional Christmas and Yule celebrations. This cake is related to the log and is made for Christmas. It is called as Buche De Noel and the recipe has a lots of eggs to get the perfect sponge. This was suggested by…
Yesterday I shared with you the first recipe I tried for this month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge. And here comes the other recipe. Thought the preparation is quite simple in comparison to Ricci, it tastes amazing. Hubby liked this more than the Ricci. I myself liked this very much. The outer…
Homemade Ricotta Cheese Recipe helps you in creating ricotta which is an Italian whey cheese usually made with the leftover whey water after making any cheese. It is extensively used in recipes as fillings or in desserts.
I love beetroot and I can have it raw as salad or as a delicious poriyal. My daughter likes poriyal and the pink poori I make with beet juice. But hubby dear hates beetroot and whenever I prepare a dish with it, he never touches it. Sometimes, I have to…
Today starts the final week of Blogging Marathon #34 and I have chosen to blog from a fellow blogger as a special theme. The blogger I am paired with is Lisha of Nandoo’s Kitchen. She has a nice collection of recipes and what interested me the most are the Kerala…
Sattu flour is an important ingredient in Bihari cuisine. There are so many dishes which use sattu and it is made out of sand roasted channa dhal. Sattu paratha, litti, sattu kachori, are some of the dishes made using sattu. I made it at home according to Nupur’s directions and…