Poudine Mais is a Mauritian dessert made with corn meal. For this month’s Daring Cook’s challenge, Rachael of Pizzarossa challenged the cooks to try out recipes using corn meal. She provided recipes for fritters, pastry and a sweet. I selected the sweet. In Madurai I don’t get corn meal but get…
For the second day of Blogging Marathon, I chose to prepare ginger almond biscuits from Vaishali’s blog. Almonds are good source of calcium. I was searching for the calcium content of almonds and I came across a site, which gave it as 37mg of calcium in 14.5gm of almonds. So…
Yesterday I saw these beautiful stuffed bread rolls on facebook. One of my friends on face book shared this. I at once visited the blog for the recipe. The blog is Fauzia’s Kitchen Fun and the recipe was wonderful. Though my rose rolls are not as cute as Fauzia’s, they…
I used to love puttu during my school days. When ever I asked for it, my mom prepared it for me. After marriage, I don’t prepare it often. When hubby went to Dindugal on a trip, there was a hotel famous for nei puttu. They fold it in banana leaves…
For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli chose a sweet from West Bengal. This is one of the pithe recipes prepared for Poush Sankranti. A crepe is made with maida and rice flour and is filled with coconut and mawa filling. The sweetener used is palm sugar but if unavailable,…
Gujiya is a north Indian sweet which has a crispy flaky pastry with a soft filling. The filling varies and the names of gujiya varies accordingly. This is somewhat similar to innippu somas we prepare in Tamil nadu. This gujiya has a soft mawa filling and the dry fruits added…
This month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge was Going Batty For The Jubilee. Mandy of What The Fruit Cake challenged the bakers to make a battenberg cake. Battenberg cake is traditionally flavoured with almonds and the four squares – two pink and two yellow represent the four princes of Battenberg. The strips are…
Happy Father’s Day Tomorrow is Father’s Day. Sruti wanted to give her father a surprise treat and asked me to prepare a sweet for K. I recently bought a book on Gujarathi recipes by Tarla Dalal. When going through the book, the recipe for mohan thaal sounded interesting. So when…
For the Blog Hop Wednesday this month, I am paired with Nisha of Nisha’s Kitchen. She has a lot of nice recipes in her blog. Whenever I am to to do a recipe from other blog, the first thing I do is look at the baking section. Nisha had these…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group Challenge, I selected Banana muffins from Allrecipes. This is a very easy recipe and the substitution is also very easy. As this is vacation time, I didn’t want to burden us with a very challenging recipe. Usually banana muffins I prepare puff up nicely during baking…