This month’s Baking Partners was all about bread baking. Swathi suggested two methods to make soft bread. The first method is the asian method called tangzhong. Tangzhong is a method of bread making which originated in Japan and Chinese use it a lot in their bread making now. It…
For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli chose a special halwa from Kerala. Jayashree shared her mom’s authentic recipe with us. Usually this halwa is made with nendrampazham but as I didn’t get it, I used the variety easily available here. The halwa turned out soft and delicious but after…
This month’s Daring Cooks Challenge is all about home made cheese. The host Sawsan of Chef in Disguise, challenged the cooks to go cheesy this month. She provided many recipes for cheeses but I had to skip many as they use rennet which is made fro bones of animals. So…
Snickerdoodles are cookies made with flour, butter and sugar and the cookie dough is rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking. I came across the recipe for chai chocolate snickerdoodle in Boston Tea Company’s website when I was searching for a cookie recipe including tea. Baking with tea is a new…
Making cookies for sandwich theme was in my mind for long but due to other distractions I postponed it to the last day of Blogging Marathon #26 Week2. I adapted a recipe from Good House Keeping magazine and used nutella for the sandwiching. As cookies came out of oven and…
Here is another breadless sandwich for Blogging Marathon#26 week 2 day2. When I selected the themes for the BM, I thought that this would be the easiest theme of all. But I was wrong. For the past two days I have been breaking my head to come up with ideas…
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon#2 Week 2 and I will be posting under Sandwich with out Bread theme. For the first day I came up with the idea of this chaat. At first I was in doubt whether the idea will work or not. I prepared the…
Last week I reviewed Fortune Rice Bran oil and made crackers as part of the post. As it turned out nice with out the hint of rice bran oil’s flavour, I wanted to try out more bakes with it. Last time when I made chocolate cake, my daughter was very…
Today is the last day of Blogging Marathon #26 Week 1 and for the past two day I have been posting soup and salad recipes. For the third day I prepared this soup according to the theme to cook with a vegetable. Whenever we visit our favourite restaurant- Temple City,…
For the second day of Blogging Marathon #26 week 1, the ingredient I have to use in either soup or salad is lentil. I have never tried to make a lentil based soup so far. So when I browsed the web, I came up with many soup recipes using moong…