I haven’t tasted this burfi before. When a friend of mine has asked about this sweet which is available in Bangalore, I started browsing for recipes. There was a single recipe in various food sites and so I bookmarked that recipe. I tried it yesterday. As there was milk in…
For this month’s Baking Eggless group challenge I selected a recipe from Reader’s Digest Baking With Love. Baking Eggless is a group of enthusiastic home bakers set out to find the perfect egg replacer. Every month a recipe is selected and the members try out various substitutes for the eggs…
Greasing and dusting a cake pan is very important in baking. This ensures that the cake doesn’t stick to the sides or bottom of the cake tin and you get a whole cake when the procedure is done properly. I baked a cake in the loose bottomed cake pan today.…
This month’s Daring Bakers Challenge is hosted by Suz of Serenely Full. She challenged the members of the group to make the famous French Dessert Mille Feuille. It consists of crispy puff pastry (Pâte feuilletée) layers and a soft vanilla pastry cream (Crème Pâtissière) between the layers. It is finished with royal…
Today comes another upma for the third day of Blogging Marathon #21. I made it with fresh bread crumbs and it is totally different from the bread upma I posted yesterday. I chopped onions into thick squares and so got a nice crunch in the upma which alternated the soft…
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon #21. Upma becomes the base for a fight in our house. As I told yesterday, our first fight after marriage was because of upma. My aunts love the way I prepare upma. They say that I prepare it just like my mom.…
Today is the fourth week of Blogging Marathon # 21. I am posting under the theme Upma. Upma is my favourite breakfast. In mom’s place she used to prepare upma once or twice a week and we never complained about it. She used to make the tastiest upma. But after…
I made the koftas with left over banana blossom and crumbled paneer. They soaked up the gravy well and were very soft. They just melted in the mouth. I also fried the koftas in a paniyaram pan to reduce the oil used. If you want you can deep fry the…
Kurivi thalai pavakkai can be translated into sparrow head bitter gourd as the gourd resembles the small head of a sparrow. They taste amazing in a tamarind based gravy/ puli kulambu or vadhakkal. They are less bitter and when sauteed in oil for a long time, the bitterness is still…
Today is the third day of Blogging Marathon #21. This sweet is in my to do list for long. To be frank, I tried it twice before. First time the whole lot went into a dust bin. The second time the sugar syrup’s consistency was not right and I ended…