I was planning to do checker board cookies for a long time. When I saw the cookies at Baking Obsession, I couldn’t take my eyes away. I bookmarked it immediately and tried it out today. The preparation of the dough took me two days in advance. So I started preparing…
Today is the fourth day of Blogging Marathon and I tried another vegan recipe to today. Vanaspathi or shortening is a fat extracted from vegetables and is a great substitute for butter in baking. While going through a recipe book, I saw this recipe. As I am posting under Vegan…
When I started working with chocolate, I struggled while storing the left over chocolate. I know I was very silly. Every one has a method of doing this. This is a very easy method and this idea struck me on one fine day. At first I used to keep the…
Today is the third day of Blogging Marathon and I wanted to try my hand on a vegan recipe. I had book marked this from Treat And Trick Blog last month and today I got a chance to try it. THe squares were very soft, moist and crumbly with the…
Do you remember my French Country Bread? It was done with sourdough starter. There was 2 cups of starter remaining after the bake. I used it to make these rolls which my daughter liked very much. This has been lying in drafts for a long time. At last I am…
As promised earlier, I am giving the recipe for the burger bun now. The original recipe had eggs. But as always, I replaced the egg with its substitute and result was extremely soft and fabulous buns. The secret lies in the egg substitute. I used 1/4cup fresh curds along with…
For this month’s ICC-Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli chose Vennai Puttu, an authentic recipe shared by Priya Suresh. Apart from the link Srivalli gave, there were no posts on this sweet. Srivalli suggested Nirmala’s post for reference. Once I saw that, I got a general idea about the puttu. I have…
We celebrated Valentine’s day today. Hubby gifted me a cute watch and I made a wonderful dinner for him. I selected two recipes from mughalai cuisine. The dishes I chose were Varqui paratha and Lazzatdar Paneer. The preparation of paratha is similar to making chirotti. The layers were crispy and…
This month’s challenge at Daring Cooks is Flipping Fried Patties. The hosts of this challenge is Audax of Audax Artifex and Lisa of La Mia Cucina. Both challenged the daring cooks to try out patties otherwise known as cutlets or burgers. They left the choice of the ingredients to us.…
Ponnanganni Keerai also known as water amarnath leaves is a nutritious greens. This helps to increase eyesight. The name itself suggests the benifits of this keerai. Pon means gold. My grand mom used to say that pon agum kan ( you get golden eyes meaning the eyesight improves) is the…