Even though I started the New Year with a nice note and started taking part in group challenges, there were some problems with my internet connection. My 3G data card started behaving weird. It worked when others used it but whenever I sat before my PC, it stopped working. I…
For me quick breads are never breakfast dish but is a dessert which has to be relished after a meal or a snack to go with my evening coffee. So I have never ever served it for breakfast. After a long time I am taking part in Home Bakers Challenge…
If you are wondering what I made with that easy microwave mawa, then you are looking at it. Yes, I made cupcakes with mawa and they turned out amazingly soft, fluffy and tasty. I slightly altered my mawa cake recipe for these cupcakes. The only difference with the instant mawa…
Instant Mawa Recipe is one of the easiest to make and can be used for any kind of sweets which call for mawa in the recipe. Mawa is one of the ingredients that is extensively used in Indian cooking. Usually mawa is made by reducing milk for a very long…
Wishing all my readers a Very Happy New Year 2015 Let us begin this new year with a sweet note. Last year for me was a ride on roller coaster. There were so many ups and downs. The two main incidents were loosing my father and taking my blogspot to…
Here is a copy of a free eBook on Chocolate Ganache Lately I have been concentrating more about baking and baking related posts rather than my day to day cooking. The main reason is that my readers are more interested in my baking posts and my other posts get hardly…
If you are wondering what happened to my flax gel egg substitute and caramel syrup, then here is the result. A few days back I came across the gel made with flax seeds which can be used as egg substitute in recipes. As I am always interested in experimenting with…
When I reposted my Christmas Plum Cake recipe, my inbox was full of requests for the recipe for caramel syrup. Though I have given the procedure in the post, I made a separate video to show you the exact stages of the syrup. If you love caramel based cakes, then…
It has bee a long time since I posted something other than baking. Usual cooking has been going on in my house but I am some what distracted and so haven’t clicked any dish. This upma has been lying in my folder for a very long time and today, it…
During the month of Kaarthigai comes Kaarthigai Deepam. On that day we light earthern lamps all over the house and do special poojas. Mom used to make a great feast with sambar, rasam, 21 varieties of side dishes, payasam and offered them along with fruits for Lord Murugan. I have…