As Shruti is becoming allergic to store bought snacks, I have to try hard to please her with home made snacks. She needs varieties. If I give her the same snack continuously for three days, she gets bored and asks for something else. When I prepared mango ice cream, she…
When I was searching for nendram pazham to make the banana halwa for ICC, I couldn’t get it. But I got it now and couldn’t resist buying them. After buying, I wanted to try out some authentic recipe from Kerala and I was browsing the web. The top most recipe…
I was watching TLC last week in which there was a program on Krispy Kreme Donuts. I was fascinated by the process of making the donuts. Yesterday when I was browsing the net for some recipes I saw the recipe for Krispy Kreme donuts. The glaze for the donuts was…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Challenge Priya of Enveetu Kitchen suggested Amazing Dinner Rolls from cooking classy. Even for the Baking Partners challenge we baked bread this month. So this month my house is full of freshly baked bread’s aroma and it is wonderful. I have made some dinner rolls…
This cute looking kormolas are similar to the diamond biscuits which mom used to make. The only difference is the shape of the kormolas. These are prepared for Christmas in Goa. When I was browsing through Goan recipes, I couldn’t take my eyes off these beautiful flower like cuties. So…
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 Daring Baker’s Challenge Sarah of All Our Fingers In The Pie challenged the Daring Bakers to make Crisps. She provided some recipes for us to try and I chose these crackers with onions and poppy seeds. I also made the eggless version of the recipe. The crackers were…
Rice Bran oil is also known as rice bran extract is extractedfrom the inner husk and germ of rice. It is notable for its high smoke point which is at 213C. So it is suitable for stir frying and deep frying and as Indian cooking uses both types of cooking…
This is the month of Dutch specialties. After the Gevulde Speculaas I made for Daring Baker’s challenge, I had to make another wonderful cake for the baking eggless challenge also. Meena of Chettinad Fiesta suggested this Dutch dessert. The cake is from the Brovst region of Denmark and so the name. I…
I have read about Ghevar in some blogs and Tarla Dalal’s book. But as far as I know we need a mould to prepare ghevar. It is a famous Rajasthani sweet which can be bought in all sweet shops. There are so many varieties of ghevar such as plain, mava,…