As I mentioned in my previous post, I am starting my month long mega marathon today. The theme is pretty exciting and one which is my hot favourite. Breads, that too flat breads around the world. And we are also doing it in A-Z order. I am so fond of…
For the third day of baked treats, here is one more recipe from Holland / Nehterlands. When I read about the history of these cookies, it was so fascinating and I wanted to try it. These Dutch cinnamon cookies are huge in size, about 3.5″ and are amde with a…
For the second day of baked treats, let us go to Holland. Also known as Banketstaven / Letterbanket, these Dutch letters were introduced in the US by Dutch immigrants, originated at Pella, Iowa. MAde with a flaky pastry or puff pastry, filled with a sweet almond paste or marzipan, these…
Here is the final week of this month’s BM and I have chosen to do Baked treats for kids. As you all know, I have stopped baking for the past two months. I wanted to get in track with baking for this theme, but fortunately, I didn’t have to. I…
Bread baking is one of my favourite and if you look at my bread recipe index you will understand my passion. I have tried so many varieties of bread so far and there are so many yet to explore. Bread Bakers gives me the opportunity to bake a bread every…
During the earlier stages of blogging, I used to collect so many cook books. Those books gave me ideas on making dishes, though I rarely cook recipes from books. When I exhausted the recipes from internet, I referred to some of my books. One was Tarla Dalal’s Rajasthani Cook Book.…
Gulab Jamun Samosa Recipe Inspiration Gulab Jamun samosa is a delicious sweet made combining two if my favourite dishes. I saw this at Vaishali’s blog and decided to make it. This is a really innovative recipe and only Vaishali can come up with such recipes. As I had some samosa…
This was one sweet I found in both Bengali and Odisha cuisine. Goja / Gaja are deep fried sweets common in both cuisine. They can be made with paneer, mawa or maida and with the difference in the ingredients, the name changes. I have already posted chenna gaja recipe in…
When I first saw the theme for this month’s Bread Bakers, I knew what to make. I have been making a list of flat breads to try and this Malooga was also in the list. Being an yeasted flat bread I chose it right away after reading about the theme.…
Shingara is nothing but Samosa in Bengali cuisine. While there are so many savoury samosa recipes, there are also mishti shingara (sweet samosa) recipes in the cuisine. When I was writing out a list of recipes to try, I included some deep fried recipes too. With the same ingredients, by…