Last time when I visited a super market, I bought a huge bunch of spring onions and after refrigerating, I completely forgot about it. But when all the other ingredients were used up and only these spring onions were remaining, I had to use them. And when I was also…
For this week’s BM, I have selected One Pot Meals as my theme. I usually make rice, gravy and a side dish for lunch and Sruti’s lunch box, but with this theme, I made three one pot dishes for my daughter’s lunch box. Instead of usual rice varieties, I went…
I have made nearly 80+ cookies from around the world, but have never attempted our Indian cookie Nankhatai. Nankhatai is made with a mix of besan, semolina and maida which gives a nice flavour and crunch to the cookies. These are shortbread biscuits famous in India and Pakistan. The name…
These Sesame Cookies are eggless and are mildly sweet and buttery and is perfect to serve with a cup of coffee or tea during evenings.
When I did the white modelling chocolate video, I had too many requests from readers and viewers to show how to use it on cakes. Though modelling chocolate is a great alternative for fondant, it doesn’t work like fondant. The clay is very different in texture and needs some getting…
This Finnish Nissua / Cardamom Bread is a sweet and buttery bread apt for celebrations. Shaped into a braided loaf this looks beautiful. This Finnish Nisu / Nissua is a cardamom flavoured sweet bread which is also known as Pulla. This is a enriched dough with butter and eggs. And…
When I first heard of brookies, they used to be very different from what we know as brookies now. The first version of brookies used to have a choco chip cookie base and a brownie top. When basked together they form a delicious dish which combines both the texture of…
As I mentioned in my last post, candy is testing my patience. Yesterday, I had planned on a vegetarian marshmallow. The mixture turned out beautifully and I let it set for 2 hours. But even after the setting time, my marshmallow didn’t set and I found that the problem was…
This month has been very bad so far. I have been failing in many of my experiments and I am feeling so low nowadays. But still I couldn’t keep away from trying new things. Though I share my success stories here, my failures doesn’t make to the blog. But they…
I am in love with this golden loaf. Look at the beautiful crust. This is one of my favourite bread recipes. Though I don’t repeat them often, I have some favourite breads in my list. Potatoes usually give breads super soft texture. I learnt about it when I made potato…