So I am here with another post for Baking Basics Series. Next month is going to be all about baking and I will not be doing any baking basics posts. So thought of posting one within the end of this month. Sour cream is widely used baking and if you…
Homemade Cream Cheese Recipe
Update: Ever since I made this recipe, it has been my go to recipe for all cream cheese based dishes. But recently, I tried one more recipe which I can say that is the best I have made till date. it is so creamy and turns out beautiful in all…
How To Do Frozen Butter Cream Transfer ( FBCT) – Baking Basics
When I posted a picture of my daughter’s birthday cake in FB, I got so many mails and messages to make a post for the technique. As I already had it in mind, I had taken photos while making my daughter’s cake. But it has taken so long for me…
Blogger’s Meet- BM #50 – Chennai – Day3
After two days, by the third day, two of the bloggers left. Usha left the previous day itself and Kalyani left in the morning of 22nd. So we got up early and bid her good bye with a heavy heart. Then started our next session. For two days, I didn’t…
Blogger’s Meet- BM #50 – Chennai – Day2
Before going into the details of second day, I would like to mention about one more session that happened during the night. Nandhini talked about sour dough starter and baking whole grain breads. And after that she made dough for a whole wheat bread with her sourdough starter and then…
Bloggers’ Meet- BM #50 – Chennai – Day1
I have been part of Blogging Marathon group since it started way back in 2011. Srivalli of Spice Your Life started this as a 30 days event where some bloggers posted recipe every single day of the month. This is the group I am quite proud to be part of.…
Pongal Special Dishes with Sugar Cane Juice
For this year’s Pongal, four of my dishes were published in Dinalmalar’s Pongal malar. As I was going through so many hurdles in life, I didn’t even think of writing about it in my blog until today. It has been nearly a week since it got published and I need…
Dark Chocolate Ganache
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…
Flax Gel – Egg Replacer
Last time while I was discussing about egg replacers I use, I wrote about flax seeds. Flax seeds or flax meal is used in recipes to replace eggs. The main draw back of using flax seeds is that the flavour of flax seeds dominate the taste and there will be…
Baking Basics – Eggless Baking
This is my fourth in the series of Baking Basics. I hope you are finding useful of all the Baking Basics posts. In the last post I was talking about the substitutes of various ingredients used in baking. And I left out eggs in the post. The reason is very…