For the third month in Home Baker’s challenge, Viji of Virunthu Unna Vaanga set the challenge for cookies. She provided us with 4 recipes and we are free to choose any recipe we want. I selected the peanut butter cookies as I have never tried it before. The original recipe asked…
Sai Cakes n Bakes I am happy to announce you the start of my baking venture in Madurai. I will be taking orders for cakes, cookies, pies, tarts and cake pops. Party orders are accepted too. If you live in Madurai and want to order for cakes and pastries you…
My daughter has been pestering me to make ice cream at home. I used to avoid making ice cream because of the unscheduled power shut downs. But now as we don’t have it, she reminded me to make ice cream. And fortunately I had all the necessary ingredients to make…
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon #30 and I am cooking under curds theme. I love any kind of kadhi and I have posted two types of kadhis so far. When I was searching the web for a different type of kadhi, I saw this recipe at Aroma…
After a very long time, I am taking part in Blogging Marathon this month. For the first week, I have chosen dishes with curd. Srivalli asked us not to go with raithas as they are very simple. On seeing the theme cooking with curd, the recipe which came to my…
Caramel sauce is a delicious sauce made with caramelized sugar, butter and cream. This can be used as toppings for ice creams, cakes and fruit salads. You can even dip fruits in the sauce for a simple dessert. Yesterday I prepared mango ice cream for Sruti and this caramel sauce…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group challenge, Priya Suresh of Priya’s Versatile Recipes suggested a delicious muffins recipe from Technicolor Kitchen. These muffins with jam swirled into them were so delicious and my daughter loved it so much. I gave her two and sent the remaining muffins to hubby’s office.…
For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli selected this Gujarathi kadhi on Vaishali’s suggestion. Dapka kadhi is a curd based gravy with moong dhal dumplings, usually served along with rotlas, green chillies and garlic chutney. I am very alte in preparing for this challenge as I was away on a…
Kerala style kadala curry is a perfect combination for puttu, idiyappam and other kerala specialities. Today morning as I was thinking a gravy for breakfast, I remembered the soaked chickpeas in my freezer. I wanted to prepare something new and when searching the web for recipes, I saw this recipe…
For this month’s Baking Partner’s challenge Swathi has given two recipes using choux pastry- one is the chocolate eclairs and the other is French Laundry’s Gourgeres. Chocolate eclairs is the sweet version whereas the gourgeres are the savory version. You can see a lot of recipes converted into eggless ones…