Baking Partner’s challenge this month was all about bread baking. Swathi suggested two methods for getting super soft home made bread. One is the Asian Tangzhong method and the other is the Scandinavian Scalded Flour method. I already made a White bread using Tangzhong method and got great result. So…
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…
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post I made the Goan rice-Arroz Com Coco along with a spicy gravy from Goan cuisine. Xacuti is a spicy goan gravy, pronounced as Shakuti, is usually made with lamb or chicken. I made the vegetarian version of Xacuti using tofu and sprouted green peas.…
For the next three days I will be posting some delicious Goan recipes as I have chosen the theme for Blogging Marathon #26 Week 3. Coconut is an important ingredient in Goan cuisine. When I was searching for some recipes, I saw that so many recipes included coconut. This rice…
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 Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli chose a special halwa from Kerala. Jayashree shared her mom’s authentic recipe with us. Usually this halwa is made with nendrampazham but as I didn’t get it, I used the variety easily available here. The halwa turned out soft and delicious but after…
This month’s Daring Cooks Challenge is all about home made cheese. The host Sawsan of Chef in Disguise, challenged the cooks to go cheesy this month. She provided many recipes for cheeses but I had to skip many as they use rennet which is made fro bones of animals. So…
Snickerdoodles are cookies made with flour, butter and sugar and the cookie dough is rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking. I came across the recipe for chai chocolate snickerdoodle in Boston Tea Company’s website when I was searching for a cookie recipe including tea. Baking with tea is a new…
Making cookies for sandwich theme was in my mind for long but due to other distractions I postponed it to the last day of Blogging Marathon #26 Week2. I adapted a recipe from Good House Keeping magazine and used nutella for the sandwiching. As cookies came out of oven and…
Here is another breadless sandwich for Blogging Marathon#26 week 2 day2. When I selected the themes for the BM, I thought that this would be the easiest theme of all. But I was wrong. For the past two days I have been breaking my head to come up with ideas…