While using Banana blossom in cooking, the hard part is cleaning and preparing it. It usually takes at least one hour to do. I have given some step by step tutorial on the procedure. I hope that this post will be useful for beginners. The blossom has many petal and within each…
For this month’s Sweet Punch , the team selected Pound Cake from The Cake Bible by Rose. The method of preparation is quite different from the usual cake making. Usually we beat butter and sugar and then add the dry ingredients. But in this recipe, dry ingredients are mixed together…
Erica of Erica’s Edibles challenged the Daring Bakers to prepare Phyllo Sheets from scratch and prepare the famous Baklava. I have always wanted to prepare baklava, but as we don’t get phyllo sheets here, I skipped it. But when I came to know that phyllo sheets can be made at home,…
I love to experiment with sweets. If you read my blog, you will know that I have a huge collection of sweets compared to other dishes. Sweet samosa has been in my to do list for long. Had lot of pumpkin sitting in my fridge. So I thought of combining…
My mom used to prepare Vaangi Baath. I never asked about the preparation. I like it very much. When I bought a brinjal from the stores, I was thinking about today’s menu. Suddenly I remembered Vaangi Baath. I called my mom and asked for the recipe and prepared it for…
You will be seeing many pumpkin recipes in my blog this month. I bought a pumpkin and wanted to finish it off. This time I had to try out new recipes. This halwa was so delicious. I love the colour of pumpkin. I used two drops of lemon yellow to…
When a reader of my blog asked about a recipe for carrot cake, I did some experimenting to get a perfect egggless cake. Today, I had a pumpkin in my kitchen and thinking about using it in a baked dish, I got this idea. I just used grated pumpkin instead…
I came across sorbet only after I entered the blogosphere. Sorbet somewhat resembles icecream, but it doesn’t have milk in it. Sugar syrup is prepared and added to any fruit pulp and it is frozen. Yesterday I tried sorbet with mango and brown sugar syrup. It was so tasty and…
This is a simple milk shake. I had so many mangoes and wanted to use it up. My daughter likes milk shakes. SO I prepared this. This can be prepared in two minutes if you have everything chill. She liked it a lot. Ingredients: Thick Milk-1cup Mango Pieces-1/4cup Sugar-2tsp Cardamom…
This is little different from the usual mysorepak. It does not have the pores, but is equally tasty. I am always in doubt when preparing sweets of this type. As I have told you earlier I will call all the deities for help. Sruti loves Mysorepak. I prepared it yesterday…