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…
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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…
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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…
Baking Basics – Substitutes
After knowing about your oven and the basic tools you need for baking, you need to know about the substitutes for the ingredients. This will be so helpful if you live in a city (like Madurai where I live) that doesn’t have all the imported ingredients which we usually get…
Baking Basics – Tools
We come to the second part of the series. This is a post which could be useful for beginners. Pros can stay away from this. After looking into the OTG, we are now here to know about some of the tools you may need to bake basic cakes and cookies.…
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Baking Basics – Oven
Diwali is over but I am not yet back to my routine. After a lot of travel and being sick, today I wanted to be back to normal. For me being normal means I need to write a post in my blog. This series of posts has been in my mind for…