For this month’s Baking Partner’s challenge, Divya Ashok of DD’s Bake shop suggested we try strawberry cake. Divya decorates cakes and you need to visit her site to look at her beautiful creations. For this challenge, we need to make the cake and do some basic decorations. As we don’t…
Today is the day I love the most. Everyone is busy celebrating Varalakshmi Pooja. But unfortunately, I couldn’t do it as it has not been a year since my mom expired. But I couldn’t miss narrating the pooja to you. Every year I will be very busy for the three…
For this week’s Fondbites Bake Along, Subhashini’s choice was these easy to make orange cookies with orange butter cream filling. The original recipe had egg in it and I tried to make an eggless version. Cream cookies are usually a kid’s favourite. When Shubhashini explained her childhood memories associated with…
Ever since I made Kavuni Arisi / Black Sticky Rice Pudding, making this white sticky rice pudding has been in my list of to do dishes. Pavithra in her comment has mentioned about this dish and only then I knew that there was white sticky rice available in Madurai. Every…
For this week’s Bake Along from Fondbites, Subhashini selected some bread rolls with surprises. There were 5 types of rolls she shared with us and two of those had cheese in them. One was left plain and the other stuffed with minced meat. And the final one which I chose…
This chart will help you in converting recipe measurements according to your preference. I have given temperature chart, cups and weight chart and teaspoons and weight chart for your use. Temperature Chart: First we will deal with Oven Temperatures. In India, you can see ovens marked with Celsius whereas while reading recipes…
Manapparai is a small town in Tamil Nadu and whoever you ask about Manapparai in TN they will remember the murukku. Manapparai murukku is so famous and when the bus crosses manapparai, we are sure to buy packs and packs of these famous murukku from the vendors. I do…
For this month’s Baking Partner’s Challenge, Reeni of Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice selected a dessert with berries. The shorcake unlike the butter loaded ones is made with heavy cream. It was quite easy to make. The secret of getting a flaky short cake is the dough needs to be crumbly…
One of my aunts, Shanthi, reads my blog whenever she gets a chance and she encourages me so much. When she speaks to me over phone, she always tells me that I only show her pictures of what I do and I never give her anything to taste. So I…
I have been a part of the group South Vs North Challenges for more than a year and feel that I have been learning a lot about North Indian recipes. Every month, a member of the Northern team challenges the south team with an authentic recipe. They explain the recipe…