The two months of my daughter’s summer vacation was spent mostly in our house and I had the tough task of finding her the snacks daily. I didn’t buy anything outside and tried to make all her snacks at home. As mango season was at its peak during holidays, I…
This month’s Bread Baker’s challenge host Mireille, who blogs at The Schizo Chef, chose the theme stone fruits. Any stone fruit like mangoes, plums, peaches, apricots or nectarines can be used to make bread. In Madurai, as we get only mangoes during this season, I opted to use mangoes in…
Mango season is at its peak now and I wanted to make all types of desserts when the mangoes are sweeter. This mango fresh cream cake has been in my mind for long. I wanted to take a video while doing it and so I kept postponing. Finally I made…
Last week, Madurai was so hot, I felt like running away to Munnar. Wherever I went, I took the pedestal fan along with me as ceiling fan was not doing its work properly. Working in the kitchen was the toughest job of all. But I had guests during that time,…
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…
As Shruti is becoming allergic to store bought snacks, I have to try hard to please her with home made snacks. She needs varieties. If I give her the same snack continuously for three days, she gets bored and asks for something else. When I prepared mango ice cream, she…
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…
Home Bakers is a group started by Priya Suresh of Priya’s Versatile Recipes. A group of bloggers have come together in this group and we will be attempting a dish per month. I joined in the last month itself but the pizza I prepared for the challenge was a disaster.…
Savarin is an yeasted cake which uses a very rich dough which constitutes of eggs and butter. This month’s Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Natalia of Gatti Fili e Farina and she challenged the daring bakers to bake Savarin. The dough is the same used for Rum Baba which is…
After preparing the eggless No bake Mango cheesecake I was left with the creamy mango filling. I also has some mini rasgollas at hand and I tried making a dessert out of this. I was thinking hard on naming this dish but couldn’t come up with a better title. If…