After nearly a gap of one long month, I am here with another post in the Baking Basics Series. If you are new in the world of decorating cakes, then this post might be very useful to you. When I started cake decorating, I had this huge problem of washing…
Sour dough Starter/ Wild Yeast
I wanted to try preparing sourdough starter for a long time. Bread Baking Day for this month gave me the perfect opportunity to try it out. I read many articles related to sourdough starter in the web. There are many methods of doing it. Atlast I stumbled upon this site.…
Home made chocolate chips
Wish you a very Happy New Year When I see chocolate cookie recipe, I am always tempted to prepare it. But choco chips are not available at Madurai. I tried adding chopped chocolate compound, but I was not happy with the end result. So today I tried preparing the chips…
Green Chutney
This is a simple chutney very essential in the preparation of chats. I wrote down this recipe years ago, after watching a cookery show by the famous cook Chellam. This recipe has never failed. If you want it hot add 2 or 3 green chillies extra. Ingredients: Mint leaves-1/4cup Coriander…
Sweet Chutney
This is an important chutney while preparing chat. The taste of this chutney is a mixture of sweet, hot, sour and salty. This is very easy to prepare. I wrote down this recipe years back after watching a tv cookery show by the famous cook Chellam. This recipe never fails.…
Homemade Ghee
Melt butter It becomes frothy The water evaporates from butter When ghee becomes clear switch off stove Filter and store it in air tight container
Homemade Cottage Cheese(Paneer)
We use paneer for lot of dishes. When you buy it at store it may me quite costly. Preparing paneer at home is very easy. For those who are new to cooking, prepare paneer at home and you are sure to amaze your family members. There…
Home made butter
1. Boil milk and simmer for 10 minutes. When cool a layer of cream would have formed. Collect it and add a tsp of curd to it. leave it overnight. It would have transformed into curd. Store this in the fridge. 2 . Collect cream daily and store it in…