So what else did she want? Lots of chips (the Lays kind) and fruit juice to drink (we avoid buying fizzy drinks).
An…
Confetti Cupcakes for a Birthday Girl
July 8th, 2008Prinable recipe here.
- Some very beautiful peaches, all yellow with a blush of pinkish orange, tempted me at the market and I bought quite a few. Appearances are truly not everything as these peaches proved. They were not as sweet as they looked, so there were no takers for them.
- I had some extra milk in the fridge.
- We don’t need excuses to eat ice cream in this house. Anytime is ice cream time!
- Mike at Mike’s Table is having a “Frozen Dessert Party”. This wasn’t a reason at the time this recipe was put together, but it is now. So Mike, this comes to your event.
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Spiced Peach and Honey Gelato
July 3rd, 2008
Announcing Think Spice, Think Nutmeg
July 1st, 2008The Daring Bakers hosts truly have us globe trotting without buying a ticket. We have gone French in the past, with Bread and the Opera, and this time we’re doing Danish!
Welcome to this month’s Daring Bakers Challenge and my fifth one. Kelly of Sass and Veracity and Ben of What’s Cookin set us to make some Danish pastry this month. As usual, this is another cooking/ baking direction I’ve never gone before. But this time was a bit different for me. I went into the challenge knowing what a Danish pastry looked and tasted like!!
As usual, we were provided with lots of information regarding the history and also links …
Delicious Danish: Daring Baker Challenge June 2008
June 29th, 2008Printable recipe here.
This is one of those recipes I have come up with over the years. When I first started cooking, I was a bit out of my depth finding an “easy to put together” vegetable, lentil or anything that would be good with chappathis.
In my parents rice eating south Indian home (and my husband’s), chappathis were not considered “filling” enough for lunch or dinner but more of a “tiffin”. So while I didn’t find it too difficult to cook up a south Indian meal, finding something (to serve with chappathis or parathas) that was easy to cook, wholesome and tasty took a little longer.
I have since added a few such recipes or come up with my own concoctions that are now a part of my regular cooking.
Spicy Whole Masoor (Puy Lentils) Dal
June 28th, 2008
Microwaved Mango Preserves
June 25th, 2008Printable recipe here.
This month, for Taste and Create, I was paired with Nicole herself (whose idea this event is) and got the chance to go through her recipe archives.
The first time I decided to go through her recipes (For The Love Of Food) I was in for a bit of a shock. Apparently, some nut had erased most of the posts from her blog! Imagine how terrible it can be to see all your hard work just disappearing overnight. As Nicole herself puts it to the person behind this awful deed, “I hope that you find cockroaches in your shoes the next time you slip your feet in!”
Though some of her posts are gone for ever, she and her husband have managed to put a lot of them back on her blog and are continuing working on the matter.
Nicole’s Four Grain Pancakes
June 24th, 2008Printable version here.
The recipes in this post are the result of a lot of Internet searching! When Bhags of Crazy Curry announced North Eastern food as the theme for RCI, I was quite interested. For one thing, I have been fascinated by the sheer beauty of that part of the country that I’ve seen in books and on TV. The North Eastern states of India are home to some of the most beautiful orchids in the world.
After going through the many search results, most of which were sketchy and largely repetitions of each other, what I realised was that non vegetarian food forms the bulk of their cuisine. And I had never heard of many of the ingredients used in those recipes.
We refer to the different states of Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Meghala…
Manipuri Khichdi and Ootti
June 23rd, 2008Printable version here.
When Zlamushka announced that she had chosen to showcase Nupur’s blog, One Hot Stove, for her event Tried & Tasted, I headed there. This blog is one that I read regularly and she writes very concise and informative posts, not to mention her good collection of recipes and knitting projects. I am also an admirer of Dale.
I chose to try out her ragda patties. It is something I’ve eaten but never made at home. This was just the thing to have with a steaming hot cup of tea, especially on a cold and rainy (the monsoons are finally here) evening. And I was planning to make a batch of my tamarind…
Nupur’s Ragda Patties & My Tamarind and Date Chutney
June 23rd, 2008Printable version here.
This post will be a bit of a surprise on this blog since it is a vegetarian blog! But then, we are ovo-lacto-vegetarians. I refuse to get into discussions about how could I be vegetarian if I eat eggs!!
The fact of the matter is that though we eat eggs occasionally, I am always happy to see a cake, cookie or bread recipe without eggs. That said, this particular dish is a bit of an exception. While I don’t make it very often, we like this egg curry (though my daughter will pick out the yellow and keep it aside). It must be the coconut milk that goes into the curry.
