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Diwali (or Deepawali, popularly known as the "festival of lights".The name "Diwali" is a contraction of "Deepavali" (Sanskrit) दीपावली Dīpāvalī), which translates into "row of lamps".
Diwali involves the lighting of small clay lamps diyas or dīpas in Sanskrit. दीप) filled with oil to signify the triumph of good over evil. During Diwali, all the celebrants wear new clothes and share sweets and

The year when I got married and came to live here my Mother in Law gave me this Cooking Book from Good House keeping as a present, well she went to one of her shopping trips to London with her girlfriends ( they used to do that a lot, go for shopping weekends to a European City) and then as it was really difficult to get English cooking books in our town she saw this book and bought for me.The

Strawberries are available year-round at all grocery stores, but the local strawberry season has been brief and is nearing its end. I’ve been trying to do as much as possible with these sweet and juicy berries before I’m forced to buy the tasteless ones off the supermarket shelves.Recently, I was looking for a recipe where I could do something different with strawberries, but after going through

Not one to be afraid of massive amounts of ingredients – I have made this cake, after all – I must confess that I almost gave up baking the cake on the photo. Almost. Reading the recipe with a calculator on hand I shrieked at the idea of using nearly 400g of butter, 500g of sugar and – my goodness – over 700g of flour in one single cake; a recipe that would pretty much empty my entire pantry. :

One of my all time favorite songs is New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle”; my reaction to Frente!’s version for the song was sort of like “Stop! Stop! You’re ruining a classic!” – as much as I hate to admit it I can be pretty conservative sometimes. If you’re going to revamp with a classic, do it right, ok? Go ask Fine Young Cannibals for advice or something.
Unlike Frente!, Flo Braker has

Today, I am going to share with you another classic cherry base German cake since cherries are still in season.
Blackforest Cake or Schwarzwalder Torte is known the world over but little is known when anyone mentions Donauwelle outside of Germany.  I think it is such a pity because I love this cake more than Blackforest Cake simply because it has less cream and I like the consistency of Rührteig

Better late than never.  A saying I hold dearly whenever I procrastinate doingsomething I´ve been wanting to do but never got around doing it.  For this, I really have to thank DH Almere for giving me this opporturnity to feature´The making of Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte or Blackforest Cake` as how it isknown internationally here.  Without this invite, I would not have known howgood this cake