I almost didn’t get this month’s Daring Bakers challenge done. I just about managed to finish doing the assembling and decorating yesterday, which is not the way I like to do my challenges!
The August 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Elissa of 17 and Baking. For the first time, The Daring Bakers partnered with Sugar High Fridays for a co-event and Elissa was the gracious hostess of
Time again for my Daring Bakers post and this time it’s a cake and some ice-cream, all in one. Even though the challenge and its individual components weren’t really all that difficult to do, I still managed to have problems!
The July 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Sunita of Sunita’s world – life and food. Sunita challenged everyone to make an ice-cream filled Swiss roll that’s
In my part of the world it’s the season for rain, rain and more rain from June through August, and a bit of September. It means frequently getting drenched because sometimes umbrellas or rainwear just cannot keep the rain out. Wading through ankle-deep water puddles, trying to drive through a deluge which makes just about everything invisible and laundry that feels damp and cold even though it
“Baking chocolate-chip cookies - an act that makes all seem right with the world….”
Dorie Greenspan on twitter
Don’t you just love that line? I chanced upon the tweet from Dorie Greenspan a few…
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Apparently the Greeks thought that the persimmon was a fruit of the Gods. I never even knew of this fruit till a couple of years back when I saw it at the market here. I assumed it was one of those imported types of fruit which are now available here and invariably sold at exorbitant prices.
Then last year, I bought a couple of persimmons (as I knew what they were now, thanks to blogging) to see