I absolutely adore ripe Jackfruit. I know there are mixed feelings about this fruit but I am its biggest fan. I just wait for the season to gorge on them. Recently I found some at the supermarket and immediately bought it. Enjoyed about half of it till I thought, i should try to make something …
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Feb 16
Triple Layered Sponge Cake
Presenting my daughters birthday cake. It’s a triple layered vanilla sponge with one layer of white chocolate ganache, one layer of Nutella and one layer of dark chocolate ganache. It’s frosted all over with milk chocolate ganache and Kitkat. This recipe was given to me by Nidhi(www.soulandspicebox.com). Its a no oil, no butter recipe that …
Feb 13
Eggless chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate ganache
Birthday are never a one day affair anymore with my kids. They usually celebrate for 3-4 days and it’s the poor mom who is running around like a headless chicken. It’s my daughters birthday on the 14th and since its a weekend, she wanted to celebrate it in school today. She absolutely insisted that she …
Feb 13
Nutella Squares
Its my daughter’s birthday and I wanted to make some eggless desserts for her to distribute in school. Had already decided on an eggless chocolate cupcake and then wanted to make one more. Nutella is everyones favourite and knew for sure that i wanted to use that as one of the ingredients. I had …
Feb 12
Fluffy Idlis with Sambhar and coconut chutney
Busting some myths – The South Indian is not always a Madraasi. We have 5 states. Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu – The South Indian women are only clad in heavy Kanjivaram sarees with gajra on her oily hair. Check my profile pick as the myth buster here – The South Indian …
Feb 11
Penne in Garlic cream sauce
Pastas are my favourite thing to cook. Am always looking out for some new kind of sauce to dunk my pastas in. Another simple and easy to make but super delicious pasta sauce is the garlic cream one, I served this along with rawas cooked in pine nut sauce which was equally delicious. Posting the …
Feb 10
Pindi Chhole on mini Laccha Parathas
I have been making Chhole since years and they always turn out wonderful. Spicy, tangy and I thought it can’t get better than this. Well it just did. I recently read an article how dried lentils like chickpeas, rajma , beans, etc don’t need to be soaked before cooking. So went ahead and straight away …
Feb 02
Strawberry Decadence
14th February changed for us around 9 years ago. From being Valentines Day to being the birth of our daughter. Ever since we rarely celebrate Valentines as the focus is on our daughter Inaya. My neighbour recently gifted me a bag of humongous strawberries and was wondering what to do with it. Since I have …
Jan 28
Mexican Rice
Long ago, I read this recipe in a magazine. Don’t remember which – Woman’s Era, Caravan. Yeah my mom still subscribes to them. Now this is before I got into cooking. I had the habit of writing recipes in a long note book and saving it for a rainy day. A few years back, this …
Jan 28
White Forest Fudge – Version 2
In my previous post, i told you about the dinner invitation and my plan the white forest fudge. So leisurely made the fudge and set it. Did a photo shoot too. Then decided to give my husband a taste and he declared it was too sweet. My kids took a bite and absolutely adored it. …
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