Till today, I tried a number of sponge-cake recipes from different sources. I have now settled to this flavoured sponge-cake recipe, which gives me a soft, fluffy sponge cake each time I make it. This has a light pink hue at its base and tastes just right. I added strawberry syrup and a little rose […]
Vegetarian breakfast hand pies with mildly sweet cottage cheese (paneer) filling Sundays are the days when I am in full spirit to experiment and to give in to the urge to bake! So last weekend morning, I baked these cute little heart-shaped, mildly sweet hand pies for breakfast. These hand pies have a flaky crust […]
Now that I already have a few cans of thick, chocolate-brown homemade Dulce de Leche resting inside my fridge, I am all set to explore other possibilities with this wonderful dessert ingredient. As I already told you all in my previous post, I made these really easy and delicious dulce de leche fudge pieces, wrapped […]
Homemade Dulce de Leche made with just one ingredient: condensed milk.Also known as “milk jam,” Dulce de Leche is truly a wonder ingredient to work with. Having a rich caramel flavour, the heavenly Dulce de Leche or the “sweet of milk” is the one of the simplest desserts I have tried at home. The Central […]
Although experimenting with curries is my hobby, I do love baking a lot. I admit that I am not a regular baker, but whenever I bake something good, it warms the cockles of my heart to see appreciation in my loved ones’ eyes! I have been making this cake for years now and it has […]
Sometimes, simple things are so much better. A plain white dress, simple make-up or just a sweet smile… There is something so exclusive about simplicity. Look at the kids playing in the park, a bunch of newborn kittens rolling around, chirping of the birds, dewdrops on the grass, a much-awaited drizzle or licking a stick […]
You might have heard of strawberry jam, but not much of citrusy strawberry chutney, isn’t it? Even I hadn’t, until I determined to make my own strawberry chutney. Strawberries are sweet and sour and so, I think, they qualify quite well for chutney (rule of thumb: fruits with a sour note make great chutneys)! Oh, […]
Kesar badam kulfi I grew up in Delhi, where it was common for the temperature to soar to 46˚C during the summers. In Delhi, I often used to enjoy kulfi, a popular street food, sold by people known as kulfiwallahs. They used long and slender kulfi moulds, called kulhars, and filled these up with a […]
[This recipe is on number 2 position on Foodbuzz Top 9 today (14 February, 2011). Thank you once again, dear readers, for making my Valentine’s day even more special!] Love is in the air… Right now, I can’t think of eating anything more romantic than chocolate… With Valentine’s day just round the corner, it’s a […]
Durga Puja in Hong Kong This time of the year is full of festivities for Indians! With the Navratras (festival of nine nights, worshipping Goddess Amba) and Durga puja (a Bengali grand festival of five days, in which the Goddess of power, called mother Durga, is worshipped) being just over, we are ready to welcome […]