Happy Teachers’ Day “A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination and instill a love of learning”. Brad Henry My love for the English language, Geography and Biology is all because of the wonderful, encouraging and inspiring teachers I have had during my school days. Teachers can either make a child hate or…
-
Continue Readingscrumptious My future daughter in law loves cookies. When my son came down for a few days (ok it was a couple of weeks), I sent back a tin full of cookies for her. Normally she doesn’t have any breakfast at home but might rush off to work after having a cookie or…
-
Continue ReadingBLOGGING MARATHON #89 – WEEK 4 DAY 1 THEME: REDO OLD POSTS – 24/06/2018 Our trip to Nairobi for the Canadian visa had some more surprises in store for us. Last Wednesday my hubby and I got up early and reached the airport at 6 a.m. At the check in counter we were told that…
-
Continue ReadingRecipe: Cranberry Pistachio Cookies Cranberry Pistachio Cookies are festive, buttery, easy to make and melt in the mouth kind of cookies. Besides having both red and green colours of Christmas, what I like about this recipe is that I can make the dough ahead and freeze it. When required I allow the rolled logs to…
-
Continue ReadingBaked Veggie Empanadas Baked Veggie Empanadas, made using a wholewheat pastry with a filling of fresh red beans, potato and corn. Serve as a snack or as a meal with a salad and homemade Tomato Salsa. What are Empanadas? Empanada is one and several are empanadas. They are stuffed pastry or bread which are either…
-
Continue ReadingTropical flavours Cricket fever was on a high in our block because of the IPL (Indian Premier League) matches. Come evening and kids would be playing cricket outside. Some breaking windows, others setting off the car alarms and some getting injured. My neighbour’s daughter was playing cricket with a team of boys and in the…
-
Continue Readingfeeling great I am on a sort of mission to get a loaf of bread pretty much perfect using a home oven. In between blogging, planning for a wedding and other chores, I do steal a bit of time searching for perfect breads. Considering I don’t own a bread machine and a dough kneader as…
-
Continue Readingorange it is Happy birthday Arti. I have made some orange carrot muffins today. Catch a plane and come down. Hope you get a more delicious and decorated cake than the muffins. Orange and carrots are a nice combination for cakes, muffins and juice. The muffins turned out soft and yummy. I forgot I was…
-
Continue ReadingEVENT: FOODIES_ REDOING OLD POSTS #39 RECIPE: CHRISTMAS TEA BREAD Christmas Tea Bread Are you wondering why would anyone want to make a Christmas Tea Bread when there is a Christmas Cake around? Well, for one this Christmas Tea Bread is so easy to put together and secondly not everyone wants a rich Christmas Cake.…
-
Continue ReadingA nice treat for tea time I love slightly sweet breads to have with some butter or jam and a hot cup of tea. I came across this recipe in taste of home magazine and thought what a lovely healthy combination of nuts, cranberries and maple syrup. I tried it out this weekend and don’t…
