Back Home Traveling back home is always heart breaking for me. Our trips abroad are usually to visit family. Its always a joyous time when we travel to them but heart breaking when we have to get back. This year we spent nearly 2 months in Montreal and I so didn’t want to come back.…
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Continue ReadingA quick dessert fix Theme: No Bake Desserts BM#78 Week 3 Day 2 I must admit its all these theme based cooking that is motivating me to either prepare bookmarked recipes or try out new recipes. I’ve come across so many mug cakes but never really bothered to try them out. For the No…
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Continue ReadingSimply Fun The Bread Baker group theme for July was set by Gayathri who blogs at Gayathri’s Cook Spot. She suggested braided bread as the theme. Braided breads are a work of art by many professional bakers. Some are simple and some are so elaborate. However, they do look beautiful if perfectly mastered. Before I…
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Continue ReadingUpdated on 22/05/2020 While the recipe for Lemon and Lavender Scones remains the same, I’ve updated the information and write up in a more organized fashion. Spread the Fragrance Did you that flowers have been used world wide as a part of cooking? Usage of edible flowers can be traced all the way back to…
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Continue ReadingPeaches and Cream Day Did you know that 21st June is celebrated as the National Peaches and Cream Day in USA? Well, I didn’t know till Sarah Ellis initiator of Fantastical Food Fight suggested that for the June theme we should prepare something with Peaches and Cream theme. It also marks the beginning of the…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: FOODIEMONDAY/BLOGHOP THEME: #94 SNACKS What is a snack? A snack is any sort of small amount of food eaten in between meals. It can be fruits, veggies sticks, to fried bhajias, baked goodies or even sandwiches. It all depends on individual tastes and requirements. When we were growing up, my mum would give us…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Poğaça Poğaça are cheese and herb filled Turkish savoury bread or pastries. Bread, if you’re using yeast to make the dough and pastry if baking powder or baking soda are used as the leavening agent. Generally enjoyed as part of a breakfast platter or as a tea time treat. Poğaça (pronounced as poh-ah-cha), can…
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Continue ReadingSay Cheeeese! Monday means its time to blog a #FoodieMonday #Bloghop theme based recipe. Our 90th theme is #Cheese. Now who doesn’t like cheese? Before you say ‘I don’t’ hold your horses. There is a huge variety of cheeses out there in the world. Most countries have their own type of popular cheese like Paneer…
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Continue ReadingMy favourite Country When Anshie, blogger at Spice Roots asked members of Bread Bakers group to bake breads from Italy as the April theme, I was really excited. I love the country and Italian breads with all that olive oil, roasted tomatoes, cheese, bell peppers. I’ve been wanting to try out panettone for such a long…
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Continue ReadingGUEST NO.6 ON THE BLOG This week my guest on the blog is my sister in law (hubby’s sister) Varaharupa. When I got married, she was a vision of a modern ISKCON devotee with short hair cut, loved dressing up and never saw her without any jewellery. Things changed when she got married, it was…
