Recipe: Puff Pastry Pizza Pockets Puff Pastry Pizza Pockets are like mini pizzas with your favourite toppings wrapped in a crispy, flaky pastry. Hubby and I love these pockets as we are able to combine our two favourites – pizza and puff pastry. Sharing Puff Pastry Pizza Pockets Recipe With Sunday Funday Group For this weekend Amy suggested “Let’s make pizza! Share your favourite homemade pizza or a twist on pizza using classic pizza ingredients in another dish!” I opted for a twist of the pizza by including our favourite toppings in a puff pastry. Initially, I wanted to make actual pizza but I couldn’t stop thinking of the pizza pockets we get as a snack on the British Airways flight. I simply love…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Oatmeal Banana Quick Bread Oatmeal Banana Quick Bread is perfect as breakfast on a busy day or as a snack to enjoy in the afternoons. Though the bread appears dense trust me it is soft, moist and hearty. An excellent way to include oats in your diet. The taste of banana is not overpowering. Cinnamon adds a subtle flavour and the walnuts add a bit of bite. Sharing Oatmeal Banana Quick Bread Recipe With Sunday Funday Group For this weekend Wendy suggested the following “It’s National Oatmeal Month. Share a recipe that features Oatmeal in any fashion, sweet or savory.” I decided to redo an old post. I had posted Oatmeal Banana Quick Bread recipe way back on 29/12/2016. And the photos were…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Egg Free Peanut Butter M&M Cookies Egg Free Peanut Butter M&M Cookies are melt in mouth, slightly crunchy and scrumptious. Perfect for the Holiday season on your cookie plate, to share with friends and family or even for gifting. Generally the dough for peanut butter cookies has an egg, making them soft and chewy. Without the egg you will not get the chewy texture but they are slightly crunchy. Memories I had baked a huge batch of Egg Free Peanut Butter Cookies with chocolate chips in the month of August 2013. My eldest son’s wife loves cookies. She almost always misses breakfast but will grab a cookie or two before heading out to work. When my son came to visit us, I baked…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Baked Breaded Mushrooms Baked Breaded Mushrooms are simply a healthier version of the traditional recipe. Generally, breaded mushrooms served as a starter option are deep fried. Also, they are first coated in egg and then breadcrumbs. My version of breaded mushrooms are not only baked but also has no eggs. The first coating is in a flour slurry. So go ahead and indulge in these crunchy. delicious and easy to make starter dish. Pssst, don’t tell anyone but I can easily make a meal out of these mushrooms! Love them so much. Why Bake Them? Breaded Mushrooms are generally deep fried. Not that I don’t love them but they can be a bit too oily. Baking them means you are using no oil…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Vegetable Poha Vegetable Poha is a version of the popular traditional Indian breakfast, lunchbox or snack food known as Bateta Poha. Instead of adding only potatoes to the flattened rice, I like to add mixed vegetables. This makes it more healthier and an excellent way to get more veggies in one’s diet. What Is Poha? Poha is flat, pressed or beaten rice. The rice is de-husked, parboiled and flattened.The flattened or pressed rice is dried. The flakes have rough edges and the thickness of the flakes depends on the pressure it was flattened. Thin poha, powa or chiura can be paper thin or thicker than a rice grain. Poha is used for making both sweet and savoury dishes. It’s also used to to thicken…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: White Dhokla White Dhokla also known as Idra, Idada, Idla or Khatta Dhokla is a traditional Gujarati steamed snack made from a batter of rice and lentils or dals. Enjoyed usually as a snack or as a part of a thali, it is commonly served with mango ras and puri. It is different from idli in the ratio of rice to urad dal. Also my mum would add a bit of chana and moong dal. Some add flattened rice or poha too. Khatta means sour, so the batter is allowed to ferment overnight so that it becomes a bit sour. A Bit About Gujarati Food Let us get one misconception straight – Most believe that Gujarati food is very sweet. Yes we do…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Apple Cinnamon Waffles Apple Cinnamon Waffles with fresh apple, cinnamon are so delicious, easy to make and come together within 20 minutes. Usually it is a Fall time recipe when apples are picked from the orchards and used up in every possible way. Last fall I had made apple pancakes and decided to use the same recipe to make waffles. Memories A few weeks ago I was looking for a waffle maker and hubby was scrolling through the Temu site for sandwich makers. So the tussle was between a sandwich and waffle maker. Then we came across a 3 in 1 gadget. Sandwich, waffle and panini press all in one. The sandwich maker arrived on time for me to make waffles for the…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Honeydew Sorbet Honeydew Sorbet is a light, refreshing, cooling, healthy summer time dessert. Pretty easy to make if you have frozen honeydew cubes in the freezer. Summer time is when I always have some frozen fruit in the freezer so that I can make quick cooling desserts or smoothies. When honeydew melons are not sweet, no one wants to eat it. Simple solution instead of the fruit lying around, freeze it. While you can opt to add refined sugar I tend to add honey or maple syrup. Not only are they healthier but add a unique flavour to the sorbet. Sharing Honeydew Sorbet With Shhh Cooking Secretly Group For the month of June, the theme was COOKING WITHOUT FIRE, hosted by me. Participants are…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Blueberry Muffins, Egg free Blueberry Muffins, Egg free are easy to make, lemony and bursting with fresh blueberries. Addition of yogurt makes the muffins light,soft and moist. Making these muffins is super easy. I bake them often especially when I am having friends over for tea or I when I want to give some edible gifts to them. I love how on baking the blueberries burst open and spread that lovely purplish pinkish colour, making the muffins appear beautiful. A little sprinkle of sugar on top makes it a bit crusty. I bake Blueberry Muffins with eggs and without eggs. However, thought of sharing the egg free version. Sharing Blueberry Muffins, Egg free Recipe Sunday Funday For this Sunday Amy requested us to…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Strawberry Yogurt Sherbet Strawberry Yogurt Sherbet is an easy to make, healthy, quick, cooling, refreshing frozen treat. Add the ingredients in a blender or food processor and sherbet is ready within minutes. And the best part is that no refined sugar is used. I like to use either maple syrup or honey. Spring Is Here When I got back from India at the beginning of April, we still had a bit of snow. And summer season had already begun in India. So from the hot to the cold. Took us a few days to adjust to the extreme change in temperature. Spring this year arrived a bit late in Magog. For the past few days we had sunny weather coupled with some humid days.…
