sweet bread from Mexico Conchas (pronounce the ch as in chair) are traditional sweet buns from Mexico. Also known as pan dulce, these sweet rolls have a slightly hard crust and a soft,slightly chewy,sweet inner part. Once you take a bite into the crust, it melts like magic in your mouth. Usually…
Egg Free Peanut Butter M&M Cookies
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Zeytin Piyazi
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Mushroom & Spinach Crustless Quiche
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Vegetable Raita
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Pomegranate Mousse
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Baked Cauliflower Bites
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Continue ReadingMy first experience with an ice cream maker My first visit to Canada last year was full of excitement and my son tried to make it special in every respect. He froze loads of blueberries for us as it would have been out of season by the time we reached there. I was obviously…
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Continue ReadingRECIPE: CHILLI GARLIC MOGO Chilli Garlic Mogo is a lip smacking, spicy, starter dish made using cassava or yucca. Made in the style of the famous Indo-Chinese Chilli Paneer, it goes really well with chilled beer. It is a dish that you will not miss on most of the Indian Restaurant Menus. You will…
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Continue ReadingUpdated on 05/12/2018 Its been a long time since I baked a bread. A cool rainy weather called out for some soup. Making soup for dinner meant a home baked bread. I dug out my ‘to try list’ and made masala bread. The first time I had made masala bread was when I was…
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Continue Readingjet lag 🙁 Travelling between different time zones and that too in the easterly direction is no laughing matter for me. My body wants to sleep when the rest of this part of the world is up and about and lacks sleep when they are resting. In medical terms its known as desynchronosis…
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Continue Readingdeliciously sweet Mangoes eaten on its own, as dessert, in a salad, aam ras, smoothies, pickles, jams…. whichever way you have it, tastes amazingly delicious. We are so lucky as the mango season is just going on and on. Lovely juicy apple mangoes as they are called here, are sweet and aromatic. Ok, I…
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Continue ReadingFeta, Olive and Basil Bread Feta, Olive and Basil Bread is a homemade bread which is stuffed with feta, olives and basil. Superbly delicious, goes well with a hearty salad or soup. Makes a good bread to carry for lunch, picnics or even when you’re travelling. Fresh Basil or Dried? While fresh basil would…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Masala Gobhi | Masala Cauliflower Masala Gobhi | Masala Cauliflower is a delicious, slightly spicy, easy to make and flavourful sabji, sabzi or shaak to make. Enjoy it with some hot roti or paratha. I like to make this side dish with some tuvar dal and roti. This sabji has South Indian flavours…
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Continue ReadingUpdated Post: 08/05/2020 What is Tofu? Tofu is prepared from coagulated soy milk. The coagulated white solid mass is pressed much like any cheese or paneer to remove excess water. Depending on the process, tofu can be firm, soft or silken. It is believed that Tofu originates from China. It was accidentally discovered about 2000…
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Continue Readingevil temptation Whenever I would make my signature dish, vegetable crepes, I had to make extra crepes(pronounced as cr+ape) so that the kids could have some dessert too. They loved to spread jam or nutella over the crepes. The Sweet Fantasy Club (started by Preeti of Simply Tadka) challenge for the month of February…
