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Cinnamon Cake With Apple Rosemary Buttercream
8|04|2015
I hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend. I don't know where the 4 days vanished because there were too many things squeezed into one short break. On the other side of the break we are suddenly into winter like weather. Daylight savings came to an end and the weather aligned itself in perfect … Read More
Strawberry Panna Cotta With Earl Grey
2|04|2015
Strawberry Panna Cotta with strawberry puree and hints of earl grey tea to make the perfect cold dessert that requires no baking. Autumn may not be my favorite season but there are a few things I associate with this time of the year that I absolutely love and look forward to. When I first moved … Read More
Dark Chocolate Cheesecake Tart With Summer Fruits
28|03|2015
So, we are well into Autumn! There are no color changing maple leaves where I live. The sun hasn't started to set earlier either. There is a very slight chill in the morning. But it is still Autumn. Because it is no longer summer. Because the beautiful raspberries, nectarines and plums are getting … Read More
Styling And Shooting For Styling Magazine. An experience!
25|03|2015
"I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.” ― Alice Sebold This is a favorite quote of mine that I had saved a long time ago in a folder named 'Inspiration'. Being food … Read More
Cream Puffs With Orange Whipped Mascarpone
18|03|2015
Today we attended a cross country carnival at the twin's school. This was a first for my boys who have just started school this year. A first among the innumerable races they will perhaps run through childhood and adulthood and the many 'finishing lines' they will persue in real life. To say that they were excited would be an understatement. One of them was up way past bedtime yesterday. 'I can't sleep. What if I don't win?' I was surprised, happy and a wee bit disappointed that my baby boy appeared to have grown up in leaps and bounds in the past one month. I told him what my mum told me as a child 'It is more important to give your best'. It was evident that he was not convinced with my answer and continued to fret till he fell asleep holding his teddy bear who in recent times has been lovingly named after their school house. In the morning, everyone was in high spirits at the school. Mums and Dads had decided to wear respective house color clothes to support their children and the school pretty much resembled (for lack of a better description, sorry!) a giant box of mobile Nestle Smarties (can't stop thinking about food, eh?) The race began. Despite being forbidden … Read More
Rose And Cardamom Cheesecake Mille-feuille
13|03|2015
With puff pastry, I think the sky is the limit when you think of recipes. Remember my story about my fridge overload. One of the things I always stock up on is puff pastry. I stopped making my own a couple of years ago. It is not difficult to make at all but time consuming. With two little boys on tow, I would never remember to take the dough out on time after it had rested between the different stages of rolling. When I would remember, it would be too hard to roll. I would leave it on the counter and forget again. But now that I keep the rolled sheets at home, I find it really helpful to make sweet and savory food in a jiffy. Mille feuilles are a great way of using puff pastry. Layers of pastry cream or even whipped cream and fruit sandwiched between crumbly layers of pastry. Visually, they are beautiful in their little rustic stacks and the perfect marraige of contrasting textures. Here I've use whipped cream cheese between the layers for a no-bake cheesecake kind of dessert. So basically it is a fusion of two desserts that come together in minutes. I've infused the cheesecake with rose water and tiny bit of cardamom powder and sprinkled them with with ground pistachios. … Read More
White Chocolate Mud Cake With Pineapple
11|03|2015
White Chocolate Mud Cake made extra delicious and moist by the addition of pineapple. A simple honey whipped cream completes the frosting. Growing up in the tropics, pineapple flavored sweets were a prominent part of my childhood. I don't think I had ever spotted canned pineapple back then. Fresh pineapple was the way to go and despite the work involved, prepping the pineapple never seemed daunting to anyone as much as it is to me today. My mum's favorite thing to make was a fresh pineapple chutney with a generous squeeze of lime and two big dried red chillies. The blend of sweet, sour and spicy flavors would make my palate dance. Another flavoring agent was the pineapple essence. Pretty common and more popular than orange or strawberry. I would love to eat the tea cakes that were flavored with this essence and speckled with dried pineapple. I was a bit disappointed not to find the pineapple cake as popular in Australia when I came to live here. Mud cakes however are pretty popular in Australia. Though I have never come across a white chocolate mud cake with pineapple before I made one, I could envision quite clearly how it would taste. Since mud cakes are rich and dense, … Read More
Lemon, Chocolate And Pistachio Muffins
7|03|2015
Delicious Pistachio Muffins with a lemon cake base, dipped in chocolate and topped with ground pistachios. 'You can lift up the lids now' the voice echoed across the large hall as anxious hands moved in unison. I said a quick prayer 'Please let there be lemon...please..please!' With bated breath I peered inside. There was lemon! A whole lemon! Bright yellow, gleaming in the light. But..there was a problem! There was chocolate. As well. Now what! I was in a fix. Without a doubt Chocolate is my favorite ingredient but I wasn't expecting it. It just seemed too unlikely to have such an easy and versatile ingredient to work with. I ran through all the chocolate recipes in my mind..cooking times, accompanying ingredients and such. I looked at the mammoth clock hanging on the wall. 50 minutes to go. How on earth was I going to make my famous chocolate ginger torte in such a limited time? Show skill..show technique..understanding of flavors..multitask...was all over my mind. Scaling down a recipe? How would I make it look pretty inside a ramekin..Oh no! Panic. I looked around. Gigantic saucepans....large baking pans. A single serve dessert was my only option but in monster baking … Read More
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