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Chocolate And Coconut Friands (Financiers)
Friands are mini cakes made with a nut meal (almonds) and egg whites. These ones are flavored with chocolate and coconut and served with a dusting of icing sugar. It's been an emotional week for us, waking up to tragic news from home and around the world almost every day. Watching the horrific … Read More
Lentil Salad With Golden Beets and Green Peas
A filling, delicious and healthy warm lentil salad with golden beets, green peas, feta, basil and a orange mustard dressing. There are a few places in Sydney that make my weekends delightful. I look forward to them all week. One among them are the farmer's markets. In the few years that I have … Read More
Festive Nougat Lassi
You might have heard of 'summer in a glass. For me that glass is Lassi. If you are new to this term, Lassi is a cold yogurt based drink, popular in India. In the scorching hot sun, when my sister and me would come back home from school, our tired backpack laden shoulders and exhausted feet would … Read More
Raspberry Rhubarb and Chocolate Baked Alaska
As a little girl,I had my favourite ice cream flavours and choices like most other children. Generally, restaurants we went to had a frozen dessert called Cassata on the menu which is the one I would always ask for. I later on figured out that it was inspired by the Cassata Siciliana, a true Italian … Read More
Easy Nutmeg Bars
Nutmeg bars are so perfect for this time of the year when a substantial amount of baking is on the agenda and everyone is getting into the spirit of Christmas including our ovens and our kitchens. I have lived on my spices all my life but there is something magical about using them in sweet recipes around Christmas. Till about a few years ago, Nutmeg was a secret ingredient for me to enhance the flavours of Indian meat dishes and my favourite Biriyani. It was only when I tried it in a a cake that I found it equally amazing in desserts. If you are looking for a recipe that is quick to make without hard-to-find ingredients and makes a great edible gift for friends and family, this is it. They are ready in no time. What impressed me the most about these, are the dual textures within the bars. We mix together some flour, butter and sugar like a shortbread mix, layer half the mix on a baking tray. To the other half, we add the rest of the ingredients and put together a cake like batter. We then pour it over the shortbread layer. The resulting bars have a slightly crunchy base with a cake like top. And they smell amazing as much as they taste great. The nutmeg is subtle but adds … Read More
Ginger Cake with Meringue
Has your kitchen started to smell like Christmas? Mine has been smelling so much of spices and vanilla and brown sugar....all of the warm and nice things that go hand in hand with this time of the year. In the southern hemisphere, we don't have a white Christmas. We are well into summer by then.Our Australian markets are flooded with the best of summer produce that allows us to be as diverse as possible with our Christmas baking and cooking. Our Pavlovas are loaded with juicy peaches and plums and raspberries and all the fresh fruits we can get our hands on. I have a few coming up for you but that does not stop me from dreaming up recipes with meringue, marzipan or nougat. My favourite bits of Christmas baking has to be the coming together of sugar and spice. Spices are a part of my heritage so popping open a container of powdered ginger or nutmeg delights me to the core. It fills up my senses with nostalgia. I can see gingerbread recipes all over the Internet. I love so many of them especially the ones dripping with caramel sauce, white chocolate or lemon icing. I did not notice any with meringue though meringue is so perfect for Christmas. I have an individual soft spot … Read More
Pumpkin and Sun-Dried Tomato Pizza with Basil and Feta
Love happens in the most unlikeliest of places. It happened to me in Melbourne. On a bus. We had stopped by at a quaint little town for tea on our way to Philip Island and I was so engrossed in taking pictures that I did not realize that our 30 minute tea break was getting over and it was time to get back up on the bus. I looked around and noticed there weren't that many options for take-away. One of the cafes nearby, had a few sweet things on offer but no-one was game except me. I urged my husband to get hold of some sandwiches while I got the kids seated on the bus. Hubby came back at the nick of time holding two small and two big brown paper bags. I did not have breakfast that morning so I was ready to eat anything. He handed over mini pies to the kids and I thought a large one was coming for me. 'Pumpkin Foccacia' he said handing over one of them. I was so sure that I had heard him wrong. Our tour guide had taken over the speakers on the bus and was describing the next destination. If you are with me for a while, you know I am not a fan of pumpkin. I may have started to eat it and enjoy it it small quantities but not in my sandwiches and wraps. I looked inside … Read More
Ferrero Rocher Ice Cream Cheesecake
The best of both worlds! A Ferrero Rocher Cheesecake and ice cream combined together to make a delicious frozen treat. At work, we often had training sessions on personality development, leadership, team building and such things. I remember one of the mentors talking about the importance of 'being at the right place at the right time. People who are able to do that are deemed smarter and successful. It always made me wonder what the right time was..who knows! I would say it has a bit to do with luck and a lot of persistence. Ferrero Rocher chocolates (which happen to be the most favourite chocolate of mine) were the first things to go on sale at my local supermarket this year. I wouldn't like to think of myself a person who keeps tabs on sales...in fact quite the oppsosite, but Ferrero Rochers at half price is a pretty big deal. I noticed it in the mailers and made a mental note to be there. By the time I went there, they were gone. Every single one of them. I checked with the store manager and he smiled. 'They were gone in a couple of hours'. He told me they would be put up on the shelves again at the end of the week. This time I made sure I was there at the start of … Read More
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