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Creamy Mushroom Soup With A Cheese Crust
This week has been one filled with many 'firsts'. The most exciting one among them was that we were called to try out and pick up school uniforms for my soon-to turn schoolgoer boys. It is hard to express what I was feeling at the sight of them in their fresh, slightly over-sized school uniforms. … Read More
Toffee Apple Self-Saucing Pudding
A self saucing pudding with the addition of apples and a delicious toffee caramel sauce. Easy to make and a perfect homemade dessert. 5 years ago, the only pudding I knew of and would make was the bread and butter pudding. Easy to make, easily adapted to include and exclude your preferences and … Read More
Chocolate Almond Ginger Cookies
I just wanted to bake cookies. For no rhyme nor reason. Do you really need a reason to make a cookie or a reason to eat one? If I am not doing anything else, I just have to get my hands whisking some kind of dough. I have to be cleaning away bits of dough, wiping away tiny drips of melted chocolate … Read More
Well Naturally Chocolate+ A Spiced Chocolate Lassi + Giveaway
I often come across people who associate weight loss, health and fitness with some kind of food deprivation, cut-downs and fad diets. I am certainly not an expert in this area but the word 'deprivation' does not exist in my culinary dictionary. Food is a gift..it is one of the greatest pleasures in … Read More
Split Red Lentil and Pumpkin Soup
Split red lentils mean pure and simple comfort to me. They are the reminder to me of how a simple meal of dal and rice can appease my hunger instantly, even though I have eaten them all my life. They also stands for convenience when fresh vegetables are not available at hand and a quick meal is what I want to put together in the middle of the week. I've probably eaten them in dal/dahl form since the time I started on solids as a baby, a good few decades ago.. Only recently I discovered that using it in a soup is not uncommon. As you know, unlike many of you I have not been a big fan of pumpkin but I've started enjoying it lately when I pair it with my favourite ingredients. This is one soup I have not just enjoyed but totally loved and made several times in the past one month.Since it is quick and easy to make and nutritionally wholesome, it ticked all the right boxes for me. The creamy texture and mild sweet flavour from the pumpkin appealed to my kids so it was a win-win all throughout. Admittedly, it is really the dal we eat with pumpkin added to it which is blended in the end to give it a soup like texture. Onion, garlic and ginger always makes it for me. … Read More
Golden Apple Tart
I believe that names of most (if not all) people have a meaning. Most likely in their own language. When I found out that I was expecting twins I was faced with the exciting but quite complicated task of finding names for them. For a first time Mum, it can be quite daunting going through the multiple permutations and combinations. Two little personalities you are just starting to know and you are about to give them an identity for life. My children were born in my native land, India, where sex determination is a crime. So you can imagine my plight when I was in the dark till the very last-minute if they were going to girls, boys or one of each. I had 3 spreadsheets worth of names on my laptop that I continued to update as days came closer. Finally when they were born, quite premature I did not even look at those spreadsheets that I had been filling up so religiously. I did not have the time nor the stamina. Their names just happened. My own name has no meaning in the English language but going back to my roots, it means golden. In real life I have no yearning for gold...neither literally nor figuratively. However, when it come to food, golden to me spells … Read More
Chocolate Beetroot Cake + Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting + Candied Beetroot Leaves
In my previous workplace, I had two awesome friends. We were a group and since we always hung out together, most of the other colleagues called us 'The Three Musketeers'. Perhaps for lack of a creative or better expression. I guess if there's three of you, that is the most likely thing that comes to one's mind. Nevertheless, going to work was fun and so were the long lunches, group meetings, gossips and just being able to connect with two people who were completely different personalities and you still got on like a house on fire. So even though the nickname wasn't cool, our friendship was. Let me tell you what else is cool when three personalities come together. This cake. Gingerbread meets chocolate cake meets beetroot. Sounds complicated. Well, it really isn't. This is hands down the best chocolate beetroot cake I have ever tasted. You don't taste the beetroot. What you taste is rich chocolate flavour which is intensified by the addition of treacle. Golden syrup and maple syrup will work too but treacle gives it strong flavour and rich colour. It is truly a treat! You know by now that my kitchen is nothing short of a test kitchen and I am constantly trying out different … Read More
Upside Down Chocolate Trail-Mix Cake
Life is not always magical and not all days are the same. There are days when you will run out of brown sugar by as little as a quarter of a cup when you have every other ingredient to make your favourite chocolate cake. You will then make your way to the shops to get some as the cake has to be made that day and you don't want to compromise. (Please don't tell me that you will substitute with castor sugar...that doesn't make me happy!) Then just when you think that everything is going well, the cake sinks in the centre leaving you wondering where you went wrong.. There are days when you will swear that your bathrooms scales are inaccurate and your mobile network will tell you 'you are not connected' when you so want to see the response to your latest post on Facebook. There are days when you will splurge for a little 'feel good' and end up regretting every purchase you made. Everyone has these days. Perhaps changing perspective helps or even better a bar of chocolate. Then why not cake! Yes, cake all the way for me.. So here is a cake to turn your frown upside down. An upside down chocolate cake! There are no fresh fruits in this cake unlike the usual upside down cakes. But … Read More
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