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Rich Spiced Hot Chocolate & Masala ‘Kadhai’ Doodh
Rich Spiced Hot Chocolate might well be the simplest thing to enjoy this season. It's simple things that matter, and with recipes like these, ingredients are of prime importance. You can't go wrong with food if they are made up of good quality elements. This Rich Spiced Hot Chocolate is just that. Indulgent good too. Made with Premium Milk from Mother Dairy, single origin couverture chocolate, dark cocoa, vanilla beans and spices from South India, it's hard to go wrong.
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Genoa Fougasse with spiced yogurt, hummus & foxnuts … for the love of bread
Genoa Fougasse turned out to be the best bread I've baked in a while. Sometimes you just need 'bread luxury', and this became that and much more. The difference here was the new level of deliciousness brought on by the addition of a gourmet spice blend, Genoa, from Sprig. It brought the flavours alive, went beautifully with the cheese and walnuts within, making it our new favourite bread at home.
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The Masala Dabba #2. Spicing up desserts and journeying further into the spice box
It's strange how often we connect spices to savoury foods, often in India spice is synonymous with a curry! Delightfully enough, as we blog on, reading more, breaking new ground and exploring our palettes, ingredients take on new meaning. For instance, there is always so much more you can do with spices, enough to make them leap out of the masala dabba or spice box!!
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The Masala Dabba #1… exploring the Indian spice box
The Masala Dabba. A name that paints a spicy picture. A fun food styling experiment born out of a conversation one day in December last year. Spices are something that intrigue us, and are sometimes challenging to shoot. So Dolphia floated the idea, and it was instantly lapped up by Simi and lazy me. It's always great to have something that gives us inspiration, or maybe focus to shoot. The idea was to shoot the spices, in sets of three, month after month.
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Pumpkin Pie Spice and Walnut Loaf Cake with Buttermilk Frosting
This Pumpkin Pie Spice and Walnut Loaf Cake with Buttermilk Frosting is based on the buttermilk pound cake which I make very often. It's healthy with a generous dose of whole wheat flour. The pumpkin and pie spice added a nice deep dimension to it. Buttermilk frosting and marzipan make it festive.
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Foodhall … an Olive Oil Bar, fresh brewed tea, spices … & more
The Indian food scene is growing in leaps and bounds. New 'eat outs' are mushrooming across town, in every city, often faster than it takes me to get the next meal on the table. Speakeasy bars a new trend, exotic ingredients suddenly commonplace, and Jamie Oliver practically rubbing shoulders with Ongs on every local grocery store! Taking this food festivity one step further, we saw the opening of the Foodhall which is touted as being a unique high-end destination for food lovers; a new shopping experience.
