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YIN YANG CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH MARZIPAN…My daughter’s birthday cake!
“And Above All…Think Chocolate!” Betty Crocker My daughter’s 12th Birthday Cake..’YIN YANG CHOCOLATE CAKE’ ” The time has come”, the walrus said, “to talk of other things”. These words from ‘Alice in Wonderland’…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” Oprah Winfrey Wanted to share a beautiful message from a dear friend that I got the other day. Its…
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WRAP ON 2007…the year that whooshed by!
“We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.”Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory View from my window in 2007… That time of the year again; am…
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MARZIPAN DECORATIONS…made from scratch!
“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.” Dione Lucas MARZIPAN FROM SCRATCH…stuff to go on top of the cake! It’s time again…
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CHOCOLATE SPONGE CAKE with a GANACHE ICING
“Chocolate is ground from the beans of happiness. ” Alexis F. Hope Chocolate Sponge Cake with a Ganache Icing And now finally, the recipe, as I had promised, for the Chocolate Cake I…
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SAVOURY CHEESE COOKIES…Crisp, tasty nibbles!
“Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.”Cuban Proverb SAVOURY CHEESE COOKIES A favourite savoury cookie that has a made permanent place at the kids birthday party table. It’s crisp,…
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WISHES FOR A PEACEFUL, BEAUTIFUL & JOYOUS CHRISTMAS!
MY CHRISTMAS WISH FOR YOU… My Christmas wish for you, my friend Is not a simple one For I wish you hope and joy and peace Days filled with warmth and sun. I…
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QUICK CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE…Last bastion accomplished! PHEW!!
“For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.” Loring A. Schuler QUICK CHRISTMAS FRUIT CAKE…got there just in the nick of time! This is the cake that we bake every…
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IT’S CHOCOLATE ORANGE CUPCAKES FOR CHRISTMAS THIS TIME!
“Let’s dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.” Sir George Alexander Macfarren CHOCOLATE ORANGE CUPCAKES Festive food for Christmas! In a span of 2 days I…
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‘Gosht Do Piaza’ – a hearty & popular Indian lamb stew
Gosht Do Piaza' - a hearty & popular Indian lamb stew. This is my mother's version from Lucknow, North India. It's hearty and delicious!
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VANILLA CUPCAKES FOR A CHRISTMAS PARTY…Merry Christmas!
“‘If ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ were candy and nuts, wouldn’t it be a Merry Christmas? “ Don Meredith VANILLA CUPCAKES FOR CHISTMAS OK…am back again. Yesterday & today were busier than I imagined they…
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A PEEP INTO HOW TODAY WHOOSHED BY…BAKERS’ DAY IN!
“I am not afraid…I was born to do this.”Joan of Arc BAKER’S DAY IN! Life goes on…with stormy days that follow calm seas! Did I say 2 days ago that I was itching…
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HEALTHY DELICIOUS LIME CAKE…with whole wheat too!
“Good food is a celebration of life.”Sophia Loren HEALTHY ‘n’ DELICIOUS LIME CAKE…with whole wheat too! A day without baking is tough to pass. 3 days went by, and the symptoms began. The…
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FUSION FOOD…Noodles with Stir-fried veggies & Chicken
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”Orson Welles FUSION FOOD…Noodles with Stir-fried veggies & chicken This is my attempt to recreate some really delicious Pan Asian food…
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CHRISTMAS TREE HANGING COOKIE ORNAMENTS…Edible & Festive!
“Christmas Cheer Recipe- Combine loads of good wishes, heartfuls of love and armfuls of hugs, sprinkle with laughter and garnish with mistletoe, top off with presents. Serves everyone!” Author Unknown CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT…
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Nalli Gosht – Indian lamb curry on the bone
Nalli Gosht - Indian lamb curry on the bone, robust and traditional.
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Citrus Dessert Cake … happiness is a burst of fresh flavour!
'CITRUS' DESSERT CAKE...like a happy sunflower!! Another nice dessert I created from the lemon cake sans sour cream. We had my brother-in-law over for dinner the other day, and as usual, I wanted…
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KHEER / INDIAN RICE PUDDING…Special Occasion Food
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” Erma Bombeck Traditional Indian Desserts…KHEER / RICE PUDDING Here’s one of our great Indian desserts, quite similar…
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Baking | SPICY CINNAMON SHORTBREAD…Think Spice Cinnamon!
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet van Horne SPICY CINNAMON SHORTBREAD This is a sweet & spicy shortbread, not the traditional sort, because…
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MOCHA WALNUT CAKE- Healthy Nutty Chocolate-Coffee Cake
“I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.” Harry Mahtar My recipe ‘MOCHA WALNUT CAKE’…with chocolate chips thrown in for good measure! A variation to my own recipe…this time it’s a ‘MOCHA…
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KASHMIRI MEATBALLS IN A GRINDLESS GRAVY!
“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!” Tommy Smothers Kashmiri Meatballs in Gravy Kashmiri cuisine or Wazwan has always held a fascination for me by way…
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Back to baking again…ORANGE SHORTBREAD COOKIES
“And every day when I’ve been good, I get an orange after food.” Robert Louis Stevenson ORANGE SHORTBREAD COOKIES Orange Shortbread Christmas cookies from the ‘Great Big Cookie Book’…crispy, buttery & just right…
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ON A VERY DIFFERENT NOTE…CHRYSANTHEMUMS!!
“Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.” Luther Burbank Just in case you guys think I’m obsessed with baking & not just…
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"NUTS ABOUT STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE…with the zest of orange!" CLICK:December 2007
“Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.” Jim Davis, ‘Garfield’ “NUTS ABOUT STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE… …with the zest of orange!” Here’s my entry for CLICK:December 2007 ” Show us your NUTS”…
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STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE…A Delectable Cake for Tea or Dessert
“Laughter is brightest where food is best.” Irish Proverb STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE This recipe is adapted from one of the first baking sites I used to browse many many moons ago…the ‘Joy of…
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CHRISTMAS COOKIES…the colours of the season!
“It’s good to be children sometimes,and never better than at Christmas.” Charles Dickens ICED COOKIES SPECIALLY FOR CHRISTMAS… Christmas Cookies…I make these special ‘Iced Cookies’ at this time of the year when I…
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DATE & WALNUT LOAF…AFAM – a DATE with you & HotM 10
“Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens.” Sepal Felicivant AFAM (A Fruit A Month) is a wonderful blog event which highlights different fruits. The event…
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LIME SHORTBREAD COOKIES…Stringing them along for Xmas!!
‘Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.’ Judith Olney LIME SHORTBREAD COOKIES A variation of Orange Shortbread Fingers from…
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BLACK FOREST GATEAU…a southern German dessert cake to die for!
“Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman sure can.”Author Unknown Black Forest Gateau… The Black Forest region (‘Schwarzwald‘) in Germany is essentially known for three distinctive features: its highlands, scenery and woods,…
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STAINED GLASS COOKIES…Hold ’em against the light!!
‘Cookies are made of butter and love’. Norwegian Proverb Festive, fascinating & delicious cookies! A cut-out cookie made out of my favourite basic sugar cookie dough. Then smaller bits are cut-out and filled…
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ITALIAN CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES…food-as-a-gift for Christmas!
‘There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.’ Linda Grayson, “The Pickwick Papers“ Up, Close & Chocolicious! Italian Almond Chocolate Truffles… I had an old truffle recipe, which…
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NATURE NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE…a pallette of colours!
‘Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.’ Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society The ‘Peacock‘ butterfly I think…this lovely creature visited us a couple of days…
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I’VE BEEN TAGGED…Kiwi Cake & ‘Meme’ in My 100th POST!!
‘Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!’ Seuss KIWI FRUIT in a Sponge with Fresh Cream, Almonds &…
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BISCOTTI…The Great Italian Cookie!
“You’ll always make good food from great ingredients,but you will never make great food from bad ingredients.” Michael Chiarrello BISCOTTI in 2 TONES!! Here’s what I baked yesterday…BISCOTTI. It’s been on my mind…
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Passionate About Baking found mention here …
PAB on Sunday Dinner on Ziet Online PAB on Inspiration from the Blogging Community @ Turmeric n Spice Top 500 Food Blogs … http://www.cellarer.com/best-cooking-blogs {at #64} The 100 Top Culinary Blogs … http://www.guidetoculinaryschools.com/tips-and-tools/best-culinary-blogs PAB…
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GINGER IN MANY AVATARS…Diversity is the ‘Spice of Life’!
“Had I but a penny in the world, thou shouldst have it for gingerbread.” William Shakespeare (1564-1616) GINGER GINGER EVERYWHERE…& a pile of it here!Time again for the monthly ‘Think Spice’ at Sunita’s…
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ESPRESSO CAKE…Can you smell the coffee??
““Everybody should believe in something. I believe I’ll have another coffee.” Author Unknown My ESPRESSO CAKE….Mmmmmmm Here starts a brand new week of coffee opportunities. This happens to me every November, when coffee…
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Coffee in a Trifle …Simple & Impressive Dessert for coffee lovers!
‘Just around the corner, There’s a rainbow in the sky. So let’s have another cup o’ coffee, And let’s have another piece o’ pie.’ Irving Berlin, 1932 ‘COFFEE IN A TRIFLE’… Here starts…
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LEMON CAKE…Baked as a gift!!
“I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.” Madam Benoit LEMON CAKE sans sour cream… Made my ‘twisted’ & ‘tangy’ lemon cake…
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ITALIAN CHOCOLATE ALMOND TRUFFLES…Home-made for Diwali!
“If there’s no chocolate in heaven, I’m not going!” Author Unknown ITALIAN CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES… Its almost time for Diwali…which is also known as the ‘Festival of Lights’. I usually try and make a…
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BEFORE & AFTER ICING THE COOKIES…
“Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.” Marcella Hazan Oooops!! Guess what? Forgot to post the before and after pictures of the ‘Iced Sugar Cookies’. I love the way they look…
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ICED SUGAR COOKIES…A great gift for any occasion!
“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living”Dione Lucas Iced Sugar Cookies… My all time popular cookies that kids love. They add a…
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"WYF Dessert/Sweet?"…ALMOND-ORANGE SPONGE WITH CHOCOLATE GANACHE is one of ours!!
“Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! “ Author Unknown Time for SnackORama’s ‘What is your favorite Dessert/Sweet’ ? “It can be Sweet, cake or ice cream anything that is sweet…
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PRETZELS a la CHOCOLATE!
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray CHOCOLATE PRETZELS Thanks to Happy Cook, have woken up from my slumber to…
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STRAWBERRIES ON A ROll…Nice ‘n’ Light Dessert
On the STRAWBERRY: “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.”Dr William Butler, 17th century English writer STRAWBERRY SWISS ROLL A delicious & light dessert which I made…
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CLICK: November 2007…NOODLES
‘It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.‘Laura Ingalls Wilder Am pushing my limits…Between dropping the kids off to school, and now returning to get them…
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SMOKED BUTTER PANEER…Paneer-e-Dhungaar is what I like to call it!
“Raising children is presented at first as a true-false test, then becomes multiple choice, until finally, far along, you realize that it is an endless essay. No one knows anything.”Anna Quindlen SMOKED BUTTER…
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BUTTERFLIES…everyone deserves a little sunshine!!
“Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine. “ Jeffrey Glassberg The past few days have seen…
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CHOCOLATE-CHIP & WALNUT COOKIES…for Halloween
“Bring forth the raisins and the nutsTonight All-Hallows’ Specter struts Along the moonlit way.”John Kendrick Bangs Chocolate-chip & Walnut Cookies for Halloween Today was a day I just wanted to sit & relax…
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A PINEAPPLE ‘n’ CREAM CAKE…& the makings of it!
“We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.”Clementine Paddleford Pineapple ‘n’…
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THE DRAGONFLY…
“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.” Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Silent Noon The Dragonfly… Look who was kind enough to drop by when I…
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A CRUMBLE TO FALL FOR…a healthy Apple Crumble!
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns.” George Eliot Sugar & spice & ‘FALL’ things nice…that’s…
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MORAVIAN TARTS…warm up to cookies this Fall!
“Seeing is deceiving. It’s eating that’s believing. ” James Thurber MORAVIAN TARTS This is a recipe from ‘The Great Cookie Book’, and was one the first cookie recipes I tried almost 5 years…