BAKING
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Baking | Spicy Vine Tomato Relish … jars of goodness in season
A Spicy Vine Tomato Relish full of flavour and savoury goodness that celebrates the magic of tomatoes on the vine. It's handy to have a few jars in the fridge, and a great…
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Traditional Savarins with Crème Patisserie : Daring Bakers – win some, lose some!
It was the Daring Bakers challenge. Even though the savarins didn't come out winners, the Crème Patisserie more than made up.
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Lime Marzipan Mini Bundt Cakes … fresh and exciting ‘one bowl cakes’ for summer!
Lime Marzipan Mini Bundt Cakes ... charming little cakes that seem perfect for a tea table, picnic, snack box or as a gift. Simple one bowl cakelets that are fresh and exciting.
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No Bake | Mulberry Strawberry Buttermilk Sorbet & Mulberry Jam … In season with mulberries!
It's mulberries all the way. Enjoy a refreshing, sweet, tart, delightful and pretty Mulberry Strawberry Buttermilk Sorbet. The Mulberry Jam is quite sweet and makes for a nice addition in a berry dessert…
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Baking | Bittersweet Fallen Chocolate Gateau with Crème Patisserie & Balsamic Vanilla Strawberries … my feature in Mail Today #mailtoday #thecocoatrees
This rustic Bittersweet Fallen Chocolate Gateau is given a charming uplift with a chocolate lace collar. Crème Patisserie & Balsamic Vanilla Strawberries complete the dramatic look to make the chocolate experience even more…
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Frozen Dessert | Strawberry Basil Frozen Yogurt … tangy+sweet+minty+low fat=guilt free addiction
A refreshing, bowl licking good, tangy sweet minty strawberry basil frozen yogurt that will leave you wanting for more. Guilt free, made with low fat yogurt, summer doesn't get better than this!
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Raspberry Pistachio Roulade … Spring Roll? Errr Swiss Roll!
The Raspberry Pistachio Roulade captures the colours of spring nicely. It's light, refreshing, moist and quick to make. It's a nice make ahead simple homey dessert.
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Dark Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Peanut Butter Filling … Daring Bakers & Hidden Veggies!
A Dark Chocolate Beetroot Cake that is earthy, moist, dark and delicious. The peanut butter filling compliments the cake really well, and can be doubled if you wish to frost the top of…
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Millet & Whole Wheat French Fougasse … rustic bread with caramelised onions, walnuts, dehydrated tomatoes and mozzarella
Millet & Whole Wheat French Fougasse ... bread as rustic as it gets. If you are a new to whole grain breads, the earthy flavours will gradually grow on you. It's a dough…
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Irish Creme Chocolate Cakes with an Irish Creme Caramel Sauce … Happy St Patrick’s Day
Irish Creme Chocolate Cakes to celebrate St Patrick's Day. What's not to love about these little rustic beauties! Happy St Patrick's Day!!
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The Life of Pi …. err…Pie Bird & A Strawberry Pie
A Strawberry Pie and a Pie Bird. Strange how things happen at a good time. Around the time that the Life of Pi won an Oscar, the good folk from Zansaar sent me…
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Feature | International Womens Day…. lunch hosted at Casablanca, Double Tree by Hilton, Gurgaon
To celebrate International Womens Day, earlier today Double Tree by Hilton in Gurgaon invited about a 100 women from different walks of life to lunch at Casablanca, a Moroccan specialty restaurant. Inspired by…
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Baking | Rye Cheddar Crackers & Pizza Dough Crisps … Crackling good times with the Daring Bakers!
Crisp, earthy, flavourful crackers with rye flour, and crisps made out of pizza dough. Give them a brush of extra virgin olive oil, a sprinkling of dried herbs, pepper, sweet paprika, maybe sea…
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Lamb & Beet Greens Calzones, Pies & Popovers …pizza dough 3 ways
Lamb & Beet Greens - Calzones, Pies & Popovers ...pizza dough three ways. One batch went a long way. Deliciously too with mince lamb and beet greens. We had calzones one day, pizza…
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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…
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Double Chocolate Strawberry Pavlovas … sweet indulgence!
The crisp exterior of meringues, the marshallow gooeyness of chocolate within make these Double Chocolate Strawberry Pavlovas a combination made in heaven. Dark chocolate, whipped cream and balsamic strawberries offer a stunning passionate…
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Food Event | Bloggers Night @ Dirty Martini, Olive Bar & Kitchen, New Delhi
It's hard to say no to an invite from Olive at the Qutab. Always the promise of a fab fun filled time out, great hospitality, innovative food and drinks, relaxed company ... all…
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Bloggers Table | An Oriental Dinner at Pan Asian, WelcomHotel Sheraton, New Delhi
The Bloggers Table was hosted at Pan Asia for an oriental meal with Japanese Chef Nakamura. It was an interactive dinner, hosted in a private dining room, a lesson in Thai/Japanese salads and…
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Baking | Savoury Chicken Galette … Cherry Tomato with Green Garlic Pesto & Roasted Veggies with Smoked Sea Salt {Baking with Julia}
A simple, crisp and delicious pastry base which can go sweet or savoury. This savoury rustic pie can hold varied combinations of toppings, vegetarian or non vegetarian, and is great for picnics, snack…
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Ty.phoo …Tea & Food Pairing Session with Chef Vicky Ratnani
n interesting experience, enjoyed in good company and with the personal attention of witty and energetic Chef Ratnani. He's a hands down foodie ... exuberant, full of beans and so forthcoming. We came…
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Baking | Creamy Chicken Pasta Bake … & a Broccoli salad #comfortfood
Creamy, cheesy, indulgent and comforting, this is a great one bowl meal for cold winter days. Make ahead and bake just before serving. Maybe you can do a broccoli salad and oven baked…
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Tea Rose Fondant Cake … and a floral giveaway
A lighter version of the classic pound cake, the Tea Rose Fondant Cake is sandwiched with a light confetti butter cream. The buttermilk vanilla bean pound cake makes a delicious base for the…
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OMBRE … Almond Layered Cream Cake {for the teen who craved pink!}
Happy birthday to the teen who wanted PINK!! A light almond flavoured sponge sandwiched and frosted with an equally light almond whipped buttercream.
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Book Review | Adieu 2012 … ending the year with ‘The Pondicherry Kitchen’ book review
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” Alfred Tennyson Wrapping up a season is hard enough, wrapping up a year seems unreal. How time has flown. 2012…
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Baking | Traditional Panettone the Daring Bakers way!
A delicious sweet Italian bread like cake studded with fruit, nuts and candied peel. The Pannetone originates from Milan, and is traditionally made around Christmas.
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Christmas Fruit Cake with Garam Masala …. Joyeux Noel 2012
Christmas Fruit Cake with Garam Masala ... Rich, fruity, nutty and deeply flavoured fruit cake for Christmas. The flavours of garam masala lift it to new heights. This is a quick to make…
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Baking | Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies with Smoked Sea Salt and Fluted Pistachio & Craisin Cookies … cookie l♥v
Cookies Cookies Cookies. The events of the past week asked for something comforting … the call was for cookies!
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Blogging Day of Rememberance
On Monday, December 17, members of the blogging community have decided to observe a day of remembrance for the people of Newtown, CT.
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Baking | Wholewheat Dark Chocolate Brownies … one bowl, whole grain, and delicious
Decadent wholewheat dark chocolate brownies just right for this season of indulgence. Wholewheat makes these less 'guilt-ridden', and some olive oil instead of butter convinces you to reach for more. Add some walnuts…
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Lime & Strawberry Cream Cake … a splash of pink in December!
An almost fatless sponge cake layered with a whipped raspberry cream with strawberries within. This Lime & Strawberry Cream Cake is light, moist, flavourful and gone quick!
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Baking | Pumpkin Pie Tartlets in a Walnut Shell with Spiced Ginger Cream. Happy Thanksgiving!
Walnuts pair beautifully with warm pumpkin, pie spice and ginger to make these simple little Pumpkin Pie Tartlets in a Walnut Shell with Spiced Ginger Cream. A touch of gently spiced ginger cream…
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Coffee & Vanilla Bean Layered Cake …Happy Birthday to me
this is what dreams are made up of. Coffee in a birthday cake has become a quintessential part of my birthday, a flavours that inspires me like no other. Light as air vanilla…
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Baking | Almond Digestive Chocolate Squares & Roasted Garam Masala Chickpeas … Diwali / Holiday Baking
Holiday Baking Fun! These little Almond Digestive Chocolate Squares hit the sweet spot without being too sweet or too buttery. The savoury fare by way of chickpeas came out CRISPY good from the…
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Blog Event / Product Review | Foodathon … and the Philips AirFryer. A ‘crisp’ idea!
A food event and a contest win... The Philips AirFryer - a review. It's simple to operate, has an alarm which is a great built in feature, kid friendly, really easy to clean…
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Basque Lamb Stew … White Wine or Red? Surpisingly both!
With winter almost here, this Basque Lamb Stew seems like a good way to warm up ... robust, hearty, full of flavour. It's the time of the year when comfort food tops the…
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Blog Event | Our MasterChef Australia moment … Breakfast with George Colambaris at Olive Beach, New Delhi
This is what dreams are made of. The invite was for an informal breakfast with Australia MasterChefs Gary & George hosted by the folk we love to love - good old Saby {Chef…
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One-bowl Milk Chocolate Brownies ….. with a little food for thought!
You believe in the deliciousness of milk chocolate when you nibble these fudgy, chocolaty, moist milk chocolate brownies! Adapted very minimally from Baking for Friends, Kathleen Kings fresh new cookbook.
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Chocolate-Pear Tea Bread … Love Baking for Friends
Delicate pears, brown sugar and butter come together with dark chocolate chips to make a specially delicious moist and flavourful quick tea bread. A delightful fall special from ‘Baking with Friends‘ by Kathleen…
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Bloggers Table | Rose Café, New Delhi … a thorny affair and Pinktober let down
Not pink at all café review - The folk at the bloggers table delivered the promise as always … giggly, enthusiastic, chatty and click friendly. Rose Café, New Delhi, however didn’t! We failed…
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Bloggers Table | The Leela, Gurgaon … excellence in everything they do!
It’s one thing having a philosophy of “Atithi devo Bhava – Our Guest is God”, and it’s another thing delivering it in every sense of the word. The Leela did just that! Hospitality…
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Baking | One bowl cocoa wholewheat almond brownies … Alice Medrich {#urbandazzle}
Single bowl cocoa brownies. Dark, deep, chewy, moist, chocolaty ... and made with whole grain. Using just whole wheat flour and almond meal instead of plain flour, they turned out to be brownie…
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Empanada Gallega … Daring Bakers at their best!
Empanada is the kind of food that makes one go back to childhood. A bread-like dough that surrounds a filling with just about anything you can imagine, from mushrooms, mince and cheese. Or…
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Almond Chocolate Chip Cupcakes … and getting featured on Femina
‘Cupcakes on the go‘, healthy, requested quite often, good with frosting and good even without. The almond meal adds interesting texture and taste to them.
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Petite Iced Cakes … Coffee Cream, Raspberry Cream & Chocolate Cream
Petite Iced Cajes ... dainty little tea cakes lavished with a vanilla buttercream. Each good to serve four, made with different flavours – coffee, chocolate & raspberry. The flavour possibilities are endless, and…
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French Fougasse with Roasted Red Bell Pepper, Garlic, Walnut & Mozarella … #fortheloveofbread
Bread we love! With the carbs threatening an overdose, did a tiny substitution with whole wheat flour and used instant yeast. I also literally stuffed it, almost making it a more like a…
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Baking| Ottolenghis Brilliant Focaccia … doesn’t get better than this!
Even the dieting diva loved it and couldn’t stop nibbling. It’s no nice and chewy she declared! It really is and that’s the beauty of Ottolenghis recipes…they ALWAYS deliver. The kids had focaccia…
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Filled Pate a Choux Swans – Daring Bakers, Ugly Ducklings and Swans
Light as air pate a choux swans filled with a crème patisserie ... a beaitful Daring Bakers challenge}
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Bloggers Table | {Delhi} Summer Menu at Italia …. Olive Fest!
Another Friday and we were back together, a busy, hungry, chatty bunch of food bloggers from Delhi, taking our ‘Bloggers Table‘ to a fine dining Italian restaurant, Italia, DLF Promenade, New Delhi for…
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Baking | Not Quite Anzacs … Eggless Oat & Walnut Cookies
Not quite anzacs ... cookies that are nice, chewy if you like them them that way, and crisp if you bake them longer! I loved the flavours trapped within - brown sugar and…
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Bloggers Table | Evernote Food App … the ‘elephant that never forgets’!
The Evernote Food App. It's a great app for foodies - good for recipes, good for food reviews, good for recording memories by way of notes, tags, pictures ... the works! Better still,…
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Oven Roasted Plum & Almond Cakes … Happy 100th Birthday Julia
Tiny little delicious dessert cakes that celebrate summer, stone fruit and plums! They are light and delightful, the almond meal adding beautiful texture to the crumb! Baking With Julia ....
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Baking | Plum Tart with Walnut Frangipane
Fruit in season must be the biggest thrill of my life. I am a locavore to the core and fresh produce makes my heart sing. A delicious summer tart with plums and walnuts.…
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Culinary Event | Up Close and Personal with Chef Saby & Leonardo … & Sizzling Gamba {recipe}
We were brought believing that too much of a good thing is bad! Times have clearly changed and with good times come dispelled notions! Our afternoon at the wonderful Olive Bar & Garden,…
