BAKING
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Red Velvet Cake Roll with Strawberries and Ricotta …give me RED!
“Lots of bright colors like lime, orange and red this year.” Barbara Henderson The sight of the brilliant RED in the RVC takes my breath away each time I see a picture. Does that happen to you too? I have always wanted to make a red velvet cake (RVC) for as long as I can remember. So much talk about it, so many pictures calling my name, but I never quite had the courage to try making something so red which often involved a whole bottle of red food colouring. It scared me! Almost every recipe I came across had about that amount of colour to lend the cake its…
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Amici Café … ♥ Good food, friends and menu sampling ♥
“Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant – I don’t know if that’s the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.” Sally Schneider Got an invite from the beautiful Amici Cafe in Khan Market, New Delhi … “In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we’re reaching out to a select set of Delhi-based food bloggers to come in and sample our specially prepared ‘Aphrodisiac’ menu”. I looked forward to sample the special menu, and was also thrilled to get an opportunity to meet a few Delhi bloggers. Have virtually bumped into Anita from Mad Tea Party and Sid of Chef…
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Strawberry Galette with Vanilla Scented Frangipane
Strawberry Galette with Vanilla Scented Frangipane because it's pure joy to work with fruit, and a rustic, free form pastry makes it even better. The aromas of the tart baking were instantly mood uplifting, and it tasted delicious!
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CHICKEN CURRY, OLYMPICS & BLOGGER AID … Culinary Connections!!
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet van Horne My curry conversations are back. What’s not to love about curries? Was on Twitter the other day and Alessio, Davina and me got talking curries. Oooh delicious!! We discussed black cardamoms, green cardamoms, Indian spices and much more. I knew instantly what I would be posting about next! Seemed like the right time for curry… It’s been ages since I posted a curry, though I make one quite often out of one of the many cookbooks I own. I had a lemon pepper curry on my mind, but Sunday distractions, kids at…
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Strawberry Apple Pie Cake – What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Strawberry Apple Pie Cake. This is a light fruity cake, different in so many ways. The bottom layer is basically the fresh fruit which gets cooked in a cakey batter, and the topping is a nice burst of dried fruit.
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Mini Manqué Pear Cakes with Black Grape Compote
“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.”Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday was a day I needed to bake. The morning wasn’t kind to me. Got up and the computer screen was dead as dead can be. Woke up the daughter and she was rather rude for something trivial … very uncalled for!! Then she decided not to have the breakfast I made. I had about lost it, but DH stepped in, flashed a big smile, ate her breakfast…and told me to relax! So my pent up anger was redirected to the kitchen, and it was time to bake. Hit the kitchen…
