BAKING
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Frozen| Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream {Eggless} … quite the ‘Perfect Scoop’
A very unusual and addictive Vietnamese Coffee Ice Cream that uses just 4 simple ingredients. It's silky, velvety, deep and sensuous ... an absolute winner from The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz.
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Baking| A is for Apple – Bite Sized Apple Pies for SRC & Steve Jobs
Simple yet addictive, a novel and fast track apple pie, bite sized and bursting with fall flavours. Must try for apple lovers!
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Chocolate & Strawberry Cream Cake … Pinktober
Its the PINK time of th year again. Yes indeed, Mr PABs birthday found us celebrating with a Pinktober cake. A simple, moist, delicious cake that can be made ahead. The oil in…
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Frozen| Plum Frozen Yogurt … low fat treat for Pinktober
A refreshing and beautifully coloured low fat frozen treat. The addition of vanilla sugar and kirsch give it that special flavour. This is a nice way to preserve excess fruit of summer for…
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Baking| Fresh, Fluffy, French … Croissants with the Daring Bakers
A recipe adapted from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two. Julia Child and Simone Beck, make this in cool/cold weather for croissants that are perfect, flaky, buttery, and delicious!
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Baking & Feature| Journey into a ‘Mysore Royal’ cup of coffee … & royal coffee macarons
Baking / Feature - The launch of a premium coffee in Delhi, the Mysore Royal... and coffee macarons using the premium coffee blend sandwiched together with a bittersweet chocolate and coffee buttercream.
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Double Chocolate Mousse Cookies … #baketogether
Twice baked 'Double Chocolate Mousse Cookies' for #baketogether. They were delicious and very chocolaty; a big hit at home! I did two versions, one with a bittersweet filling, and another with wholewheat oat…
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Baking| Apple Strawberry Basil Hand Pies from Beantown Baker {SRC}
Delicious and comforting, hand pies with an apple, strawberry and basil filling. Great grub on the go, and nice for an informal dessert too. Serve with a drizzle of unsweetened cream.
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Roasted Peach & Plum Ice Cream … with condensed milk {eggless}
A delicious, low cal ice cream. I love the depth of flavour that roasting fruit gets. Add a vanilla bean and it gets addictive.
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Baking| Chocolate Almond Olive Oil & Whole Wheat Biscotti
An already healthy Italian cookie made even healthier with the use of some whole wheat flour & reduced sugar. Adapted minimally from David Lebovitz, this is an addictive biscotti for the cookie jar.
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Baking| Vanilla Almond Frangipane Plum Tart … the last of the plums {well almost}
It was one of those obsessive days, a ‘have to bake with plums’ sort of a day! The plums found a happily ever after ending in this pretty fruit bake – a Vanilla…
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Le Frasier … but with mangoes
Frasiers are said to be traditional French strawberry & cream dessert. In my case, I had to wander far from traditional as we are long past strawberry season here in India. Stone fruit…
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Baking| Apricot & Plum Cobbler … the Secret Recipe Club & a guest post
“You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” George Bernard Shaw It’s July with the Secret Recipe Club and the inspiration behind…
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Contest| ADF Soul … win a gift hamper
Think India and think colour, culture & tradition. Think India, and naturally think food! It has its own character. At ADF Foods, they have captured all that magical taste in a packet with…
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Baking| Cherry Phyllo Pie … sweet cherry pie, with home made phyllo.
I am still amazed at why I didn't get to making phyllo at home earlier. This is a summer pastry for a country like ours. Light, crisp, versatile, delightful ... ah-mazing stuff! The…
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Black Sesame Macarons with Cherry Chocolate Ganache
Black Sesame Macarons with Cherry Chocolate Ganache ... Black sesame seeds instead of almond meal went into these to experiment macarons for a friend. Sandwiched with a delicious fresh cherry dark chocolate ganache…
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Phyllo to Baklava with Daring Bakers …layers of fun!
Baklava, a sweet rich pastry made with layers of phyllo dough, made from scratch, with nuts sweetened with simple syrup. Exquisite and outstanding make ahead dessert... a beautiful Dr
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Peach, Plum & Apricot Streusel Crumble … Fine Cooking In Season
Peach, Plum & Apricot Streusel Crumble. The colours, the flavours, the charm of stone fruit ... always like a dream. The crumble was addictive and difficult to keep away from. Add to it…
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Baking| Chocolate Chip & Tart Cherry Cookies … Enjoying SRC in HKG!
Whats not to love about cookies which contrast the softness of tart cherries with dark chocolate. A one bowl chocolate chip cookie recipe we enjoyed while vacationing.... and a few pics of Hong…
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Baking| Nutella & Fresh Cherries Chocolate Tart … May with Megan @ The Secret Recipe Club
A chocolate tart with a deeply luscious Nutella and chocolate filling, a vegetarian filling, which can be made ahead and is ADDICTIVE! This is my entry for The Secret Recipe Club this May.
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Cherry & Peach Oat Crumb Bars … stoned to comfort!
If you want to be stoned to comfort this summer, you must try these delicious crumb bars! They are flexible, use stone fruit, have oats and are delicious! Great snack {and also an…
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Espresso Chocolate Chip Cupcakes … Espress-o-love for Mother’s Day!!
These muffins are great for a coffee loving Mum! Nothing like a deep, delicious espresso cupcake to make the day complete. Dark chocolate pairs beautifully with coffee, and IMHO, a creme chantilly topping…
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Pebbly Beach Fruit Squares … charming cookies for Mothers Day!
“If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.” Erma Brombeck Happy May! There was a time when as kids we would go around shrieking May Daaaaaay May Daaaaaay on the…
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Whipped Strawberry Curd Cream Tartlets with Walnut Shortbread Crust
A delightful light summer berry tart with a walnut shortbread crust, and a whipped strawberry curd cream to fill the crust! A new twist to lemon curd, and we loved it!!
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Delicious Old Fashioned Eggless Chocolate Cake with Balsamic Strawberry & Cream Filling
We loved this cake! It's special because it is a layered cake, EGGLESS, no butter and still deeply decadent and 'chocolaty' moist! I filled it with a balsamic strawberry and cream filling, and…
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Baking| ERGO Knives {a review} & the best pizza dough ever {Peter Reinhart}
One of my happiest days paired with great quality knives I got to review from Ergo Chef Knives and Peter Reinharts pizza dough which made the best pizza ever! This dough doesn't disappoint,…
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Frozen Dessert| Strawberry Fresh Mint & Lime Sorbet … summer’s here & macarons too!
What better way to welcome the dreaded HOT days of summer. This is a natural and sensational sorbet to beat the heat. It is fresh and exciting, and a wonderful way to use…
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Delicious Strawberry Apple Crumble … a very easy heart friendly dessert!
One of my favourite fruit bakes ... A heart friendly dessert with complex carbs, delicious fruit and low calories. Use fruit of the season, stone and pip fruit work great here, throw in…
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Baking | Roasted Garlic Foccacia … & a salute to the ‘Fukushima 50’!
A handsome splash of extra virgin olive oil, a couple of heads of roasted garlic in the dough, a sprinkling of fresh oregano, sea salt & more garlic on top. I couldn't have…
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Baking| Strawberry & Lemon Curd Shortbread
Oh the power of food, always A M A Z I N G!! I enjoyed making these. Loved the different textures, the colours, the burst of flavours from the rather buttery unsweetened shortbread…
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Baking| New York Style Bagels – One Day Bagels! Spice Up Your Life!
A same day recipe that makes you want to make thees babies day after day! Man these bagels were good. One bite into these beauties and we were transported to bagel heaven. Bow…
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Mousse-a-cotta with Macs in the Air!
A deliicous experiment later, mousse-a-cotta or panna-mousse is what found its way back into these goblets. It found its way into the dwarfs tummies at express speed too! They loved the second fast…
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Baking| Strawberry & Whipped Lemon Curd Napoleans … ♥Happy V Day♥
Time for mille fueille, the classic French dessert which holds endless charm. I fell for the trap of this love filled or rather love-fueled day. Blogs are resplendent with sweetheart desserts, one more…
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Chocolate Granola {gluten free} … the granola that changed my life!
Gluten free Chocolate Granola ... the granola that changed my life! How healthy can healthy get, and how delicious can healthy get? Try it for yourself. It’s five minutes of work to deliciousness.…
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Baking| Nutella Strawberry Puff Pastry Hearts … ♥World Nutella Day♥
Nutella Strawberry Puff Pastry Hearts ... ♥World Nutella Day♥. Nutella and strawberries offer quintessential seductive pairing; serve them in crisp puff pastry hearts, and I think you'd hit bulls eye! Crisp buttery pastry,…
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Italian Food Event| Sapori de lombardia – Menu Sampling at Italia
Lombardy is doing the foodie rounds here in New Delhi with a unique Lombardian promotion at Italia, the celebrated award winning Italian restaurant from The Park, which offers a variety of authentic Italian…
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Biscuit Joconde Imprime/Entremet … Strawberry & Chocolate; Espresso & Chocolate
A Biscuit Joconde Imprime to wrap around an Entremets dessert. A Daring Bakers challenge done in 2 hues - Strawberry Bavarian Mousse with Chocolate Cream, and Espresso Panna Cotta with Chocolate Cream. Fabulous…
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Baking/Cooking| Homemade Potato Gnocchi with Roasted Pepper Cream Sauce
Homemade potato gnocchi in a delicate roasted bell pepper sauce ... pillows of heaven take on new meaning! A great recipe for those 'meatless' days, and another delicious way to use spuds!
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Delicious Whole Wheat & Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies … goodness of wholegrain!
Whole Wheat & Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies for a healthier 2011! I have always included some whole wheat by default, but was taken aback to see that using whole grains alone, whole wheat…
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Baking | Chocolate Orange Almond Gateau … Sweet beginning to our New Year!
The Chocolate Orange Almond Gateau is wonderful and moist, with a beautiful balance of flavours. Orange, almond and chocolate hang in delicate harmony, each complimenting the other, no overpowering flavours here. Even the…
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Chocolate Creme Brulee … The Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible
Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible is here. This one book is a chocolate lovers dream, a book with recipes you can recreate, and easily so. The instructions are clear and simple. It's not…
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Strawberry and Vanilla Macaron Trifle … Joyeux Noel!
Joyeux Noel!! A Strawberry & Vanilla Macaron trifle which was the perfect way to end our Christmas Eve dinner. The colours, the flavours, the textures...all in perfect harmony. The cranberry jelly and suspended…
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Baking| STOLLEN PUDDING … a Daring Bakers Stollen in Bread Pudding
I stole the Stollen we made for Christmas with the Daring Bakers and baked it into a STOLLEN/BREAD PUDDING! Mmmm...just the perfect dessert for a cold wintry day, good to the last crust.…
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Garam Masala Fruit Cake … a twist to the traditional, my recipe from scratch!
A Christmas Fruit Cake with a twist. Have you ever added garam masala to your fruit cake? You really should try it. It doesn't add curry flavours to your cake, I promise. It…
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Baking | Toasted Walnut Linzer Cookies with Strawberry Filling … Holiday Baking Fun!
You must try these cookies! December is whirring by, now unstoppable. Twitter is 'atweet' with who’s baking what, food blogs are bursting with fabulous holiday baking ideas. I wish I had most of…
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