BAKING
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FOOD, INC. Time to make thoughtful food choices?
“Health requires healthy food.” Roger Williams FOOD, INC. Time to make thoughtful food choices? A new film & book just released is raising the heat, & asking somewhat uncomfortable questions about the food we eat. When Megan Bedard wrote to me asking if I would be interested in promoting healthier food consciousness, I had no doubt in my mind. The foodie is me strives to offer healthy eating options to the family. On a daily basis, it’s about bringing healthy & affordable meals to the table … at times a struggle. Definitely time to make thoughtful food choices!The book, Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us…
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PEACHES & CREAM…The peach monster turns 10!
“There’s your karma ripe as peaches.”Jack Kerouacwho… Got back recently from a short sojourn in a the hills with a veritable peach monster…LOL! I have never seen any kid eating as many peaches as this guy did. It’s his birthday today so I decided to make him a cake using peaches… The filling partly inspired by a Bavarian cream from Helen @ Tartlette which used pears. I love hanging around her blog. It’s inspirational!! I used the Bavarian cream part of Helen’s recipe, substituted the pears for peeled & chopped peaches. We shall know how good it tastes later tonight, but it was wonderful to unmold the cake this morning…
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Peach Rosemary Jam … fruits in the Himalayas
“Thought is the blossom,language the bud,action the fruit behind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Here’s a little more about our recent trip into the hills, the adventurous beginning of which you can read about in my first post here. This second post is a bit of a fruity one; well mostly anyway. Ramgarh is a serene hill station in the Himalayas, perched at an altitude of about 1800 m above the sea level. It is quite the idyllic place for offbeat leisurely holidays in peace and tranquility, & is known for its fruit orchards and wonderful views of the Himalayas. On clear days you can see the snow-capped ranges of the Himalayas…
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ZUNI RICOTTA GNOCCHI – Time For the Daring Cooks!!
“Try to cook so that it will surprise a little, agreeably and astonish slightly, without shocking.”Jean Marie Amat Here we are with the very first Daring Cooks’ challenge … Ricotta Gnocchi being hosted by Lis & Yvonne, the bravehearts behind the Daring Kitchen! They have chosen ‘a recipe from the stunning cookbook by Judy Rodgers, named after her restaurant, The Zuni Café Cookbook.’ This challenge takes me back to my first Daring Bakers challenge, where I signed up after many tugs between the head & the heart, & ran straight into a Lemon Meringue Pie. That was my first challenge with the Daring Bakers & I wept with my weepy…
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Chocolate Strawberry Cake and a tart that didn’t oblige!
“When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”Erma Bombeck Happy Mother’s Day! To all you great Mum’s out there, this one’s for you. We blog, we bake, we hug, we love, we yell, we twitter, we sigh, we cry, we are divas, we are devils, we are pushed to the limit, we push others to the limit … we are MOTHERS!! How difficult to put us in one word, but HEY, someone did it, & called us ‘mother‘. Have a good day!! The kids made cards for…
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SPRING HAS COME & SPRING HAS GONE- but CLICK is here to stay!
“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” Al Bernstein The Click duo, Jai & Bee have got a beautiful theme going this month, CLICK: April 2009. (Spring/Autumn), and as usual, I’m racing. This post is not a foodie post. It’s just a SPRING post, posted a little sadly, because Spring disappeared quite a while ago. Currently we are in a ‘mercury rising’ situation, where the highs are around 43C, & hot summer winds are sweeping the Northern Indian plains! Another degree & they’ll declare it a heat-wave!! Whatever… …the life & times of my carnations ~ Can you tell I’d been busy clicking when Spring was here?…
