BAKING
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CHICKEN KORMA…MAKE MINE HOME-MADE!
“Cuisine is the tactile connection we have to breathing history. History and culture offer us a vibrant living society that we taste through cuisine.All cuisine is a reflection of the society from which it emanates … in the end cuisine is the result of culture” Clifford Wright Chicken Korma…home-made & finger licking good! There was an article in the ‘Daily Mail’ a while ago, which was republished in the’ Mail Today’, here in India, more than a month ago (May 16, 2008 pg 15). It talked about junk food as ‘seen by most of us as an unhealthy but occasional treat. A survey in the UK has revealed just how…
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DROPPING SCONES FOR A PANCAKE BREAKFAST…LITERALLY!!
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”Lewis Carroll Drop Scones with whipped cream & mango There are some meals that leave a mark on you, a stamp in your mind (or as in my case, on the DH’s)! The memories of the quintessential American breakfast my sister stirred up for us in Dallas last year is a case in point, & features in our foodie conversation ever so often. Whinge, whinge the man goes…why don’t you ever make pancakes? There is some block in my brain where I stubbornly DO NOT wish to get up early, hit the kitchen & make pancakes. But sometimes there are…
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Meme…I’ve been tagged twice & am running behind sched as usual!!)
“Please… tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer. “Gary Zukav I’m not a very keen meme person & tend to gasp if I hear I’ve been tagged…never easy to spill some beans on myself & kinda bare my soul to the world. Having said that, was tagged by Chreisi for a 6 word memoir & by Ivy for a 30 question meme…almost fainted!! 36 beans to spill on silly ole me….but these were fun memes! Chreisi @ Almond Corner tagged me for a ‘6 Word…
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AHOY THERE MATEYS…IT’S A PIRATE CAKE!
“Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.”Unknown Chocolate Genoise Sponge with a ganache topping & marzipan Time for the son’s 9th birthday & his level of excitement has the rest of us crawling up walls!!! The countdown began 2 months ago, & reached a frenzy in the last week. Each morning of the last week was announced with 7,6,5,4,3,2…tomorrow, “I just can’t wait for tomorrow”!! That night a calm overtook him (as my friend commented, “must be the calm before the storm“). Dead right she was, because we were all so wound up by the end of it we were all riding waves of stormy seas…&…
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CHECK OUT MY STRIPES…L ‘ZEBRA CAKE
“I’m ten years old. My life is half over and I don’t even know if I’m black with white stripes or white with black stripes.” Marty the Zebra…in the film Madagascar The Fascinating L ‘Zebra Cake…(instead of L ‘Opera Cake) With a heavy heart I write that I have been unable to complete Mays’ Daring Bakers challenge…the first I’ve missed since I joined in Jan this year. Reason…chicken pox took over our house; then when things just about started looking up, 3 days ago, I had a minor mishap in the kitchen & severed a vein in the palm of my right hand. It’s on the mend thankfully, but didn’t…
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DEVILS WITH ICY COOL HEARTS…COCOA MINT CUPCAKES
“There’s more to life than chocolate, but not right now.” Cocoa Cupcakes…with Icy Cool Hearts & Icy Cool Toppings too! Chanced upon ‘The Cupcake Hero’ theme while perusing random blogs & saw that COCOA was the theme for the month. The crew there say…”Well, let’s see your skills! Each month a theme ingredient will be named. The theme ingredient must be used in either the cupcake, the frosting, the filling or all of the above if you choose. Simple enough? I think so. I beg of you to be creative with this theme. Of course we will take any entries you guys bake up. With that said, go outside your…
