REVIEWS, EVENTS etc
Product reviews, restaurant reviews, property reviews, media trips and more
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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 King.
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Bloggers Table | Café G, Crowne Plaza, Gurgaon – real food, great ambience!
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf Time for the Bloggers Table and this time it was a cozy little do at the beautiful Café G at the Crown Plaza Gurgaon. The moment I entered I was hit by a feeling of déjà vu. Such a familiar, almost Ottolenghi like atmosphere, quiet, open, airy. This was one culinary experience worth the visit! Live cooking, real food, authentic flavours … and ‘silently attentive’ excellent staff!The Café offers fine dining with a daily buffet that changes regularly. The interiors are aesthetically done, wood and beige neutrals, nice lighting and a wonderful ambiance. A salad bar…
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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 an overwhelmingly overdose of chocolate in any way. It is a sweet reaffirmation of the quote "9 out of 10 people like chocolate. The 10th person always lies". From tarts to truffles, cakes to creams, this step by step guide is a must-have for chocolate lovers. I'm sharing a quick & easy recipe for Chocolate Creme Brulees from the book... indulgent little pots!
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A French Pastry Festival with Le Cordon Bleu. Also, Thermomix comes to India
A culinary extravaganza in India to coincide with the India visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and first lady Carla Bruni. A French Pastry Festival that celebrates France's rich cultural and gastronomic tradition, bringing it to the Indian subcontinent. Event - a Le Cordon Bleu Pastry Masterclass by LCB Chef Christian Faure MOF. Also, the exciting foray of Thermomix in India. they don't call it the BMW of the kitchen for nothing! A mean machine...one that I WANT!!
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A Traditional Cake Mixing Ceremony…can you hear the bells ringing?
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” Hamilton Wright Mabie Time flies and how. Seems like the year is on a gallop. I missed the walk, the trot and the canter completely. Every day is whizzing by; it’s October already! That winter is almost here struck me when some of my girlfriends like Barbara began the ’12 weeks to Christmas Cookies’ countdown.Then a few days ago I got an invite to a ‘traditional cake mixing ceremony‘, and I was like “Whoa? Is it the time of the year already?“ Traditional Cake Mixing Ceremony The age old ceremony of cake mixing starts a few…
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Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: Eat Like a King, a Feast for a Maharaja
“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“24 Meals, 24 Hours, 24 Blogs.” Foodbuzz 24 Foodbuzz is launching it’s Foodbuzz Publisher Community; an event which goes to demonstrate the power and quality of the Foodbuzz community through real-time, real-people food blog journalism! The “24, 24, 24” captures the cultural diversity and unique local perspective of the Foodbuzz Featured Publishers: it’s real food, experienced by 24 real people, shared real-time. A global “live…
