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{Baking} NO FEET, PRAY, LOVE …Oooops I mean EAT, PRAY, LOVE Chocolate Macarons
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do!” John Wooden What’s not to love about the name of this much awaited film that is being released today on Friday the 13th – Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. The film is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author’s trip around the world after her divorce, and what she discovered during her travels. The film doesn’t seem to have very great reviews, but I love the title. A now clichéd phrase which seems to embody the essentials of life, a set of words…
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{Baking} CHOCOLATE ALMOND BISCOTTI … the fuss about Valrhona
“There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE!” Linda Grayson, “The Pickwick Papers” Sometimes life springs wonderful surprises, and I sit back reminiscing about how far I’ve come in the past couple of years, and more often than never, the connections boil down to twitter. I have met so many great folk here, all like minded, food at the centre of our universe, and vibes that make everyday HAPPY! Amazing!! One such tweep is the fun and very talented girl Shayma who blogs at The Spice Spoon. Have you met her? She writes evocatively, a food blog with plenty of connect, inspired by her heritage.…
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{No Bake} OTTOLENGHI’S PRESERVED LIMES … Preserve the Bounty
This August, I signed up for the Preserve the Bounty Challenge hosted at Nourished Kitchen which is an intensive 5-week challenge designed to teach you how to preserve the bounty of summer without pulling out the canner. Participants receive an email and tutorial once a week covering a traditional, time-honored food preservation technique. In Jenny’s words, “There’s many, many methods for preserving food without canning; however, in this challenge we’re focused on only a simple handful: freezing, sun drying, salt-curing, oil-curing and fermentation. Each one of these methods helps to maintain nutrient content better than the process of hot water or pressure canning.” Preserve the Bounty: August 2010 It’s August…
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{No Bake/ Cooler} PLUM LEMONADE!
If life gives you lemons, and you are lucky enough to have plums too, …make plum lemonade! I bookmarked this the minute I saw it. The summer through, I keep a pitcher of fresh lime juice waiting for the kids when they come back from school, exhausted from the severe heat and looking for cool respite. They absolutely love fresh lime juice and guzzle it down hungrily, greedily sucking at the ice cubes in the end. When the Indian phalsa berry season was on, they enjoyed this phalsa cooler, and once in a while they luxuriated with a tall glass of peach ice tea {from a mix unfortunately}. Home made…
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{No Bake/Vegetarian Dessert} TROPICAL FRUIT VERRINES… Stoned this summer!
“Give me book, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors played by someone I do not know” John Keats We’ve been stoned nice and proper this summer! No, no, it’s not what you think. It’s just that we’ve had a wonderful bounty of stone fruit, and just when I think it’s the end of the season, the vibrant bazaar and the vendor tempt me back with more fruit to offer! A few days ago, my favourite fruit-vendor promised me another week of peaches. Just when I heaved a sigh of relief that I still had time, and there was really no need for…
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{Baking} CORNMEAL DROP BISCUIT PEACH COBBLER … for times when the mason doesn’t show up!
“There’s your karma ripe as peaches.” Jack Kerouac Even while the hammers rain blows down, and the kitchen is in shambles, I have a list of things to do. A cobbler was on my must bake list before the stone fruit season bid us adieu. It’s been bookmarked ever since I saw it on Leites Culinaria when I stopped by attempting to try and bake a recipe off the site for a photography competition. This cobbler was high on my list, until Monsieur Lebovitz’s Absolute Best Brownies knocked me off my perch! Not one to stay knocked off for so long, I was soon winging my way back to my…
