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CHARGRILLED BROCCOLI with CHILLI & GARLIC … from Ottolenghi
“And When You Least Expect It, You Will See the Mountain Move…” … lines from my little red book All through my university days, and even while I worked, I had this little red book with a checked Scottish cover, in which I penned down quotes and poems I liked. I’d always had this thing for ‘words‘, and I still do. The quote, which formed part of a poem I’d saved, seemed an instant click with my battle of making the kids eat their veggies. As they grow up, it’s becoming an uphill task. They are increasingly fussy about not eating their ‘greens‘, their vegetables and the outright ‘healthy’ stuff!…
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Apple, Cranberry & Praline Cake… and Ten in 10!!
“One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” Thomas Fuller Here’s a fruity filled beginning to 2010, a year that’s already beginning to look good. The year that we just wrapped up was filled with goodness too, ever so satisfying. The high points being blogging with friends, Food Blogger Connect, Twitter and macarons! Who would have dreamt that life would change monumentally with a microapplication called Twitter?? I’ve made breakfast club pals, macaron pals, laundry club pals, dragon pals and even snail pals! Food blogging led to fabulous new friends, and some I was actually able to meet at the Food Blogger Connect! We exchanged gifts there, BIG…
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Indulgent & Delicious Strawberry Bavarian Cream Cake … for my daughter!
“When you make a cake, you truly express your desire to please the people you love, and show them how much you care.” Roland Meisner Time flies, and how! It’s was the daughter’s 14th birthday and as busy as every 2nd January has been since the day she was born. We barely recover from the kids New Year eve excitement, and there it is, her big day staring us in the face. What cake are you making for me she religiously asks the day before? This year the situation was different. There was a huge power grid failure and our entire region was gripped with dense fog. My cake plans…
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Tempt You With Bitter Orange Marmalade? Why Ever Not??
“I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.” D.H. Lawrence Marmalade : (n.) A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. Another beautiful and wonderful tradition I follow is bitter marmalade making. A tradition which is about giving and not so much about getting. This is the time of the year that the tangerine tree is laden with fruit and calling my name. I have a tradition of making bitter…
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Honey Chicken Kathi Kebabs…if you like honey!! A Book Review
“If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.” Dale Carnegie I got a mail from a lovely lady, Raima, the other day asking if I would be interested in reviewing an Indian cookbook by Delhi based celebrity chef Komal Taneja. Undercover Utopia is a Mumbai based publishing house which was founded in 2007. With a mission to usher in the new age of imagination, by encouraging younger writers, Undercover Utopia has always managed to create exciting and original content. Sure I would! This would be my first instance of reviewing an Indian Cookbook. I have reviewed Modern Spice, ‘INDULGE – 100 Perfect Desserts’, Foods and Flavors of…
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C is for Christmas , C is for CAKE… always room for cake
“Nutty as a fruitcake” Always room for cake in our little home, and winter screams fruit cake, a cake we love to enjoy from December to February. This is the time for an annual tradition at our place. As long as I can remember, my mother always baked this cake over the Christmas holidays, year after year. It became part of our life, something we looked forward to every winter. Gradually it became a holiday favourite, and with vacation madness came to be known as New Year Cake as it never got made in time! Then I got married, and slowly baking passion took over my life. Gradually Mom stopped…
