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MAKE WAY FOR THE DANISH BRAIDERS…Ooooops, I mean the DARING BAKERS!!
“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight. “ M. F. K. Fisher ‘Danish Braid’ from Sherry Yard’s ‘The Secrets of Baking’ Hello from a Daring Baker who is now a Danish Braider!! The day is finally here when this ‘daring group of bakers’ present their monthly challenge. This month, we were dared to bake a Danish Braid…a challenge hosted by Kelly of Sass & Veracity, and Ben of What’s Cookin’? What a fun challenge it turned out to be, even though I was overtaken by agony & ecstasy when I read about it. Agony because…
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The Very Versatile Pound Cake…
“Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?” George Herbert The Pound Cake…very versatile! Time & again I return to making my first love in cakes, the pound cake. I have 1 bundt pan which I guard with my life & love the way it turns out my precious pound cake. Perfect & pretty every single time, for the ‘once in a while’ rich buttery cake that uses 200gms of butter, this is just the most satisfying bake. A traditional British Pound Cake recipe would specify one pound each of flour, butter, eggs (8 eggs), sugar, and several kinds of dried fruit (currants, sultanas, and raisins, with perhaps a…
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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…&…
