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BLACK SESAME SHORTBREAD…a fusion of flavours!
“Come and share a pot of tea, My home is warm and my friendship’s free.”Emilie Barnes Black Sesame Shortbread Cookies… You think you’ve kinda lost it when you start dreaming Black Sesame Shortbread! That’s what has happened to me ever since I saw these wonderfully enticing cookies at Diva’s Sugar Bar. Shortbread is my all time favourite sort of cookie, & sesame in a cookie is entirely intriguing. ‘Cookies with a heart, from the heart’!… So, after reading Diva’s delicious post, pretended to pull on my boots. Further pretended that I was walking down to Sainsburys. In reality, pushed my feet into a pair of slip-ons & drove down to…
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Superfood SPROUTS Salad…Sprouting healthy & tasty beans!!
“We don’t need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables – the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers – to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. “Jane Elliot Sprouted Mung Dal Salad Fresh mint & a squeeze of lime… I posted some bits about this wonderful sprout on the CLICK post for May ’08, where the theme was ‘Beans & Lentils’. Sprouts are easy to make at home, & you don’t actually need special bowls or ‘sprouters’. I sprout the dal at home almost every week, & can hardly…
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MINGLING WITH APPETIZERS…Colourful Veggie Hors’Doeuvres!
Laughter is brightest where food is best. Irish Proverb Oven Baked Potato Cheese Breaded Bites Cream Cheese, Bell Pepper & Cucumber Nibbles Time for Meeta @ Whats For Lunch Honey’s Monthly Mingle. This months’ edition is being co hosted by Mansi @ Fun ‘n’ Food, with the theme for the month being Appetizers & Hors’Doeuvres. Their call…For this monthly mingle, we’d like you to share some fancy vegetarian appetizers. Cook something that’s pretty to look at and tasty to bite in, something that looks good on a plate and is irresistible to your guests! Am sending these colourful appetizers off to sunny California to Mansi @ Fun & Food, from…
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PEACHES & CREAM…A truly sublime dessert!
“Chocolate’s okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect… it’s sublime. I’d like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.” Kathy Mattea Peaches ‘n’ Cream… As summer proceeds & the weather becomes even hotter & hotter each passing day, we are rewarded by fruits as luscious as peaches! Strange are the ways of nature, where we are subjected to harsh, scorching summers on one hand, & rewarded with fruits as sweet & juicy as nectar on the other! No reason to complain, so moving on from juicy plums, I decided to explore peach in a dessert! SUBLIME!! There…
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BLOGGING FOR BRI…GOING THE YELLOW WAY!
“Hope” is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul…Emily Dickenson YELLOW is the colour of hope & we’re here blogging for Bri. Jai & Bee @ Jugalbandi have led the way to spread hope & have embarked on a very inspired edition of CLICK. I haven’t had the good fortune of interacting directly with Bri, but have bumped into her at my dear friend Manggy’s many a time, & at Bee’s too. In Jai & Bee’s words … “This is a special edition of CLICK, tinged with sadness and filled with hope. Yellow is the happiest colour in the spectrum. It signifies hope and enlightenment. Though the work…
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AMAZING MAIZE & CORNY COOKIES
“I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.” James Beard Bowled over by Cornmeal Pistachio Cookies Then comes along one of those looooong lazy summer days where you want to bake something & for once you’d rather it wasn’t chocolate. It happens to me at times after a chocolate overdose in the kitchen. Something different has to be attempted; something which has a chance of turning out unexpectedly good or even bad, but different. Have started throwing caution to the wind & have begun treading on uncharted territory. Read on for my tale of good…& then bad, as…
