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CITRUS MAKES ME HAPPY…TANGY FRESH LIME CAKE
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.” Frances Mayes, Bella Tuscany CITRUS is Tartelettes’ chosen flavour for this months’ edition of Sugar High Fridays , a monthly event created by Jennifer of The Domestic Goddess. One of my favourite flavours, I find myself using ‘citrus‘ , mostly lime, every single day, in one way or another. No day is complete with a squirt of lemon, or a splash of orange. It’s quite amazing how international a flavour citrus is. We’re talking marinades, salad dressings, desserts, chutneys, cookies, cakes, sauces, pickles, preserves…the list seems endless.…
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MANGOLICIOUS MORNINGS with FRUITY BEGINNINGS!!
“Marriages are all happy; its having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.” Irish Proverb Mango Fruit Salad with Apricots, Melon, Cherries & basil It’s the month of May, & MANGO, the king of fruits, rules the roost here in India. As far as the eye can see, it’s mangoes all the way. In the midst of this, Arundati @Escapades is hosting this month’s Weekend Breakfast Blogging (WBB) #22; it’s has been aptly christened ‘May Mango Madness’. As she dramatically states, “Melting moments of May have turned up the heat a notch higher…WBB, the event started by the lovely doctor at Saffron trail, stops by at Escapades this month.” With…
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CHOCOLATE ALWAYS MAKES THINGS BETTER…’BETTER CAKE THAN CREAM BROWNIES’
“Any food not fit to wear is not fit to eat.”Jim Rosenthal ‘Better Cake than Cream Brownies’…Chocolate Overdose Diva @ Sugar Bar is hosting this intriguing event “Beauty & the Feast”. The challenge is to pick a cosmetic/beauty/body-hand-skincare,etc. product that has either a name that is food-related or has food-related ingredients. Use the combination of flavours of the product as best as you can& give it any funky name you like. I picked Cocoa Butter Body Butter…a Body Shop product which is full of ‘brownies in another form’!! Picture courtesy Body Shop, UK“Doubly rich for extra dry skin with a yummy chocolate-and-vanilla scent. An excellent moisturizer that melts at body…
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LIFE CAN BE QUITE A CHUTNEY SOMETIMES…GRINDING TIMES!!
“Chutney is marvelous. I’m mad about it. To me, it’s very imperial.” Diana Vreeland (1903-1989) GREEN WITH ENVY??? When we were young, we often heard the phrase, ‘Hurry up or Mom will make a chutney out of us’…often in a punishing way as many would say ‘making mincemeat of us’ in parallel tones! Times change, words change, Mom’s don’t & the grind continues … Full of flavour…my favourite chutney! Why am I on a ‘Chutney‘ trail? Susan from Food Blogga wrote in to me the other day asking me about chutneys from India, & if I had some favourite chutney posts she could link to? Surprisingly enough, I had made…
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TAGS, AWARDS & A TON OF THANKS!
“A photograph is like the recipe – a memory the finished dish. “ Carrie Latet It’s been a while that I was tagged to do post my top 10 foodie photographs from my blog. When I first got the tag from Farida @ Azarbaijani Cookbook I was thrilled. This was something just me…’say it with pictures’. Tags in general remind me of my dear friend Manggy@ No Special Effects where he claims ‘all tags come to die’. This tag was special & challenging. Clicking away to glory is my next best therapeutic pleasure after cooking or baking, & I’m still trying to squeeze the life out of my old faithful…
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MOLTEN TOBLERONE HEARTS…OOOOOOZING WITH LOVE ON MOTHER’S DAY!!
“A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s grief and everybody’s joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation” Mark Twain Molten Toblerone Hearts…beating for Mother’s Day!! This recipe is from Dhanggit’s Kitchen …just the most beautiful blog for Asian French recipes! I made these Toblerone Mini-cakes, with a heart full of melted chocolate, when the post caught my eye visiting her gorgeous blog. Take a look at the chocolate trying to step out! YUM!! Been very very eager to use my metal heart shaped baking tray that a dear friend gave me, & these did seem the perfect answer!…
