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Baking | SPICY CINNAMON SHORTBREAD…Think Spice Cinnamon!
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet van Horne SPICY CINNAMON SHORTBREAD This is a sweet & spicy shortbread, not the traditional sort, because I made it with brown sugar that gave it a very different texture. In addition, I went further and sprinkled the tops with a mix of brown sugar & cinnamon before baking, which enhanced the flavour of cinnamon! Flowers on stars!! I love the ‘Think Spice’ monthly event at Sunita’s World. It does make you put on your thinking cap, and actually think the spice…at least with me it does! Can you imagine…I been thinking ‘Cinnamon’, her…
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MOCHA WALNUT CAKE- Healthy Nutty Chocolate-Coffee Cake
“I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.” Harry Mahtar My recipe ‘MOCHA WALNUT CAKE’…with chocolate chips thrown in for good measure! A variation to my own recipe…this time it’s a ‘MOCHA WALNUT CAKE’. I love experimenting, and even though the kids never seem to tire of the regular stuff I bake, I’m always restless for a ‘change‘. The original recipe, a YUMMY PICNIC CHOCOLATE CAKE , was one that I had created & posted a while ago trying to put together a good, tasty & healthy chocolate cake, with just 1/2 a cuppa butter. This is just a variation off that one, is delicious, & has a light…
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KASHMIRI MEATBALLS IN A GRINDLESS GRAVY!
“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!” Tommy Smothers Kashmiri Meatballs in Gravy Kashmiri cuisine or Wazwan has always held a fascination for me by way of how different it tastes. The other day I found an interesting sounding recipe for Mutsch Kashmiri Meatballs at A Mad Tea Party. After browsing the write-up, right up to the last 2 meatballs et al, the mind was made up. This I just had to try, & promptly put it on my agenda of interesting ‘must-makes’ in the near future! Hesitatingly, with fingers crossed, I even used mustard oil as the recipe suggested. I made this…
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Back to baking again…ORANGE SHORTBREAD COOKIES
“And every day when I’ve been good, I get an orange after food.” Robert Louis Stevenson ORANGE SHORTBREAD COOKIES Orange Shortbread Christmas cookies from the ‘Great Big Cookie Book’…crispy, buttery & just right on sweetness. Its the orange zest that adds a burst of fresh flavour to this shortbread. Its amazing how much of a difference natural flavours can make to food! The orange before it lost its zest! The recipe is quite similar to the Lime Shortbread Cookies one I posted a few days ago; except there are no twists to the original recipe this time, but for the shapes. If you haven’t got cookie cutters, worry not! Just…
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ON A VERY DIFFERENT NOTE…CHRYSANTHEMUMS!!
“Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.” Luther Burbank Just in case you guys think I’m obsessed with baking & not just passionate about it, time to burst the bubble! I do plenty of other tinkering around too; lots of which is in the garden. Been thinking of posting these for a while, but each day was bringing a change. Now finally, here are the Chrysanthemums growing in our garden, which I have been tracking from the bud stage to full bloom. This is the season for these picture perfect flowers here in North India, & they are visible…
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"NUTS ABOUT STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE…with the zest of orange!" CLICK:December 2007
“Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.” Jim Davis, ‘Garfield’ “NUTS ABOUT STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE… …with the zest of orange!” Here’s my entry for CLICK:December 2007 ” Show us your NUTS” For probably the first time in my life something clicked…literally. I made this Streusel Coffee Cake day before because of an image from Joy of Baking that was maddeningly stuck in my brain. Last night, the nuts suddenly struck me as very very familiar…CLICK NUTS !!! Yippee! Now I’ve cut a slice, clicked a picture & I’m all set for Jai & Bee’s at Jugalbandi! VOILA! Couldn’t have asked for more. And as you can see, my…
