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Mango Saffron Shrikhand Cavity Cake {Eggless} … love at first bite!
Mango Saffron Shrikhand Cavity Cake…Yes you heard right. This isn't just a simple layered cake. This delicious eggless cake has a cavity filled and then topped with the most indulgent and luxurious saffron…
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Wholegrain Brownie Fudge Pudding Cake…comfort food♥
Wholegrain Brownie Fudge Pudding Cake... Deep, luxurious and served hot from the oven. This is a great winter warmer, even better that it's a no brainer two bowl mix dessert. This brownie cake…
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Eggless Triple Chocolate Orange Cakes … Petite dessert & a virtual walk through Old Delhi
Petite Eggless Triple Chocolate Orange Cakes ... and a virtual walk through Old Delhi. These little cakes are as delightful and flavourful as can be. Deep, moist, chocolaty and quite pretty, they also…
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Charming St. Gallen with Switzerland Tourism {PART 2}
Have you heard of St Gallen? It's a city in northeastern Switzerland, tucked away south of Lake Constance. It's quite off the beaten path; one visit to the city and you are absolutely…
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Strawberry Almond Roulade with a Burnt Honey Mascarpone
Life is sweet, made sweeter with honey. This roulade also turned out great, the burnt honey mascarpone adding special flavour. If you don't have time to make the burnt honey, you can always…
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Eggless Dulce de leche Pumpkin Walnut Quinoa Tart #vegetarian #glutenfree #thanksgiving
An eggless, walnut loaded delicious Dulce De Leche Pumpkin Walnut Quinoa Tart. It's vegetarian, it's gluten free and it’s a great make ahead dessert especially during fall, Thanksgiving and the festive season.
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Pumpkin Coconut Cream Pudding #vegan #glutenfree
Pumpkin Coconut Cream Pudding. Pumpkin and coconut are a great combination and work well in these mildly sweet gentle vegan & glutenfree puddings. I've topped these with unsweetened coconut cream, then walnuts, roasted…
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Dark chocolate pumpkin walnut truffles … sweets for the festive season
Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Walnut Truffles ... more ways to use fresh pumpkin puree, dark chocolate & walnuts this festive season. The truffles turned out surprisingly delicious. No added sugar, glutenfree, festive, indulgent! And…
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Walnut Chocolate Pumpkin Tart – healthy, so delicious, vegetarian
Walnut Chocolate Pumpkin Tart is wholegrain & eggless, and full of delicious healthy walnuts. It can go vegan with a few changes. I also used some finger licking good walnut butter in this,…
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Layered Coffee & Cream Cake … simply delicious
Layered Coffee & Cream Cake ... simple, satisfying and indulgent, guaranteed to please the ardent coffee lover! The cake is very low effort, yet tasted like a million bucks! Pretty it up with…
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Simple Chickpea Hummus … back to the basics
Simple Chickpea Hummus … some things are good when kept basic. It’s nice to master the simplest form of a recipe, then treat is as a canvas and build on it. This is…
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Chocolate Walnut Granola & a Coffee Chocolate Granola Tart
Chocolate Walnut Granola & a Coffee Chocolate Granola Tart ... yes it's two recipes in one post today because one thing led to another. The chocolate walnut granola I made is minimally adapted from…
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Salted Caramel Sauce … simple goodness back to the basics
Salted Caramel Sauce ... some recipes are so simple yet so amazing that you keep going back to them over and over again. This recipe for Salted Caramel Sauce is one of them.…
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Dark Chocolate Buckwheat Dessert Cakes … Happy World Chocolate Day
Deep, dark, CHOCOLATY, indulgent and gluten free, these Dark Chocolate Buckwheat Dessert Cakes do really please the die hard chocolate lover. Use a semi sweet chocolate if you like instead, top these with…
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Jamun/ Wild Indian Java Plum Mousse … simple summer dessert
When Jamuns {wild Indian Java plums} are in season, a Jamun/ Wild Indian Java Plum Mousse is always on the cards. Jamuns are an acquired taste because of their astringent edge, so the…
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Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta … simple pleasures of life
Delicious, divine, sinful and silky, if you love a good panna cotta and chocolate is your flavour, then dive right in! This Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta might just be the dessert you are…
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Roasted Cauliflower Salad – making the most of vegetables! #glutenfree #plantfood
Grilled Cauliflower Salad is a great salad for winter, and also for spring. I have served this warm from the oven, as well as chilled overnight. It's addictive good both ways. I have…
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Coffee Mascarpone Layered Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache
Coffee and chocolate are a pairing made in heaven, and this Coffee Mascarpone Layered Cake doesn't disappoint. Make it the previous day if you like, the flavours mature well over time. It'll certainly…
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Dark Chocolate Walnut Gateau {GF} … and exploring the Canon 6D Mark II #photography #canon
Dark-Chocolate-Walnut-Gateau Canon...baking up for when the world’s lightest full frame DSLR comes over for a review. Well it’s a Canon, more specifically a Canon 6D Mark II, and you just know it’s time…
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Dark Chocolate Cinnamon Oat Pudding with Pumpkin Mascarpone Mousse
Dark Chocolate Cinnamon Oat Pudding...with Pumpkin Mascarpone Mousse is a simple, fast track dessert, which is quite healthy actually. The layers are oat chocolate pudding, spiced sweet pumpkin puree, and a whipped pumpkin…
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Zafrani Phirini | Saffron Almond Indian Rice Pudding
Zafrani Phirini | Saffron Almond Indian Rice Pudding… some desserts become your signature and this is one of those. I have been making phirini or rice pudding for years. Each time I try…
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Mousse-a-cotta with salted caramel … dessert ideas that keep getting reinvented
Mousse-a-cotta with salted caramel. Some desserts are classic no matter how you serve them. This one is where a silky mousse meets the panna cotta, resulting in a sublime, deep, chocolaty dessert. A…
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Wine marinated chicken taco bites
Wine marinated chicken taco bites turned out to be such fun little bites, and a great snack to serve, with wine perhaps? Though not traditionally used in a marinade, wine adds nice flavour to…
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Polenta Cheese Crackers and a cracker of an Eggplant Melon Seed Dip … with infused olive oils
Polenta Cheese Crackers {and canapes} and a cracker of a dip. The oh-so-delicious smooth Eggplant Melon Seed Dip comes together in seconds. Both the crackers and the dip are beautifully flavoured by an…
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GF Peach Cherry Quinoa Crumbles … how my quinoa crumbled!
GF Peach Cherry Quinoa Crumbles​.... that's how my quinoa crumbled and we loved it! With peaches and cherries falling off carts this year, and my quinoa obsession, the options are unlimited!​ Honestly, this…
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Juiced … 3 ways with fresh juice #TefalIndia #GetTheBestOutOfEveryday
To juice or not to juice is often the question, and it's a tough one to crack. Having given it a good thought, as old school as I may be, I think a…
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Dark Chocolate Quinoa Cake with Balsamic Cherries & Whipped Almond Cream
Flourless and wholegrain cakes generally have heavier crumbs, and it's all a matter of taste. We love the bite and luxury whole grains offer. This Dark Chocolate Quinoa Cake with Balsamic Cherries &…
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Mango Coconut Pudding … a celebration of Alphonsos
Mango Coconut Pudding ...when you can't get enough of the mango season, and you can't stop yourself from bringing together favourite flavours! These were everything they look like and more ... delicious, delicate,…
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3 ways with Watermelon – Pizza Cooler Salad #summer #healthy #inspiration #raw
When summer hits you splat in the face before time, with temperatures over 40C already, it’s only summer fruits you can turn to. These days I’m mesmerized by watermelons. They’re available in plenty…
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Wholewheat Walnut Garlic Coriander Bread … new flour in town & I’m loving it! #EkNayiAadat with #Aashirvaad
Nothing better than fresh home baked bread, and this Walnut Garlic Coriander Wholewheat Bread is bursting with goodness of a new wholewheat flour, Aashirvaad Sugar Release Control Atta. Use herbs and nuts of…
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Eggless Wholegrain Buckwheat Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies #healthy #glutenfree
Eggless Wholegrain Buckwheat Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies. These are cookies that come together in a matter of minutes, are fuss free and absolutely delicious. That they are 100% wholegrain makes them a winner.…
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Mulberry Lime Cooler … when spring meets summer!
Mulberry Lime Cooler for times like these when the season changes, when spring meets summer. With a very short and 'finger staining good' mulberry season in progress, life is good. How better to…
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Baked White Chocolate Cheesecake with Mascarpone & Strawberries … BEST CHEESECAKE EVER
Baked White Chocolate Cheesecake with Mascarpone & Strawberries might well be my best cheesecake to date. Smooth, rich, indulgent, satisfying and quite impressive for something made so simple. A quick jam like reduction,…
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Food Talk | Tropical Fresh Turmeric Chia Energiser … with maple syrup
Tropical Fresh Turmeric Chia Energiser... when a ray of sunshine hits you in the morning, you know you are energised. Wake up to a good morning. These glasses have all the colour, loads…
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Dark Chocolate Wholegrain Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Dark Chocolate Wholegrain Cupcakes with Maple Syrup Cream Cheese Frosting. It's been forever since I baked cupcakes or muffins. I bake cakes and cookies more often I guess, possibly, lazy me. Yet when…
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Strawberry Pineapple Smoothies & Watermelon Kiwi Gooseberry Fruit Bowl- going Tropical with Chumbak
Strawberry Pineapple Smoothies & Watermelon Kiwi Gooseberry Fruit Bowl to celebrate the tropical collection from Chumbak. It's INSPIRING!
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Thandai Indian Rice Kheer … Holi time of the year
Flavoured delicately, this indulgent Thandai Indian Rice Kheer hits all the right notes. Sweetened gently with jaggery, the flavours of almond, cardamom and saffron just shine. The texture of broken simmered rice is…
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Wholegrain Buckwheat Orange Chocolate Chippers … chocolate chip cookies get better and better
Wholegrain Buckwheat Orange Chocolate Chippers come together in a matter of minutes, fuss free and absolutely delicious. That they are 100% wholegrain makes them a winner.
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Baking | Date Walnut Orange Flapjacks … sweet comfort food
Buttery & nutty with a burst of orange, sweetly comforting and quite indulgent, these Date Walnut Orange Flapjacks are going to be showing up quite often. A recipe minimally adapted from one @food52…
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Crudites with Creamy Garlic Dip and Seedy Buckwheat Crackers
Crudites with Creamy Garlic Dip and Seedy Buckwheat Crackers might well be one of my favourite ways to rustle up something simple and quite addictive for an everyday healthy nibble, a small get…
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Fruits with Cream & Granola Parfaits … dessert for breakfast
Dessert for breakfast! Fruits with Cream & Granola Parfaits where wholegrain homemade granola meets creamy goodness and colourful seasonal fruit. Make the morning shine with the #CreamOfAllFood.
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Baking | Gingerbread Garam Masala House … my dream house
The Garam Masala Gingerbread House is my wholegrain take on traditional Scandinavian Gingerbread House. Sweet, spicy and warm and fun to build, this little dream house is well worth the time and effort!
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Bhune Murgh ki Biryani … delicious one pot rice & chicken Indian meal
The Bhune Murgh ki Biryani is a one pot comfort meal, rich, flavourful and homely. The flavours tease the palette and the chicken is beautifully spiced. It turned out to be deliciously good,…
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Dark Chocolate Cheesecake with Wine Macerated Strawberries
Dark, divine, sinful, creamy, chocolaty and above all, as simple as can be, this Dark Chocolate Cheesecake with Wine Macerated Strawberries will leave you wanting for more. Recipe minimally adapted from Ruchira @thegreatcookaroo.com.…
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Cooking | Lamb Chops with Red Wine… deep, delicious holiday flavours with Big Banyan Wines
These Lamb Chops with Red Wine turned out to be the best I've ever made. Rosemary, garlic, and a limited edition Shiraz from Big Banyan Wines came together ever so beautifully to create…
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Baking | Cheesy Chicken Pot Pies … comfort food for the holidays with #bigbanyanwines
There is something intrinsically therapeutic about weaving a lattice for a pie if you know what I mean. With a filling of chicken marinated with @bigbanyanwines, carrots, kohlrabi and cheese of course, these…
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Smoky Baked Mushroom Cheese Dip with #bigbanyanwines for the holidays
Smoky Baked Mushroom Cheese Dip is a definite crowd pleaser, and a great addition to the holiday table. Smoky Gouda, wine simmered mushrooms, garlic and fresh thyme make one of the best cheesy…
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Baking | Wholegrain Chocolate Buckwheat Sablés . . . crisp indulgent eggless Christmas cookies
Crisp, deeply chocolate, buttery, wholegrain, eggless, Wholegrain Chocolate Buckwheat Sablés are the yummiest cookies ever! Adapted from The Boy Who Bakes.
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Baking | Smoked Eggplant Walnut Truffle Dip – earthy, rustic, nutty & delicious
Eggplant Walnut Smoked Truffle Dip...earthy, rustic, nutty, slightly tangy, creamy, smoky delicious. Play around with ingredients to suit your palette. That's the beauty of dips.
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Rich Spiced Hot Chocolate & Masala ‘Kadhai’ Doodh
Rich Spiced Hot Chocolate might well be the simplest thing to enjoy this season. It's simple things that matter, and with recipes like these, ingredients are of prime importance. You can't go wrong…
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FoodTalk | Terra Chips … Exotic vegetable chips in a bag! 2 dips too #TERRAadventures
When you have vegetables this crisp, rustic and earthy with flavours that explode in your mouth, you know Terra Chips have got it right #TERRAadventures
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Chole Masala / Curried Spicy Chickpeas
Chole Masala / Curried Spicy Chickpeas is a quintessential recipe from the Indian sub continent, one of the most popular perhaps. Every house has it's own recipe, and you can keep them as…
