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Blueberry Cheesecake Tart – desserts that spell happiness!
Blueberry Cheesecake Tart ... a delicious dessert that has a few of my favourite things - berries, cheesecake, tart! Tarts are easily the most underrated desserts, also quite easily the easiest desserts to…
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Delicate & Delightful Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake … it’s #Pinktober
Some cakes are delicate, soothing, calming, and some cakes are wickedly delicious and satisfying. This Eggless Raspberry Vanilla Bean Cake is all that and more, all these beautiful adjectives coming together in one…
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Broccoli Green Garlic Coconut Cashew Soup … firm favourite! #glutenfree #vegan
Broccoli Green Garlic Coconut Cashew Soup! If someone had asked me a couple of months ago which my favourite soup was, it would probably have been the carrot orange, perhaps the mushroom rosemary.…
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Salted Caramel Layered Cake … indulgent & how!
The flavours in this cake were intensely salted caramel & very enjoyable. The Salted Caramel Layered Cake a great departure from chocolate and is addictively good! The taste improves as it sits. Only…
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Pumpkin Green Garlic Turmeric Soup …comfort for these cold days
Pumpkin Green Garlic Turmeric Soup. Pumpkin Green Garlic Turmeric Soup. Thick, hearty, bursting with earthy flavours and satisfying. If you belong to the hearty, earthy soup club, this is for you. Winter means…
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Carrot Orange Turmeric Soup … staying warm this winter!
Carrot Orange Turmeric Soup They say we're experiencing the coldest winter in North India in decades. That calls for endless soups, stews & hot chocolate! I'm trying my hand at things I've never…
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Eggless Almond Mango Protein Cake with a whipped mango frosting
Eggless Almond Mango Protein Cake. A most delicious & satisfying tropical mango almond sponge, dense and moist, high protein too. The topping makes it even more delicious, festive too. Once again a simple…
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Best Ever Eggless Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Loaf – Simple & delicious
3 ripe bananas, a mix of flours, sugar and ghee/clarified butter yield this delicious moist and above all, VERY SIMPLE Eggless Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Bread/Loaf. The basic recipe works with everyday ingredients…
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Eggless Wholegrain Strawberry Frangipane Tray Bake …simple, one bowl deliciousness
Eggless Wholegrain Strawberry Frangipane Tray Bake. Simple, one bowl deliciousness. The buttery shortbread base holds an indulgent fragrant almond filling, finished off with sweet tart strawberries and sprigs of fresh rosemary. The whole…
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Wholewheat Carrot Walnut Cake adapted from Ottolenghi
Adapted from the Ottolenghi recipe, this one is as delicious. I've gone 100% wholewheat, used coconut sugar, part clarified butter/ghee, upped the walnuts and carrots slightly, and topped this with a hand whisked…
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Dark Chocolate Layered Cake with Almond Meringue Topping … moist, dark, delicious
Moist, dark and absolutely delicious are words enough to describe this Dark Chocolate Layered Cake with Almond Meringue Topping. The base is a simple chocolate genoise sponge, layered with a low fat whipped…
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Perfect Pumpkin Pie … and simple too
This is a pie right for fall. The filling … silky, smooth and spicy! The crust just right, not too crisp, yet offers a handsome bite, gently teasing the palette with beautiful pistachio…
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Stone Fruit Strudel … getting stoned on strudel!
“I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.” S.J.…
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CHICKEN QUESADILLAS…Mingling their way to KIDS LUNCHES!
“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.” Fran Lebowitz Kids meals evoke strong feelings in me as I often feel my world revolves around what’s best & healthiest…
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ROLL BABY ROLL…The Daring Bakers make Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna
“When the lasagna content in my blood gets low, I get mean” Garfield the Cat The net is buzzing with excitement as we, the Daring Bakers, take up our latest challenge ‘biceps on’…
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HIGH ON VANILLA…PUTTING THE SPIRIT BACK IN THE BEANS!
“The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors…
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PIZZA FROM SCRATCH…Winning over yeast!!
“The belly rules the mind.” Spanish Proverb PIZZA FROM SCRATCH… My battle with yeast is an old one…it never seemed to give me results that others proudly displayed. I was beginning to bear…
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Lamb Rogan Josh … a popular lamb curry, served here with stir-fried cauliflower
A very popular dish from North India & Pakistan, Lamb Rogan Josh is just mildly spicy. It gets its fiery red colour from paprika and like all popular recipes, this too has many…
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PANNA COTTA with STRAWBERRY COULIS…Elegant & Sublime!
“Good food gladdens the heart.” Author Unknown Panna Cotta with Strawberry Coulis… An elegant, simple Italian dessert. Creamy & incredibly satisfying! Having read about it several times, I always wondered of how beautiful…
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SEVILLE/BITTER ORANGE MARMALADE…Bittersweet pleasure!
“And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.” Francois de Malherbe SEVILLE/BITTER ORANGE MARMALADE…locally called ‘TANGERINE MARMALADE’ I sent my daughter & her friend off to my neighbours house to get…
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MARZIPAN DECORATIONS…made from scratch!
“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.” Dione Lucas MARZIPAN FROM SCRATCH…stuff to go on top of the cake! It’s time again…
