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Nuts About Bananas…’Banana Muffins’!!
“Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.” Jim Davis ‘Garfield’ BANANA CHOC-CHIP WALNUT MUFFINS Makes 12 This is a recipe I have been using for ages…not sure where I got it from, but the kids seem to love these. You can omit the walnuts or chocolate chips if you like, or increase or decrease the quantity as desired. Preheat oven to 190degC/375degF. Line a 12 muffin regular tray or grease well. Ingredients: Flour – 1 cup Wholewheat Flour – 1/2 cup Baking powder – 1 tsp Baking soda – 1/2 tsp Salt – 1/4 tsp utter – 1/4 cup + 1 tbs(60gms) Bananas – 3 / mashed Sugar…
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Tailor Birds in our yard…Bird watching in Gurgaon
Digressing from baking etc….. Couldn’t resist posting this. These are snapshots of a pair of Indian Tailor birds that sewed a nest in our front yard. The next few weeks unfolded fascinating pictures of chicks hatching out of bright red eggs. An experience worth the wait!! Posted by Deeba @ PAB
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‘Creamless in Gurgaon’…and sans baking chocolate too!
This is almost like ‘Sleepless in Seattle’. What agony is this? With the flooding in Gujarat a few months ago, and a blazing hot summer in North India prior to that, cream has all but disappeared from the market. To make matters worse, baking chocolate has done the number too. We used to get decent tetrapaks of cream from Vijaya and Amul, and I found ways and means of reaching my end product even though the cream had a low fat content (20-30%). Cadbury’s used to do baking chocolate slabs in 500gm lots ,which I had got and stacked up. Sadly, I have exhausted my supply. Nestle’s dark baking chocolate…
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Painting Cookies
I love to paint cookies, as you can see. They give me hours of endless pleasure when I am home with nothing better to do. The kids love ’em, and line up for them the minute they are served. Always a big hit at birthday parties, and on Diwali and Christmas I customise them. On Diwali I do diyas (oil lamps) and candles with silver dragees on cookies. When Christmas comes, its bells, stars, xmas trees, wreaths, gingerbreadmen,candy canes, snowflakes etc and etc. I even do hanging ones for the tree on Christmas. We put ribbon through holes on top to hang them…and its really worth the hard work and…
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Baking from scratch…lessons learnt
Lemme tell you something about the what I like to do. Anything and everything creative. Baking has become my passion after years of trying things from ‘scratch’, and I find cooking helps me unwind. I like to substitute and experiment for the simple reason that a couple of years ago we didnt get very many ingredients here in India. I like all cuisines…be it Indian, Italian, Fusion Cooking,Mexican…whatever. Just like to keep it simple and not too overpowering on taste. Half the battle is won if the presentation is good. You should see my son sniff his way to the kitchen, and check out the ingredients and ‘the look’. He…
