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KOROVA COOKIES…sinfully delicious chocolate cookies!
“Make a list of important things to do today. At the top of your list, put ‘eat chocolate.’ Now, you’ll get at least one thing done today. “ Gina Hayes Still thinking PINK…
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CLICK for Jugalbandi…EGGS!!
“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me.” Julia Margaret Cameron This entry is for one of the sites I have enjoyed visiting for a while now. It’s for an event…
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SMARTIE COOKIES….
“I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.” James Beard SMARTIE COOKIES I call these ‘Smartie Cookies’ because I once had…
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PINEAPPLE ‘N’ CREAM SPONGE CAKE…Totally refreshing!!
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. “ Lucille Ball PINEAPPLE ‘n’ CREAM SPONGE CAKE This post is for you Anne (of Simply Anne’s).…
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Recipe for my Soothing Blue & Green Cake
“My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from…
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MINI VANILLA CUPCAKES
“When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.” Laiko Bahrs MINI VANILLA CUPCAKES This recipes was passed on to me by a friend’s mother who had been using it for…
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CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE-CHIP POUND CAKE
“Chocolate is nature’s way of making up for Mondays.” Anonymous CHOCOLATE & CHOCOLATE-CHIP POUND CAKE Another recipe I tweaked to suit the ingredients available on hand. I have great fun playing around with…
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CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE for HUNGRY KIDS!!
“Chocolate is cheaper than therapy and you don’t need an appointment” Anonymous CHOCOLATE SNACK CAKE FOR HUNGRY KIDS… Here’s a chocolate cake recipe I conjured up for the kids for when they come…
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FUSILLI PASTA IN A SIMPLE CORIANDER CREAM SAUCE
“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.” Julia Child A recipe I put together when the kids were ravenous, and the cupboard was bare!!…
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CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE-CHIP MUFFINS
“I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation” Madame Benoit One of the kids fave muffins. I keep playing around with the…
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BUTTERSCOTCH ALMOND SHORTBREAD (Eggless)
“I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. “ Erma Bombeck BUTTERSCOTCH…
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Kiwi Fruit Dessert Cake with Orange Marmalade & Fresh Cream
“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.” Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti,…
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With apples in season here…it’s time for ‘APPLE CRUMBLE’
“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some…
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Lemon Cottage Cheese Cheesecake Recipe
“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” Julia Child My experiment with a cheesecake made from cottage cheese instead of cream cheese.…
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Penne in Cream Mushroom Sauce..for Presto Pasta Nights.
“The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.” George Miller PENNE IN A CREAM MUSHROOM SAUCE Here’s my entry for Presto Pasta Nights hosted by…
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My Celebration Cake…
Small celebration for small pleasures. Voila… a picture of my ‘Celebration Cake’. Its a Coffee Mocha Pound Cake with a chocolate ganache icing topped with sprinkles, and then drizzled over with white chocolate.…
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Chocolate Chip Cookies… one of the first cookies I baked
My version of the classic American Toll House Cookies. These were once sold along toll paths in the US.
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Cookie Baskets Galore
Roasted Almond Biscotti Wholewheat Ginger Cinnamon Cookies Coloured Sugar Cookies Wholewheat Cinnamon Teddies Chocolate Pretzels Iced Sugar Cookies Almond Shortbread Iced Diwali Cookies Walnut Shortbread Cookies Posted by Deeba @ PAB
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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…
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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…
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‘Creamless in Gurgaon’…and sans baking chocolate too!
Creamless in Gurgaon is what the current situation is. This is almost like ‘Sleepless in Seattle’. What agony is this? With the flooding in Gujarat a few months ago, and a blazing hot…
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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…
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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…
