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Chocolate, Dried Cherry & Walnut Bar Cookies
“Will work for chocolate” Summer in North India has become a drag, & I can’t wait for better days to come. I’ve been desperate to bake but lack motivation. Everything is HOT, & I almost don’t need to switch on the oven to bake. Power outages rule our days with electricity more absent than present. The kids summer vacations in this entire region have been extended in view of the heat wave. The mayhem at home continues…& in the midst of this, I still want to bake…I had an old Martha Stewart recipe using oats & dried cherries jotted down on a scrap of paper. I found it a couple…
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WORLD OATMEAL COOKIES … with Dried Cranberries, Crystallised Ginger, Walnuts & Raisins
“I’ll feed them milk and cookies.”Brent Sutter I love a good oatmeal cookie. Had a bag of dates & thought I’d do a date & walnut something. Surfed the net for ages looking for something ‘cookie’ to make with dates & walnuts. Obviously & predictably, got hopelessly distracted, & ended up making these tasty morsels … without using dates of course! Not really sure if I would like dates in my cookies, I played around with ingredients in an old oatmeal cookie recipe I had. Ended up with these delish cookies, using some crystallised ginger & dried cranberries I had on hand. What I like about this recipe is that…
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NUT, SEED & RAISIN BISCOTTI…Preciously jeweled cookies!
“Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.”Unknown Doing rounds of blogs is never easy when you have to run a regular life too, full of routine stuff like laundry, grocery & school trips galore. Junior goes to a new grade in another week, so half the days were scheduled with PTA’s, orientations, new books & uniforms etc. The past week has been even more hectic with the kids at home (Spring Break), & I’ve had little or no time to blog hop. One blog that I often attempt to stop at is Heidi @ 101 Cookbooks because it’s always got some…
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ARTISAN BREAD or NO-KNEAD BREAD…Finally made it!
“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.” Robert Browning OK, I’m part of the club too. Finally, after all the bread bakers, their neighbours, cousins, aunts, & just about everyone has made & talked about this artisan bread, I’ve finally had a go!! Five Minutes a Day, just five minutes & voila…you have dough. Been reading of this sensational bread for ages, & the picture was firmly stamped in my mind when I first saw it on Paula’s blog @ Dragon’s Kitchen back in July last year. Her loaf was stunningly pretty, moreish, rustic & has remained on my list of…
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Chocolate Chip Cookies … with oats, dried cherries & walnuts
“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.” Robert Fulghum And here’s yet another Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe to add to the millions doing the rounds in blogosphere. I guess you can’t have enough of CCCs, & this recipe was born in an attempt to make a bookmarked recipe off Helene’s blog @ La cuisine d’Hélène – Recettes. She had posted these delicious CCC from Doubletree Hotel, & I set off to make them, only to find 3 cups of chocolate chips in the list…
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HERB CREAM CHEESE CRACKERS…there’s more to buckwheat than meets the eye!!
“Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.” Benjamin Franklin Couldn’t resist adding that quote…sorry guys! …I’m beginning to have more fun in the kitchen. That bag of buckwheat flour has done me a world of good. It keeps beckoning to me from the shelf. Was back to Heidi @ 101 Cookbooks to drool over some delicious looking Swedish Rye Cookies, when a note in the middle of her post grabbed my attention. She had let loose some pearls of wisdom about trying the Swedish Cookies in a savoury avatar. Fancy that? Of course I did, & the feet found themselves moving towards the kitchen with a strange sense of excitement.…
