Eggless Pineapple Pudding
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Category: Dessert
Red Velvet Cake
The colour of blood is Red. Red also indicates grave danger. Love is often expressed artistically by an arrow piercing a Red heart. Blood = Red Danger = Red Love = Red By the transitive property, Danger = Love = Blood (shed). Didn’t you always wonder if the mathematical properties you learnt at scho
Chocolate Cherry Cake
I was updating my resume recently and after a bit of counting on my fingers, I noted down a total experience of 8.3 years. I felt kind of low the rest of the day, for apparently no reason and then it hit me. My college years were far, far behind me; I was not quite young anymore; I was, gulp, middle
No Bake Coconut Souffle with Pomegranate Jelly
Twinkling stars and decked up trees, the red nosed Rudolph and jolly old Santa, festive wreaths and shiny angels, joy and hope, reds whites and greens; it’s so difficult to contain the excitement that Christmas brings along And equally enticing is all the food that happens during the holiday season
Chocolate Mousse Layer Cake
My friend Crl told me recently that November was upon us and it was almost time to soak raisins in rum (for Christmas cake). And that statement plus all the wonderful baking happening on Rachel Allen’s Cake Diaries made me want to bake a cake more than anything else ever did! Determined to make som
Palada Pradaman
Is the onakodi for your family ready? Have you finalized your Onasadhya menu yet? Have you finished buying your vegetables, marked out the banana leaves that are going to be your organic plates for tomorrow or found out which shops sell banana leaves in case you are a pravasi malayali? Need I remind you that a sadhya is a sadhya only if you are able to produce atleast 20 vibhavangal to crowd those banana leaves? Needless to say, I am all excited that it is Onam tomorrow. For me, apart from draping my kasavu sari and decorating my hair with jasmine flowers, Onam is that one day of the year when vegetarian food shines in all its glory, each urulla of rice resulting in an explosion of flavours that are sweet, sour, spicy and tangy. My favourite part of the meal remains the payasam or sweet pudding. Kerala boasts of a wide variety of payasams such as adapradhaman, chakkapradhaman, paal payasam, ari payasam, semiya pasayam, payar payasam etc. Some are sweetened with jaggery and are dark in
Plantain Sweet with Caramelized Coconut
I feel horrified when I see someone shake a bottle of soft drink before opening it. If it is someone I know, I scream and reach the culprit in great leaps and bounds to rescue the bottle, the way a mother would react when she sees her only child balancing himself on the wall of a 20 feet deep well. I mean, everyone knows that once the gas escapes, all that is left of a soft drink is a sugary syrup that is undrinkable. But in its effervescent state, a sip of it moistens the eyes and a glass of it zaps the fatigue away. And inspite of every evil thing that the world says about aerated drinks, I can’t stand to see it wasted.
I feel an almost similar (but not so strong) emotion when people waste the best part of a birthday cake on the each other’s face. I would have my fingers crossed for the corner piece since that has the maximum cream (or mousse or fudge icing or caramel or whatever goodness people put on their cakes) when someone decides to take it off and smear it on everyone around.
Blueberry Cupcake
For someone who has no access to blueberries, I have bookmarked a lot of recipes that feature them as the star ingredient. What I love about these berries is the violent violet colour they give to desserts. Imagine a buttery blueberry muffin that has swirls of beautiful violet. Or an icecream that threatens to color your lips as you taste its intense and creamy flavour. A cool and mellow blueberry lassi that you can share with your girlfriends. Definitely lovely. And a quick search tells me that it is not just a pretty fruit but also has a whole lot of health benefits! They are packed with anti oxidants, fight heart diseases, improve memory and may help fight cancer.
I am not the only one with a blueberry fascination. I have friends who have on several occasions expressed their desire to get hold of some berries so they could try out one recipe or the other. In fact, one of them says she shed tears of joys when she saw fresh blueberries for the first time ever in Lulu Mall, Cochin. An
Mocha Cake
Let me tell you straight away that this is not one of my favourite cakes. I am not even sure whether I like it. But then, I do not like coffee. While the rest of my family is drawn towards coffee the way Jerry floats towards cheese, I go to the extent of pinching my nose so as to not breathe in “co
Caramel Chocolate Cake
Though I have celebrated many an Easter, I have no idea about the Easter egg tradition. How are Easter eggs made and why do children go egg hunting? As far as I know, there is no special mention of eggs or bunnies in the Bible. And busy as I was on Easter, I didn’t get time to check this out on my f
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