Fill a glass with ice. Pour a shot of Bacardi over. Top up with some Sprite. Add 1/4 teaspoon black salt, and one slit red chillie - with the seeds if you dare! Its exotic, wicked, and perfect for Sydney Summ...
Banana, Walnut & Love Muffins
Monday, November 24, 2008
1/2 cup oil, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup self raising flour, 1/2 t sodium bicarbonate, 2 over ripe bananas, a few pieces of walnuts, 1/2 cup milk. Mix everything, and bake in a muffin tray at 180 degrees (mine is a fan forced oven) for 20 minutes.... for...
Baked Cauliflower Capsicum Milk Rice Cheese & Inspiration Casserole
Thursday, November 13, 2008
...and so it was another evening, after a looooong workday. The temptation is strong to get a take away dinner from the Indian reastaurant at the mall, where they serve not so Indian food! Changed my mind... walked to the kitchen... opened the fridge......
Buns
Saturday, November 8, 2008
As some of you have asked me, here's how I made the Buns in the earlier post.Ingredients Self Raising unbleached flour - 2.5 cupsmilk - 1/2 cupwater - 1/4 cupmelted butter - 2 tbspsdry yeast - one sachet. The cover says '7 grams (15 grams compressed)'.1...
My First Buns!
Monday, October 27, 2008
MY FIRST BUNS.......Okay ...it’s not like it sounds! :-))Anyway, after a disastrous baking experience in Kolkata that ended with a command (plea?) from my husband, “Thou shalt not bake at home, what can be bought at the grocers” I did not venture again,...
Mango Mania
Sunday, October 26, 2008
...and so we came back from Paddy's with more mangos than two of us could possibly eat. Inspired by Chitra Amma's Bournvita Fudge, I set out to make 'mango fudge'! I followed amma's recipe exactly ...just added crushed pulp from two mangos and some slivers...
Ratatouille - a riot of colours
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
I had been dying to try this dish, after seeing the post on Cooked from the Heart. I followed the recipe exactly for most part. I did not have squash, and over baked it as you can see, but it still tasted glorious and juicy and ... Here are the results....
A Taste of Creativity
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Who doesn't love making the perfect dish? Not a second overcooked, not a grain of salt extra, not a single ingredient missing. As much as I would like to be the perfect cook, life always has other plans for me! What of inviting a team member home during...
Baked Butter Nut Squash, Zuchini and Cheese
Monday, July 14, 2008
Besides the usual salad-and- potato fare for a vegetarian overseas, I found Aussie offers roasted pumpkin! Every other shop has a lovely orange slice on display. People seem to love it! I bought a butternut squash yesterday to experiment. Its just like...
Dosa What??
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Dosa!?This post warrants just the photograph. Dosa made lovingly by hubby for Sunday brunch !Take a closer look!...
Ciabatta Bread and Split Yellow Peas Dal
Friday, July 4, 2008
Split Yellow Peas Soup and Ciabatta BreadI was overjoyed when I spotted a bag of lentils in Harris Farm Market. All set to make Sambar, I picked up a kilo and got back. It was only once I came home that I saw that what I had got was not Tur Dal, but...
Oriental Fusion
Monday, June 30, 2008
Miracle (the name of the Asian Grocery Shop at the Rhodes Mall) always fascinated me. Rows and rows of strange sauces, pastes, ginseng tea, coloured tapioca pellets, dim sum steamers, all kinds of strange looking tree bark, mushrooms ,seeds and tablets...
Beer Dosa
Monday, June 23, 2008
This is favourite and had tried it on a hunch! Dosas are very common, but nevertheless very popluar with all . Recipes on dosa making abound, and almost every other Indian food joint will have the plain and masala dosa in their menu. Ask anybody about...
Paneer Paturi
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Most foodies may know about the famous ilish maach paturi from the Indian Bengali cuisine. Fish fillets are marinated in a paste of mustard, green chillies, parcelled in banana leaves,and then steamed or fried in mustard oil. Hmm.. sounded exotic no...
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