Crisp cookies with the goodness of wholegrain, oats, and walnuts make a great snacking option. Chocolate and cinnamon lend a lovely flavour and makes the cookies addictive. December got early snow this year. Trees have shed the leaves and the forest looks a dull ...
Last Sunday, I baked Cornmeal Raisin bread for breakfast. I had a lot of cornmeal which needed to be used. Intense flavour of cornmeal and the gentle sweetness of raisins made this bread really special. Great to have with honey, peanut butter or home made jam or just enjoy it ...
Making jam is a pleasurable experience. My mother did a course on making jams in the 70s. Mom had a notebook in which whatever was taught in the class was noted down meticulously. She had also maintained a file with recipes of all that she had learnt in her course. Once the ...
Last month my sister was with us for a week. After her marriage, we get to meet twice or thrice in a year though we talk on the phone almost every day. Sisters share such special bond. There is always so much to talk about, so much to share and discuss that any amount ...
One of the most unfortunate trends of the last many years is that white bread is still more popular than whole grain bread. Refined flour has had the brown husk of the grain stripped away that contains most of the vitamins and nutrients. Without the fibrous husk, refined ...
Whenever we have a bunch of bananas at home, I am always tempted to bake a cake or bread using bananas. Bananas lend a beautiful aroma to the baked products and make the breads and cakes super soft. In today’s post, I am sharing the recipe of my favourite Banana Loaf. Ingredients 1 ...
Bael also known as Stone Apple, is an indigenous plant commonly found in India. If you visit the countryside during summers, a lush green bael tree laden with bael fruits is likely to soothe your eyes in an otherwise parched landscape. In Kumaon, it is a tradition to have ...
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I have always loved Unibics’ delectable Breakfast cookies. The cookies are so addictive that the pack once opened, finishes in no time. The fruity aroma of the cookies and chewy texture with the goodness of oats, raagi, cranberries, karonda has beckoned me to try making them ...
Monsoon is in its retreating phase. We had a fair share of rain here though it was scanty in the beginning. Earth is pulsating with life. Every seed that fell into the parched earth has turned into a miniature tree. Our kitchen garden has turned into a forest with hundreds of ...
I make a lot of whole wheat bread at home. Generally, I bake two loaves at a time. We often have it for dinner or lunch and it saves me from the rigmarole of standing and making chapattis specially on days when I am exhausted. When the kids are hungry, it feels nice to give ...
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Generally cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner day in, day out becomes very monotonous. By weekend a kind of boredom creeps in and I don’t feel like working in the kitchen. This is the time when my husband takes over. He looks forward to weekends. Weekends are relaxing. He loves ...
