A good cookie normally requires flour, sugar and butter . These are the key ingredients..but when my friend told me to bake some cookies without butter, I wondered how they would taste. I know my friends bake cookies with vegetable oil, but personally I was not sure of the taste. Personally I am not a…
For the third day of Christmas recipes , I have yet another cake . The cake is made from a premix but any good chocolate cake recipe can be used. I baked the cake in a bundt tin and after it had cooled down , I inverted it and scooped it carefully . You need…
Day 2 under Christmas Dinner and I could not miss a cake .I would have loved to make Christmas Cake , but I already have two versions of it. Cakes have always been a must on Christmas when the girls were here . In fact we all were so fond of cakes that we either…
We begin with a new edition of BM and this week I have chosen to cook Christmas Dinner Recipes . When the girls were here we would get a Christmas Tree and decorate it beautifully . We would not cook a special dinner but we did make desserts , specially a cake was a must…
Bakeathon  is an annual event at Valli’s space where we have to post our bakes thrice a week . Every year I think of participating in this event but December is a very hectic month and I always opt out . With girls and kids coming for their annual vacation , I like to spend…
Lagan ka Keema is a Parsi Special which is made with mutton , but here I have substituted it with soya granules . The soya keema has a very long list of ingredients but totally worth it . The dish is high in protein and I posted it with a complete Parsi Spread for the…
For Day 2 under Special Theme , I am posting recipes from the Parsi Cuisine which I posted during our Mega Marathon under Protein Rich .When I read Caramelised Rice , for a minute I thought it must be some kind of sweet rice with caramel . The rice does require some sugar , but…
It was during the Mega Marathon that I made a week of Indian Thalis which featured spreads with a Protein punch . Not all recipes had protein but the meal definitely was Protein Rich . The spreads were elaborate and I did not want my fellow bloggers to get extra burden of commenting during Mega…
Under the last day under the theme Take Out Menu , I have a Gems loaded chocolate cake in a MW . When I picked this theme the first thing that came to my mind was a cake . We normally get cakes for most birthdays, of course unless I opt to make them .I…
Day 2 and I have a Fruit Nut and Seed Salad for the theme Take out Menu. While ordering food from out , I always like to order salads , a new variety every time . For me no meal is complete without a salad . Even the everyday meal has to have salad ,…