Strawberry Vanilla Panna Cotta is a jelly-like Italian dessert made with cream and strawberries. It is a light refreshing dessert. Panna Cotta is one of the easiest desserts, where the cream is cooked with sugar and it is set with gelatine. Gelatine is a flavourless food ingredient, derived from collagen taken from animal body parts.…
Stuffed Garlic Bread is Domino’s style bread which is a favourite among the kids as well as the adults. The Bread is super delicious with stretchy cheese and herbs. With December we begin with our annual Bakeathon event, where we post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The event is at Valli’s and you can read…
I am working on the theme Make your own Pizza , a theme which is very easy and yet difficult . Easy , since it has so many versions like Pinwheel Pizza, Pizza Cups , Pizza Wontons , but gets difficult when you are off the basic ingredient like all purpose flour! Anyways ,…
It has been two years since I have been wanting to try Panforte. Finally the A-Z Baking around the World made it happen. Panforte is a traditional Italian dessert which is served for Christmas. It contains fruits and nuts and resembles a fruit cake. We could say it is a cross between a fruit cake, candy and…
The alphabet ‘G’ brings in Genoise Cake for A – Z Baking around the World. This is a Italian sponge cake named after the city of Genoa. The cake is also associated with French Cuisine. The is one of the best sponges a person can make, and it can also be piped as lady fingers…
BM # 70 Week 3 ,Day 1 Theme:Cooking for One It is rarely that I cook for one. Normally it is for the complete family, else with different tastes I cook different dishes, but cooking for one person is rather rare. This pizza on a bun is something that I actually cooked for myself. …
BM # 68 Day : 1 Theme : One Category – Bread Sandwiches Sub Theme – Sandwich Cakes We start with our September Mega Marathon, where we post everyday except Sunday’s. We have been doing these mega marathons since a couple of years now. Our routine marathons are where we post thrice a week, our…
Granita is a semi-frozen dessert made from sugar, water and various flavorings. Originally from Sicily, it is available all over Italy in somewhat different forms. It is related to sorbet and Italian ice; however, in most of Sicily, it has a coarser, more crystalline texture. The minute I read that Granita is served for breakfast,…
A crostata is a “rustic free-form version of an open tart” which may also be baked in a pie plate. Traditionally a crostata consists of a pie dough , and a generous filling. It can be either sweet or savory. . Sweet variations use fruit preserves as a filling, typically apricot, cherry, peach or…
BM # 56 Week : 4 , Day: 5 Theme: Breakfast across countries Country : Italy Today is the fifth day of this week and we are working on breakfasts across countries. For today I have chosen to cook Italian Breakfast. The traditional Italian breakfast consists of caffè e latte (hot coffee with…