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I’m finally back again, after a rather long break. This time I present you with An Easy Lime & Thyme Cake with Lime Icing. I’ve had a few friends ask if I have stopped blogging altogether A couple of readers have even left comments on posts saying they’re looking forward to seeing my posts again….
These are just your regular kind of pancakes except that they’re Whole Wheat, Oats, And Banana Pancakes. I’m not going to tell they’re healthy or that they’re good for you. I will tell you though, that if you do like whole wheat, oats and bananas then these pancakes are fluffy, mildly sweet and delicious. They’re…
Vada Pav is an Indian street food from the state of Maharashtra. It is particularly associated with the city of Mumbai where it is an affordable go-to snack for many. The Vada Pav consists of a “batata vada” or a spiced potato fritter and a red spicy garlicky peanut chutney powder in a “pav/ pao”…
Unnakkaya are oval/ spindle shaped fritters made of medium ripe cooked plantains stuffed with a mixture made of coconut, jaggery and sometimes, beaten rice flakes as well. Given that plantain plants (Scientifically, they’re not considered trees!) in one’s backyard was the norm in Kerala, it’s not surprising that plantains whether raw or ripe, feature a…
This month Karen of Bake My Day decided the Bread Baking Babes would bake some Ka’ak – Lebanese Sesame Topped Bread. Now Ka’ak is the Arabic word for cake but across the Middle East it is also the name for a kind of flatbread. This bread, in countries like Palestine, Syria and Jordan, generally has…
It has been a good year for mangoes. We’ve had a lot of different varities and they’ve generally been a whole lot more affordable. That said, I’ve left my mango pickle making sessions to the end of summer as I have been busy with other things. This summer, I particularly wanted to make Aam K…
This post is about how I started out with a Marbled Bundt Cake and finished with an Easy Ice Cream Cake. Let’s start at the beginning though. It’s funny how clichéd it can sometimes sound when people wonder about how time has flown by. Yet I now find myself in that very situation wondering just…
We, the Bread Baking Babes, are baking Shubak el-Habayeb or Iraqi Lover’s Window Bread this month. Karen of Karen’s Kitchen Stories chose this quaintly named Iraqi bread for us from Jane Mason’s The Book of Buns. At first glance, this little flat bread brings to mind the Fougasse, but it is nothing like it. According to…
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