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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…
I’m in Palakkad this week, where my family hails from originally. This is where my roots are and I love visiting whenever I can. With the present climate change scenario, summers are becoming unbearable and it is no different here. In fact, it is hotter here than it is back home during the day, though…
I hear family and friends who live in Europe or the US talk about looking forward to the arrival of summer. Here in India, where I live, the summer is probably my least favourite part of the year. I look forward to summer’s bounty, especially mangoes watermelon and guava, but I could do without the…
It is my turn to be the Kitchen of the Month over at the Bread Baking Babes. After having baked bread together as a group every month from 2008, they’ve baked over a 100 breads already! So picking a recipe for this month took a little time. I picked Japanese Curry Buns or Kare Pan (some…
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