The dishes from Odisha – Sweet or Savory are easy on your palette and mainly because they use less oil and spices. Be it the world famous Chenna Poda, Manda Pitha , Kheer or even the Khira Gaintha. Simple ingredients yet amazing taste. The food is usually made fresh and daily with locally grown produce. The cuisine of … More Odisha Kanika |Mitha Pulao |Sweet Rice
Wish you all a very Happy New Year, my friends. How about we kick off the New Year with this gorgeous Pound Cake with Dried Fruits? Very similar to the Tutti-Fruitti cake that most of you are familiar with. This is such a wonderful, light, fragrant cake to enjoy with your tea or coffee. And, … More Pound Cake with Dried Fruits
Malpua is a traditional dessert from Odisha, an eastern state of India. Even though the preparation method of Malpua varies from Odisha to Rajasthan.., my favorite is always the one that I grew up eating in Odisha. My mom would make a batter of mashed banana, whole wheat flour, sugar and paan mahuri and then … More Chhena Malpua Recipe|Paneer Malpua Recipe
Hello fall. We meet again. 🙂 Fall means… – coffee, long walks, slightly cold breeze, falling leaves, apples, maple syrup, pies and various pastries. I just mentioned the things I love about fall. Tell me about your favorite fall fascinations? BTW, this is an impromptu post. There is a Fall Festival at my son’s school … More Whole Wheat Apple Muffins Recipe
Let me introduce you to Ma’amoul Cookies. These are Middle Eastern Date Stuffed Cookies. These Maamoul Cookies are not limited to just Date filling though. You can try other fillings such as a nut mixture filling etc. Even go for chocolate fillings and I think, that will be brilliant. The most popular is the Date … More Maamoul Cookies | How to Make Maamoul Cookies
I read somewhere, The next best thing to eating food, is talking about it. Cant agree more. And my most favorite food quote is: “Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” -Ernestine Ulmer So true, isn’t it? Given a choice, I will start and end my days with a piece of cake. With that said, lets … More Caramel Tres Leches Cake Recipe
We all love Brownies and some of us love Ice Cream even more or vice versa. What if we combine Brownies and Ice Cream together – not a Brownie Ice Cream but like Brownie Ice Cream Sandwiches? Genius, no? Its summer vacation and even though the kids go to Summer camp at school, I still try to make them … More Brownie Ice Cream Sandwich (Semi Homemade)
These are my dad’s hands. The hands that raised me.., taught me how to write and I haven’t stopped writing since then. My dad! My hero. I have yet to meet another sharp, suave and intellectually inclined man. There is a not a single moment of boredom with him. We can spend hours walking and … More Gulab Jamun | Lengcha | How to Make Gulab Jamun
This butter free and eggs free Semolina Coconut Cake will blow your mind. This can be your perfect tea cake or that perfect afternoon pick-me-up cake. This is a very popular cake in many parts of the world though named differently. This Semolina Coconut Cake is also known as the famous Baath Cake in Goa or … More Semolina Coconut Cake
You don’t need a lot of preparation time to bake this wonderful, delicious Double Chocolate Loaf Cake (Eggless). Just mix up the batter in one bowl, bake and get ready for people to love this cake. This makes an excellent cake to make for guests or take it along to a potluck or family event. … More Double Chocolate Loaf Cake (Eggless)
This Lemon Yogurt Loaf Cake tastes amazing with a nice cup of tea or coffee. You can serve it with some lemon curd to make it a delicious dessert as well. I have played with a few recipes before, but was never satisfied 100% until this time and that’s why you are reading about this … More Lemon Yogurt Loaf Cake Recipe
Hello Friends!! What an eventful week it was. Busy busy busy. We launched our baby this Thursday and introduced it at SXSW, Texas. Yeah, baby!! We straight go to https://www.sxsw.com/ So, we have been busy working on this start-up for last one year or so and finally we wrapped things up and launched it. Kudos … More Chocolate Marble Cake Recipe
LOVE everything pistachio, cardamom and rose water. My most most most favorite combination of all. I combined these beautiful ingredients in this Pistachio Rosewater Bundt Cake. Two weeks ago, I made a Persian Love Cake for a friend’s anniversary and including her, everyone at the party devoured the cake to the very last piece..I mean … More Pistachio Rosewater Bundt Cake
Brittle is usually made with peanuts, but, I went for pistachios instead. I prefer pistachios to peanuts any day but the best part about brittle is that, you can use any kind of nuts you prefer – almond, walnuts, peanuts. You can even mix up nuts with coconut flakes. I find brittle quite versatile. You … More Pistachio Brittle without Corn Syrup
Holi or the Festival of Color is coming up. Not a Holi person. Never played Holi in my life. Me and my dad would hide ourselves behind locked doors and would refuse to come out until we were assured that all the friends with their buckets of colored water have left. Yes, I am not … More Rose Pistachio Phirni
