A lot of people are kinda hazy about what clarified butter, or ‘ghee’ is. As an Indian, you take it for granted. From childhood you are indoctrinated with the idea that ghee is the ambrosia of the Gods. The panacea to combat all ills. That vital ingredient that exalts a pedestrian dish into something lyrical! …
Ingredients for the topping: • 1/4 cup (60g) unsalted butter, melted • 1/2 cup (100g) packed light brown sugar • Sliced pineapple (6-8 canned slices) • 15–20 maraschino cherries Ingredients for the batter: • My Easiest 2 Bowl cake* Directions: • Preheat oven to 180°C. • Place melted butter into a 9×2″ round cake pan. …
We talked about the Eurasian Sugee cake earlier this week, so I decide to share a recipe with you guys. I read through a great many recipes on the internet, and stumbled upon https://www.shiokmanrecipes.com/ Eddie is Singaporean and has an informative YouTube channel and blog. Take a look at his amazing creations. And here is …
Growing up in sleepy cantonment towns all over India, with no decent shows on TV and no Internet, (and no social life to speak of), libraries were my favourite hang out joints. Cookbooks were few and far between. And Martha Stewart and Nigella Lawson yet to make their names and fortunes. But my mom’s Anglo …
It’s disconcerting to lose a whole day in one’s life. And when that day disappears, not because you were caught in a time warp and taken back in history, but because of mundane travel between continents, it somehow seems worse. Anyway more on that later, right now I need to get this written and posted …
When my kids were growing up, the only cookies I was allowed to make was Chocolate-chip. Those were the only cookies they asked for or ate. Here I was, hankering to make oatmeal-raisin cookies and buttery shortbread, lime-meltaways and florentines, but when our cookie bin got empty, all my kids wanted were chocolate chip or …
For some time now, I’ve been debating doing a cake decorating course. I’ve always felt that my cakes look too home grown, too rustic. And so I finally embarked on my class at Wilton. On day one we torted cakes and filled piping bags, used couplers and made buttercream. In the second half of the …