Peppery Tofu
Spicy Peppery Tofu, perfect served with jasmine rice. Gluten, dairy and egg free. Vegan and vegetarian.
Pretty in Pink
How to make a healthy bread.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Pineapple upside-down cake!
What’s sunny and juicy and tangy? What brings a smile to everyone’s faces?What was created in the 1920s with ingenuity, drama and a novel ingredient? Yes! It is the PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE! ‘Upside down cakes’ weren’t a new concept in the 1920s. According to most historians, the late 1800s were when the term “upside …
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Vanilla Cake– egg free and yet delicious
A delicious vanilla cake is the cornerstone of every baker’s repertoire. It’s light and airy, and combines beautifully with a myriad frostings to make a delectable treat. But an eggless version. A nightmare! Eggs add that lofty volume. Eggs add a wonderful golden colour to cakes. Things, one takes for granted, until one leaves out …
Once upon a brownie…
A long long time back, in what seems to be another lifetime, I used to make brownies for The Corner House in Bangalore. Spurred on by my lovely friend (and main customer) Sagarika, to bake cakes and cookies, brownies and bread, I took my first steps towards setting up a small business. The first year, …
An Adai a Day…
What’s golden and crunchy, delicious and healthy; filling yet leaves you craving for more. Nutritious and gluten free, to boot! It’s the Adai. The rustic, less known cousin of the Diva, Dosa. Adais are really easy to throw together. You just soak the lentils (four different ones if you are a purist) and an equal …
Sugar and spice and everything nice!
Some things are meant to be! And some things are meant for me. Nine years back, I didn’t know a chilli padi from the back of my hand. Green chillies were the spiciest food in my limited lexicon. Had you mentioned a Bhoot Jholokia or a Trinidad Scorpion, I’d have thought you’d mixed your metaphors. …
Garbanzo beans –two different ways
Garbanzo beans, chick peas, Kabuli channa…..a rose by any other name! Garbanzo beans are cheap, easily available and high in protein. A little goes a long way in filling you up. Here are two quick-to-put-together ways, of using these tasty legumes. The old Warhorse- The South Indian Sundal. Ingredients: Tin of garbanzo beans- …
Peppery Tofu
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George Clooney and Rainbow Rice-paper Rolls
You may well ask, what does George Clooney have to do with Vietnamese rainbow rice-paper rolls? Does he make them? Or eat them, regularly? Or endorse them? I have no clue….as we haven’t communicated of late :)……but then I haven’t communicated with anyone in almost a month. I’ve been busy, busy, busy. Busy making cakes, …