Cooking & Baking with Love
If there is anything comforting food wise , it is dal. Indian food has so many varieties of dals. It is quite a staple comforting food for us. Back in India, we would have dal almost everyday for lunch. For my family, it would be usually Gujarati style dal made from a different variety of …
I am back to blogging. I feel like I take too many breaks from blogging. But, I am truly cooking and baking but just not able to share all the good things on the blog. In between I took vacation and we went to Africa.
Kadhi Pakora is one the most delicious and creamy preparations and easily can be lumped into comfort dishes to make during cold winter months because it is best served hot or warm. I really love to make it because its quick and hardly demands extra ingredients. You would find most of the ingredients in an …
Have you ever tried Foccacia bread. It’s very easy bread to bake. And. it taste really great. I have made foccacia way more than I can accept. It goes really well with soup. Looks so rustic! Ingredients:  2 cups of bread flour + 2 cups of all purpose flour       …
Do you know that there is nothing comforting like a spicy and warm bowl of Indo-Chinese food during winter. I get cravings for indo-chinese food like Manchurian, chili paneer or Hakka noodles. Do you know that there is nothing like a spicy and warm bowl of Indian Chinese food during winter like  soup or a …
The ramp, sometimes called wild leek, is a wild onion native to North America. Though the bulb resembles that of a scallion, the beautiful flat, broad leaves set it apart.The flavor and odor of ramps is usually compared to a combination of onions and garlic and is an early spring vegetable, a perennial wild onion with a …
January’s Daring Cooks’ challenge was a ball! The lovely Manu from Manu’s Menu brought our taste buds to the streets of Sicily and taught us her family tradition of making arancine – filled and fried balls of risotto. Delizioso!
I am back with a simple and easy fondue recipe. It’s winter in USA. I thought this simple recipe of fondue would be so good to try out and share it with you all. Fondue is the national dish of Swiss. It is a melted cheese dish found in Swiss, France and Italy. It is …
Hannah of Rise and Shine was our October 2013 Daring Bakers’ hostess and she challenged us to bake our own double crusted savory pot pies. Using any from-scratch crust and filling we choose, we were allowed to get completely creative with our recipe, showing off the savory flavors and fillings from our own home or …
I have to commit one thing, I am obsessed about bread-baking. I got motivated from the blog food52. When I saw so many people could make it. I thought of trying it. My first attempt was to try a recipe from red star yeast’s website and it was a regular loaf that I tried. It came out so well that I went crazy that I have try lot more recipes and keep trying trying more different types of bread. So, then I gave dinner rolls a try and they also came out really nice. Although, these attempts were successful , there were several moments when my yeast would not be foam up and so it would spoil the bread. Yeast is the crucial component in bread baking. (more…)