Quoting Julia Child, a party without a cake is just a meeting. True that I say, even for a tea party with samosas, cutlets, pinwheel sandwiches, scones and jam with clotted cream, croquettes and...
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Desserts
This cake takes me back to our trip to Alibagh when a group of us went with our kids for a weekend during the monsoon seasons. It was probably July or August, wet months...
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Today is Valentine’s Day 2020. Honestly, it makes no difference to my life. It never really did. Once we got married, both heaved a sigh of relief at our individual nonchalance at this designated...
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There cannot be a Christmas month which is done without a kitchen zipping out a bread pudding or an apple pie at least once in the thirty days. On the 24th night, a traditional...
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An interesting trivia is that oranges appeared in the Christmas hamper sent out by the English monarchy in Queen Victoria’s times. It must be because oranges appear during this season and they are rather...
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When coffee shops became a culture in India, cookies became an eating phenomenon among adults. Children by then had learnt to eat cookies, a tempting sweet biscuit often spotted in their story books and...
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I absolutely adore the nuttiness that Black rice exudes. The fragrance is woody, the taste nutty. I do not even want to discuss the gorgeous purple colour it lends. I have written somewhere before...
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Carrot cakes date back to medieval times. Sweeteners were dear those days. Carrot was added to sweeten cakes. Carrot cakes could be kept without refrigeration for three days without spoiling. It made logical sense...
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Popular around the 15th or 16th century Snow Cream was called a dessert that fells from the sky. It used to be a child’s winter novelty, the stuff of snow days, reloading after a...
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Seasonal fruits make the best desserts. It is pure romance to cook with fruits and veggies which appear in markets only one time in the year. It is like you have an un-suppressed urge...
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