Statutory Warning : Bread baking is highly contagious and addictive. So before getting into this addiction, make sure you have enough stamina to run through a baking marathon….hahaha! Yes, it’s addictive, and see what is happening to me. Before yesterday i was scared of Mr.Yeast but now as i have taken everything in control, i am just not able to stop myself playing with it. Would again like to take this opportunity to mention my friend Anshu Wadwa Pande from http://www.thesecretingredient.in/, without whom this wouldn’t have been possible. After lots of failed yest experiments and kitchen disaster, it was only…
Ingredient: olive oil
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Nothing can be more blissful than the aroma of a freshly baked bread. I always had a fear to bake my bread. Yeast was the most scary thing for for unless untill i read the article on YEAST by my very good friend and a talented blogger Anshu Wadhwa Pande. Sharing the link here, where you can go through the article and come out of the fear of yeast, just the way i did. http://www.thesecretingredient.in/spilled-beans/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-yeast/ My friend Anshu has some amazing bread recipes on her blog, from the basics to the professional ones, you will find everything there. Her recipe…
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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.- Ludwig van Beethoven A perfect soup is rich, creamy and absolutely comforting. I have grown up seeing my mom making some amazing aromatic soups for my father. Even during our illness mom comes up with some super aromatic and flavorful soups that works as an energy booster and comforts us a lot. Out of many good soup preparations one of my all time favorite is the super creamy, buttery cauliflower soup. Cauliflower and me has a strong love – hate relation. Sometimes i fall in love with the humble veggie…
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‘Chefs Across Boundaries’ is a group of Chefs who set up challenges every month to encourage the participants to innovate, think out of the box and explore the culinary world. This month, one of the Members Hetal Kamdar (http://hetalkamdar.blog.co.uk/) hosted the challenge and her theme was Pondicherry cuisine. The Union Territory of Pondicherry boasts of a sumptuous cuisine that shows strong French and Tamil influences. Puducherry formerly known as Pondicherry is a small charming Union Territory on the east coast of India consisting of four small regions namely Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam. Whereas Pondicherry and Karaikal is in Tamilnadu,…
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Nothing says Italy like its food, and nothing says Italian food like pasta. Wherever Italians immigrated they have brought their pasta along, so much so today it can be considered a staple of international cuisine. Unlike other ubiquitous Italian products like pizza and tomato sauce, which have a fairly recent history, pasta may have a much older pedigree, going back hundreds -if not thousands- of years. Spaghetti is an Italian word that literally means “little twines.” Spaghetti is a very popular form of Italian pasta. Spaghetti, then, is pasta that is shaped into long, thin, round strands—that look kind of…
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Perfect anytime munching snack. Something that not only children love but also a favorite of many adults. Pasta comes from Italy and here in India we adapted it well n even transformed it into various fusions as per our choice of taste. Penne Pasta the cylindrical one is one of my favorite type. Chilli Garlic Creme Penne is simple and easy to cook. I ate this first at a road side food joint in Bhopal n fell in love with the creamy taste of it.