…….because life is sweet !
‘I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.” – Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel). Hey guys – a quickie post for a quickie recipe ! As a kid, i loved mangoes and they were probably the …
“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”- Voltaire. With alternative baking ( egg free, vegan , gluten free etc) , I think the most difficult thing to get right is the vanilla cake. You see chocolate has this amazing ability to mask a lot of things ( except the increasing waistline ) …
“Life is not an exact science. It is an art.”- Samuel Butler. So one fine day , not very long ago, I sat browsing Pinterest and saw a gorgeous picture of some gorgeous checkerboard cookies. And I immediately thought – why haven’t I made these until now . The answer was evident the next day …
“A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.” ― Barbara Taylor Bradford. We are about to shift homes and I don’t intend to shift any perishables from the old one. So I am trying to use up all my stores of baking ingredients while I can. And I …
“I’m not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.” – Simon Le Bon. Many have told me that the first impression I give is that of a snob . It doesn’t bother me much because I like to think , the impression does a 360 once you get to know me ! I know – …
“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.” – Stephen Hawkings. R.I.P I don’t think i would have ventured into trying out Apple cakes as I have never come across any recipe or picture of one that really drew me in . But by some coincidence, there were several requests for apple …
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” – Jack London. I generally don’t consider myself a “technical” baker but I have been away from home and I just realised how dependent I actually am on my baking paraphernalia! I am staying with loved ones and I …
“Sometimes I like to get lost in the depth and calm of a black and white picture. More often, I want to be a splotch of bright paint on it!” Even as I pen this post, I realise that the weather is getting cooler almost everywhere and not everyone needs (or wants) a cool dessert. …
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman. I know of people who wait for their bananas to over ripen so that they can bake with them. Some even store some away from family members so they don’t get eaten accidentally! I have the opposite problem. Every …
“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes. It’s no secret that I am a coffee lover and since I posted the Masala chai icecream, I was dying to post something with coffee in it . I almost felt like I was cheating …