…….because life is sweet !
“In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?” – Mark Twain. Yup, its called a pie but its really cake ! Wikipedia tells me it is because this cake came into being a long time back when cakes and pies were …
“Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight- you are drunk .” – Bill Murray. And the mango mania goes on ! Didn’t I tell you I love the fruit! What I don’t love so much is making fruit flavoured cakes. Citrus isnt that much of a challenge but most …
‘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 ) …
“Love is like a picnic without ants, pleasant for a while, but sooner or later something’s definitely getting squashed.” – Frances Winkler. Whenever I think of baking for a group , for a potluck , for a charity bakesale or even for a hostess gift , brownies are the first things that come to my mind …
“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 …
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”- Elbert Hubbard For a while now , I have been wanting to dabble in savoury baking – and after a few nudges and pushes from others, I have been wetting my feet in this different baking zone . I know my …
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. “- Samuel Beckett. My mum is not a very big cake person. But this last Christmas , when she saw a promotional ad for Cochin bakery in the paper , she said she had heard a lot about their ghee cake. I picked …
“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 – …