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Apple Muesli Breakfast Muffins

After nearly two years of homeschooling, we are finally back to full-blown school with snack times and unearthly early mornings. Which comes to my need to find some nourishing breakfast staples that can be made in a jiffy and will keep the kids going till snack time in school. Our roster typically includes fruit / nut butter / maple syrup topped porridge, vegan oat chia seed pancakes, buttered honey toast, grilled cheese toast, dosa/ uttapam and buttermilk pancakes, with a side of storybook time.

There are some mornings when the struggle to get anything in order, on schedule, seems truly impossible. It is for those days, that I would stash  Read more…

Cocoa Almond Cookies

I’ve never followed a paleo or keto diet – but these keto and paleo friendly cocoa almond cookies were too tempting not to try, and they made the perfect Sohfit treat, as well as a treat for my 10-month old! It was hard to determine how long these cookies stay well, because despite making almost a dozen batches in the last 3 months, there were days when a batch of cookies was completely wiped out in a day! But if by some magical chance you are able to store the cookies, I would suggest a steel box or a cookie tin, at room temperature in a cool spot, not in the direct heat of the Indian summer.

DISCLAIMER: these cookies may not look insanely fantastic, but OMG, they taste incredible!  Read more…

Lemon Almond Yoghurt Cake

In the Covid-19 haze, I don’t know what inspiration hit me to decide to do a lemon cake. Possibly the overkill of banana breads spreading over my Instagram feed made it a little bit of a cringe-worthy feel to bake that. I do appreciate the need to use up bananas that are a bit too mushy for anything else – but there’s great other options for bananas. Here are some of my staples:

1. Slice and freeze bananas to use in oats, smoothies, parfaits or any other breakfast or snack concoction.
2. Freeze and blend with good quality cocoa powder for amazing nice cream. I always have a batch in my freezer for those midnight sweet cravings during our non stop Netflix and eat sessions.
3. Banana oat pancakes with cinnamon vanilla and a splash of almond milk – greatest breakfast or treat for all ages (including my 9 month old!) Read more…

Pomelo Salad [VG] [GF]

Pomelo isn’t the regular, run of the mill kind of fruit you’d just find, lying around your house. But if you do find it, you know, just lying around the house, be sure to make this salad with it! My Pomelo Salad uses humble ingredients like coriander, mint. peanuts, shredded coconut, onion, chilli, sugar, soy sauce and peanuts to give that amazing mouthful of sweet, savoury, nutty, sour, spicy and crunchiness, all in each and every bite!  Pomelo salad is a staple Thai salad, which can also be replaced with grapefruit or even raw papaya. 

I’ve buried my nose in Samin Nosrat’s book, Salt Fat Acid Heat, which explores how to cook, rather than what to cook using a recipe. Of course, the book does have recipes, but the fundamental idea that sets this book apart from a “cookbook” is that the book makes you understand the rules elements of cooking – how to use acid, how to cook with fat, how to season your food with layers of salt, how to apply (or not apply) heat. AND, the one essential unwritten rule that would take you the furthest when you pick up an apron is this: TASTE, TASTE, TASTE.  Read more…

Oat + Nut Cookies {VG} {GF} {SF} and seriously YUM!

As a mum of a toddler, I like to make stuff that even Baby Doll can eat, along with us, or else I inevitably get guilted into giving her morsels of goodies what we eat and she should technically NOT be indulging it, quite yet at least! To tackle this, I’ve come up simple yet effective meals for her and us, that actually taste great to all palates of all ages. Some examples are: grated carrot salad with an orange juice dressing, tomato basil salad with some extra virgin olive oil salt and pepper, asparagus risotto (without the wine, of course!), grilled paneer with lime and coriander, whole wheat spaghetti pomodoro, guacamole sans the jalepeno – you get the drift! So when it comes to desert, whyever not have a desert that is baby friendly, diet friendly and daddy friendly?  Read more…

Kale Salad with Pecans, Cranberries, Apple and Baby Radish

Is there a thing such as ‘Blogger’s Block’, you know, like writer’s block? Essentially, I too am writing, but just online and on a blog, so does that make me not a writer? I’m not so sure about that hypothesis, but what I am sure about at this hot, humid, sticky moment in the beginning of what threatens to be a horrendous summer, is that I have a case of whatever block you may term it. So now coming to the crux of my irrelevant public analysis of what block I am being plagued by – I am basically looking for an excuse to not continue tapping my fingers feverishly over the keyboard, as if it is a mission which I cannot fail.

But today, I am going to delve right into this beautiful, summary and fresh salad recipe. I know I’m (fashionably) late to join the Kale Revolution – but better late than never! This salad first came together as a beautiful mish-mash of ingredients in the fridge plus a big bunch of kale that was incredibly inviting at the supermarket, I had to get my hands on it. I started with apple, to add a bit of sweetness to the otherwise bitter kale, but this batch of american kale was far from bitter! Adding some thinly sliced baby radish, plump ruby red cranberries, toasted pecans, white & black sesame seeds and a few tablespoons of garlic scented cheese (you can easily substitute cheddar or crumbly cheeses like feta or goats cheese) with a basic and effective honey mustard vinaigrette to tie it all together!

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