Quattro chocolate aka chocolate cupcakes with chocolate chips, topped with chocolate ganache drizzled with chocolate buttons. There isn’t much else to say that can make this more attractive! I baked a batch of these recently as a gift for a chocolate toothed family member before he embarked upon a tormenting part of his life- exams! […] Read more…
This is my kind of cooking- fast fresh and simple. So when Donna Hay started showing off her skills on Indian television, it was time for me to get my hands on her book, and I have to say— it has quickly become one of my favourites! The dishes are so flavourful, yet beautiful on […] Read more…
On my birthday a few weeks ago, SS got me a heavily researched variety of outstanding cookbooks. I can’t help but wonder the dual intent, for the very fact that- who might benefit from testing the recipes? He did however manage to get me this fantastic book by the incredible Isa Chandra Moskowitz whose recipes […] Read more…
Happy new year to all!! Here is the perfect recipe to kick-start the year, with a cup of homemade heaven. The house was wrapped in the gorgeousness that was the heady scent of the sugar sizzling away into a think rich almost yellow gold caramel. A hundred and thousand and million times better than ANY […] Read more…
There is just something magical about Christmas. I am already planning the Christmas Hampers in my mind for next year—along the lines of jars full of long lasting homemade treats such as salted caramel (which I made last night with brilliant results!) , pepper and chilli jam, vanilla extract and gingerbread cookies. *sigh*. For me, […] Read more…
I’ve done this before, but that time was a bit of a struggle, in comparison to this. After I was done, I was quite jittery, as I didn’t feel like I had baked at all. It almost got over too quick. I started somewhere around quarter past 11 at night, and by the stroke of […] Read more…
