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My First Baking Class

May 28, 2011

Last weekend was fabulous. I had the best time teaching my favourite recipes, chit-chatting about baking, and hanging out with a fun group of participants.

I just got my hands on the photos taken at the class, and I couldn’t wait to share them with you. Even if it meant staying up till three am to sort through 191 photos. My darling photographer friend, Sheena, captured some lovely shots of the class in progress.

For all those who came for the class – thank you! I am thrilled to bits that you signed up for my first baking class. It was such a pleasure meeting all of you. You guys were a dream bunch. Sucheta came in all the way from New Delhi, the ebullient Minila live-tweeted the event and Roshni baked a batch of brownies the very next day!

Here’s a peek at one glorious afternoon of baking and eating. Hop over to the Facebook album for more photos, and please feel free to tag yourselves!

Shaheen Peerbhai

I made chocolate chip cookies for the early birds.

We laughed, clapped, squealed and were generally mesmerised by chocolate.

We rolled cookie dough and used our favourite cutters.

We sliced the perfect pinwheels.

We ate cookies warm from the oven.

We gasped as the wonders of parchment paper.

We ate lots and lots of brownies.

I packed some lavender shortbread dough for students to bake up at home.

I made vanilla sugar for everyone attending.

Happy people filling up their doggie bags make me happy.

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Special Event: PurpleFoodie Baking Class!

May 9, 2011

I’m so excited to announce the first official Purple Foodie Baking Class at The Bombay Hub. First there was the bake sale, then the merchandise, and now, this baking class! Fun times.

After all those requests to conduct classes, I’ve had to cave (and happily so!). Later this month, I will be moving into The Bombay Hub premises with my oven, mixing bowls and stash of chocolate to teach you how to bake. At the baking class you will learn just how easy it is to whip up cookies, crackers and brownies at home using some of my favourite recipes. Learn flavor variations and pick up some nifty tips and tricks along the way.

The Purple Foodie Baking Class

To reserve your spot, please email shaheen@purplefoodie.com/ bombay.hub@unltdindia.org or call 9820995543. We’ve got limited seats, so please RSVP soon to reserve yours!

It’s going to be a fantastic afternoon. I hope to see you there!

Where: 4th Floor, Candelar Building, 26 St. John Baptist Road, Near Mount Mary Steps, Bandra (W), Mumbai.
When:  2:00pm – 5:00pm on Saturday, 21st May.
How much: Rs. 1,700 per person
Facebook Event

Update (11th May): Sold out + new batch.

What a phenomenal response, with a listing in a local paper to boot! Thank you, you awesome people. We’ve decided to open up another slot in the morning from 10am-1pm, so keep those calls and emails coming in.

Update (13th May): Sold out (Again!) + new batch

Thank you! I did not anticipate this kind of rush for my first baking class. I’m ticked pink to know that you’d love to attend. For those that missed out, you have one more chance to squeeze in. We have a batch on Sunday, 22nd May from 4pm-7pm.

Update (14th May): All 3 batches sold out!

SO excited to see you guys!

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Giveaway Time

March 21, 2011

Everybody loves giveaways.

And I noticed just how much you do when you went on to write a few verses to tell me why you’d love the Cupcake Tote.

I love seeing you get excited. So I thought I’d send something bigger your way. Exactly 9 times as big.

So comment away to participate. All things food. All things pretty. All things you’d love to get your hands on. Quick. Write that comment and enter the giveaway.

Goodies on offer:

Water colour print of a recipe for Les Madeleines

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too Necklace/Charms from Cherry Creek. I bought these adorable charms a while ago for myself and wore them everywhere. Too bad I lost them on my trip to Europe though. Note to self: never carry tiny, delicate jewelery when travelling.

Be Happy tea towels from Sweet Nature Designs. Happy yellow. My new favourite colour. Makes the kitchen so much brighter.

I Love You More Than Cheese print from Ecce Prints. So just how much do you love me, dear readers? More than cheese?

Reusable bowl covers from Sew Much Style (ships only to the USA for free). Now you don’t need plastic wraps anymore. Use these gorgeous reusable bowl covers instead.

2 handmade soaps + 2 lip balms from Soap Dreams. Sour apple bar. Chai blueberry bar. And take this: soap bars made from beer! Take your pick.

Mason Jar recipe cards from Pink Bath Tub. Do you have an un”canny” recipe you want to put down on these cards?

Baguette thank you cards from Pink Bath Tub. Say thank you with these adorable baguette cards. I’m not sure I’d want to give these out!

Daily Bread Print from Persimmon and Pink. Bread bakers delight. And Susan from P&P is rather sweet in offering a 20% discount to all those that make a purchase from her Etsy store until the end of this month. Coupon Code: PURPLEFOODIE

Here are the nitty gritties:

  1. Leave a comment below.
  2. Or tweet this “I just entered a giveaway at @PurpleFoodie to win recipe cards, kitchen art, cute cake charms and lots more http://bit.ly/fO1z69”
  3. The giveaway is open to all.  Winner will be selected at random on 31st March.

3rd April

The winners are: Jin, Divya Kamath, Simi (@SimTara), Shakira, Taryn (@tbren15), Magdalena, Dilshad, Laureen (TheCoffeeSnob).

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Academia Barilla

January 25, 2011

Shaheen Peerbhai in the pink, at the Academia Barilla in Italy

Me in pink  at the Academia Barilla in Parma, Italy.

I’ll be back home on Thursday evening, and hope to have a nice big post lined up for the weekend – all about my trip to Italy and Paris!

Photo courtesy: Academia Barilla
This trip to Italy was sponsored by the Italian Government and the EU as a part of the European Art of Taste (EAT) Program.

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Happy 2011 + New Year’s Food Resolutions

January 1, 2011

Happy New Year!

Happy new year, everyone! Thanks for reading, commenting, emailing and being nothing but fantastic.

2010 has been all kinds of delicious and I noticed some peculiar developments in terms of how my palate has changed, or as I’d like to think, evolved. Milk chocolate was always my preferred chocolate, but now I can’t get enough of 70% dark chocolate. I LOVED white chocolate – but (sadly) not anymore. I was never a fan of anything coconut-y in my food, but lo and behold, I’ve eaten more South Indian and Thai food in 2010 than ever before. And oranges!  I never really understood the fuss about candied oranges, but one wedge of candied orange from Madrid made my taste buds sing in delight.  These were some things I could think of impulsively, but what I’m going to do in 2011 is diligently maintain a record of such palate milestones.

And of course, like I did last year, I made a list of food resolutions for 2011 that I hope to achieve. But let’s look back at last year’s list for a moment. Out of the twenty things I set out to complete as a part of my foodie resolutions in 2010, I’m thrilled to have checked most of them off.  Go look!

My New Year’s Food Resolutions for 2011:

  • Make croissants from scratch – don’t think I *need* to because I’m in Paris now. =)
  • Compile all my grandmom’s recipes for a family cookbook – work in progress.
  • Try two new meats without making a queasy face – deer,
  • Learn how to cook an artichoke the right way (somehow, they’re never tender when I make them) – pretty sure I’m going to get it right after watching how they trim artichokes in Rome. (video soon!)
  • Make the perfect candied oranges – Done!
  • Make Burmese Khowsuey – got the recipe from my aunt who makes the best one I’ve eaten, now to make it.
  • Create a dish with rice and beef – Done!
  • Make my own mayonnaise – Done! Somehow, I wasn’t overwhelmed or weepy eyed with it.
  • Give melons and papayas another chance – Melons in Europe? The best. Melon and prosciutto – how can anyone not love it.
  • Grow my own starter culture for sourdough bread. Name suggestions for my new pet, anyone? – Again, living in the land of bread, so the sourdough culture can wait.
  • Get a hand-cranked pasta machine and make the red wine and roast vegetable fettucine I photographed. Still need to get that pasta maker. :(
  • Learn to clean and scale a fish – March 2012 – Le Cordon Bleu!
  • Make Nigel Slater’s apple shortcake had to leave the book behind when I moved to France, but I made the fantastic apple updside down cake from Falling Cloudberries and I’ve got to make it again just to blog about it.)
  • Make tiramisu from scratch – Done! The homemade tiramisu is one of the best things that happened to me in 2011.
  • Taste fresh olives – I stole olives from the neighbour’s tree in Verona. The purple stains from the olives were gorgeous, the taste and texture is nothing to write home about. I took the tiniest little bite because of all the horror stories I had heard.
  • Try pomegranate molasses – not yet.
  • Pickle some ginger – didn’t.

What are your food resolutions for 2011?

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