Cinnamon Butter and Applesauce

For the past few minutes, I’ve been pondering over how to start this post. All attempts were defeated as I stared at the words  – cinnamon, butter and applesauce. Biting into three of my favourite things spread rather generously on a piece of toasted bread – I’m not thinking clearly. If you were next to […]
15 years ago

The Flavour Thesaurus

I realise I don’t talk about books that I like as much as I should. And that’s about to change with this post on my new favourite book: The Flavour Thesaurus. The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit is hardly a cookbook, but a treasure trove of endless inspiration with 99 flavours divided into 16 categories […]
15 years ago

The Fluffiest Cinnamon Sugar Rolls

I’ve got to admit, I’m quite a hoarder when it comes to hard-to-find ingredients. The problem with food shopping for me is that I always buy more than I should because, you know, I am utterly positive that I will never find it anywhere else. I bring sneak it back home and then find a […]
16 years ago

Spain in a Box

I had an unexpected visitor yesterday – the postman. With a box. And when that happens to a food blogger, it’s highly likely that it’s filled with delicacies from a land far off. As soon as I saw yellow tape with ‘Correos’ written all over it, my heart skipped a beat. I wasn’t expecting this […]
16 years ago

Cream Cheese Stuffed Peppers

The last time I had stuffed peppers with cream cheese at a brunch, I wasn’t impressed. In fact, I was so disheartened that I didn’t feel like using these peppers to stuff with cream cheese because it reminded me of that bland pepper. When I got these robust peppers at the farmers’ market, I knew […]
16 years ago

Colour at the Farmers’ Market

The crispest red cabbage (shouldn’t it be called purple cabbage instead?). So crisp, you can hear a loud snap when you pinch a cabbage leaf between your fingers.   The fattest chillies. Perfect for stuffing. The most vibrant mint leaves. My current obsession. The prettiest marigolds (for the Dusshera festivities). The freshest greens. Pretty, slender […]
16 years ago

Rhubarb and Lemongrass Cooler

I made some rhubarb syrup. Again. This time I used chopped up lemongrass stalks instead of the ginger and I added a peppermint garnish to it. Whenever I find rhubarb on the shelves, I almost always buy most of it. Because there is so much to be done with it! I’m still in awe of how […]
16 years ago

Raspberry Yoghurt Teacake

I miss blogging. I miss blogging a lot. It’s not that I’m not baking. It’s just that I’m not baking anything new. I’ve been on my feet for hours at a stretch; I can hardly feel them anymore. I’m not complaining – rather, I’m enjoying every bit of it. Nothing beats working for myself, nothing […]
16 years ago

Rhubarb Ginger Syrup

If the science report on fruit flies’ affinity for fizzy drinks is to be believed, the fruit fly in me is coming to life.  I’ve been drinking way too much fizz out of a can because each day seems to be getting hotter than the previous. Really need October to go by quickly. Plus, I’m […]
16 years ago

3 years and Double Chocolate Truffle Brownies

Three years today. Three years of sugar, flour and oodles of butter. Three years ago, I sat in front of a blank page typing my first words. There might be someone who’d probably want to listen to what I have to say, right? For the first few weeks the only comments I got were from […]
16 years ago

Buttery Cinnamon Cake

When the Pioneer Woman says it’s the best coffee cake ever, you’ve got to listen. Having bookmarked this recipe ever since she wrote about this super delicious coffee cake, I finally set out to make it today. With lots of butter, sugar, pecans and cinnamon, what’s not to like? (For that matter, anything with cinnamon […]
16 years ago

Zucchini and Onion Tart

This is not your average tart. For starters, it doesn’t use tart dough for a base, but pizza dough, and secondly, it calls for a layer of thick yoghurt and cheese beneath the vegetables. Both the deviations from the norm seemed rather interesting, and the picture in the book looked too good to pass up […]
16 years ago