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Coffee Caramel Creme Brulee
The Google searches initiated from my laptop, which are normally recipe oriented, since Easter are looking a bit like this 'how to keep kids busy during school holidays?' ' Apps for young children' 'ways to entertain kids' and so on. Yes, I almost feel guilty having to kook them up but these … Read More
Cinnamon Cake With Apple Rosemary Buttercream
I hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend. I don't know where the 4 days vanished because there were too many things squeezed into one short break. On the other side of the break we are suddenly into winter like weather. Daylight savings came to an end and the weather aligned itself in perfect … Read More
Strawberry Panna Cotta With Earl Grey
Strawberry Panna Cotta with strawberry puree and hints of earl grey tea to make the perfect cold dessert that requires no baking. Autumn may not be my favorite season but there are a few things I associate with this time of the year that I absolutely love and look forward to. When I first moved … Read More
Dark Chocolate Cheesecake Tart With Summer Fruits
So, we are well into Autumn! There are no color changing maple leaves where I live. The sun hasn't started to set earlier either. There is a very slight chill in the morning. But it is still Autumn. Because it is no longer summer. Because the beautiful raspberries, nectarines and plums are getting … Read More
Styling And Shooting For Styling Magazine. An experience!
"I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.” ― Alice Sebold This is a favorite quote of mine that I had saved a long time ago in a folder named 'Inspiration'. Being food bloggers, photographers, creatives we are quite used to freezing wonderful, luscious, lip-smacking moments with our cameras. Sharing them with the world so that they can create the emotions that they were meant to create. But there are some moments, some emotions that even the camera cannot capture. Pieces in time that can only be left in the internal memory of our minds to be played and re-played over and over again. Experiences so rich and special that they almost change you as a person. Moments that you own but too large to fit into an 'Inspiration' folder. I had many of these moments recently while working with Styling Magazine and the wonderful Coty Farquhar, the creative director and stylist extraordinaire behind this beautiful collection. I was blown away the first time I spoke to her and with great delight the next thing I realized was that she was the only person on earth who … Read More
Cream Puffs With Orange Whipped Mascarpone
Today we attended a cross country carnival at the twin's school. This was a first for my boys who have just started school this year. A first among the innumerable races they will perhaps run through childhood and adulthood and the many 'finishing lines' they will persue in real life. To say that they were excited would be an understatement. One of them was up way past bedtime yesterday. 'I can't sleep. What if I don't win?' I was surprised, happy and a wee bit disappointed that my baby boy appeared to have grown up in leaps and bounds in the past one month. I told him what my mum told me as a child 'It is more important to give your best'. It was evident that he was not convinced with my answer and continued to fret till he fell asleep holding his teddy bear who in recent times has been lovingly named after their school house. In the morning, everyone was in high spirits at the school. Mums and Dads had decided to wear respective house color clothes to support their children and the school pretty much resembled (for lack of a better description, sorry!) a giant box of mobile Nestle Smarties (can't stop thinking about food, eh?) The race began. Despite being forbidden … Read More
Rose And Cardamom Cheesecake Mille-feuille
With puff pastry, I think the sky is the limit when you think of recipes. Remember my story about my fridge overload. One of the things I always stock up on is puff pastry. I stopped making my own a couple of years ago. It is not difficult to make at all but time consuming. With two little boys on tow, I would never remember to take the dough out on time after it had rested between the different stages of rolling. When I would remember, it would be too hard to roll. I would leave it on the counter and forget again. But now that I keep the rolled sheets at home, I find it really helpful to make sweet and savory food in a jiffy. Mille feuilles are a great way of using puff pastry. Layers of pastry cream or even whipped cream and fruit sandwiched between crumbly layers of pastry. Visually, they are beautiful in their little rustic stacks and the perfect marraige of contrasting textures. Here I've use whipped cream cheese between the layers for a no-bake cheesecake kind of dessert. So basically it is a fusion of two desserts that come together in minutes. I've infused the cheesecake with rose water and tiny bit of cardamom powder and sprinkled them with with ground pistachios. … Read More
White Chocolate Mud Cake With Pineapple
White Chocolate Mud Cake made extra delicious and moist by the addition of pineapple. A simple honey whipped cream completes the frosting. Growing up in the tropics, pineapple flavored sweets were a prominent part of my childhood. I don't think I had ever spotted canned pineapple back then. Fresh pineapple was the way to go and despite the work involved, prepping the pineapple never seemed daunting to anyone as much as it is to me today. My mum's favorite thing to make was a fresh pineapple chutney with a generous squeeze of lime and two big dried red chillies. The blend of sweet, sour and spicy flavors would make my palate dance. Another flavoring agent was the pineapple essence. Pretty common and more popular than orange or strawberry. I would love to eat the tea cakes that were flavored with this essence and speckled with dried pineapple. I was a bit disappointed not to find the pineapple cake as popular in Australia when I came to live here. Mud cakes however are pretty popular in Australia. Though I have never come across a white chocolate mud cake with pineapple before I made one, I could envision quite clearly how it would taste. Since mud cakes are rich and dense, … Read More
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