Eggless Chocolate Chip (or Chunk) Cookies Makes 3 to 4 dozen cookies Adapted from: A Passion for Baking by Marcy Goldman Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 1.5 tsp vanilla extract 2 tbsp flax seed powdered (to replace 2 eggs) 2 cups + 4 tbsp all purpose flour or maida 3/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1 to 1....
However, this technique of making ice-cream with condensed milk and cream works really well with almost no crystals at all although you only blend the ice-cream mixture once. Once, you guys! That’s pretty amazing, isn’t it? You can adapt this basic recipe to include whatever flavours you’d like, like adding 1/2 cup of espresso for a coffee ice-cream, or other fruit purees, or even chocolate sauce, jams, nuts, chocolate chips, the possibilities are endless....
This recipe is from my mom-in-law and it’s a pretty authentic recipe for ennai kathirikai kuzhambu, although different families have their own small nuances to the basic recipe, I find. When you choose the baby brinjal to make this recipe, try to choose the small ones in similar sizes so they cook thoroughly and evenly. The younger they are, the better! If you have some time on your hands and are craving some comfort food, a homemade meal, something like what your mom or grand mom would have made you if she were with you, then this recipe for ennai kathirikai kuzhambu is for you....
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like figs – they’re so sweet and unassuming – but I avoided them for years due to my childhood dislike of Fig Newtons. I was just never a fan of that packaged fig flavor. Later, I came to realize (of course!) that fresh figs are amazing. They’re in season now, and their season is short, so you should go find some. When I have fresh figs, they only seem to last a day (maybe two) so I usually make something really simple with them....
What’s better than regular butter? Garlic butter! This spread is rich and, well, buttery, brimming with savory garlic flavor. It’s quick to stir together, and it lasts for days in the fridge. Keep it on hand for slathering onto bagels and toast, tossing with noodles, dotting onto baked potatoes, and more. It’s such an easy way to amp up the flavor in simple, everyday meals. How to Make Garlic Butter This homemade garlic butter recipe has to be one of the simplest on the blog....
This is not much of a recipe, just a habit of mine that I wanted to share and hopefully, Sunita would accept this as an entry to her event. To make ginger tea – boil 1/2 cup water and add 1 tsp tea leaves and 2 small pieces of ginger. Boil for a few minutes and add hot milk and sugar to taste. Drink hot! This is my cup of Ginger Tea that gets me started every day morning....
Ingredients For the pastry: 1 cup + 2tbsp flour (200gm) 100gm unsalted butter, frozen 1/4 tsp baking powder 1 beaten egg A generous pinch of salt For the filling: 2 cups chopped mushrooms (I used button mushrooms) 1 large onion, chopped 1/2 cup milk 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese 2 beaten eggs Freshly ground pepper Salt to taste 1 tbsp oil How to Make Quiche: For the pastry: Mix flour, salt and baking powder together....
Move over, bottled Italian dressing! This homemade Italian dressing recipe is super easy to make, and it tastes far better than any store bought kind. Trust me, I know. Growing up in the Midwest, I tried bottled Italian salad dressings left and right. They were a staple at the salad bar, the secret ingredient in everyone’s pasta salad, and the default marinade for any protein. I get it. Reaching for a bottle of pre-made dressing is quick and easy....
Get ready to make popcorn chicken your new go-to for game day snacks, easy dinners, or anytime those cravings hit. Serve with classic Honey Mustard, BBQ Sauce, Ranch, or Homemade Ketchup. The secret to extra tender, flavorful popcorn chicken is a spiced buttermilk marinade (and don’t worry, there’s a handy substitute if you don’t have any buttermilk!). How to Make Popcorn Chicken We use chicken breast in our photos, but chicken thighs are fantastic, too!...
Equipment and Tools Before you start baking, there are a few essential things you need and then there are some tools which are not must-have but more a nice-to-have to make your baking journey easier. I have listed only the essentials based on my opinion and experience. An Oven – although there are methods to make cake without an oven like this pressure cooker cakes, this microwave cake recipe and this steamed chocolate cake, baking in an oven is still the most conventional and convenient methods to bake a cake Electric beater – while this is not completely mandatory and there are lots of cake recipes you can successfully follow without an electric beater or stand mixer, it’s good to have one to aerate your batter more....
I love the moment when I first slice into a watermelon radish. From the outside, this root veggie looks so humble, its skin grubby and pale green. But when I cut into it, I reveal a radiant pink interior. On a gray day in late winter or early spring, nothing makes me happier than bold, bright color like that. So at this time of year, watermelon radishes are a staple in my kitchen....
It’s the start of a long summer weekend – what better way to celebrate than with a homemade ice cream cake?! Until I started making this ice cream cake recipe, every slice of ice cream cake I’d ever eaten was the same. I’m sure you know the kind. It has layers of chocolate and vanilla ice cream, cookie crumbles, and hot fudge, with swooshes of whipped cream frosting decorating the outside....
You know all of those kale recipes? The ones that say to use just the leaves and save the coarse stems for another use? Well friends, this is your “other use”. The same way I collect stale tortillas for the eventual tortilla soup, I save chopped up bits of kale stems (and sometimes other stems) for this eventual pesto. Tiny little bags, all over my freezer. When I’m ready to make this, I mix them with freshly chopped stems so the whole thing doesn’t taste too “frozen....
KEERAI MASIYAL RECIPE Serves 2-3 Ingredients:Amaranth leaves or spinach leaves – 2 cups, cleaned and roughly choppedDried red chillies – 2Jeera powder – 1/2 tspMustard seeds – 1/4 tspUrad dal – 1/2 tspCurry leaves – a few (optional)Garlic – 2 cloves, minced (optional – traditional Brahmin recipes never use garlic, so omit for the authentic taste)Oil – 2 tspSalt – to tasteHow to Make Keerai Masiyal Cook the amaranth leaves in 1/2 cup water for about 5-8 mins till its wilted....
I have mostly been indifferent to beetroot while growing up. Amma used to make only two recipes with beetroot – one was this beetroot thoran and the other was a carrot and beetroot mezhupuratti which I absolutely loved. Beets and carrots are a great combination and lend their sweetness and colour to each other while they cook together. I need to get the exact recipe of the mezhukkupuratti from amma but meanwhile let’s check out how to make beetroot thoran....
We got our hands dirty with our very first garden. Being gardening newbies is fun — multiple trips to the nursery for supplies, brand new gardening hats and our recent zen-like acceptance of weeds. So far our most successful crop is basil. It’s practically coming out of our ears. (By the way, do you want some basil?) Tomatoes are showing promise, but right now we’re in a how-may-ways-can-we-use-basil-today kind of mood....
I wanted to share this fun healthi(er) “game day” recipe before the Super Bowl even though, admittedly, we’re not big football fans. And by “we,” I mostly mean me. Jack will socially watch a game at a party, but my relationship with football didn’t exactly start off on the right… foot. Beginning in 1st grade, every year in gym class, we started the year with a football written test. Way to get kids interested in sports, right?...
I know – avocado toast is SO over, and even if it weren’t, you don’t need a recipe for it. This trend might be on it’s way out, but you’ll still find me (and pretty much everyone else on Instagram) happily smashing & snapping away. I usually keep mine simple – avocado, lemon, salt, pepper, and a sprinkle of hemp seeds. It’s a perfect combo that doesn’t need to be messed with, but since this was “dinner toast” for us one night last week, I thought I’d get a little fancier with the toppings....
I think of margherita pizza as the heartier cousin of Caprese salad, with a crisp, chewy crust supporting the delicious trio of tomatoes, basil, and fresh mozzarella. You’ll find this classic pizza on the menu of any Neapolitan pizza joint, but you can also make a really great homemade version. This margherita pizza recipe is here to prove it! According to Marcella Hazan’s cookbook Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, the pizza was first made for Italy’s Queen Margherita when she visited Naples in the late nineteenth century....
Any recipe that amma sends me, especially if it’s along with ‘styled’ pictures that my uncle Radha mama takes, is special. Methi, or fenugreek leaves, are not very common in Kerala and you don’t often see it in every vegetable stall. So amma grew her own (but of course). Then she made sambar with it and I think her argument was “if you can make dal with it, I can make sambar with it”....
