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Lots of work going on here in the kitchen ;) Heartfelt wishes for a very happy and prosperous new year and best wishes for the years to come !! Here is a glance of what all was going on in my kitchen here :) Eggless chocolate sponge with strawberries and vanilla cream Eggless Blackforest gateau Fresh fenugreek leaves (methi) paratha (Home grown methi) A glance of my soon coming mini lunch series (An attempt to blog regularly a balanced lunch recipe ) Spinach (palak) paratha, okra stir fry and onion-fresh corriander raita Bisi bela huli and onion-tomato raita Vegetarian fried rice-noodles and soya chunks in a spicy sauce I wish you all a sweet and savoury year ahead ..... indulge and enjoy keeping in check your waistline ....... ^_^ CHEERS for the new year !! Thanks for stopping by, all your comments and mails mean a lot to me........they make my day :) Thanks Abhi

I welcome all you readers to a world of eggless bakes that tries to compete neck to neck with the "real deal", yes I try and bake without any eggs trying to achieve the same kind if texture, moistness and the quality of the baked goodies with added eggs. I have got a taste of both the versions. Of late I have been baking lot of bread, almost once a week and now I have the bread formula in my head !! Lot can be done to create a recipe from a base recipe - tweaking it here and there but mostly trying to keep it as it was - trying to understand the purpose of each element in the recipe and trying to substitute some in some cases like nut allergy, gluten intolerance, egg allergy etc..., - trying to add some more elements into the recipe to make it more suitable to your tastes Whatever you try to do to an original recipe, the basic thing will be to understand the purpose of each and every element of the recipe. Not only what the recipe contains but understanding the method is ...

Back into the blogosphere after a really long break !!! I have been continually trying and experimenting with new recipes or improvising on the old ones during these months of absence. Many new recipes were born out of sheer need for palate pleasing food without many gadgets and many ingredients. I was out of the baking zone for a long long time.......happy to be back and enjoying the joy of baking bread at home, with amazing results :) Several recipes, trials, not so-so and so-so results later I finally got " THE"  recipe for really soft home made milk buns. The trick to getting these soft is the amount of liquid and kneading of the dough. I got this  video when I was searching for bread on youtube, it was this recipe that worked for me. I tweaked the recipe a bit, most of it is exactly as in the video. So here goes the recipe, for 6 small buns you will need, Whole wheat flour - 250 gms Whole Milk - 200 gms Sugar - 30 gms Active dried yeast - 4 gms ...

Breakfast is one of the most important meal to kick start a day packed with energy. Here, we both prefer a nutrient rich and light breakfast. I used to buy this breakfast cereal to eat in the morning with milk, we used to always find it very sticky and too soft once you pour milk over it. Then I saw many recipes for something called granola , I did know what museli was and I loved it for breakfast with some cut apples in it. It was just a "perfect" way to start a day for me ! I just felt that most of the granola recipes had too much sugar and oil (may be butter also) in it. I got this really good recipe for a granola here , from Meeta at What's for lunch, honey? . Oh yea, I did tweak the recipe here and there to suit our tastes. I am giving here the final version of the recipe that I usually make when we want a good museli at home. These are what you need to make a hearty granola, 5 cereal mix, rolled - 400 gms Cranberries, raisins, apricots and dates - 145 g...

There are times in your life where you feel so elated at such simple things life throws at you. You have so much fun doing somethings so silly !!!! little you realise that if someone sees what you were upto, you would look quite stupid. Well.... as long as there you have fun and find joy in somethings, nothing really bothers you ! (right ?). It is kind of related and unrelated to me having a good time teasing a neighbour's cat.....  :) It is one of the most good looking cats I have seen here ! It is a very naught cat too. The other day when it was raining I noticed something sitting on my bathroom window, it was this naughty cat sitting there. Our neighbour has two cats, and both of them are really naughty and very very good looking ones ! Every evening, she whistles for the cats calling their names and they slowly reluctantly come back home, exactly like how we used to be when we were kids (but mom never used to whistle for us obviously ! ..... :P). Ok now back to the recip...

The windows os has crashed. I am using Linux now. Just waiting impatiently for Hubby dear to fix it, for me to post on my blog.... I will be soon posting some of my recipes.... Thanks for visiting my blog :)