carrotsandcherries

Every time I post a recipe on my blog, I would like it to be unique, original in its own sense. That is why I am struggling right now to post truly original to my home recipes !! This time at  Mactweets , Jamie and  Deeba had challenged us to make a macaron inspired by a favourite dessert. I was planning to flavour the macarons depending on how they turn out. Well they were not so great. I followed all that I read, still no success. I had a different kind of problem this time. My macarons had BIG feet but they slid out very neatly like the nice ones. But still it did not have that kind of texture inside, I felt they were rather chewy. Since the macarons were not a great success I decided to make a simple strawberry quark filling to sandwich them. I gues no one can deny that strawberries and cream are unbeatably the simple yet very delicious dessert. I tried to mimick the same strawberry and cream, but instead of cream I used low fat bio quark :). All the more good for us...

Pizza .......hmmm I have made it from scratch for like 3 times in my life. This time the pizza came out well ...yaay !!!!  ahem ..... excuse me, just got a bit excited. Bread is a bit tricky to make. Baking is new to me, I will not say completely but it is. I wanted to prepare pizza exactly for 2 persons and voila !..I had it, - I scaled down all the ingredients - Changed the steps of baking, because I do not have a pizza stone and the pizza was not quite having the taste. and I did get a decent pizza. Finally !!!! I did everything by hand, no machine ! Basic pizza dough - For 2 pizzas(thin crust) - 27 x 18 cm All purpose flour - 200 gms plus dusting Salt - 1/3 plus 1/4 tsp (we will use it together, easier for measurement) Active dry yeast - 1/3 tsp Olive oil - 1 tbsp Water, chilled - 140 ml Sugar - 1 tsp 1. Mix all the dry ingredients together and then pour in the oil-water mixture and combine to a sticky dough. 2. Knead till the dough is smooth, it leaves the s...