Showing posts with label Munchies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Munchies. Show all posts


I'm in love with the green stuff. Yes, the one that actually grows on trees. But having it might make your pocket seem a lot lighter. We're talking pistachios here! Its been making an appearance in almost everything I make these days. I try and use it sparingly, but I just can't resist it.

Double Chocolate Pistachio Cookies



This one's for my friend Anjali.
If I had to write a story about this cake, I'd stay it started with a box of dates Mum had on the kitchen table. I could have made a Date & Walnut cake which Mama (my aunt) is renowned for. But then, why try to better the best eh? So I googled for date cakes and came across this really crazy sounding recipe on 'The Wednesday Chef' (Someday I'll figure out how to change the links back to blue, but for now please click on texts which look black and not grey.. yeah weird).

Crazy Yummy Date Cake



Everytime I look at my pictures, I think I should get myself a camera. And then I put aside the thought for another rainy day when I cook up a storm, take pictures and think oh man! there's just too much noise in these pictures. This one's been adjusted using instagram and picasa. Though I still can't make a bad shot good. The one I put up on FB was unfiltered and in my opinion was a sad picture for something as lovely as these rolls.


Orange Marmalade & Pistachio rolls



I'm not even going to bother getting into banalities this time. The recipe is soooo good, we've been having these shortcakes plain, with marmalade, now spiced plums. It just disappears. Batches and batches of shortcakes... and the shortcakes itself are so easy, you can make and bake them in 30 mins flat with no whisking shisking business.

Oatmeal Shortcakes with Spiced Plums


It could also be called 'Dessert for Dummies'. Its just so so simple, its ridiculous. Makes me wonder why I hadn't thought about it earlier. I'd seen something similar on a Donna Hay show on 'DIY Tiramisu', but she used Savoiardi or Lady Fingers. Now how am I going to get those if I don't make them myself? So, as always, I substituted. With something thats so easily available in India and if you're home is like mine, we almost always have it along with our evening tea/coffee. Its tea rusk! The only difference being, these tea rusks were made at home by moi :-) (silly grin here)


Dessert for the Lazies



This one was for my little baby Efrem who's allergic to ALL meat protein and dairy products. Being allergic to things most people take for granted is not easy. Luckily for us, he's not really known life another way. He probably thinks all milk everyone drinks tastes like Soy milk (ugghh!!) and he's never actually enjoyed an egg in his life (Sigh :( ). So this aunt went to work trying to make something which wasn't just sugared soy biscuits, but something a little more interesting. I wanted him to have a taste of home, a taste of our roots, land and country. What's more 'home' than Plantains, Coconut and Cardamom to anyone from Kerala?


Malabar Muffins

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