Spring Traditions ! Everyone has them. All cultures across the world have a festival or a holiday to celebrate in spring. The warming up of the earth, reawakening of the forests, trees and rebirth of flowers and leaves. The promise of things to come and the lengthening of the days just fills people with hope. For my family the traditional spring holiday is the Navreh, the New Year. However we don’t have any cookies associated with the holiday. There is lot of food, a lot of family time, and new clothes. But sadly no cookies! So I borrowed the idea …
Raspberry Mojito Bundt Cake #BundtBakers
Sun kissed beaches, glorious ocean waves and a big sip of a tropical drink. That’s how I picture a tropical vacation which is the theme for our BundtBakers this month. The theme made me think of Raspberry Mojito Bundt Cake only after I had exhausted my options and myself in making a kick ass mango coconut bundt cake. I tried. I really did. But tropical themed cakes and me don’t see eye to eye in first or the second try. Guys! I repeated the story that I had with my Tropical surprise bundt cake! As they say, third time is …
Tequila Lime Chicken Wings
Before I get on with the Tequila lime chicken wings, allow me to start this post with a fun memory of my Dad. When we moved to the US, a little under a decade ago, my daughter missed family back home. So she would call up her grandparents – my parents, and talk to them. They talked for hours and she would give them glimpses of life she was adjusting to. One day I get a frantic call from my Dad after my daughter hung up the phone. He wanted to know “what does buffalo wings mean”!! He really did …
Satpadi – Spiced Griddle Bread #Breadbakers
There are very few aromas that stir my appetite as the smell of bread being freshly baked on a griddle does. Fewer still invoke longing and memories of a life gone by. My earliest memories of Roti / Paratha are those of waking up to the aromas of chai boiling away and the freshly baked roti’s being slathered with Amul butter. Mom never made the breads in advance. She always ensured we get fresh off the griddle paratha or roti to enjoy for our breakfast. I can still see her in my minds eye, rolling the bread and baking it …
Chole Aloo – Chickpeas & Potatoes
Sundays. They were the best. Sundays meant no school, no waking up early to buy bread, and a lavish breakfast made by mom. Not all Sundays featured breakfast made by mom. We (my siblings and I), lived with our grandparents as Dad’s job took him to remote places which did not usually have good schools. But some Sundays, when mom and dad were visiting, were deliciously divine. They would start with the whiff of aromatic Kehwa being brewed. We would land in the kitchen for a cuppa. And hover around to see what was being cooked for the special breakfast. …
Chocolate and Tomato Soup Bundt Cake #BundtBakers
It’s the strange but good sort of a day with the Bundt Bakers. And that’s why you are being forced to partake in a recipe that uses tomato soup as one of it’s ingredients. If you think adding tomato soup in my chocolate bundt is way too weird, wait till you see what the other strange (ahem) Bunt Bakers have come up with! As weird as it sounds, it is not all that uncommon – the tomato soup cake! It has been known to have made it’s presence in the depression era. And there are scores of recipes, old and …
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