We love pretzels here at home. They’re so easy to dunk into soup or coffee. And they’re cute. But just the day I felt like baking pretzels and wolfing them down,I realized,I was going to be fasting for the Chaitra Navratri. So my plans went down the drain. But the balls had been set rolling Read More
Bread finally. We’ve been on an -avoid carbohydrates diet for these past few weeks. The first target off the table is of course, always bread. Don’t blame me, we’re trying to get fitter. I love bread. It’s almost like my Raison d’être. So everyday Im not baking or eating bread is a difficult day for Read More
Breads are gorgeous. Breads are beautiful. Especially this one. It’s technically not a braid nor is it a wreath, kind of wreath. It is round, but not studded on the outside with flowers or leaves. It’s just gorgeous whichever way you look at it. And the light, it’s the light of the setting sun. All Read More
Instagram is like this ginormous tree trunk in the middle of the highway. You may be walking at the best pace possible and then, suddenly, you bang into this Trend and your entire life will stop …because you have to check out this trend. So I got stuck on this konel bread Trend. A Japanese Read More
Happy Halloween. Well it’s technically not a festival that’s celebrated in India, but as the Internet has gone ballistic about Halloween and pumpkins and witches and wizards and cats and trick or treating and spiders, I had to do something. So I made cookies in the shape of a haunted houses and cats in a Read More
Hello dear friend. I know that I’ve been missing, but it’s not that I’ve not been baking… Bread is a daily necessity and once you have a Loaf or a Sourdough boule, you’re sorted for a couple of days. So we swing between the wild yeast and the commercial tame yeast breads. Challah bread is Read More
Hello my friend. Lets talk comfort food today. With a superfood. Quinoa. I know this is curd rice style Quinoa and I have the happiest memories of curd rice. Of warm slightly tangy yogurt and crisp fried curry leaves with a smattering of mustard seeds and some fried cashew nuts too. But it’s been a Read More
Getting a hamper when you least expect it is always super exciting. Especially when it is so cutely packaged. So this little basket of Aashirvaad multigrain Atta and the ITC dal Bukhara and ITC Paneer Makhani turned up home and rainy evening. And rainy Nights signal reason to not cook ,so this is perfect. The Read More
I love Stone Fruits And I love bread. So to combine the two was imperative. The in-laws had a plum and peach orchard in the hills up till a few years ago. But because of the National Highway project all over Himachal Pradesh,they had to shift to an apartment complex and let go of the Read More
Muhammara . That sounds itself so exotic. And so gorgeous. And doesn’t it look so? Well, we’re all about using the whole tin full if nuts my mum expects us to eat daily. She deligiently soaks almonds and walnuts and presses 5 into our hands every morning. I know they are really good for you Read More