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Three Layered Mango Cheese Cake -BM 6 Post 2

A three-layered mango cheese cake which spells deliciousness in every layer! The perfect way to make use of the stunning mangoes which are available in summer and this makes a perfect dessert option! I had been thinking about mango cheese cake since mangoes came to the market and just when the urge was getting stronger and stronger, Nags gave it that final push by posting the yummiest looking cheese cake. As soon as I saw that, I started planning when should I make it. I … [Read more...]

A Failed Challenge and Cabbage-Onion Zunka

Cabbage-Onion Zunka is a quintessential Maharashtrian dish which is traditionally eaten with Bhakar, made from millets. This cabbage-onion zunka is a part of the Indian Cooking Challenge. I had completely forgotten about it till today morning and scheduled another post for today. Anyway, I finally managed to post this recipe today. So zunka, also spelt as jhunka is a traditional poor man's food in Maharashtra. With besan for proteins and onions for taste, this dish is usually … [Read more...]

Tea Time Puri

This simple tea time puri recipe is the perfect afternoon snack or a lunchbox option! Full of health and deliciousness! Has anyone eaten the Garden Tea Time Puri? For some reason, I absolutely adore the product. Once I start eating it, I find it so damn difficult to control myself not to finish the whole packet. Hence I have stopped buying it :( But every time, I go to a store, I stop in front of it and look at it with longing ;-) So one day, I thought, why not make it at … [Read more...]

Spinach Surprise : Step by Step Recipe

Spinach Surprise is a delicious snack made in the microwave made with some amazingly healthy ingredients and tastes so yummy! It is a perfect evening snack or a after-school snack! If there is one magazine I read with alarming regularity it is Good Housekeeping. I just love it, So this month when the newspaper walla delivered the magazine and I started flipping through it, I found that there are some lovely microwave recipes in that and when I am hosting MEC this month, this couldn't have made … [Read more...]

My First Ever Event : MEC

I am hosting my first ever event on this blog! The MEC - Microwave Easy Cooking is a perfect event to start out with! Yes Yes we host our first ever event at this blog. Truly speaking, that was one of the things that shook me out of my laziness to open this food blog :) So with great happiness and excitement, I present to you the brilliant event that Srivalli started MEC - Microwave Easy Cooking. Some months back in one post she had written that if anybody wanted to host the MEC could email … [Read more...]

Masala Chilli Cookies – Post 3

Masala chilli cookies are the perfect teatime snack option! They are an amazing addition to the lunchbox too! Who doesn't like cookies but while I am doing the course (specially in the cookies week) I had such an overdose of sweet things that I couldn't stand the sight of sugar. All I wanted to do was eat loads and loads of spicy stuff. That is when I chanced upon these masala chilli cookies somewhere and I sure had to make them. And man! how yummy they were :D :D. Whenever we think … [Read more...]

Chocolate Truffles

Few things in life give as much happiness as chocolate and these chocolate truffles are the best way to eat your way into chocolate heaven :) I used to make a lot of chocolate truffles once upon a time. I don't know when I stopped, but then I saw this recipe in Cooking More by Tarla Dalal and I thought of making truffles again. This morning I was chatting with Itchy and she asked, do the insides of these truffles turn soft? I replied not as soft as shop-bought truffles but I … [Read more...]