How much ever we say Ramadan isn’t a month meant for eating, somehow everyone loves to indulge in this month. For that matter, this time, despite everything, we have been eating a lot almost every day. Sometimes, I tell my SIL, “let’s take a break” and we just end up cutting fruits, making a juice and fixing up something for dinner. Being at home all the time is actually making everyone frustrated and whatever gets cooked would just finish off. It actually feels good… 😀 I have always been cribbing how fidgety my folks are and deciding to cook for them is always difficult, but I am not sure if it is the SIL effect or the Covid effect, I don’t hear too many complaints nowadays! 😉 There was three recipes that I had tried during the past couple of days and was struggling to decide which one…
Kheema Bread Pizza | Easy Bread Pizza
If there is something that my girls love, then it is pizza. I have mentioned it several times before. Of late, HD’s staff’s relative has been getting them a couple of pizza boxes for the past couple of days and we have been eating pizza for suhoor. 😀 My girls, who would otherwise not budge from their milk and cornflakes routine, were all excited to be eating pizza on empty stomach at 4 am in the morning. So I guess I don’t need to tell too much about how much they love pizza, even though their mother’s thoughts are otherwise. Hehe… So after the Kadala Pola and the spring rolls, I wanted to post my simple bread pizza which is something we make every Ramadan at least a couple of times. I like to make the topping with mince, for the main reason that it defrosts and cooks…
Batata Batemjaan ~ Potato Aubergine Casserole
I was contemplating whether to post this now or later. But during Ramadan, even though we love to eat a lot of non-veg dishes, there are times when you would like vegetarian fare and you would prefer eating something that wouldn’t make you miss non-vegetarian food. This casserole perfectly fits the bill in every way. Let me start with a story. Last January when my parents were here, we were invited for dinner to HD’s local friend’s sister’s house. It is the first time I am eating at a local’s house. Expats in the Gulf countries may understand when I say “first time”. I do have a couple of local friends but we always end up meeting and eating out. The beauty of most of the Gulf countries is you do not feel like you are living in a foreign country, especially if you are an Indian, and…
Eggless Coffee Blondies with Cinnamon Chips
If there is a recipe that I have been wanting to update before Ramadan begins, then it is this one. I have baked blondies on and off and I have really loved all the bakes. Whether it is these basic ones, or these orange walnut ones, or these Biscoff ones – super yum! – they have been amazing. Blondies are apt when you crave for brownies but you don’t want anything chocolaty or brown in color. That reminds me of these white chocolate ones that were so similar to brownies but were white for a change. 😉 All the above blondies are with eggs. I love to explore eggless options a lot and that explains from the number of eggless bakes I already have on the blog. I have been wanting to add a blondie that somebody who doesn’t use eggs could bake and here it is! I…
Eggless Baked Cheesecake with Chocolate Caramel Ganache
Usually I am used to writing long posts when some occassion is on. Like that day that is today… It is our wedding anniversary #16. Sometimes, in midst of this hectic life, I can’t believe that we have been with each other for all these years. When you are as different as chalk and cheese, getting along without any hiccups becomes a daily challenge that needs to be maintained. With the current situation, it has been even more difficult. We have been hardly seeing each other for a long time when life was the normal self, but once the slowdown and lockdown has been in place, we are seeing each other more often and sometimes it isn’t a very interesting experience. I am no one to be very mushy and cheesy when it comes to talking about HD. As much as he is an awesome human beings, his negative…
Easy Jackfruit Cake
Jackfruit is not a fruit that is my favorite. I somehow don’t seem to like it. It wasn’t like that all the time. There was a time I used to hog on jackfruit. My mattamma – umma’s mom – has a few huge jackfruit trees in her yard that yeilds so many fruits every year, MaShaAllah. However, off late, it hasn’t been able to, maybe due to its old age or likely even bad eye. Hehe… When we were in school, our home visits were limited to once in two years. I always wonder what it felt like being home without doing much, and I can hardly remember anything. Nowadays, kids are actually pampered with visits every now and then. I have been trying to see if we can defer plans every year, but there would be something or the other, and we would have to go. This year…
Zucchini Dates Muffins
Sometimes I feel like thanking the Westerners for classifying muffins and cakes as breakfast. It makes our life so much easier. 😀 I mean, would our mothers ever agree to eating cake as breakfast? No way! But then with ways of incorporating all kind of “healthy” ingredients into your cakes, you can very well have a delicious baked breakfast. I have a few lovely bakes that I had made specifically for breakfast, like these Apple Flax Muffins and the Blueberry French Toast, among what I can remember. So when I was considering making something with egg as my breakfast – because eggs are default breakfast material for me since very long – I remembered these muffins I baked recently, which can easily be eaten for breakfast since it has a lot of goodness in it. So after the simple Jam and Cheese Sandwich and the Upma, here is a…
Eggless Condensed Milk Cake
Mentally, I am not in a state to do a blog post. I am sure that nobody, or majority aren’t either in an upbeat mood. When movement is restricted, children are at home with no confirmation on school reopening, daily routine takes a beat so much that even your five-times-prayers are restricted to only the call to prayer from the closeby masjid, events are cancelled, unnecessary travel is asked to be avoided, borders are closed, work gets crazy because shipments aren’t arriving on time nor is there any visibility on the shipments for the next months, sales works overtime as the population is on a frenzy and panic buying… SubhanAllah! I have already mentioned my general feeling in the last post and don’t want to ponder over it. From our side, we are doing the maximum that we can as far as hygiene is concerned, restricted our outside movements…
Milk Chocolate Brownies
Haven’t I always mentioned that my girls are hard to please? And that applies very much to my bakes as well. If you thought that kids would eat any brownies baked, then you are wrong. My girls won’t. They seem to have a criteria for their brownies – shouldn’t be too dark in color, shouldn’t have any bitter cocoa taste, shouldn’t have anything to bite in between, etc. etc. My problem is I tend to like more of dark chocolate and the girls end up not eating my brownies. I always tell them that everybody loves my brownies but not them, but they care a hoot. So while thinking of what to make for the theme of “Anything and everything chocolate” for the Blogging Marathon #109, I had decided to make these brownies that have been on my to-do for quite a long time. There is a reason…
Eggless Banana Cake
Is it just me, or did you generally feel that January finished in a blink? I mean, it became 2020 just yesterday, isn’t it? It did take me sometime to accept the fact that time is in fact running a bit too fast to my liking and it feels overwhelming to get through the days in this quick fashion. When there is too much negative news just floating in the air, I feel like shutting myself down from that noise and concentrating on what will give my mind some peace of mind. On a brighter note, our home has become better with the gracing of B’s family. His little one is 8 month old and she fills the house with giggles and screams. The girls don’t want to go to school and if they do, they want to come back home and not study at all. HD doesn’t…
Chocolate Mousse Cake
I can’t believe I am stuck for words when I am completing 7 years of blogging. 7 years! Wow! I think I should give myself a pat on my back. When life has been in general difficult yet worth fighting for, I have still kept my wits to continue cooking, clicking and blogging. I guess that just shows how much I love this little baby of mine, despite sometimes feeling that it hasn’t been fair to me. But having said that, I always believe in whatever is meant for us will come our way, come what may, so I guess I am happy with the little that is coming my way. 🙂 The last two years has marked a known push from my side to reduce my blogging in every way. I have gone from posting almost every day to posting twice or thrice a week. I feel…
Baked Chicken Toast
I am breathing a sigh of relief. 2019 has been a rather rough year. I wouldn’t want to sound pessimistic but it wasn’t a happy year. There were too many downs than ups, but Alhamdulillah, we faced the tide and rode against it. As much as challenges arose, we fought it and downed it, only to be faced by more. I guess with passing days, tests leave you becoming a little paranoid when little joys come your way. It is during those times I remind myself of the immense number of verses in the Qur’an, where Allah warns us of hardships. He promises His Jannah for those who are steadfast and patient. It is difficult, but not impossible. We all very well know that this life is transient, yet we do not want to accept that fact… I guess I wouldn’t want to think too much about this year….
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