So finally Ramadan is declared, and it is tomorrow! Tomorrow, or rather from tonight, will mark a whole new routine for the next one month! We will have special Ramadan prayers called Taraweeh, which will start from tonight and will go on till Eid is declared. It will be the time for late dinners, a light meal before the striking of dawn and total abstinence from dawn to dusk. Since summer is at the peak this year, the dawn here starts at around 4 am and will go on till around 7:15 pm, that’s quite some long time, when the temperatures are peaking 45-48 degrees Celsius and the humidity can go till 100 percent! But Alhamdulillah, even though the first couple of days is difficult, the body gets adjusted to it and will withstand all the stress of not eating! The Qur’an says: “O you who believe, fasting is decreed…
Zebra Cake
My eyes are literally burning… as though I have a fire set in… I just had hinted that Rasha’s school is closed now, so you can imagine the chaos at home… Both my imps sleep till 10 in the morning, wake up and start their havoc in the house, again sleep a couple of hours in the afternoon. Sometimes, when I reach home form work, they are still sleeping. Can you imagine the heaviness I feel in my mind?? “Oh Lord, my sleep at night is gone!!” And me being a sleep person, my struggle starts at 10 every night. Wash them and dress them up, into the bedroom. A lot of begging, prodding, “kannuruttaling” (rolling my eyes – OK, I don’t know what other word to use for this action!!! Hehe…), shouting, screaming, crying – “please, please, makkale (my kids), ummi wants to sleep…” Doesn’t help at all… Where do…
Eggless Mango Chocolate Marble Cake
I started off the day seeing this quote, let me share it with all of you: “Everyday seems to be the same, but when you turn back, all days are different and things have changed.” – Anonymous Think about it… Isn’t it so true? Something that we never tend to realize… As you are all aware, I am a part of the Home Baker’s Challenge group which is the brainchild of Priya Suresh akka of Priya’s Versatile Recipes. Last month’s challenge was Pizza hosted by Divya’s Culinary Journey, for which I made the Chicken Nuggets Vegetable Pizza and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. So when the next challenge came up from Sangeetha Vijay of Spicy Treats, I was so excited. She suggested two versions of a very different marble cake, where instead of the vanilla layer, we make a mango layer, and she gave options that were with…
Honey Banana Bread
Seriously, sitting at home is no fun!!! Having continuously worked for some years now, with the only breaks being the annual vacations, which are normally at break neck speed, packed with events, I am not used to this kind of rest. Everybody keeps telling that it will be like a good break, but seriously I don’t seem to enjoy it. No cooking, no testing, no doing anything – all I do is sit with my legs stretched, occasionally browsing FB, which I am finding boring these days (thank God!!!), reading books, pondering the Quran, dealing with the heavy punches that I keep getting from Azza, etc. Azza is the most excited that I am at home. As I type this post, she’s trying her hand at pulling out some of side portion of my laptop. I guess by the time I am done, I should conveniently lose the side cover of my laptop!!! …
Eggless Garlic Zaatar (Thyme) Rolls
It’s already Thursday today!!! I cannot believe myself. I feel that this week has flown by skipping a couple of days in between!! This weekend is devoid of any plans, which is good. I guess then I can twist and tweek it the way I want, InShaAllah… 🙂 I have just noticed that for the past few posts, I’ve been only posting desserts or snacks rather than some hard core meals!!! I guess it’s time to break that trend at-least for some time. So after today’s post, hopefully I will post some meals… These garlic rolls are too good… I have taken this recipe from Suhaina’s My Singapore Kitchen, just like how I had done for the Mini Sausage Rolls I posted sometime back. Actually speaking, I lost my fear of working with yeast, once I had made these two recipes from her page. This is also one no-fail good recipe,…
Eggless Amazing Dinner Rolls
I am glad to be a member of the Eggless Baking Challenge from this month onwards. The main reason why I took it was to widen my horizon and use my head a little bit when adjusting to eggless is to be done. I always look for eggless recipes mainly because they are quite easy to put together. This month’s Baking Eggless Challenge is hosted by Priya of Enveetu Kitchen and her suggestion was dinner rolls. The recipe had just one egg for double the quantity I used, so the only little variation I did was to slightly increase the butter and whisk all the wet ingredients before adding the flour. The rolls were absolutely soft, to say the least. My younger one enjoyed it the most – she had two in a stretch and the next day, had the next two! 🙂 Overall, I enjoyed the experience of making my…
Kerala Style Baked Chicken
This was actually supposed to be my first guest post, but then the post for “Cooking with Thas” just happened without much planning and this post has become my second guest post in less than a week!Whatever said, this post is very close to my heart. I am just a little more than one month old and I am really honored to appear on a very well known and appreciated food blog for a guest posting. I do not think that Love2cook Malaysia – or Sri as is her name – needs any introduction. She cooks some of the most simple, yet amazing meals and her pictures are absolutely drool-worthy. She was one of the first food blogs I used to drool upon before discovering many many more. Her blog makes me feel that she’s somebody living right next door! I am sure all of us would agree to that statement……
Vanilla Mayo Cupcakes
I don’t know whether I need to be excited but I think I should. I started this page with a lot of trepidation, but then I am so glad that I have received some good support from all of you out there, who have come and taken efforts to join the page, give comments and make me feel nice about wanting to post every single day!!! In my first post on this blog, I was hinting at posting every week, but because of the highly positive response I am receiving, I am posting almost everyday except my weekends!!! I am seriously humbled… Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your support. This is for all of you… Image courtesy: Google This is my post number 25, I mean a recipe post, not taking into account the first post I have done on this blog. Since…
To bake a cake without an oven…
I know of so many people who do not make cakes, simply because they do not have an oven. I feel that is really sad. Even though home made cakes may appear inferior to store bought cakes, the taste and the love with which it is made cannot match the commercial cakes whatsoever. I truly believe in that. Even if it is a simple chocolate cake or vanilla sponge cake, the effect on the person who is eating it is unimaginable It must be because the maker knows what all goes into it and the interest with which it is made sets everything apart.This is a very humble attempt to demonstrate how you can make cake without an oven. All you need is a pressure cooker or steamer and an aluminium pan which will fit into your cooker/ steamer. It is that easy. My mom has been making cakes this way since the…
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