Didn’t I mention here that my parents were in town? Well, early morning yesterday, they went back home. It was a short sweet stay and it helped them overcome the jet-lag of being in the US with my sister for two months. It was actually tricky dealing with D during this time. Wherever we would go, especially at a relative’s place, I used to drag him out reminding him that it was quite late and we are having a work day . I hope you get the point. 🙂 He would be in his full energy from 9 pm onwards with no inkling of sleep, and I would be literally wanting to fall on bed after a day at work. Thankfully, towards the end of the stay, his sleep clock got back to normal, so hopefully they both will sleep normally at home. 😀 The girls are a tad…
Chocolate Creme Caramel
One thing I love about participating in challenges is that it does help you tick your to-do list earlier than later. Ever since I mastered the Creme Caramel, I have been wanting to make the chocolate version of it. I am a chocoholic and so is my elder one. When I had made the creme caramel, Rasha had told me, “Ummi, please try a chocolate version for this!” It’s been a long time since she said that, but when I was planning the Bake-a-thon posts, this request was right up there. I feel that my Creme Caramel is a slightly complicated recipe, so I wanted to make the chocolate version with just pantry essentials – milk, eggs, sugar and cocoa powder. But I was really nervous while making it, since my earlier simple versions have always flopped. I have already noted down that I need to make the…
Goji Berry Breakfast Cookies
If anybody enters my kitchen, they will think they have entered an office. I have a white board on the side of my fridge with full of scribbling, a cork board on one of my cupboard doors with lots of cut outs pinned to it and a sticker hanger with even more papers clipped onto it. Anyone new who comes gives a very curious look at them to see what I have spread on them. Obviously, they are recipe printouts and cut outs that I pin up so that I try immediately. That “immediately” has no specific time frame – it can be a week, a month or even years. But I must say that this recipe I am posting today didn’t have to wait indefinitely to be tried, thanks to the Bake-a-thon. 😀 I mentioned about receiving a small pack of goji berries from Zerin, while I…
Malu Paan ~ Sri Lankan Fish Buns
While I was trying to figure out what all I need to bake for this month’s Bake-a-thon, the first thing I did was to go through my Pinterest boards for ideas. However, it so happened that nothing went as per what I was planning to do. Interesting ideas kept coming in between and I kept changing my plans but then if there was one thing that I stuck to and did was to bake these buns called Malu Paan that I had bookmarked when I had dabbled a bit with Sri Lankan cuisine in an edition of the BM sometime ago – remember the Sri Lankan Chicken Curry? If you haven’t tried it, then please do! I don’t have a tuna friendly home, to say the least. I love it as a lazy meal and usually prepare it this way. It is the best thing you can get…
Simple Vanilla Muffins
After ages, we had a long holiday the past week due to the National Day. I had already scheduled the Khameer and the Apple Scone so that I wouldn’t miss out on the posting on the due dates. I had a lot of plans for the weekend. I had literally pushed my cousins into excitement so that I could have them along to go to Muscat. I have gone there two times already, however my trips have lasted less than 24 hours and I haven’t been able to explore the beautiful places around it. This time, I really wanted to stay three days, relax and move around for some long drives, some mountain and farm sight seeing and in general, just be calm. A break from your own surroundings is usually a good way to rejuvenate, when you are constantly under stress. The trip was planned in such a…
Eggless Apple Walnut Scones
Bake-a-thon is a yearly baking series headed by Valli during December and I have been a part of it for the past two years. There will be a total of 13 baking recipes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday till the month ends. Since the last post was more related to the UAE National Day, I thought I would rather move the details of the series in this post. 😀 You can find all the posts related to the previous years here. While the first year, I did random posts out of the burgeoning drafts, I focused on chocolate bakes last year, and this year, I am doing based on the theme of individual servings. Just like the Khameer I posted as the first one… As soon as I had started jotting out my posts for this series, I wanted to bake a scone, and somehow it had to…
Khameer | Emirati Yeasted Flatbread
This month, three days of the week, you will see posts related to the Bake-a-thon. This is a baking event that is conducted by Valli every year. I think I will leave more details in the next post, while today, I will celebrate the birthday of the country that gives our bread and butter… Every year, I have made it a point that I do a post for this day. December 2 was the day when this country was declared in its current known state. The country today completes 48 years of existence. We all know how much the young country called UAE, despite its diminutive area, has managed to come to the top of the world, due to its exemplary leadership, swift development and enthusiasm to soak in new technologies and innovation. 2019 was celebrated as the Year of Tolerance and through out the year, there were…
Mango Cardamom Butter Cake
All of a sudden, my posts refuse to cooperate with my blog name. After the Banana Caramel Muffins, there has been a line of savory posts before this simple cake appears on the blog. You may see the same trend continuing this whole month. Sometimes, I feel a comment from my sister sometime ago hits me hard, “You don’t have any serious recipes!” I still don’t get what she meant by “serious” recipes. Maybe she means hard core dinner or lunch recipes. 😀 Yes, I have to admit, I have a long list of basics to cover. But I do have sufficiently interesting and easy curry recipes, or even rice recipes. Or no? I don’t know… hehe… It is best to say that I have been cooking closer to what my family needs and hence the off balance in the posts. 🙂 After taking my food seriously, the baking…
Banana Caramel Muffins
I have been lagging behind on book reviews of late. The main reason has been I have been extremely lazy to cook my normal meals, forget about cooking from the cookbooks I have. I would really like to get back on track but I am in no hurry. I want to give myself my own time and get slowly onto my schedule as my routine eases out and things look better, InShaAllah… However, this is one book review I have been wanting to work on from the beginning of the year. There is one reason for it. When a fellow blogger launches her own cookbook, then it is up to us as her little circle to support her for the same. Moreover if she hands over the privilege of the first sale, then I guess it becomes an even bigger excitement. 🙂 As I do this post, the…
No-Knead Pan Pizza with White Sauce
Time for the second week of the Blogging Marathon! For this week of edition #105, I chose the theme “Pizza and Pasta”. Valli has a monthly Kid’s Delight event happening and this is the theme for this month. My girls are very fond of pizza but they don’t share the same liking towards pasta. However, slowly and steadily with time, they are finding their interest towards pizza. However since they are my girls, I know that they would get bored of it fast, so I am not getting overly excited about the scene. 😀 So from today for the coming three days, you will see three recipes for this interesting theme… Pizza is something my girls really love. I really don’t consider pizza as a meal. I feel that despite paying so much to buy it, it hardly fills the stomach. Please raise your hands if you agree…
Chocolate Coconut Cake
I have been on a dry spree as far as my thoughts are concerned. Somehow my head is quite empty. It is not that there is nothing much to share, but it is more of my head being empty most of the time. There are few tension filled moments happening, but then I guess the best way to live through life and not stress yourself is by looking at what you already have – four walls that protect you, food to eat, a nice bed to sleep, your family, your parents to talk to, your good friends to fall on to, etc. After all, didn’t Allah tells us that we are created of haste… Of late, the stress has getting on to me a bit too much. I have been mentioning that I am trying to hold on to my lost weight, but as soon as I came…
Classic Marble Cake
Getting back to blogging seems to have been far more easier than getting back on track. Even though I have been home for the past few days, the mojo for cooking has been totally missing. We have been just eating this and that and pushing through days. Of course, HD looked a bit irritated though he didn’t show his feeling profusely. So whatever he showed, I chose to ignore. 😉 When you come back from vacation, everything seems different. The eye cooling greens and the cozy breeze has given way to the browns and heat. Naturally, that sags your mood. For me, UAE is always like home since I have spend my whole life over here. Still, the feeling after vacation is always different. I always dread going back home and settling down, since every single thing will be a learning curve for me. Life here makes you…
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