It’s been long since I have done a three back-to-back series. Since I have been doing the Blogging Marathon on and off, I had decided to give the series some rest. Also, my drafts are dwindling so it may mean that I won’t get three drafts that go with a theme. 🙂 Thankfully, this time I do have some from my drafts, so let’s push it through! With the climate slowly getting better, the mood for coffee and cake pushes up in the evening. I love simple cakes, no icing and all. You may have a look at all the cakes that I have on the blog and notice one thing – not many have frosting on it. Even though frosting makes a cake look and taste better, somehow I like plain cakes. They are easy to make, quick to eat and frosting is always messy! Call me lazy……
Malva Pudding ~ My Guest Post for Paarulz Kitchen
It’s been ages since I have done a guest post. When Paarul invited bloggers to feature on her blog, I took the opportunity hands down. She wanted the post to appear last month, but thanks for lousy net back home, I wasn’t able to get back to her as soon as I wished to with her requests. Finally I am appearing on her page and I am so glad! The inspiration for making Malva Pudding came when Sayana posted about her tryst of eating the pudding at a buffet and then trying it at home. Her post was so tempting that I kept dreaming about making it till I finally got to make it! 😀 Malva Pudding is one of the luscious desserts that South Africa has to offer. I have no clue why it is called so, but I love how the name of the pudding sounds…
3-Ingredient Nutella Brownies
I am working on a few of my last posts before I proceed on my annual leave. Every year, usually I schedule a few posts for my readers and go. I have never left the blog empty in my absence. I have been mentioning from the beginning of the year that I am facing a lag in my blogging mood. Alhamdulillah, I have a lot of drafts and some intermittent cooking that has filled my blog and hasn’t shown up as yet. But you may have noticed that from having posts every day barring the weekends, the frequency has now gone down to three posts a week. It was my way of slowing down, breathing in and breathing out… Of course, the blog did cause me to burnout. I am putting in a lot of efforts in trying out new recipes, clicking and saving them up. Unfortunately, it…
Lemon Chia Bundt Cake
As we age, our taste buds change as well. Have you noticed that? There are some foods we were so fond as children, but as we grow, it falls out of favor. That happens vice versa too. As a child, I was more inclined towards anything with chocolate. I see that trait in my elder one too. For Rasha, cake and ice cream is chocolate, nothing else. Slowly, she is admitting coffee as a flavor too. But nothing else qualifies. But now I seem to prefer more fruity flavors in my cakes and desserts. I totally love any banana bread, apple cake and even cakes with pear and apricot. They are just so delicious that I can sit and have a few slices without a stop. How many of you are fond of fruity flavors? Do drop in your comments below and tell me your choices, I would love…
Medovic/ Medovik | Russian Honey Cake
Ramadan and Eid, all came and went. I have no words to say. The feeling of emptiness and numbness is real. The difference in the atmosphere when the devils are tied up during Ramadan and when they are free is totally to be felt. We had a very silent Eid. On Thursday night, we went over to a friend’s house to apply some henna and came back really late, so we hardly slept for an hour and a half. Then up and awake, to get ready to go the masjid for the Eid prayers, breakfast at my ammayi’s house and eventually we stayed there for lunch too. It was my cheat day after so long, but I made sure I didn’t go overboard, hehe… Ate whatever was in offering but very limited portions. The second day, we started our Shawwal fasts. For those who don’t know, here are…
Chocolate Brownie Cake
How do you treat your wedding anniversary? I treat it more like a day for introspection. When life starts for a couple, it is all rosy, irrespective of how rocky the start may be. We started our married life on some twists and turns but we lived through it, we enjoyed through it, we took life one day at a time. 3 years later, Rasha showed up into our life. I don’t know if I will call her the turn-around point, but how much ever I think otherwise, she is. HD started going into his own route of doing business and it is the same till date. Life has been a bit too fast, with very limited time that we get to spend with each other and more often, it is a fight for that little time we get. It is not easy if the hard work you…
Vegan Chocolate Beetroot Muffins
Since I had the BM posts scheduled, I haven’t posted any happenings in my life in the past week. 🙂 I wouldn’t talk about the climate, as it makes me sad but let me talk about something else that made me really happy over this week. The last weekend, on Saturday, we all went for a trip to Global Village. A trip of bloggers was in pipeline from last year, but it took time to materialize and finally the last Saturday, we made it happen. Huma was our main guide and Priya, Zerin, Anamika, Jaleelakka, Fajee and our new UAE-ian Prema joined us for a little fun. We roamed for close to five hours, prop hunted, picked up interesting stuff, watched a few shows, chatted and ate through some of the delicacies. I have always gone to GV before but this time, the experience was quite different. Huma is…
Brazilian Carrot Cake | Bolo De Cenoura
It’s been a few months since I have participated in the Fantastical Food Fighting challenge. The reasons were many but I wouldn’t like to loiter around it. The best part is that you can choose to participate if you feel the theme is interesting. This month’s theme was one where everything came into one – a personal favorite and a date where I had no other posts scheduled! Hehe… This month, the theme is “Carrot Cake”. I have already mentioned before that carrot cakes are my favorite – not the American style cream cheese frosted ones – though it is on my to-do list – but the homely cake umma used to make. I can sit and eat the whole cake in one sitting, if I got a chance to do that! But then that’s not how life is, right? You take and enjoy one piece at a…
Saffron Milk Cake ~ Guest Post for “Cake N Curry”
It always warms my heart to receive emails from my fellow bloggers for guest posts. I have known Pankthi for a quite some time now, when she used to the “techie mom”. But then, she took a break from blogging and then now is back with vengeance as “Cake and Curry”. I got an email from her asking if I would be keen on doing a guest post for her. Why wouldn’t I? I have loved doing guest posts and Alhamdulillah, in these five years of blogging, have never said “no” to requests that have come to me. I have been mentioning that I have gone slow on cooking, especially making desserts, though I still do on and off, mostly for family. When her email came and especially mentioning that she would want to start at the earliest, I as usual dug into my drafts. I still have…
Drømmekage | Danish Dream Cake
After a soup and a main course, it has to be a dessert, right? And what more than this soft, melt in the mouth cake which is so aptly titled as “Dream Cake”! While I was searching for desserts for the Scandinavian Cuisine theme for the Blogging Marathon #86, I was totally confused between which one to choose. From their chocolate cake to apple cake to the round pancakes, each seemed to be really tempting. Finally, I gave in to this cake when I saw it here. What really attracted me to baking this was the delicious coconut topping and the less fat sponge. 🙂 This cake is said to have won the a nationwide cake competition in Denmark in 1960, and ever since then has been a very well received and enjoyed cake in the country. How can’t it be a cake of dreams! A super soft…
Easy Fudge Brownies
Most of the time, fudge brownies are associated with melted chocolate, but what if you have no time to really wait for it to melt and cool? I remember mentioning that during last Eid-ul-Fitr, we had an impromptu trip to Muscat to see my friend. Despite HD telling me that we may go, I wasn’t sure and then finally he broke the ice at 9 am that day morning, that we would leave by 3:.30 pm. You can imagine my panic – I hate going empty handed, that too to a best friend’s house and I had no time to go out and buy as such. In between preparing lunch, I searched through for an easy brownie recipe and ended up on this link on King Arthur’s website. Those who have tried recipes from their site will vouch how reliable they are, so I went ahead with it,…
Be My Guest – Carrot Cake
This series called “Be My Guest” doesn’t only have bloggers that I invite. There are many whom I know who volunteer to be a part of this series, plus I get a lot of emails too. Most of the time, I have to screen through them since I want to showcase only food bloggers who are genuinely interested in doing their work. At the end of 2017, I had an email from Sukhmani, who blogs at Kitchen Islande, for featuring a guest post. She is a brand new blogger, who just started her blog journey last October and I liked that she went ahead and asked me if she could be a part of the blog. Since December and January were already done, I asked her to do in February. And here she is! I don’t know whether she did gauge that I love a good carrot cake! Banana…