After being on Blogger, I am trying to get a hang of Pinterest and Twitter. I am an expert in Facebook, I can do anything on that with my eyes closed!!! Yeah, kind of an addiction… đ I tried Twitter sometime back and then just closed it down. Now for my blog, I am trying to learn it again. I guess I will go slow on it and learn it at my pace, whenever I have time! đ Â The recipe for today is a simple steamed pudding, made with ingredients in your kitchen cabinet at any point of time and yummy to be true! It tastes as good as any steamed pudding would be. As soon as I got hold of the recipe, I tried it and it was a lovely looking dessert, which was really tasty as well. When you have guests coming in, this can be made…
Banoffee Pie
I was actually not intending to do this post anytime now, but then when my cousin, who happens to be carrying, saw the picture on my FB page and asked for the recipe, I couldn’t say no! So here I am posting the recipe, as good as fresh!!! đ Â The DDL, Instagrammed… đ I’ve been wanting to make banoffee pie for quite some time but thinking about the calorie laden dessert gave me weak knees. But then, what do you do when you are faced with the below situations: 1. Dulche de leche at half the price because the expiry is less than 2 months old. 2. Whipped cream spray bottle at 25% price because the expiry date is by this weekend. 3. Biscuits lying in your pantry, not wanted by anybody because it was not the biscuits you had intended to buy! 4. Some nice ripe bananas!!! Â …
Crunchy Cornflake Cake
I am a big collector of recipe cutouts. Wherever I go, I see if I can take in a few magazines which have some interesting recipes that I can cut and paste it into my “recipe scrap book” and then refer to it whenever I am in a mood to cook something new. I am sure many of us have that habit of doing this, apart from the umpteen number of recipe books we collect! I have already taken a full section of my cupboard which is almost 80% full. I have a few cookbooks that I had ordered from Amazon and Book Depository on its way, which I am not aware what the sizes would be, but then I am sure once they are in, I will have to rummage around for a brand new spot for my future cookbooks and scraps, or shift everything to a brand new…
Carrot Pudding
After posting 18 recipes, I finally showed my little blog to my HD. He was kind of surprised plus happy as well. He somehow never thought that I would even do a recipe blog, especially knowing the lazy cook that I am. There is no surpise that he was surprised! đ Hehe… He is happy for me and wants me to keep posting as long as I make something interesting. I’m glad that he is supportive… After sometime, I guess I can hand over the mantle of having to take the photographs for me, because he is a much better photographer. But then, to get his time is quite a big difficulty. Hopefully, later I may have some decent looking pictures…  OK, now stopping my chatter and going off to the recipe… I like to call agar-agar a life saver. You can literally make a pudding of anything with this wonder-weed …
Mexican Flan
I do have a sweet tooth, but I can tell you one thing – once I started cooking, I really cannot eat Nutella, condensed milk or the likes directly into my mouth. I somehow feel that they are better when included in cooking. Seriously!!! These were things I could keep licking my spoon and dipping it over and over again, but now I have got over the urge to do so. Therefore, last time, when I baked a cake for our schoolmates get-together (will post sometime later), I had this remaining dulce de leche, called DDL with love, lying in the fridge and was really wondering what to do with it. Seriously, if it was not for blogosphere, I would have never know what DDL is!!!  As usual, I hung onto my phone surfing for some idea – I love to do that!!! – to finish it off and I found…
Easy Coconut Milk Pudding
  This was one dessert I had made with all leftovers I had. It was a depressing day – my whole family had gone to India and loneliness was creeping in. And me, being the sweet tooth, naturally went on to depend on a dessert. This was whipped in no time and set in very little time as well. Was really spongy and melt-in-the-mouth. Would definitely make this again…   Updated on March 12, 2016 with new pictures! đ The only difference is I made it in a mould instead of pouring it into a loaf pan. The old picture is below…  Update on March 13 – after uploading the new pictures, I have got a few queries regarding whether the agar agar mentioned in the recipe is enough to hold the pudding. Yes, it will just hold the pudding, but it won’t be sturdy enough. If you…
Haupia – Hawaiian Coconut Milk Pudding
I love easy desserts. There’s nothing to beat the feeling of being able to make something quickly and dump it into the fridge, especially when you have sudden guests coming. I got this recipe at the back of a coconut powder box and was really not sure how it would turn out to be. But to my pleasant surprise, it was a nice and simple tasting dessert. Linking it to the CWL Spouse event hosted by Hema’s Adugemane… Haupia – Hawaiian Coconut Milk Pudding Save Print Prep time 5 mins Cook time 15 mins Total time 20 mins Author: Rafeeda Recipe type: Dessert Cuisine: International Serves: 4 Ingredients 2 cups coconut milk 1 cup milk 6 tbsp sugar (upto taste) 4 tbsp corn flour ½ tsp vanilla essence Instructions Pour one cup coconut milk into a saucepan. Mix sugar and cornflour into it till no lumps and bring…