It’s the third Saturday of the month and here I am with a new guest on the blog. I don’t think my guest for today would need much of an introduction. She has a blog filled with simple yet drool-worthy bakes, delicious desserts to meals that you could include into your day-to-day planning. She even has a very exhaustive “how to” section on her blog, which I love. It literally holds the reader’s hand through it, especially if he or she is a beginner with baking and cooking. Her blog is a treasure of many easy recipes. I guess I stop beating around the bush, and introduce my guest for today – Beulah from Full Scoops. I had been a guest on her blog during her earlier times of blogging, and ever since we have shared a cordial relationship. I sometimes feel why did I take so much time…
Strawberry Swirl Ice Cream
I can’t believe we bid farewell to the first quarter of this year. I am glad that the year has begun well, especially on the health side. Even though I decided to work out and be watchful of what I am eating in April last year, it wasn’t seeing too much of results as I would have loved it to. Even if everybody tells you not to watch the scale to measure your weight loss, when you have oodles to loose in kilograms, you do wish your scale would become your best friend. I knew that I was working out well but my eating was screwed up, so I took a decision and I am so glad of it. I have seen some good results till now, and hoping that I get it going till I travel home July end. We all know how vacations are meant to…
Orange Yogurt Popsicles
With the season now changing, the girls always want something cold. I always have a tussle with them to avoid anything cold since Rasha always ends up with throat infection, due to her sinus issue. But then kids being kids, really aren’t bothered of how much they will suffer in case they take something cold, right? It’s the same in my home too! Most of the time, it’s easier to make simple popsicles at home. Most of the time, they just need Tang popsicles and that’s so easy to make, isn’t it? Hehe… Once while flipping through a magazine, I saw this really simple recipe. It reminded me of the vanilla pods Priya had bought for us, that I am using like gold. I decided to use them up in these really simple popsicles that has just three ingredients and no added sugar, apart from just some honey!…
Red Velvet IceCream Cake
Alhamdulillah, the blog is 5 today! I have written long posts every blog anniversary, but this time I will give it a break. 😉 I guess I am done with being emotional about the blog and look at it very practically from now on. 😀 As I go into this post, I want to share with you a little secret. I actually planned a super long post of the best recipe of each month since The BST started, yes, 60 months and 60 posts. But as I started working on the post and reached close to the end of the first year, I got so overwhelmed of selecting the posts that I decided to give it up halfway! 😀 I really couldn’t help it… So coming back to what I had originally planned for… This year, you may have noticed that the flow is broken. I am taking…
Easy Kulfi
It’s been a long time since I have done my three back-to-back series. Since I am a part of the Blogging Marathon of late and it operates on a similar idea, I refrain from doing an additional one, simply not to crowd up my feed. This month, I took a break and hence it was the best time to come over and do this series for the month. I have been wanting to do this since September but something or the other kept popping by and I kept delaying it. Finally it’s here – and it is “Instant Indian Sweets” as the theme! Indian sweets are always thought to be time consuming, so here are three back-to-back recipes, which will break off that myth. 😉 You know how much I love shortcuts. 😀 I have already made kulfi the hard way, ie. standing and stirring a pot of…
Butterscotch Ice-Cream
We are approaching the end of Q3. Where is this year flying to? It just feels like it was January 1 yesterday and all of a sudden, the end of September is staring into our face. I am not a person who likes to look into a variance analysis of resolutions vs actuals, but this time I did look into it and it is not encouraging. There were a few things I really wanted to start off this year, but I haven’t and I have no excuse for the same, other than my lethargy or taking things for granted. 😕 I am at least thankful that I decided to put a check on my increasing weight and move myself a little more that I usually would. If the first quarter of the year showed an upward trend in my weight, the movement after that has been slowly yet steadily…
Coconut Rosewater Ice-Cream
Normally, you will never see me doing more than one post a day. I have done that only once and that too in my early days of blogging. But today, I am doing it again. When the email from Sarah came with the theme of this month’s Fantastical Food Fight, I couldn’t resist not participating in it. The only post I have done for this event is this one, after which I couldn’t participate due to many varied reasons. This month’s theme is “Ice Cream”, so how could I not participate in this one? 🙂 Did you know that July happens to be the “National Ice Cream Month” in the USA? 😀 The summers are really hot and all you need is something really cold to go down into your system. Even though getting a ready made lolly or a cup of BR is so much easier,…
Qamardeen Tea Sorbet
Once Ramadan is over, most of the households in the Middle East would have a leftover pack or half pack of dried apricot sheets, after making the Qamardeen drink. At least, I do. Most of the time, I end up drinking all of the leftover juice, so I make it in small batches to avoid over indulgence. Hehe… I find Qamardeen a very addictive drink, since I love apricots, whether ripe or dry. So it was no surprise when this trial of making this Qamardeen Tea Sorbet was really loved by me and even the kids! Instead of just making it a normal sorbet, I spiked it up with some black tea, that was cooled and then blitzed along with the soaked qamardeen sheets. The tea gave it a very subtle taste. After all, I consider sorbets as a very guilt free dessert, since there is no diary…
Cassata Ice Cream Cake
As we bid farewell to this blessed month and move on to Eid-ul-Fitr, it is more like stock taking of what we have achieved in the month. Ramadan is a month where there are a lot of restrictions – whether it is food, water or relationships; when there is more emphasis on giving away a part of your wealth to charity – compulsory and otherwise; when there is the requirement of keeping a tab on our habits and characters. Eid ul Fitr marks the removal of all those restrictions, however it points out to another fact – that if we will, we can stick to a lot of self discipline in our lives. If we will, we can give up our bad habits and grow on the good habits inculcated during this month. This festival, though is marked by sadness of the disappearance of immense blessings of the…
Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream
I happened to come by this statement sometime back. And it got me thinking… do we all stay in each other’s life forever? People whom I knew in school or college are no longer in touch with me. Some people, who I thought were lost, have come back to me. Some people, who I thought were mine, have been lost. We always live in the thought of losing some or the other relationship. This world is such that nothing is stable. When the Quran tells you that even your spouse and children are our enemies (refer Surah At-Taghabun: 15 and Al Kahf: 46), I like to believe that nobody in this world is ours to say. As much as you need to love and respect all your relations, within home and outside, we have to always know at the back of our mind that anything can happen to take…
Papaya Sorbet
Coming to the second post of the series of “Vegan Desserts”, after the Dates Granola Bar – A sorbet is a perfect frozen treat! What is a sorbet? A sorbet is nothing but fruit and sugar. You can actually make sorbets without fruit too – just water, flavoring and sugar. But let me concentrate on sorbet with fruit. A sorbet is one of the easiest and guilt free frozen dessert that you can have. If made at home, you can use minimal sugar and make it almost 100% fruit pulp, like I have done with a whole papaya. A sorbet works especially if you have folks at home who may not eat fruit. My kids are not fond of papaya, but this sorbet totally clicked with them, since they felt it like an ice cream. If you look at the ingredients in a sorbet, it is very similar to…
DIY: Almond Milk | Biscoff Almond Milk Pops
Time for this month’s 3 back-to-back! I have decided I may leave the series for next month and maybe even September since I may be in the hangover of coming back after vacations. 😉 Just an excuse, you see… Hehe… I guess you would have got it from the title of today’s post about what the theme is going to be – yes, it is going to be some DIYs that you can make at home plus a recipe that uses it. Sounds good? Like receiving a bonus, right? 😀 The first I decided to do was how to make almond milk. Almond milk never occurs to you till you have a problem where you can’t have milk. I love milk, whether it is cold or added into tea or into my smoothies. Even though I don’t have any addiction, but I love my milk in any way….
Mango Coconut Milk Pistachio Ice-Cream
It is time for this month’s Shhh Cooking Challenge. After taking over the reins from Priyaakka, Mayuriji has been doing a fantastic job at ensuring that the challenge moves forward. This month, the theme was “Mangoes”, as it is the fruit of the season and our partner was supposed to give us two more ingredients to go with the theme. I am paired with Anu this month, and after a brief discussion, she asked me to make something with condensed milk and nuts of my choice. Since I am on a vegan diet and wanted to make something that I could eat too, I requested her if she could change the condensed milk to coconut milk, and I got an instant nod. Wasn’t I a happy soul? 🙂 I was eyeing this ice-cream that Rekha had posted on her blog recently, and what a good time to whip…
Blueberry Cheesecake Popsicle
Today is our wedding anniversary number 12, Alhamdulillah. Through all the ups and downs, we have managed to touch this number and InShaAllah, I am only hoping to see more better years ahead. 🙂 Reading through Huma’s latest post actually made me reminisce our initial years of marriage. With me knowing nothing about cooking – totally zero – HD took all pains to teach me the basics starting from how to make tea to how to make a decent curry. That time, blogs and YouTube wasn’t really well used, so it was all dependent on a call to umma and his training. Since I literally hated cooking, I would just do some adjustment and cook just anything, not even making sure whether it was palatable and he would silently eat it. I can’t believe now I have a food blog of my own! 😉 I totally miss his cooking…
Mint Milk Ice Pops
After the Chocolate Popsicles, here is the second one! I am not a big fan of mint as such, but I do love its aroma and it’s flavor. Off late, I had got hooked onto mint choco-chip combination and especially love the Lindt Dark Chocolate Mint – OK, now I am off all that for the time being but I have the right to let my mind wander aimlessly over my past love, right? 😉 One day, I landed up with a bunch of mint leaves and I didn’t want to let them get spoiled. While searching through Google, I stumbled upon this recipe and put it to try almost immediately. I was actually apprehensive if I would be the only one eating it, since my kids are more bend towards chocolate than any other flavor. Still I went ahead thinking that if nobody eats it, I would…