An Indian style frozen dessert, with chocolaty goodness and spiked with rose water… How tough can decisions be, when it involves so many layers and sub layers? I always wonder about that. I have a problem of overthinking, and then it cascades into something like binge eating, crying and what not. I am seriously not proud about it, especially when I know that what I am doing is definitely not going to help me in any way. I then ended up reading this link – by the way, is an amazing site if you are looking for some Islamic motivation – and I thought to myself, how correct can that be. Talking about the climate, it has been pretty unstable. Some days, there is a lovely coolness but other days, the warmth is a little uncomfortable. Usually Novembers are more cool and almost moving into hot…
Nutella Peanut Butter Ice Cream
I think when we say “no cook”, then ice cream is something that comes into our head immediately. With the advent of the whipping cream – condensed milk formulation, making ice cream at home in various variants have becomes such a breeze. However, it has been really long since I have made some at home. It is mainly because I fear I would sit and eat through the whole batch myself – please do not judge! 😉 I had no second doubts about including this double delicious Nutella Peanut Butter Ice Cream while planning my posts for this week’s Blogging Marathon #117 theme “No-cook Recipes” – the other two being Gazpacho and Mortadella Sandwich. Just like the name suggests, this ice cream is totally dominated by the flavor of Nutella, intermittently cut in by the crunchy peanut butter. In fact, I actually made this ice cream to finish…
Mango Popsicles
So just like that we are past eight months of this year. 2020 has literally been a roller coaster ride for many of us. I just happened to read while scrolling through my IG feed – “We have spent enough of 2020 waiting for the storm to pass. It is time to start learning dancing in the rain.” How true can that be! Here, even though the cases are not really high, we are constantly reminded to go on with our life, by taking into account all the precautionary measures required. The world has literally been toppled by the Covid pandemic, so have many lives that changed with a span of days into something they wouldn’t have imagined. Just tells me that our plans are never meant to be hundred percent in place. Since the year may go on with this virus by ourside, at the moment, it feels…
Roasted Coconut Cashew Ice Cream
Some challenges are really irresistible, so much that you will make time to somehow prepare it and post it. Ever since Sarah posted that this month’s theme for the Fantastical Food Fight is going to be “Ice Cream”, I have been dreaming about it. We had previously done the same theme exactly two years ago and I had posted this ice cream, which is so similar to what I am posting today! Initially, I was thinking about making butterscotch popsicles that I had bookmarked from a site. But then when I messaged Sarah, she mentioned to stick to making an ice cream. Then my mind was constantly screaming “Salted Caramel and Chocolate”. Of late, I have been obsessed with salted caramel. I really do not why. I have never liked caramel or its flavor before but now I have taken a liking towards it. I still can’t understand…
Mocha Almond Fudge Ice Cream
While I made the Mango Kulfi and the Jack-fruit Ice Cream to fulfill my “blogger mind desires”, this ice cream was fair and square made for the girls. Whenever we go to Baskin Robbins, I always end up taking Jamoca Almond Fudge. I just don’t look anywhere else. It is my standard choice. Now my girls have started following suite. The elder one moved her favorite flavor from Praline and Cream and the younger one has graduated from the bizarre colored ones like Bubble Gum (yikes!). They have been telling me since ages to try this flavor at home. I knew it wouldn’t be hard to replicate, but then it is more work that other ice creams. I have to roast and chop the almonds. I have to make the fudge sauce. I have to do a little bit of work in between to get it done. Oh…
Jackfruit Ice Cream
Just yesterday I mentioned my jack-fruit getting spoiled, so you must be wondering from where this ice cream post? If you have read it carefully, I have mentioned that one of the post is from my drafts. So this is the post… 😉 I don’t eat jack-fruit. I know I would get beaten up for this, but then that is the truth. I used to eat a lot of jackfruit when small. Each time we go home, my mattamma would reserve at least a couple of jack-fruits for us. She had a lot of jack-fruit trees on her plot, more than mango trees in fact, and they yielded the sweetest jack-fruits I have ever eaten. She still does have some trees, but not as much as it did before. She would patiently sit and remove the flesh from inside, and as though we were in a competition, my…
Instant Mango Kulfi
It’s been ages since I have worked on a 3B2B series for the blog. Somehow, my drafts have been dwindling and I haven’t been getting three posts that would fit into a theme, so I had thought to give the series a rest. 😉 But this month, because of the heat wave, I ended up making two back to back frozen desserts and one was staring back on me from my drafts, so bingo! I had three posts ready to be give a little life to that series. As you may have guessed, you will get to see three back to back ice-creams or frozen desserts, whatever you would like to call it, to beat the blazing summers! Last month, B traveled home for a few days and he came back with a whole lot of luggage, including mangoes and jack fruit. I am sad to declare that…
Be My Guest – Chocolate Cake Ice Cream
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…
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