Just like Nutella and Biscoff, I have a jar of peanut butter in my pantry at any given point of time. Azza isn’t a fan of it, but Rasha loves peanut butter on her toast and sometimes by the spoonful. Therefore it features in the school lunch box once in a week, though Azza gets Nutella on her toast, so that I can avoid the frown face. Hehe… I am usually not a very accommodating ummi, but sometimes you are forced to put aside your rigidness just for some peace of mind… 😉 I totally love them in this breakfast smoothie, which is an amazing on-the-go breakfast, and these sandwiches as well. If you are wondering why I am starting off with a peanut butter lecture, then that’s because today’s post is for the AtoZ Challenge, hosted by Vidya and Jolly, and the letter of the month is…
Be My Guest – Strawberry Lemon Cake
I am wondering how to start this post. Rajani, who blogs at “My Kitchen Trials“, has been someone that I have been following ever since I started following blogs to push my cooking game, that is more than 8 years ago. Hers was a blog that I would read, bookmark recipes and ogle at the pictures. I am not kidding… As I go to blogging, I would still read her blog but it was only after I started doing Valli’s Blogging Marathon that I started commenting on her blog posts whichever were during my theme weeks. I have always loved her blog – I mean I would invite you to simply run through it, and decide for yourself. Her blog has a whole bunch of lovely vegetarian recipes that you could go back to from time to time. She has a whole bunch of thalis on her blog that…
Vanilla Caramel Chocolate Cake | Three Layered Cake
I have been off from work since Eid and I don’t know whether I am relaxed. I have been facing this dilemma for quite a long time now. This leave wasn’t very much away from work, since some days I have had to settle up a few things but over the last week, I made it a point not to entertain anything from work, so that I would feel like I am having a break. This time, since we haven’t gone home, we have been trying to go around over here and visit places, like Hatta. It has been mighty hot and extremely humid, but we have been loving the long drives. HD hasn’t been very much a part of it as usual, but sometimes I wonder how much can I drag him in. He is not keen on long drives and I am trying to not get him…
Orange Cranberry Scones
There are time when challenges are due and I get excited about it coming up, just like how I felt for the current month for the AtoZ Challenge, hosted by Vidya and Jolly. Even though I haven’t done all alphabets due to many reasons, I love participating in this challenge a lot. You can find all posts related to this challenge in this tag. This month, the alphabet in question is O and the ingredient I have chosen for this challenge is “Orange”. Now, thanks to Covid and all the talks about how good Vit C can be for the virus, oranges and Vit C effervescents have suddenly become in so much demand, and expensive as well. Hehe… I have always loved oranges, just to eat it like that or in desserts, most of the time. Be it this self-saucing pudding, these yogurt popsicles, these yummy biscottis or…
Banana Drop Cookies
For this week’s Blogging Marathon #114 theme of “Cookies”, here is the third one after the Nankhatais and the Cocoa Cookies. I had plans to make another type of cookie for this post, however the two dying bananas in my pantry prompted me to try these cookies that I had chanced upon Dhanya’s blog. Have you ever heard about drop cookies? They are basically cookies that are scooped by a tablespoon, plopped onto a mat or tray and then baked. Now the tablespoon has been replaced by an ice-cream scoop. Hehe… However, there are many drop cookies that wouldn’t feel like one despite its appearance. They taste like cakes that have taken a cookie avatar… hehe… And these banana drop cookies come into that category… Before I go to these cookies, tell me one thing – how has this period affected you? Have you felt overwhelmed and anxious?…
Brownie Butter Cake
This little break has actually broken off my mojo. When I thought I wouldn’t be able to rustle up much posts during last month because of Ramadan, I ended up posting almost every alternate day. I was really looking forward to continuing it, since I have overflown my drafts and have a lot to post onto the blog. But at the same time, I don’t want to pressurize myself just because there are too many drafts staring into my face… Having said that, somehow the current times and incidents are constantly pointing towards one side… I always wonder what the current situation has taught us. With Covid wrecking havoc in many ways in many lives – people losing jobs, taking salary cuts, businesses shutting down irrespective of how long they have been in the market, life to a standstill, paranoia setting into our minds in every way –…
Easy Jackfruit Cake
Jackfruit is not a fruit that is my favorite. I somehow don’t seem to like it. It wasn’t like that all the time. There was a time I used to hog on jackfruit. My mattamma – umma’s mom – has a few huge jackfruit trees in her yard that yeilds so many fruits every year, MaShaAllah. However, off late, it hasn’t been able to, maybe due to its old age or likely even bad eye. Hehe… When we were in school, our home visits were limited to once in two years. I always wonder what it felt like being home without doing much, and I can hardly remember anything. Nowadays, kids are actually pampered with visits every now and then. I have been trying to see if we can defer plans every year, but there would be something or the other, and we would have to go. This year…
Zucchini Dates Muffins
Sometimes I feel like thanking the Westerners for classifying muffins and cakes as breakfast. It makes our life so much easier. 😀 I mean, would our mothers ever agree to eating cake as breakfast? No way! But then with ways of incorporating all kind of “healthy” ingredients into your cakes, you can very well have a delicious baked breakfast. I have a few lovely bakes that I had made specifically for breakfast, like these Apple Flax Muffins and the Blueberry French Toast, among what I can remember. So when I was considering making something with egg as my breakfast – because eggs are default breakfast material for me since very long – I remembered these muffins I baked recently, which can easily be eaten for breakfast since it has a lot of goodness in it. So after the simple Jam and Cheese Sandwich and the Upma, here is a…
Milk Chocolate Brownies
Haven’t I always mentioned that my girls are hard to please? And that applies very much to my bakes as well. If you thought that kids would eat any brownies baked, then you are wrong. My girls won’t. They seem to have a criteria for their brownies – shouldn’t be too dark in color, shouldn’t have any bitter cocoa taste, shouldn’t have anything to bite in between, etc. etc. My problem is I tend to like more of dark chocolate and the girls end up not eating my brownies. I always tell them that everybody loves my brownies but not them, but they care a hoot. So while thinking of what to make for the theme of “Anything and everything chocolate” for the Blogging Marathon #109, I had decided to make these brownies that have been on my to-do for quite a long time. There is a reason…
Chocolate Mousse Cake
I can’t believe I am stuck for words when I am completing 7 years of blogging. 7 years! Wow! I think I should give myself a pat on my back. When life has been in general difficult yet worth fighting for, I have still kept my wits to continue cooking, clicking and blogging. I guess that just shows how much I love this little baby of mine, despite sometimes feeling that it hasn’t been fair to me. But having said that, I always believe in whatever is meant for us will come our way, come what may, so I guess I am happy with the little that is coming my way. 🙂 The last two years has marked a known push from my side to reduce my blogging in every way. I have gone from posting almost every day to posting twice or thrice a week. I feel…
Baked Chicken Toast
I am breathing a sigh of relief. 2019 has been a rather rough year. I wouldn’t want to sound pessimistic but it wasn’t a happy year. There were too many downs than ups, but Alhamdulillah, we faced the tide and rode against it. As much as challenges arose, we fought it and downed it, only to be faced by more. I guess with passing days, tests leave you becoming a little paranoid when little joys come your way. It is during those times I remind myself of the immense number of verses in the Qur’an, where Allah warns us of hardships. He promises His Jannah for those who are steadfast and patient. It is difficult, but not impossible. We all very well know that this life is transient, yet we do not want to accept that fact… I guess I wouldn’t want to think too much about this year….
Wholewheat Chocolate Chip Tahini Cookies
As much as my girls and I love homemade cookies, I have an aversion towards baking them. Somehow I find it easier to bake cakes, not even muffins. Imagine the height of my laziness! For a cake, usually you just need to make the batter, pour into one pan and forget about it in the oven till the timer buzzes. For a muffin, an extra work of lining the pan needs to be done, even though it takes lesser time to get baked. For cookies, more than the dough part, the shaping part is what irritates me. I start off with shaping them well and then it just gets bad. The last cookies are always the worse looking. Does that happen to you? My girls always say that my cookies are the best. In fact, it finishes faster than my cakes. Yet, I don’t make them as frequently…
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