Nowadays, I buy just enough bananas for us to eat, so that we don’t have much of leftover to tempt me to go ahead and bake. 😀 When they are ripe, I tend to freeze them so that I can use them for my breakfast smoothies during the weekend. But at times, I can’t stop myself from baking and enjoying them, but I try to keep them as close to being healthy. These banana muffins are made of wholewheat flour (aatta) – even better if you can get hold of wholemeal flour, and spiked with a lot of spices. If you thought that banana bakes are supposed to be only with cinnamon, then these muffins will change your thought process. It has almost all spices that would essentially go into your masala chai! I had printed out this recipe from the General Mills site but unfortunately that link…
Orange Almond Brownies
Sometimes, I really wonder about my girls. They are growing up at a pace that I have no control over. My younger one will turn 7 this January and I am still yearning for her to go back into her diapers! Those who read my blog regularly or follow me on other social media, know that I am working, with an 8 to 5 work schedule. Many also know that I now go for regular workouts during my working days, taking a break from it on Thursdays and Fridays. This means that by the time I am home after all the traffic, it is past 8 pm and at the bottom of my energy level. All I would want is to eat something, feed the kids and then push them off to sleep. Sometimes, I forget that they are children and I be at my worst behavior, screaming when…
Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread
Can you believe October is ending? Then we will have just have two months left to complete this year. Each year seems to be passing on faster than the previous. Actually, it feels scary too. That we are getting older by the minute, we are moving faster towards the ultimate end… Everyday when I lie down, I wonder what I have done that day to make it special. Maybe it was just a mad rush of traffic, work, gym and home… with not even little time to read the Quran, to listen to it, talk to my kids properly, call my parents, even chat openly with HD… “Man is created hasty…” (Surah Al-Anbiya: start of verse 37) How many times have we forgotten that there is much more than the life in this world? 🙁 I am guilty of the same, day in and day out. Trying to balance…
Gateau aux Pommes ~ French Apple Cake
You would remember I had done the first week of the Blogging Marathon #81 in the theme of “Lentils and Sides”. For the second week, the theme I chose was “Apple Desserts”. It is the season of apples. As of now, you can see wide variety of apples on the shelves with competitive prices. Being in the UAE, the only way to know that it is season is by watching the prices. 😀 All fruits when it is during its season time will be available at really throw-away price, while at the other times, may pinch your pocket despite the availability. I like apples as a fruit and I have one every alternate day. Even during school times, I would be the only one among siblings who would eat apples. I love the red gala ones, which are crunchy and mildly sweet. D likes the round yellow Iranian…
Easy Banana Bread
I normally don’t need a reason to bake a banana bread. I don’t even wait for the bananas to ripe! 😀 Since our house is quite warm most of the time, I buy bananas in small quantities so that we finish consuming it, but sometimes doing it doesn’t help and the bananas get riper quicker than we like it. Just like me, the kids also like the bananas in the just-ripe stage, where the sweetness is mild. Once it gets a little softer, none of us would touch it. Earlier I used to bake quite often, but now I have got myself a bit tight on my baking due to my weight goals. My family has this tendency of eating anything baked only for one day and if there are any leftovers, they wouldn’t touch it in the coming days. I would have to either distribute it or eat…
Blueberry Mug Muffin
I would be lying if I say I don’t miss home. I am not a person who calls my parents every single day, mainly because we run out of topics to talk. 😀 My sister calls umma almost every day and asks detail by detail, however B and I are just the opposite. We always talk to the point. There are times when I call umma after a week, and she starts off with a lot of complaints, but I patiently hear them and smile at myself. What do you do when you lose track of time? After coming back from vacation, I have been calling them alternatively every three days, and somehow after the call, my heart sulks. There was a time when I used to stay with my parents. Sometimes I wished for my own privacy. But once they left and we moved on our own, I…
Carla Hall’s Avocado Brownies
Time for the second round of the Blogging Marathon #78! While I was scouring through the themes, I was a little confused on which one to select. Finally I ended up selecting the theme “Let Them Eat Brownies”! While I had gone through the heart attack of having to make three cheesecakes in two weeks last time, this time I thoroughly checked my drafts, ensured I had at least two drafts of brownies so that I had minimum baking. To my excitement, I had three to cover just enough for the marathon! That is one advantage of having too much in the drafts, I suppose! 😀 The first brownie I choose to share with you are these delicious avocado brownies. These were my first trial of brownies with avocados, even though the only one that appeared on the blog was the vegan version. I had initially made…
Vegan Banana Chia Biscoff Muffins
I don’t know if I really love Biscoff. If you ask me, I would say a “no”. But I don’t hate it, I just like it. 😀 Even though I love sweets, I find Biscoff and its Lotus biscuits overwhelmingly sweet. I can’t go beyond one little spoon of Biscoff or two little biscuits at the same time. But I can vouch for one thing – that both these ingredients make amazing desserts! If you love Biscoff, then here are a few recipes on the blog that you could try: Cookie Batter Granola Biscoff Almond Milk Pops Biscoff White Hot Chocolate Vegan Biscoff Cheesecake I am now going to add one more to the list… 😉 These vegan banana muffins are spiked with Biscoff with an added crunch and goodness of chia seeds. Just like all the banana bakes I have made and cherished, I ended up eating…
Eggless Apricot White Chocolate Scones
Eid just came and went. I am tired to the bones, I must say but in a good way. The lack of sleep is getting onto me, but Alhamdulillah, no complaints. On Saturday night, as soon as Eid was declared, I got to making chicken cutlets for our Eid breakfast at my aunt’s place, where my cousins did the Ela Ada. It was a bit of a pandemonium, since the mix I made for the cutlets were too little. Fortunately, I was able to whip up an extra small batch to make a decent amount of cutlets that everybody could enjoy. I also got to making some awesome cinnamon rolls for my cousins, which were totally wiped out. I will be making them again for the blog, since surprisingly HD seemed to enjoy them! After our prayers at the Eidgah and breakfast at aunt’s place, I quickly got to…
Vegan Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Walnut
The days of Ramadan are passing by fast. As this post goes for publishing, it is already the second ten days of this holy month. During the last week, I was listening to a Malayalam lecture and the main topic was of three virtues that Allah has not mentioned how much is the reward – Sabr (patience), Afuww (forgiving) and Sawm (fasting). For every other good deed we do, there is a number of reward associated with it, however for the above, there is no quantification of reward except that He will reward those who possess these quantities abundantly. That got me thinking. “Indeed, the patient will be given their reward without any account.” (Surah Az-Zumar: part of Verse 10) “And the retribution for an evil act is an evil one like it, but whoever pardons and makes reconciliation – his reward is (due) with Allah. Indeed, He does…
Orange Chocolate Chip Biscotti ~ Guest post for Priya’s Kitchenette
I must say that I can’t sit properly on my chair while typing this post – I am really excited! 😀 Maybe because I am on the space of somebody who has been super sweet and supportive of me for a long period of time… 🙂 Today, I am on Priya’s space. My interaction with Priya started when she went on with the posting-one-recipe-a-day as she started her little space called “Priya’s Kitchenette”. Everybody keeps asking me how I post so frequently, but if you check out my blog, I really can’t do long stretches like she did – posting every single day of a year! Not surprisingly, her hard work was discovered and recognized by the Limca Book of Records. After this year, she concentrated on growing her blog and now she has her own event firm, which makes me feel proud of having a friend like…
Semolina Mango Cake
I hope you enjoyed the Mango Custard Verrines and Aamras posts in this month’s 3-back-to-back mango recipes. I have been wanting to bake with semolina since long but never got around it. My first attempt at making the basbousa, which is an Arab style semolina cake soaked in sugar syrup, was a dud, and I never got to making it again. Even though I have bookmarked several recipes that use up semolina, I have still kept it pending. There is so much that I am cooking and trying so some things do go off to the end of the list. 🙂 I made this cake to finish off a can of mango pulp that I had got at a deal. My mind went loitering at all options like ice cream and pudding but then I remembered the semolina mango cake recipe I had saved up very long ago….
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