As this Ramadan slowly dwindles towards its end, it has taught us a lot of lessons. The main lesson is that we are capable of adjusting. Yes, we do get shocked initially and wonder how things will be, but we eventually get used to it and accept the pattern. We prayed Tharaweehs all at home, cooked with ingredients that were available in our pantries thanks to the lockdown situation in most of our vicinities, so much so that many are even giving up their purchases for Eid. This year, we were thinking of not getting new clothes, but then we felt bad for the girls, so got them one set of clothes each. They are now waiting to see how their travel plans for the next month end fares, considering that there is no visibility on the flights at the moment. Let us hope for the best… What else…
Eggless Coffee Blondies with Cinnamon Chips
If there is a recipe that I have been wanting to update before Ramadan begins, then it is this one. I have baked blondies on and off and I have really loved all the bakes. Whether it is these basic ones, or these orange walnut ones, or these Biscoff ones – super yum! – they have been amazing. Blondies are apt when you crave for brownies but you don’t want anything chocolaty or brown in color. That reminds me of these white chocolate ones that were so similar to brownies but were white for a change. 😉 All the above blondies are with eggs. I love to explore eggless options a lot and that explains from the number of eggless bakes I already have on the blog. I have been wanting to add a blondie that somebody who doesn’t use eggs could bake and here it is! I…
Eggless Baked Cheesecake with Chocolate Caramel Ganache
Usually I am used to writing long posts when some occassion is on. Like that day that is today… It is our wedding anniversary #16. Sometimes, in midst of this hectic life, I can’t believe that we have been with each other for all these years. When you are as different as chalk and cheese, getting along without any hiccups becomes a daily challenge that needs to be maintained. With the current situation, it has been even more difficult. We have been hardly seeing each other for a long time when life was the normal self, but once the slowdown and lockdown has been in place, we are seeing each other more often and sometimes it isn’t a very interesting experience. I am no one to be very mushy and cheesy when it comes to talking about HD. As much as he is an awesome human beings, his negative…
Eggless Condensed Milk Cake
Mentally, I am not in a state to do a blog post. I am sure that nobody, or majority aren’t either in an upbeat mood. When movement is restricted, children are at home with no confirmation on school reopening, daily routine takes a beat so much that even your five-times-prayers are restricted to only the call to prayer from the closeby masjid, events are cancelled, unnecessary travel is asked to be avoided, borders are closed, work gets crazy because shipments aren’t arriving on time nor is there any visibility on the shipments for the next months, sales works overtime as the population is on a frenzy and panic buying… SubhanAllah! I have already mentioned my general feeling in the last post and don’t want to ponder over it. From our side, we are doing the maximum that we can as far as hygiene is concerned, restricted our outside movements…
Eggless Banana Cake
Is it just me, or did you generally feel that January finished in a blink? I mean, it became 2020 just yesterday, isn’t it? It did take me sometime to accept the fact that time is in fact running a bit too fast to my liking and it feels overwhelming to get through the days in this quick fashion. When there is too much negative news just floating in the air, I feel like shutting myself down from that noise and concentrating on what will give my mind some peace of mind. On a brighter note, our home has become better with the gracing of B’s family. His little one is 8 month old and she fills the house with giggles and screams. The girls don’t want to go to school and if they do, they want to come back home and not study at all. HD doesn’t…
Eggless Apple Walnut Scones
Bake-a-thon is a yearly baking series headed by Valli during December and I have been a part of it for the past two years. There will be a total of 13 baking recipes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday till the month ends. Since the last post was more related to the UAE National Day, I thought I would rather move the details of the series in this post. 😀 You can find all the posts related to the previous years here. While the first year, I did random posts out of the burgeoning drafts, I focused on chocolate bakes last year, and this year, I am doing based on the theme of individual servings. Just like the Khameer I posted as the first one… As soon as I had started jotting out my posts for this series, I wanted to bake a scone, and somehow it had to…
No-Knead Pan Pizza with White Sauce
Time for the second week of the Blogging Marathon! For this week of edition #105, I chose the theme “Pizza and Pasta”. Valli has a monthly Kid’s Delight event happening and this is the theme for this month. My girls are very fond of pizza but they don’t share the same liking towards pasta. However, slowly and steadily with time, they are finding their interest towards pizza. However since they are my girls, I know that they would get bored of it fast, so I am not getting overly excited about the scene. 😀 So from today for the coming three days, you will see three recipes for this interesting theme… Pizza is something my girls really love. I really don’t consider pizza as a meal. I feel that despite paying so much to buy it, it hardly fills the stomach. Please raise your hands if you agree…
Eggless Nutella Brownie Shortbread Bars
I actually had other plans for the second post for the theme, “Bring Some Brownies” for this week of Blogging Marathon #102. I was in fact planning to make some gluten free brownies with rice flour, since I have been intrigued by it for quite some time. But then the plan was not supposed to pan out as such, I suppose…. Ever since I had baked the Brookies, I wanted to try an eggless version. I mean it always helps to have options all the time, right? 🙂 During the similar time, my head was telling me to bake some Nutella brownies for the girls. Somehow, what happened is that both my thoughts amalgamated into one bake, and that is what I am going to post today. 🙂 Last Saturday, we had a lovely time at Fajee’s house. It had been long since we had all met…
Cheesy Yeastless Foccacia
While I was deciding on the posts for the “Savory Bakes” theme for this week’s Blogging Marathon #101, foccacia was playing in my mind. My girls love Foccacia, especially the younger one. She would walk up and down the kitchen till she finishes eating majority of the bake, just the way Rasha would walk up and down to finish a chocolate cake! Each time I have baked the yeast foccacia, and then I landed up on this link which gives you a foccacia in flat 1 hour. It has no yeast and comes together so quick. Who wouldn’t like to try such a recipe? But I wasn’t without any apprehensions while making this recipe. I read through all the comments and made sure I stuck to the recipe without playing around too much with it. To my surprise, you wouldn’t miss the yeast at all. The bread rose…
Mango Mousse Cake
I do sometimes thank God for making me keep posts pending to get to an opportunity. If you see, I rarely celebrate any personal occasion of mine except the girls’ birthdays or our anniversary. And today happens to be our anniversary number 15, Alhamdulillah. I almost forgot about it, actually speaking. Every April 14, I have done a post and actually, every year, the posts reflected how exactly I felt about him. The past six years I have been blogging, our marriage has been topsy turvy of sorts. I guess that happens to every family at some stage. At times, you wonder, how stupid you were to be or stay married to the man or the woman you are now with. But then after a few hours, the thoughts just tide over and gets replaced with something else. I guess that’s how life is, we need to wait for…
Eggless Carrot Cake
There is something called “warmth”. It is not necessarily only in our own relationships, but it reflects from even pure strangers. Have you felt that? I started experiencing it when I got into blogging and got to meeting a lot of blogger friends. I experience the same while posting stories on my Instagram handle. I never expected total strangers to actually echo with whatever I share. I try to keep it as raw as possible, because life can be very undermining now especially when everybody else’s looks very rosy. I don’t share much of myself but sometimes I do, and it feels good to be instantly recognized in between the crowd. I sincerely appreciate those who come and ask about me, and give me a heads up. It happened at a masjid over the weekend and umma was caught off guard. I couldn’t explain to her how she…
No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecake with Shortbread Crust
The expectation on a food blogger is immense. Each time I have guests at home, somehow they come to know that I run a food blog, and then they expect me to give them some awesome food. 😀 I don’t blame them. Nobody seems to understand that what I post on the blog is not even something that I cooked recently. My family will vouch that they haven’t eaten anything that is appearing now on the blog. I hardly make anything special these days. Life has become such a roller coaster ride. Weekends are as busy and time pressed as weekdays are. At the moment, I am focusing on a few more projects, which hopefully will materialize well, InShaAllah. My baking and cooking has literally taken a backseat. I haven’t lifted up my camera ever since my parents have landed. I actually feel sad when my props and…
Eggless Chocolate Cookie Butter Cake | Chocolate Biscoff Cake
Today’s post for the Bake-a-thon 2018 comes up with a story, but it is a sad one. By the way, can you believe that we are on the second last post for the Bake-a-thon? This time has been super fast. I have totally enjoyed baking, clicking, typing and scheduling the posts for this series with the chocolate theme. I hope all of you loved all the posts that I have done for this series! It has left me drained, literally speaking, but drained in a good way, Alhamdulillah… 🙂 So coming to the story for this cake… I usually bake and take something when I go visit my friends or relatives after a long time. It is like breaking the ice too, right? I always prefer home made goodies instead of buying a box of chocolates. It makes it feel a lot more personalized. I have mentioned before…
Basboosa | Middle Eastern Semolina Cake
This month marks two years of the Muslim Food Blogger’s Challenge. It is an amazing feeling. I have been coordinating this event since the beginning and Alhamdulillah, am satisfied with the way the sisters have taken this challenge in their stride, trying to participate in every challenge possible. This year, we did only 9 challenges, taking a break during the summer months. As was done last year, this year also as part of the anniversary challenge, members are free to choose one of the themes of the previous months and repeat them. Below are the themes we had done over the past year and my posts for each: December 2017 – Arabic sweets January 2018 – Cooking with ingredient: Olives February 2018 – Cooking from cuisine: Bangladesh March 2018 – Breakfast April 2018 – Trying from a blog: This Muslim Girl Bakes May 2018 – Ramadan food from the…
Ghorayeba ~ Arab Shortbread Cookies
I can’t mention how relieved I am. My blogging mojo has just not picked up as much as I would have loved. Last year Ramadan, if I filled my drafts with as much as clicks I could take before the sunshine vanishes, this year, I have done nothing. My blog is moving with drafts that I had clicked last Ramadan – I am being very honest here! This Ramadan, I have been time tight and locked. Over and above that, I have no mood to click anything new or cook anything new. I am sure, this too shall pass… So when I put up the Muslim Food Blogger challenge post for this month, which is based on the theme “Eid Specials from Around the World”, I searched up a bit and pinned up on my kitchen notice board the easiest cookie recipe in the world! But I procrastinated…
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