These glazed chocolate peppermint cookies are gluten free and perfect for your holiday baking or all year round. It’s a fun project for the little ones and makes an awesome edible gift.
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Baked Mushroom & Spinach Frittata
Gluten Free Brown Butter Apple Pie
This gluten free apple pie has all the features of a classic apple pie: buttery, flaky crust with thinly sliced apples and cinnamon. And one ingredient that makes the pie extra delicious. Browned butter. This enhanced version is great to serve on holidays or any time you want to use that extra apples !
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Watalappan-Coconut Custard Recipe
GF Pumpkin layer cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Stuffed Peppers with Rice & Ground Beef
Healthy Anzac Biscuits
It’s hard to satisfy kid’s sweet tooth with wholesome ingredients. Like all kids, mine tend to gravitate towards the large chocolate chip cookies displayed openly in the supermarkets. Their lovely smell is enough to entice even someone who hates cookies.
When you hear “Just one cookie,mama” repeatedly, you give in. “Ok, Just one cookie each”. And the father joins in with two extra.
I like to have biscuits around in the house for tea time, or for that little hunger pangs which could come at any moment unannounced.
Chicken and Vegetable Pie
Here’s wishing all my readers a blessed Ramadan. This holy month is a time to look inwards, cleanse our soul, connect with Allah and hopefully continue to do the same for the rest of the year. This is also the time where we turn into our favorite comforts foods. These food adorn our Iftar table every single day and we take immense pleasure in making and serving it to our friends and family. One such meal that me and my family come to love is this simple chicken and veggie pie.
I submitted this post to a lovely food blog Yummy Food by Lubna who is hosting the event “The joy from fasting to feasting” where she features recipes from Muslim food bloggers around the world this whole month of Ramadan. Now that’s something worth checking out.
One snack item that regularly adorns our Iftar table is Patties with a chicken,beef or fish filling. These half moon shaped dough pockets are filled, sealed, then deep fried till golden in color. But this year I’m trying to wean myself and family from fried foods. So I tweaked the recipe and turned it into a pie. Making a pie is so much easier than making individual patties.
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Moist Date Cake with Caramel Sauce
2013 had dawned. A very happy new year to all my readers ! May this year bring you joy, happiness and the best of you ! May you have the will power to stick to your new year resolutions all throughout !
I wish the same for me,when it comes to sticking with new year resolutions. I don’t have many. The usual diet and exercise. I hope to make exercising regularly a priority. Now that my kids will start school tomorrow I’ll have some me-time in the morning. Oh, and not to forget some yoga time squeezed in-between.
Sri Lankan Love Cake
It’s not that time of the year to post about love cakes. Not that I celebrate Valentines Day,anyways. But it was my birthday last month.I stepped into my thirties leaving my twenties behind. A decade filled with life changing experiences and so many lessons. Though,there was the slightest twinge of sadness,I was prepared to embrace this new chapter in life,with a piece of cake. Not just any cake,but the Love Cake.
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Chocolate Banana Muffins
March being the beginning of spring,everyone in the household except me has got a spring in their steps.That is,hubby and kids practice steps,sway their bodies in a rhythm to every dance-able song. The reason being that they are having dance rehearsals everyday in their respective institutions.
Coming Thursday we’ll be attending the Annual Day organized by S’s company in a plush hotel.After a lot of talking and the presentation of awards there’ll be a dance number performed by him and his colleagues.One of many acts to follow. That will be quite fun,considering the boring magic and game shows held last year.
I almost begged him several times to do his dance routine in front of me. He says he is saving it as a surprise.I warned him,though. He’s not the savvy,vibrant,energetic dancer anymore who left me speechless and indignant at the same time, once in a party similar to high school prom.
Speechless because that was the first time time I’ve seen him dancing and boy,he was good ! Furious because instead of dancing with me,he does this Step Up movie street dance kind of a thing with his friends. That was a decade ago when we were dating. Now, it will be quite entertaining to watch him dance after such a long time (wink,wink). I can’t help but feel glad that he’s broken the rut ,moving his body and enjoying it. Keeping my fingers crossed till Thursday !
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Spiced Red Carrot Muffins
I first set eyes on Paulo when I was at a surprise birthday party thrown by my one of my husband’s friends wife. A couple of families including us unlocked ourselves into the house with the key she gave us and began making the arrangements to surprise her husband while the couple was away. The place was new to me and I couldn’t help glancing around and immediately drawn towards the bookshelf. There was when I saw him. Paulo Coelho.
Coffee Trifle
Isn’t this the season of festivities ? Every time I go out to a mall the colors that surrounds me from the adornments,the reds,the whites,the greens are wonderful and mesmerizing.Every blog I go through has some delicious gift idea to offer,from cookies to logs and cakes.Even though I don’t celebrate Christmas there’s an event I look forward to every December since the last ten years.
Oats & Walnut Cookies
That was a lovely Saturday morning,a weekend.The early risers,me and my little one,the younger of the twin,Ahi,were having our breakfast on the balcony while he was playing with his blocks.After having built the roof to his house,I went onto finishing my porridge while feeding him.He took the remainder of blocks and started stacking it up on top of the roof till he used all the pieces.He took a step back,scrutinized the structure he built and with eyes wide,he blurts out.
“Mama,this is the tallest building I’ve ever seen.”
For a moment,I was stunned to hear what my three year old is saying.The exact same words with the emphasis on ‘ever seen’.Then I burst out laughing.
Spiced Banana & Date Cupcake
This post was sitting in my drafts for a couple of days now,but hardly had any time to review and publish.Had a great weekend attending Blogger events by Famished in Arabia,the UAE’s Food Blogger group. More of it later…
Ever had any days where things never turn out as you expected,things go wrong when you haven’t planned it at all,whatsoever.Well,this is one such incident.
I had an abundance of bananas,waiting to rot.Abundance of dates by boxfuls,leftovers of Ramadan.And I had a craving for a baked goodie,so much so that I started perusing the cooking magazines,recipe cutouts voraciously to find something that will put my leftovers and whatever I had in hand to good use.And voila! Spiced banana and date cupcake came to the rescue.
I jotted the recipe down,dashed to the kitchen,turned on the oven and got working on it having the idea of taking the pics and posting on the blog.It was quite easy to whip up,and the baked babies came out beautifully sans the overflowing of the batter since I had filled the cases way too much than required 3/4 th of the muffin tin so that I wouldn’t have to go for a second round of baking.The recipe leaves a little bit extra than making 12 cupcakes,so opt for large muffin tins or go for baking the next batch.
All this in between feeding my two tykes and settling them in front of the laptop with Cars2 movie.I know they will be glued to the movie for a couple of hours leaving me to do the frosting and take the shots.Alas!..How wrong I was when assessing my own kids..!
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Chicken and Feta Manakish/Arabic Pizza
Hope you all had wonderful Eid!
Eid for me was great but hectic too.Hubby was extremely busy,that meant late night outings and late,lazy mornings.Routines were gone haywire and kids were falling asleep or up and about on all the odd times.I had a couple of snacks and dessert ideas to be worked on and none materialized till now,after somewhat establishing the routine again…Phew…
This is one of my favorite Arabic dishes.Although it’s the same as pizza I love the beauty of it being so simple.That means no making pizza sauce from scratch,not a load of veggies or toppings to chop and no dumping of the whole mozzarella packet on top.
For some reason,I can’t bring myself to buy the pre-made pizza sauce or pasta sauces,toppings mix.Maybe,it’s the way I was brought up.We hardly ate from outside unless my mom or aunt is really,really sick.There were not much of packaged goods anyways.
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Mocha Cupcake-For the lovers of Chocolate and Coffee
This is my first cupcake in the upcoming cupcake series. I came across this magazine that had some amazing cupcakes and I’m determined to try all of them out.
Chocolate and coffee goes hand in hand and out comes this wonderfully delicious treat.
Mocha Cupcake
Source: Friday Magazine
