Chocolate makes me happy. I dug out this absolutely decadent cake recipe for all of my fellow chocolate lovers out there. It's extremely fast and simple to make. I've divided the recipe in 3 parts to make it much clearer to read.
Cake
I've always been one for food that combines extremes: add a bit of honey to your crispy chicken, serve a cold chocolate fudge cake with nice warm vanilla custard, that sort of stuff. It's all really fine and dandy until, well, someone tops off an absolutely delish looking cheesy pizza with pineapples, calls it 'Hawaiian' and sits it in front of you to stare at your shocked expression. Many will beg to differ, but yesiree, that mistake deserves a whole new post of its...
I often find myself really badly craving those delicious crispy Red Lobster biscuit appetizers. The only barrier between us would have to be the joy that is Canadian snow; those morels of heaven are well, heaven, but certainly not at the cost of embarrassing slips and tumbles or in most extreme cases, broken bones. Yes, I am admittedly quite the clumsy one.
So, to make my life easier, and in turn yours too, here's a simple but quick way of bringing the joy that is cheese and...
After much thought, I realized that the most essential ingredient to fun cooking is none other than presentation! People are more iffy about food that looks doubtful than well-presented Octopus tentacles (of course in some cases it, depending on your audience, would be better if they didn't look like tentacles). Anyway, since we aren't cooking tentacles today, we should probably swim across to the poultry farm and and attack the chickens (my sincere apologies to our vegetarian...
As a kid, I used to be fascinated with mousse. I mean, I seriously just couldn’t get enough it – how could something that sounded like a big fat deer taste oh so good?
Mousse originated in the culturally rich country of France, which I’m not entirely surprised to learn. The fashion, the cuisine, the style, the Eiffel Tower, le Tour De France, the language and well, the mousse. You name it, those French have got it. Surprisingly, mousse only made its entry into...
This is the sort of recipe you use when you get a call from a friend who suddenly decides to meet you and gives you only a 20-minute ‘warning’ before arriving. Better still, when u want to pretend you’ve mastered every other recipe in the book and you want to look all cool with a complicated-looking yet oh-so-simple dessert to serve. Why it is a recipe for disaster, we shall discuss after we are done cooking.
Let’s face it, everyone’s a sucker for chocolate. I’m always in search for twists to conventional chocolate based recipes, just to make them that much more interesting. That’s when I came across this recipe. I was initially apprehensive about the quantity of jam used – but after trying it a couple of times, I found that the jam adds just a tinge of flavour so as not to take away from the chocolate, while giving just the right amount of moisture and texture to...
I’m sharing a simple South Indian chicken kurma recipe that can be prepared without the use of yoghurt. (Yoghurt is an important ingredient in most kurma recipes, be it vegetarian or non-vegetarian fare).
Its all in the spices! You have to use good quality, freshly ground spices and that is the key to transform any dish into an exotic culinary creation. Putting this recipe together will fill your home with an amazing aroma that will have people scramble to your kitchen. Try it...
I Wiki -ied “Potato Gratin” this morning just for the heck of it and one of the search results read out “Guiltless Gourmet”, which sounds like an article describing one of those fancy elaborate dinner-in-the-mansion-uphill scenes with flowing wine and long tables overloaded with mountains of food. Nobody to stop you from digging into seconds, thirds, fourths…..you get the point.
Well, turns out “Guiltless...
The name of this recipe was completely unintentional, but it seems to be the perfect title. If you have any particularly innovative suggestions, they shall definitely be considered! Also, contrary to popular belief that this was a last minute concotion of whatever ingredients were found in sight and within reach, this is a carefully thought out and well planned dessert, not to mention tres delicieux and easy-to-make too..
Dal, the storehouse of goodness and proteins and natures gift to vegetarians, is our staple in India and the seasonings added to these magical lentils, differs from region to region.
Tadka dal is a specialty of Northern India, a simple everyday dal dish, served with steamed white rice or rotis (indian flat breads). Dal Tadka is a full-flavoured lentil dish tempered with a sprinkling of green chillies, curry leaves or coriander leaves, garlic and cumin seeds.
