Whole wheat Olive Bread

Few weeks ago, I had a hankering to make an Olive loaf. I had a bunch of olives in my fridge and every other ingredient required to make the bread. All that I lacked was a dutch oven. The original recipe which I found in a book called “Crusts” used all purpose flour and a…

Potato, Herbs and Almonds Soda Bread

Few weeks ago, I came across an interesting recipe for a potato soda bread in a magazine called Delish. Before this, I had heard about soda bread on the British Baking show and I have vague memories of seeing something called Irish soda bread on some baker shelf somewhere! Did you know that this is…

Chocolate Bread

Sometime last year, I picked “Tasting Paris” by Clotilde Dusoulier during one of my trips to the library. I have never been someone into French food. In fact I have some pretty sad of memories of Paris being a vegetarians nightmare when I made the trip many moons ago! Looking  back I feel silly –…

Herbed Foccacia

I love breads. I love them more when they are fresh from the oven. I love the possibilities they offer in terms of customization. However I hate that they are hard to master! Sometimes one needs a smooth dough and sometimes  a tacky dough…and the kneading! One shouldn’t over knead or not knead enough –…

Rosemary Bread

About a week ago, I walked by a set of tall spiky green plants at the apartment complex where I live. I stopped by to check them out as they reminded me about the Rosemary herb plant and what do you that is exactly what it was!! Growing on the sidewalk somewhere without anybody to…

Banana Bread

When I think about what got me interested in baking, it is probably this banana bread recipe. The original recipe for this was doing the rounds on the internet few years ago and I just happened to find it on a blog on which I was a regular. It got me interested as it didn’t…

Aloo Methi Paratha

The only way I have used methi leaves till date was to cook it with some lentlis and make methi daal. For the uninitiated, Methi or Fenugreek is a key ingredient in many Indian households. It is available in the form of dried seeds and fresh leaves and has loads of health benefits from aiding…

Al Fresco gourmet dining – Chennai style!

I have been absent from this blog for few months now and this contest was exactly the kind of motivation I needed to break the silence and get my food blog going again! What can I say? One look at the Kitchens of India website had my cuisinista heart and mind soaring with ideas and…

Whole Wheat Pav Buns

Most of us love pav baaji! The wonderfully toasted bread served with some awesome mashed potato curry, garnished with onions and laced with just the right tint of lemon is a treat to our taste buds! I have always been captivated by the pav bun – the soft and springy bun is something that every…

Veggie wraps in Pita style naan flat bread

What a long title!  I But i couldn’t think of anything else to call this dish  I came up with that Sunday afternoon. After my great plans to be most awesome chef of the day kind of went awry (I was too ambitious and decided to cook too many dishes that Sunday and got tired in the midst of…

Green Olive Focaccia Bread

I love bread! Leaving the carb talk aside, it is always satisfying to make your own bread and consume it with glee 🙂 It is my dream to whip up fancy artisan or rustic Italian breads…and knowing me, anybody can say I would give priority to the later 🙂 Breads come in many shapes and…

Peas Paratha

This recipe first made its debut on my other blog 🙂 But then it was just too good to pass up from posting it here……Here is an entire photo post of this recipe. This is the only recipe that I have ever posted as a step-by-step complete photo post. Not much of a story behind…