Rava Laddu is a simple and easy to make sweet and Iwanted to make something special for Sankranthi. Most recipes, called for equal amounts of the main ingredients. But I find equal amounts of rava, ghee and sugar a bit too sweet for my taste. So I scaled down on the ghee and sugar.
When it comes to Upma, I have had to cave in and resort to the traditional way of making it with ghee only; and a lot of it at that. But the results are indeed delicious as a recent phone call from hubby confirmed it.
Adding some veggies is my way of making it a wee bit healthier and I can get my kids to eat more veggies this way.
Aditya’s First Grade teacher gave me a loaf of Whole Wheat Bread as a thank you for helping out in his class. It was delicious and I was hooked. She told me that she ground her own wheat and preffered using Hard White Winter Berries. This ofcourse set me off on a exploratory trip on the different kind of wheat berries available.
Over the weekend I baked bread from two different kinds of flours. Flour from hard white winter berries and flour from hard red winter berries. Aditya liked the bread from the white berries and Shilpesh preffered the red berries.
Bread from Hard Red Winter Berries
Aditya loves pancakes and I always make extra to freeze for later. This time around I decided to make the pancakes a bit more healthy and added whole wheat pasty flour to the recipe. He loved them and did not notice the change.
Blueberry Pancake
I tried to cook a lot of food during the New Year week end. It’s not an easy task when one is also down with a bad cold virus. Cooking healthy also was the aim. That I did achieve to some extent. When it comes to food I believe excess of anything is not good. Some of the stuff I did make were:
Pizza cups – with whole wheat pasty flour
Egg fried rice – with brow rice and basmati rice
Chicken noodle soup – with veggies and tri-color pasta
Eggless Pumpkin pie – with Neufchatel cheese, smart balance butter and whole wheat pastry flour.
Blueberry Pancakes – with whole wheat pasty flour
For the pizza, pancakes and pie I combined the Whole Wheat Pastry Flour with All Purpose flour.
Healthy Fried Rice
The vacation last month was a much needed respite for me. Despite a hectic travel schedule I did manage to sneak in some R & R while staying with my parents. Right now I am recharged and have started getting up early to cook a little everyday. As my Mom is visiting again, I also get some time to take it easy and only cook one dish in leisure. Today I made Pancakes with Berry Compote for breakfast.
I have a pack of mixed berries in my freezer and am trying to use them up. Usually I buy fresh berries during the season and freeze them for the rest of the year. I still have a small stash left from last year though and am trying to use it up.
Darn!! I’m late. Well I do have a good excuse for posting late. I have had a sudden trip to India come up. I wasn’t planning to go initially and then, well I am going now. Which mean’t a flurry of activities. I again lost track of the dates and my post is late. Oh Well!!! 
We made the tart for Father’s Day. It was really rich. I loved it though and Aditya’s favourite part was the crust. I really did not make any changes to the recipe so if you wan’t the recipe check out the original at Jasmine’s blog.
I was asked this question by a friend of mine, a while ago. My response was another question. What kind of cake? So she explained that she had baked a cake from a mix, but the center had still been a bit gooey and uncooked. The cake had already been consumed, but she wanted to get it right the next time round.
Hmmm!!! This got me thinking. I gave her a few pointers, but was not really satsified by the answer I gave her.
I am no expert when it comes to baking especially, but over time have improved my cake baking skills atleast. I have had my share of burnt or not well done cakes.
Aditya had been asking me for some chocolate cake for a while and I had a mix for chocolate cake in my pantry. Well, no time like the present to observe what I do and document the process.
Though I am calling it the Lazy Day Jambalaya, I guess I could have also called it the Busy Day Jambalaya instead. The first time I made the dish, it was one of those crazy day’s when I came home and there was absolutely nothing to eat. The kids wanted my attention which meant I would get very little time to spend on dinner. So I just chopped up some onions, tomatoes, peppers and some chicken sausage and threw them all into the rice cooker along with some rice and seasoning. It took me about 15 minutes. Then it was play time with the kids.
Yikees! I almost missed the reveal date for the Daring Cooks Challenge. My laptops power cable had been unfortunatley torutered to death by my ever inquisitive daughter. All my post material and photographs are usually in my laptop. I finally managed to drag myslef out to go shopping for a power adapter which will hopefully survive my daugters facination of plugging and un-plugging the cable.
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