Owner: Passionate About Baking...& beyond! URL:http://passionateaboutbaking.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:38:03 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: 'PASSIONATE ABOUT BAKING'...and that's what I am!! Have been baking at home for the over 10 years. Seem to enjoy it more and more each passing day.My blog has pictures and recipes of my art in the kitchen, and a few bits and pieces about it! Site statistics:Click here
LIFE CAN BE QUITE A CHUTNEY SOMETIMES...GRINDING TIMES!! 2008-05-14 12:40:22 "Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial."Diana Vreeland (1903-1989) GREEN WITH ENVY???When we were young, we often heard the phrase, 'Hurry up or Mom will make a chutney out of us'...often in a punishing way as many would say 'making mincemeat of us' in parallel tones! Times change, words change, Mom's don't & the grind continues ... Full of flavour...my favourite
CHOCOLATE ALWAYS MAKES THINGS BETTER...'BETTER BAKED THAN CREAMED BROWNIES' 2008-05-16 02:57:30 "Any food not fit to wear is not fit to eat."Jim Rosenthal 'Better Baked than Creamed' Brownies...Chocolate OverdoseDiva @ Sugar Bar is hosting this intriguing event "Beauty & the Feast". The challenge is to pick a cosmetic/beauty/body-hand-skincare,etc. product that has either a name that is food-related or has food-related ingredients. Use the combination of flavours of the product as best
MANGOLICIOUS MORNINGS with FRUITY BEGINNINGS!! 2008-05-17 19:14:49 “Marriages are all happy; its having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.”Irish Proverb Mango Fruit Salad with Apricots, Melon, Cherries & basilIt's the month of May, & MANGO, the king of fruits, rules the roost here in India. As far as the eye can see, it's mangoes all the way. In the midst of this, Arundati @Escapades is hosting this month's Weekend Breakfast Blogging (WBB
CITRUS MAKES ME HAPPY...TANGY FRESH LIME CAKE 2008-05-19 20:12:26 Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being."Frances Mayes, Bella Tuscany CITRUS is Tartelettes' chosen flavour for this months' edition of Sugar High Fridays , a monthly event created by Jennifer of The Domestic Goddess. One of my favourite flavours, I find myself using 'citrus' , mostly lime, every single da
BEAN THERE, DONE THAT...CLICKETY CLICK! 2008-05-22 10:59:33 Pep without purpose is piffle.Anonymous Beans & Lentils...Naturally beautiful! (My entry for CLICK May 2008)FULL OF BEANS...It's the CLICK time of the month @ Jugalbandi, & this time very nearly missed the boat. To begin with my little fellow was unwell, & then I thought I would hone some photography skills before I send in an entry. Messed up LOADS of clicks majorly...NO, I DON'T HAVE
SANDWICCIA ANYONE?...Focaccia sandwiches by another name! 2008-05-21 06:47:24 "It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms."Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., (American diplomat)'Sandwiccia'...a focaccia sandwich!Made some Roasted Garlic & Bell Pepper Focaccia again the other day. This very versatile Italian bread has become quite a staple at home since the kids LOVE it. It's a gratifying feeling that they enjoy garlic & bas
COFFEE ROASTED ALMOND BISCOTTI...a handsome combination! 2008-05-23 20:08:51 "I am not a glutton, I am an explorer of food"Erma Bombeck Coffee & Roasted Almonds...a handsome
combination I have my biscotti moments...at times, I will suddenly alight & set off to make a biscotti with a 'flavour of the moment' off the top of my head. This particular moments' flavour turned out to be coffee & roasted almonds. A delicious, crisp biscotti! I made these some time ago,
DEVILS WITH ICY COOL HEARTS...COCOA MINT CUPCAKES 2008-05-26 08:53:16 "There’s more to life than chocolate, but not right now." Cocoa Cupcakes...with Icy Cool Hearts & Icy Cool Toppings too! Chanced upon 'The Cupcake Hero' theme while perusing random blogs & saw that COCOA was the theme for the month. The crew there say..."Well, let’s see your skills! Each month a theme ingredient will be named. The theme ingredient must be used in either the cupcake, Read more:DEVILS
CHECK OUT MY STRIPES...L 'ZEBRA CAKE 2008-05-28 06:10:32 "I'm ten years old. My life is half over and I don't even know if I'm black with white stripes or white with black stripes."Marty the Zebra...in the film Madagascar The Fascinating L 'Zebra Cake...(instead of L 'Opera Cake)With a heavy heart I write that I have been unable to complete Mays' Daring Bakers challenge...the first I've missed since I joined in Jan this year. Reason...chicken pox took
IN THE PLUM OF THINGS...A sweet tale of sauce & ice-cream 2008-05-30 08:24:21 "A sauce
.....adds something, really two things: a taste as well as the opportunity to think about how the thing was made."Raymond Sokolov Spicy Sweet Plum Sauce Plums 'n' Cherries...the fruit of summer! Plum, Cherry & Black-cherry Conserve Ice-creamFresh fruit in food is my kind of thing. Summer brings with it delightful juicy fruit from the hills of Jammu & Kashmir, (Gurgaon & Del
CHICK PEAS THAT TASTE LIKE HOME...& DAL PARATHAS! 2008-05-29 08:24:06 "Whose bread I eat: his song I sing." German proverb Chick Peas / Chanas...almost like a summer saladFoodie blogs are buzzing with activity these days with lots of tags & events showing up to mark the appreciation of recipes tried from each others blogs. Tried and Tasted (T&T) is one such monthly event in appreciation of other blogs, hosted by Zlamushka @ Zlamushka's Spicy Kitchen...provid
AMAZING MAIZE & CORNY COOKIES 2008-06-02 03:36:46 "I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find."James BeardBowled over by Cornmeal Pistachio Cookies Then comes along one of those looooong lazy summer days where you want to bake something & for once you'd rather it wasn't chocolate. It happens to me at times after a chocolate overdose in the kitchen. Something different h
BLOGGING FOR BRI...GOING THE YELLOW WAY! 2008-06-03 09:42:13 "Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul...Emily Dickenson YELLOW is the colour of hope & we're here blogging for Bri. Jai & Bee @ Jugalbandi have led the way to spread hope & have embarked on a very inspired edition of CLICK. I haven't had the good fortune of interacting directly with Bri, but have bumped into her at my dear friend Manggy's many a time, & at Be
PEACHES & CREAM...A truly sublime dessert! 2008-06-04 19:59:08 "Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert."Kathy MatteaPeaches 'n' Cream...As summer proceeds & the weather becomes even hotter & hotter each passing day, we are rewarded by fruits as luscious as peaches! Strange are the ways of nature, where we are subject Read more:PEACHES
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MINGLING WITH APPETIZERS...Colourful Veggie Hors'Doeuvres! 2008-06-06 05:47:20 Laughter is brightest where food is best. Irish Proverb Oven Baked Potato Cheese Breaded Bites Cream Cheese, Bell Pepper & Cucumber NibblesTime for Meeta @ Whats For Lunch Honey's Monthly Mingle. This months' edition is being co hosted by Mansi @ Fun 'n' Food, with the theme for the month being Appetizers & Hors'Doeuvres. Their call...For this monthly mingle, we'd like you to share some fa Read more:Colourful
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Superfood SPROUTS Salad...Sprouting healthy & tasty beans!! 2008-06-08 11:22:15 "We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. "Jane Elliot Sprouted Mung Dal Salad
Fresh mint & a squeeze of lime... I posted some bits about this wonderful sprout on the CLIC Read more:healthy
BLACK SESAME SHORTBREAD...a fusion of flavours! 2008-06-10 08:35:47 "Come and share a pot of tea, My home is warm and my friendship's free."Emilie Barnes Black Sesame Shortbread Cookies... You think you've kinda lost it when you start dreaming Black Sesame Shortbread! That's what has happened to me ever since I saw these wonderfully enticing cookies at Diva's Sugar Bar. Shortbread is my all time favourite sort of cookie, & sesame in a cookie is entirely intrig Read more:fusion
AHOY THERE MATEYS...IT'S A PIRATE CAKE! 2008-06-13 11:12:05 "Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake."Unknown Chocolate Genoise Sponge with a ganache topping & marzipanTime for the son's 9th birthday & his level of excitement has the rest of us crawling up walls!!! The countdown began 2 months ago, & reached a frenzy in the last week. Each morning of the last week was announced with 7,6,5,4,3,2...tomorrow, "I just can't wait
Meme...I've been tagged twice & am running behind sched as usual!!) 2008-06-15 09:04:16 "Please… tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer. "Gary Zukav I'm not a very keen meme person & tend to gasp if I hear I've been tagged...never easy to spill some beans on myself & kinda bare my soul to the world. Having said that, was tagged by Chreisi for a 6 Read more:running
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MERINGUE-ING FOR BRI...Apricots this time! 2008-06-17 22:04:06 "It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form."Hans HofmannFrench Meringues with Apricots n Cream"From mangoes to melons, peaches to plums,onward I go...... Merrily exploring summer fruits like I've never done before!"Seems like renewed vengeance! Every time I see a seasonal fruit after the blog bug hit me, a million new avenues open up. From a cursory glance
DROPPING SCONES FOR A PANCAKE BREAKFAST...LITERALLY!! 2008-06-19 11:29:02 "Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."Lewis Carroll Drop Scones with whipped cream & mangoes There are some meals that leave a mark on you, a stamp in your mind (or as in my case, on the DH's)! The memories of the quintessential American breakfast my sister stirred up for us in Dallas last year is a case in point, & features in our foodie conversation
MAKE WAY FOR THE DANISH BRAIDERS...Ooooops, I mean the DARING BAKERS!! 2008-06-28 18:30:01 "The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight. "M. F. K. Fisher 'Danish Braid' from Sherry Yard’s 'The Secrets of Baking'Hello from a Daring Baker who is now a Danish Braider!! The day is finally here when this 'daring group of bakers' present their monthly challenge. This month, we were dared to bake a Dani
The Very Versatile Pound Cake... 2008-06-22 17:30:01 "Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?" George HerbertThe Pound
Cake...very versatile!Time & again I return to making my first love in cakes, the pound cake. I have 1 bundt pan which I guard with my life & love the way it turns out my precious pound cake. Perfect & pretty every single time, for the 'once in a while' rich buttery cake that uses 200gms of butter, this is just the m Read more:Versatile
CHICKEN KORMA...MAKE MINE HOME-MADE! 2008-06-20 22:54:39 “Cuisine is the tactile connection we have to breathing history. History and culture offer us a vibrant living society that we taste through cuisine.All cuisine is a reflection of the society from which it emanates … in the end cuisine is the result of culture”Clifford WrightChicken Korma...home-made & finger licking good!There was an article in the 'Daily Mail' a while ago, which was r
RUSTIC ITALIAN FOCACCIA...IN A RING & MORE! 2008-07-12 02:12:30 "If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens."Robert Browning as rustic as it gets... Italian artisan bread...Thicker than a pizza, this dimpled bread, focaccia, gets it's name from the Latin word focus, meaning 'hearth' , because it was originally baked on an open hearth. Italian bakers use focaccia dough to make many different speciality breads, such as this
THOUGHTS OF NUTMEG TRAPPED IN A POUND CAKE...& FOODBUZZ 2008-07-10 05:17:26 "Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."Erma Bombeck NUTMEG POUND CAKE...spicing it upNUTMEG, the spice of choice for this months' Think Spice has weighed heavily on my mind. Ever since I saw that Aparna @ My Diverse Kitchen, a fellow DB & an Indian blogge
SCREAMING FOR PEACH MANGO ICE-CREAM... 2008-07-09 19:51:12 "An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach."George du Maurier Here's an ice-cream that left us screaming for more...literally!! Helped the daughter make this a couple of weeks ago coz she wanted to make peach 'something'...peach anything actually !! Peaches have flooded our market this year & tempt me endlessly. Quite insanely, I can hear them calling to me from their shel
LIFE IS CERTAINLY A BOWL OF CHERRIES...CHOCOLATE MAKES IT BETTER!! 2008-07-06 18:59:31 "I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie."Erma Bombeck Sweet bowl of cherries... ...& Cherries atop a Chocolate-Cinnamon Mousse. Can it get any better?Coincidentally, my dessert's set out in Red, White & Blue!! Have a great 4th of July to all of you in the U.S.!!Whe
SOUTHWARD BOUND & BACK...Captivated in Chennai! 2008-07-04 09:25:15 “On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.”Erma BombeckAre back from Chennai
down in the South of India, where it was baking hot...& yet we had a great time. For me, obviously anything to do with baking had to be good!!! Thanks to great leads from Arundathi @ My Food Blog,
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