I was supposed to have lemon cookies here for you guys today, but the excitement over the only winter Mumbai ever sees demanded hot chocolate instead. If like me, you’re celebrating the reduced fan speeds and miraculously cold water gushing out of the tap, grab a mug and raise a toast.
recipes
My New Favourite Chocolate Chip Cookies
Update: find a scaled down, more ‘everyday’ version of this recipe here. I was making cakey-ish chocolate chip cookies for a long time. All of that stops now! I discovered my dream cookies and I’ve not looked back since. This is a longish blog post about my experiments with different baking times and textures so…
Wholewheat Cheddar Crackers
Today in feel-good snacking, we have crackers. Crispy, homemade, baked crackers with not one terrible ingredient or unpronounceable preservative. It’s all crunchy and fabulous, and there’s some cheese because why not!
Apple Cheddar & Thyme Scones (Eggless)
Happy Friday! This is the last new post of 2016 but I have a little recipe round-up coming tomorrow to set the tone for what I hope to do more of in the new year. In the mean time, let’s all grab a scone. A buttery, tender scone filled with apples, orange cheddar and fresh thyme. It’s…
Chocolate Rum Salami
If you’re looking for a quick, fun, festive treat, your search ends here! This ‘salami’ is a boozy, chocolatey delight that couldn’t be easier to make. It’s nutty, citrusy and absolutely addictive. Christmas or not, you should absolutely make this!
Fruit Mince Rugelach (Eggless)
Rugelach is a Jewish pastry made with all sorts of wonderfully buttery things and filled with a whole range of deliciousness. There’s cream cheese, sour cream, butter in the dough. And in this version, candied peel, cherries, cranberries and raisins in the filling. And brown sugar and spices. The best kind of Christmas party!
Spiced Hazelnut Baklava (Eggless)
It took me a while to warm up to the idea of baklava, simply because the idea of eating something that is predominantly nuts, took a while to catch up with my brain. Lately, if you disguise the nuts with enough fun stuff, I’ll eat them pretty much without batting an eyelid. In this case,…
Hazelnut Snowball Cookies (Eggless)
Ironically for someone who has a blog primarily about desserts, I avoid excessively sugary frostings, cloyingly sweet cookies, anything doused in a ton of powdered sugar. Apparently as the new year approaches, all of that goes out the window because ohmygodthesecookiesarefabulous. I mean, toasted hazelnuts mixed into a buttery cookie dough that is then rolled into…
Vegetarian Chili and Cornbread (Eggless)
I think I probably first heard of chili while watching The Parent Trap. And at that time, I had no idea what it was except it sounded spicy. Alarm bells. Then a few years later I found out it’s a meaty, one-dish meal. Primarily made of a mixture of beans including kidney beans. More alarm…