So apparently perfection can be improved upon. As long as salted chocolate and pistachios are around. And as long as we have cookies, things can only get better. I give you, buttery, soft, squidgy cookies studded not with chocolate chips which are so yesterday, but bittersweet salted dark chocolate from Earth Loaf and salted, roasted…
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Ricotta Cake with Chunky Blueberry Sauce
This post is about the little things. Appreciating them, respecting them, falling in love with them. Little things like a tiny bit of a innocent lemon zest that can take a basic cake to another realm. Little things like tangy blueberries suddenly turning a regular old loaf cake into something that calls for a smug…
Coconut and Lemongrass Cake
I don’t flip through cookbooks. I pore over them. I make mental notes, stick Post-Its, read them like there’s a miraculous fourth book in the Millenium trilogy. With the humongous collection of recipes available online, blogs to gape at and cooking-related discussion groups of all kinds, it seems like there’s actually no need for cookbooks…
Healthy Chocolate Truffles
So I turned out to be an utter and total fraud. I, who runs screaming from brownies adulterated with walnuts, who balks at the thought of popping whole cashews in my mouth, who does not understand why perfectly good oatmeal cookies must be tortured with the addition of raisins. I, who does all of that, not because…
Steamed Modaks
First off, I’m going to pretend I made these all by myself for as long as I can convince you. I won’t admit that I stared dumbfounded as my Mom, way quicker than she thinks, moulded these perfect little modaks, popped them into the steamer and all I did was pop them into my mouth. I…
Roast Potato & Parsley Salad
I’m not a terribly fast cook. In fact, I’m terribly slow. Even when I have help on hand, I’m still moving around at my own pace, stirring real slow, chopping real slow. I enjoy it. I can walk fast, talk fast, read fast. Can’t cook fast. With this salad though, no matter how hard I…
Super Simple Sheera
I get thrown off balance when things around me aren’t absolutely, completely, totally precise. Vagueness has no room in my life and definitely not in my kitchen. So when experienced and fabulous cooks like my Mom help me out in cooking conundrums, I often find myself desperately going, “But what do you mean ‘just a bit…
Whole Wheat Orange Poppy Seed Loaf
It is amazing the lengths I will go to convince myself that cake is healthy. I told myself I could eat this for breakfast, was delighted by how guilt-less this was, and was convinced that no sugar meant no bad stuff. Take this loaf for instance. It’s got olive oil and whole wheat flour so…
Guilt-Free Blueberry Pancakes (Eggless, Sugar-Free)
They say if you fail, try and try till you succeed. In my life so far, this motto has not applied to algebra, chocolate abstinence or sensible shopping. But it has applied to pancakes. When I first tried these pancakes, I struggled to think of a name for the disaster that ensued. The batter was…