Weekend gourmet dinner

We had just a week from Friday to plan and prepare a three course -‘Gourmet dinner’. A week is never enough to plan and cook for seven people, well that’s exactly how it happened and in fact we did it in a day’s time.  ‘The food should be fine dining quality and plated to five star…

Wholewheat pizza dough

I have always wanted to make a pizza base, but every recipe i have come across asked for Italian Tipo ’00’ flour. Well i never stock this flour and moreover i wanted to savour a guilt-free healthy pizza. So i just followed the recipe off a magazine and replaced the flour with wholewheat flour. It turned…

Garlic knots

I love waking up early much before the rest of the family, on a weekend, and start prepping for breakfast and lunch. Weekend we usually have a heavy lunch, and so the breakfast is kept light and simple. I love the smell of freshly baked bread, always reminds me of being on a holiday. But…

Birthday Celebrations…

Note: This post is delayed by a few days. She is 3 today; she hasn’t realized it’s her birthday yet. I wished her this morning and she had the ‘Ma, please let me sleep’ look. This would be the first birthday where she understands what a birthday is about; cake, gifts, family and friends and I want…

Empanadas- Caramelised onion stuffed bread

I read this recipe here last week, I was so inspired that I immediately baked it. It is incredibly easy, and delicious. Since my small family was not feeling well the entire last week, i had little time left to jot down here. I hope you enjoy it as much as i did baking. Happy…