Food & Memories of Mangalore
Treacle, also known as molasses or dark caramel is technically a byproduct of refining sugar by boiling the raw juice. This uncrystallized syrup is thick and dark and has many uses in flavouring food. From being added to cakes and bakes, it finds its uses in sauces and marinades and other sweets too. Treacle is…
Candied orange peel, albeit a bit laborious, is perhaps one of the easiest things to make at home. This is especially if you like to bake a lot of fruitcakes/Christmas cakes. While buying most of the dried fruit from the store is inevitable, you can always make other things at home. Candied citrus peel and…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!! Not yet! Well, it is in my house at least! I know that Diwali just got over and Thanksgiving is around the corner, but the spirit of Christmas has kept me trying out new recipes since a few weeks now. Before I delay it any further, I…
Hello folks! We are at the fag end of this year. Christmas is just around the corner and yes, there will be a lot of festive baking happening starting with Diwali which is two weeks away. If you love baking then this is one baking essential that you must have handy around the pantry. So what compelled me to make my own vanilla extract? Well, you see, I heavily relied on the store bought vanilla which I knew was synthetic but didn’t know any better. After coming to Dubai I used to buy pure extract which again was not true vanilla extract owing to the fact that it contained no alcohol. To add to my woes, a tiny bottle was super expensive and most times I’d buy the synthetic one. Eventually I began to search for recipes that would help…
Homemade Pesto is perhaps the best thing you can make at home. Believe me, I’ve been making it every year since we moved to Dubai, mainly due to the availability of fresh basil especially during the winter. The farmers’ market is a delight here. We get a lot of fresh, locally grown vegetables that taste really wonderful. Fresh basil is one of them along with other herbs such as rosemary and oregano. However, since I don’t do much with the latter two I make sure that I buy only basil. Lots of it! I love making pesto and using it in pasta or rice to marinate chicken or paneer. Sometimes I add a little pesto when I fry vegetables such as mushrooms, bell peppers or spinach for breakfast. I then proceed to fry eggs in the same pan and scramble…
Homemade Pork Sausage – this has got to be one of the best things we learned to make at home during the lockdown!! The hubs who is keen in trying out something new kept coaxing me to put my old Kenwood Stand mixer to use. We had bought it almost a decade ago in Dubai when we were here on a holiday. However, like most of the gadgets that find a dark spot in our homes, this one too joined the bandwagon of the lost & forgotten tribe of gadgets! At his behest I pulled out the sausage maker attachments and we both got to work, creating different flavours including the homemade chorizo, Goan style, which unfortunately did not turn out as well as we had hoped for. If all our future experiments go well, we maybe able to crack…
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting!! Mmmm! Who doesn’t love carrot cakes? Well, here I am presenting my beloved carrot cake in a new and improved avatar. That’s a paradox you will say. What is improved can’t be new right?! Well oh well, my cake is new because the pictures are 🙂 and improved because I have improvised on the recipe that I shared on this blog 10 years ago to give it a complete face & taste lift! If you scroll right to the bottom of this page you will see the different pictures of the cake when I made them in the past. I first made this cake using a microwave convection, when I was still a beginner at baking cakes. I was quite pleased with the results and hence shared it on the blog. I then…
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