A Cooked up Story

Hello Folks!!! I'm going to share with you the happiest accident I ever had. It was just another fun packed day. My sister and I were rummaging through the bookshelves to find our long seen Famous Five book- a three in one combo. Finally, we found it. We got so immersed in the book and realized the hunger pangs only when the passage came to talk about food.  Ann and Georgina busy nibbling hot brownies melting with chocolate... After a boring lunch, we decided to make our own hot brownies, just as beautiful as the one in the story. Yes, there was Chef Zumbo's, recipe from TLC. His show has so many participants competing to make the best as well as mind-blowing dessert. I still can't believe how they managed to make, the cake that defies gravity. Zumbo emphasizes on creativity and intricate details, while reminding that food has its own chemistry. Oops! not just chemistry, physics as well. Whether Newton liked Zumbo's concepts or not, I'm sure he'll not be able to...

 Hello Folks!!! Who can say no to a fluffy, soft, juicy and crisp doughnut? Well, I'm sure no one can.   Two summers back, my sister and  I thoroughly enjoyed our vacation. Experimenting, creating and inventing new dishes and more than anything, baking beautiful memories day after day. The best part was that, we were left alone at home, while our parents went for work. The 'Home Alone' kids with a big home at our disposal.. hurrah! Our daily routine was to get up at whatever time we felt, have a quick breakfast and then sing songs and dance, make fun of each other's mistakes and lie exhausted on the sofa to watch TLC. Our favourite programs are 'Say Yes to the Dress', 'Cake Boss' and 'Zumbo's Just Desserts'. We love eating food and watching these programs simultaneously, maybe because we love rule-breaking when left alone at home.  It feels great to cook food with your little sibling, your partner in crime. We usually get creative around the ...

  Hello Folks!!! Yesterday I was arranging my bookshelf and I found one of my favourite nursery stories- Mr Wolf’s Pancakes lying on the bottom rack with all the other books that were meant to be given away. As I turned the pages filled with drawings, colours and huge letters, I could feel myself once more sitting on my little chair and asking my mother to read it to me. The story is about a wolf who is very hungry and wants to eat some pancakes, but because wolves can’t read from a recipe book, or make a shopping list, he asks for help from his neighbours – the ginger bread man and the three little pigs, but they were so rude to him and finally, he had to manage everything all on his own! This story made me imagine I was Mr Wolf whenever we had pancakes for breakfast or at tea time. But now, the story repeats with a different hero. My sister’s favourite cartoon is Doraemon, a cat robot (not a raccoon) who is crazy for his pancake, the Dorayaki cake and falls for any trap inv...

  Hello Folks!!! “Travelling leaves you speechless, and then it turns you into a story-teller” -Ibn Battuta This sweet is so luscious that a small diamond or even two can take you to realms unknown. Its perfumed, sweet and tender layers soaked in honey and crowned in nuts is a delight for the soul. Whenever I have travelled with my family to Dubai, we always break at a beautiful sweet shop to enjoy those delicate baklavas. It’s best to eat them as soon as you buy them since, they will be warm and crispy and secondly, its tempting aroma won’t allow you to wait a second more. My love for this sweet has a very long story and since the first bite until now, I never miss a chance to grab one as soon as I spot it. I remember, as a child, I would fill my plate with as many different Middle Eastern deserts as it could accommodate, one among my favourites  being the baklava. When I was abroad, I had very beautiful Egyptian friends- ‘Didi’ and ‘Caroline’, two sisters who use...

Hello Folks!!! Right now I am enjoying myself listening to Nancy Mulligan by Ed Sheeran and eating heartening Apple Crumble, the best way to bring happiness to your soul by mingling the heavenly combination of music and food… This takes me back to a lazy Thursday evening when I went out to play with my friends. We had begun skipping two at a time on a long skipping rope and praying not to strangle our feet lest we should go out and wait again for our next chance. All six little girls happily enjoying themselves like how the handsome horse- Black Beauty used to on the meadow. All of a sudden, it became so windy that we couldn’t play any longer and were forced to return back home, only wishing that we could play for some more time. I was so sad and kept looking outside only to see that the weather became worse and worse. At such a time, Black Beauty would have gone searching for apples that fell down from the trees. That was when mom brought this pretty looking cream coloured sweet d...