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Fruity Bread and Butter Pudding

This Fruity Bread and Butter Pudding is nothing traditional – it has a good dose of caramelized apples, gorgeous black currants and dollops of blueberry preserve.

I am in love with the word DESSERT. You have a dessert – any kind in the vicinity and I am not there is just not possible. I am specially fond of warm desserts – they are like my comfort dessert. Indro loves bread and butter pudding and we make tons of versions of the good old bread and butter pudding. We make it with chocolates even! Maybe, I’ll share that recipe someday. Continue reading Fruity Bread and Butter Pudding

Spinach & Potato Breakfast Casserole

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The spinach and potato casserole is the perfect breakfast recipe with its doze of health and yum quotient. Spinach, Potato, sausages in creamy custard baked to golden perfection – perfect for breakfast or any time actually.

Hola friends, hope you are enjoying #BakingWithTina – my September Baking Challenge, where I am going to share 8 baking recipes. I don’t want to share only cake and cup cake recipes. We have always loved our baked foods in the house. And it all comes from my dad. I have told this earlier too, we always had loads of English food at home during my growing up years. My dad was a practicing surgeon in the UK, after his FRCS, and was there for about a decade. He brought back loads of these little recipes and we have always enjoyed them at home. My dad is a great cook BTW. Continue reading Spinach & Potato Breakfast Casserole

Chocolate Chips Muffin

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These Chocolate Chip Muffins are moist, loaded with yummy chocolate chips. They are easy to make yet so very sinful.

Hola People so there’s a lot going on with the blog lately. I didn’t post last week because I was preparing for my September Baking Challenge. Didn’t I tell you already? Okay I am taking part in a month long blogging challenge – The #MyFriendAlexa activity in association with BlogChatter. To keep things short – I’ll be posting 8 recipes this month and my challenge hashtag is #BakingWithTina. You can search with this hashtag on Twitter and Instagram for all the posts this month – if you have not followed me already, do that now!

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Leek and Sausage Quiche

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Want to learn how to make leek and sausage quiche? This savory leek and sausage quiche recipe is easy to follow and super yum.

Good food always elevates my mind. It puts me in a good mood instantly. Yeah it’s not just desserts that do good things to your mood! For me, any indulgent food does that work. Okay certain healthier versions are good too. I have made quiches a zillion times in many variations. I find it so simple to add fillings of your choice to the pie crust and custard and have a new quiche ready in half an hour! This leek and sausage quiche is the latest variation I tried sometime back. It turned out pretty good.

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Old fashioned Chicken Stew

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The Old fashioned English chicken stew is the easiest chicken stew recipe you can make. Chicken, potatoes, carrots slow cooked in a buttery milk broth infused with aromatic sage.

There are some days when I want to make simple yet delicious dishes. These old fashioned chicken stew recipes have their own charm – they are easy to cook, just one pot meals with few ingredients but are so yum. You put everything together and forget about it for time. I like making these one pot recipes quite a lot because they are so much less hassle and saves a lot of time later for washing up. Continue reading Old fashioned Chicken Stew

Minced Chicken Kofta

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The minced chicken kofta is an easy entrée or appetizer recipe that you can cook in a grill pan over gas. These succulent koftas made with minced chicken and assorted spices are easy, healthy and yummy.

Name me one person, from the Indian subcontinent who doesn’t like a kebab or a kofta. I sometimes go crazy on koftas. They are easy to make, soft, succulent and you can have them just like that – without a reason, without anything else! This is a fairly easy kofta recipe with minced chicken which I made on a grill pan over gas cooktop – so you don’t need an oven, a tandoor, or even any skewers! So if you are a beginner at the kofta and kebab journey – this should be your go to recipe.

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Mango Panna Cotta

Mango season can’t get over without a Mango panna cotta. Mango Panna cotta is a much needed tropical twist to the very classic Italian dessert.

What is Panna Cotta

Mango Panna Cotta is such a simple dessert recipe for any dessert lover. In Italian Panna cotta literally is cooked cream. And mango season calls for making everything with mangoes. I can have a panna cotta almost any time – it is such a velvety smooth pot of bliss. But hey it’s a lot of calories. Seriously if these calories and gaining a lot of unwanted weight wasn’t too much of a thing I would have a dessert in every meal!

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Candied Fruit Loaf Cake or Tutti Fruti Cake

Every family has their favorite fruit cake. Fruit cakes or the tutti fruit cakes are such a staple in every household. This is a beginner’s cake recipe of a candied fruit cake added with almond meal.

When I was younger my mum, used to make this cake. She had her version of fruit cake with raisins and sultanas – golden brown slices of bliss. We mostly had that in the winters around Christmas.

A few days back while doing my grocery shopping I chanced upon these beautiful packs of multicolored candied fruits. I knew it at that moment that I need to recreate my mum’s fruit cake. This one is the simplest version of a dense moist loaf cake with candied fruits, almond meal and toasted almonds. This is so easy that if you are a beginner to baking cakes – you should start with this.

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Crispy Baked Basa Fillet

Basa fillets with a crunchy breadcrumb topping gives the very healthy baked version of crispy fish fry.

Who said crunchy fish has to be deep fried? Who said only way who can enjoy crispy fish is by having fish and chips? What if I tell you we’ll add the much loved crunch in the fish without deep frying – or any frying at all! Does that sound nice? I bet it does. So here’s my take on the baked basa fillet in the crispy crunchy way.

A few weeks back some of our relatives were visiting us and I wanted to serve up a nice dinner with fish, meat, desserts and all. I got some really fresh basa fillets from the local super market and was thinking what do I make with it – crumb fried fish or baked fish? Then I thought why not combine both! Continue reading Crispy Baked Basa Fillet

No Bake Mango Cheesecake

Who doesn’t love a cheesecake? And when it doesn’t involve any baking I am more than happy. It’s the mango season in India, so why not a No Bake Mango Cheesecake? It’s perfect for vegans because it’s eggless. Pureed mango, cream cheese gives it a light and smooth melt-in-the-mouth feel. The biscuit base gives this mango cheesecake beautiful crumb texture.

It was my son’s 11 month birthday on the 28^th and I made this No Bake Eggless Mango Cheesecake for the occasion. His paed has asked us to refrain from any non veg till he’s 1 year old! I really don’t know why, though! And I simply don’t like the eggless baked cakes, I find them very dense. So does that mean we won’t have a birthday cake for Mr. Bluey? Absolutely not. I have been making these dessert birthday cakes for him for last few months which are eggless and yum.

I have made this mango cheesecake a number of times and every time it turns out be a hit in the family. I had made it for my in-laws when they were visiting us a few years back. This cake is a set cake – you can make it in bowls, glasses, or even a casserole tray. This is the first time I made it in a round birthday cake form. Continue reading No Bake Mango Cheesecake