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Chocolate Chips Muffin

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

Oreo Ice Cream Cake

Are you looking for a simple ice cream cake recipe that’s easy yet yum? Here is an easy, no fuss, no churning Oreo ice cream cake recipe with condensed milk. Pop it in the freezer and it’s ready under 3 hours! Simple, easy and yum.

We are celebrating all the month birthdays for Armaan, my little man. Which means, I get to make a birthday cake every month! I keep thinking which cake I am going to make for him. For his 10^th month birthday I made this Oreo Ice Cream Cake which turned out super yum and was in fact very easy.

I just noticed its 25^th today and I had made this last month on 28^th. For almost a month it was in the folder and I was lazy enough to not do anything about it. I know, I need to get myself going, but a soon-to-be 11 month old keeps your hands full all the time.

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Classic Apple Crumble

I am celebrating my new revamped blog with The Classic Apple Crumble. It’s just okay to indulge your sweet tooth once in a while. Yeah right, we are now a dot com, yay!! After the A to Z marathon, I was missing from the action. Actually I was setting up my site. I am still working on it though. Migrating from Blogger to self-hosted WP site isn’t that fast. But I am happy I am doing it all by myself and learning a lot of things. So this is my first post in the new site and what better way than to start on a sweet note!

I am in love with desserts, you all must have guessed that by now. You can never go wrong with an apple crumble. This classic recipe is a love affair with apples. Who likes apples just the way it is? I don’t. But I love my crumbles, pies and strudels.

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