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Deconstructed Lemon Tart with Bitter Lemon Candies

This little deconstructed lemon tart is going to be gorgeous for your hi-tea parties or dinner parties. The awesome lemony lemon curd is to die for.

I have a weakness for desserts, and you already know that. I like everything from sweet, sour, tangy, yummy, gooey little things. Lemon tarts are all-time favorite summer desserts for me. I love the tiny little tarts that the club bakery used to make back in my hometown. The ones that the nearby bakery makes isn’t that great so I decided to make my own! I am all for everything deconstructed these days – they are easy, they are pretty and they are super awesome. This deconstructed lemon tart is a winner any day. You can serve them in broad spoons, shot glasses, or just on a dessert plate – how cool is that. Continue reading Deconstructed Lemon Tart with Bitter Lemon Candies

Chocolate Tart with Strawberry – No-Bake Easy Tart Recipe

This No-Bake Chocolate Tart with Strawberry is decadent, delicious, effortless and oh so pretty. This easy dessert recipe is a child’s play, literally.

If you don’t like chocolate, I have big doubts on you! I am almost chocoholic and enjoy it in every form. I like the very process of melting chocolate – it’s a pot of sin and I love it. This No Bake Chocolate Tart is gorgeous and completely chocolaty. I call it a child’s play because you don’t need an oven or any special equipment. It was obviously enjoyed by the one and a half men at home.

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Banana Chocolate Bites – No bake Quick Easy Dessert Recipe

Craving chocolate? Yet you want to eat healthy? Your kid doesn’t want a fruit but says yay for chocolate? Get both of them together and make these easy Banana Chocolate Bites with just two ingredients!

Do you enjoy fruits with a twist? I do. Why not jazz up the plain old banana and bring out creativity? Right now I am swooning over banana because it is such a versatile fruit. You can use it up in desserts in so many ways. You want to go vegan in baking use up mashed bananas, you want a dairy free ice cream use bananas! Exciting, isn’t it? Well, I am going to have such a dairy free ice cream recipe too this April. So keep watching this space. For now, we are talking Banana Chocolate Bites. I am all for easy dessert recipes. Continue reading Banana Chocolate Bites – No bake Quick Easy Dessert Recipe

A for Apple Hand Pie – Baked Golden Goodness

This Easy Apple Hand Pie Recipe is the quickest way to enjoy a damn good individual no-nonsense apple pie. Made with home-made pastry crust this Apple Hand Pie is gorgeous, quick and easy.

Hello there, hope you are doing great as we commence into this year’s A to Z Challenge. As I told you in my last post I am going to do a Dessert A Day Challenge where I am going to share 26 lip-smacking yet easy dessert recipes throughout April. It’s all going to be a lot of fun – dessert recipes from A to Z! So what do I have on the very first day for A. What do you learn first in your kindergarten – A for Apple B for Banana – I am sticking to that and I do have A for Apple today! I’m going to share an Easy Apple Hand Pie Recipe today which is fresh, quick, homemade and very easy to make. You need fewer ingredients and you can make it ahead if you are serving the hand pies at a tea party. I like this Easy Apple Hand Pie Recipe because they are individual pies, they are rustic and you don’t have to spend much time in decorating them. So let’s find out how we make our Apple Hand Pies. Continue reading A for Apple Hand Pie – Baked Golden Goodness

Best Flaky Pastry Dough Recipe for your Pie Crust

All butter and flour give an incredible pastry dough. Check my best flaky pastry dough recipe – all homemade and nothing artificial. Use it for apple pies, meat pie or tarts.

If you live somewhere where you don’t find ready-made pastry dough in the supermarkets for your pies don’t get disheartened. You can always make it at home. You can’t believe how easy it is to make. All you need is butter, all-purpose flour and some cold water and voila it’s ready! Can you believe it, it’s that simple! Today I am sharing the best flaky pastry dough recipe that you can do at home under 20 minutes. It’s an all-butter pastry dough recipe you could use vegetable shortening too in case you want to go full vegan. Continue reading Best Flaky Pastry Dough Recipe for your Pie Crust

Dessert Recipe Everyday – Dessert A Day | A to Z Challenge 2017

Good morning beautiful people, how is the lovely Monday morning treating you? It’s a big day for the bloggers, ain’t it? It’s the pre-event day for everyone taking part in A to Z Challenge 2017. I hope you have geared up for the month long blogging challenge. If you have been visiting my blog you will find loads of posts from the A to Z Challenge 2014 where I had 26 Indulgent dessert recipe, main courses et all. I also took part in this challenge in 2016 and had done a Healthy Eating Challenge. Now with that done I am biting the bullet again and taking up the challenge this year too- from both my blogs. Yes, you heard that right!

This is exactly why I was MIA all this while because I was gearing up for the mega challenge! No, that’s just an excuse! So what is this big day today? It’s the Theme Reveal Day! Everyone taking part in the challenge unveils their theme today. Now let’s get into my theme for this year. Now if you know me you already can guess the theme – can’t you? What would you say if I were to tell you I will share – a simple dessert recipe, or a quick dessert recipe, or a light dessert recipe, or a healthy dessert recipe or just a mouthwatering yummy dessert recipe – every day this April? Does that excite you?

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Carrot Halwa with milk solids | Gajar ka halwa with Khoya Kheer

Carrot halwa or gajar ka halwa is a traditional Indian dessert recipe made with grated carrots, sugar, milk solids and loads of dry fruits. Learn how to make carrot halwa or gajar ka halwa the easiest and quickest way.

I have been trying to put up a post for a long time, but I am facing some tech issue on the site which I am yet to fix. Sometimes the extra work that you need to do keep the site running can be daunting! But you know there’s always a dessert to lighten the mood.

I have been making multiple batches of carrot halwa lately because both the men in the house has taken a liking to it. The little one specially has become very fond of it. Winters is the season for these gorgeous red carrots which we also call ‘Dilli ka gajar’ or Gajar from Delhi. It’s probably one of the easiest Indian dessert recipes you can find. Its fast, its easy and its super-duper yum. Continue reading Carrot Halwa with milk solids | Gajar ka halwa with Khoya Kheer

Holiday Fruit Cake | Guest Post to Shalini Nair

This Christmas Fruitcake is a traditional English Recipe with twists of almond and exotic dried fruits soaked and loaded with brandy. Baked in low heat this is perfect for holidays, Christmas or just any time of the year.

Hello guys, I have been slacking a lot lately. I don’t know why. And I don’t know how to break this slumber. My phone is full of food photos which I can’t seem to sit down and edit and write a damn post! Some time back my wonderful fellow food blogger Shalini from Something is Cooking asked me to do a guest post on her blog. I was in Kolkata at that time and it was the perfect time for baking something for the holidays. And baking something in vacation with a toddler around is a task in itself. And then you have my mum who restricts me from visiting the kitchen even now! But then I am thankful to her because I did the effort to get the photos and post ready. Continue reading Holiday Fruit Cake | Guest Post to Shalini Nair

Review Post – Yellow Dal Tadka with Tata Sampann Masala

Today let me start my post by asking you all a question – when you are cooking something what do you aim for? Is it the perfection? Is it the taste? Is it how well you have followed the recipe, is it the invention that you might have made? Or is it the smile on the faces of the people who are eating the food you just cooked for them? For me the last criterion is very important. My better half is a bigger foodie than myself, and every time I tell him it’s only ‘dal-chawal and some vegetarian food tonight’ he makes a face. I do all these experiments and creative cooking mostly to keep him and now also the little one happy. Continue reading Review Post – Yellow Dal Tadka with Tata Sampann Masala

Chingri Malaikari or Bengali Style Jumbo Prawn cooked in coconut milk gravy

Chingri Malakari is an authentic Bengali Recipe with jumbo prawns cooked in coconut milk gravy. It has beautiful textures, light spices and is oh so yum.

Hello people, I told you some time back about sharing Authentic Bengali Recipes throughout October but I did very bad time management last month and you can see that already with such less posts last month. But think no more, I am going to continue with #TinasBongConnection even this month and share with you what I originally promised. And guess what is special? My parents are down here and spending a few weeks with us. So you know how authentic these recipes are going to be. Continue reading Chingri Malaikari or Bengali Style Jumbo Prawn cooked in coconut milk gravy