After a very long time off from the blog we are BACK ! Well what can I say, many of you have asked WHY ?? the absence, wondering if I have stopped cooking ???? Never, it has just been a tricky few years and my editor (husband) was very busy, so there have not been... Continue Reading →
I came up with this recipe as I really wanted to incorporate some dried fruit with a normal / traditional barfi. I also wanted to try and make a healthy sweet, using natural sugars from the fruit and very little ghee. Traditionally Indian sweets are full of calories because of the amount of sugar and... Continue Reading →
I have lots of fond memories of Easter when I was young because we would go away for short breaks to lake Malawi. Then when we moved to Birmingham from Malawi, Easter would mean coming over to London to visit relatives. All of us getting together, keeping in touch and having wonderful food, with lots... Continue Reading →
I made these for breakfast on valentines day, thought it would be a good way to start the day - with a treat 🙂 I was planning to make some plain muffins with just blueberries, and some with chocolate. However as I was mixing the batter I saw some passion fruit which needed to be... Continue Reading →
I still remember when we were young and my older sister had baked a cake for the first time and iced it saying 'Happy Holidays'. My mother would get us to try out new recipes, just so as we would learn, she knows and cooks so much, yet until last year she had never tried... Continue Reading →
This is a very simple Indian dessert, which I grew up making with my mother. We would sit with a large tray of the barfi mix that my mother had made and we would press it down with the back of a bowl, then top it with slivers of almonds and pistachios. We felt quite... Continue Reading →
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