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Drumstick soup – Murungakai soup

Cooking Time: 15 mins

Soups

Indian

After a hiatus of nearly 3 months due to personal reasons, I am back to my world of blogging with this healthy recipe with moringa as a star ingredient. They say “we are what we eat” and yes eating healthy, in moderation with a little indulgence once in a while...

Veena

July 1, 2017

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Strawberry Salsa

Cooking Time: 10 mins

The market is flooded with red fresh strawberries and I love these berries. Apart from making milk shakes , smoothies, ice creams and preserves, we can also make some refreshing salads for this hot hot summer. For this month of Shhhh cooking secretly challenge, I am paired with Sharanya...

Veena

April 30, 2017

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Naan Berenji-Eggfree

Cooking Time: 2 hrs and 27 mins

Cookies

Persian Cuisine

I was surprised looking at the ingredients for these cookies at Gayathri’s space. I have always seen all purpose flour or wheat flour being used, sometimes oats too but here were snow white cookies made of rice flour . I wanted to ty out and see how different it tastes...

Veena

April 18, 2017

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Mokkapalat-Mocha Squares

Cooking Time: 30 mins

Finnish

Mokkapalat is a finnish dessert and is like a brownie. It is soft moist and the taste is taken to an enitirely different level with the icing. Very easy to prepare and if you have a chocoholic at home, it will disappear fast too. Here is a recipe from mammituokkonen.Since...

Veena

April 16, 2017

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La Fouace Nantaise

Cooking Time: 4 hrs

Breads

French

This is a super soft enriched bread from France. It is an orange flavoured bread and is shaped like a six pointed flower and is traditionally baked during easter. This recipe is from My diverse Kitchen

Veena

April 15, 2017

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Kahk- Egyptian Eid Cookies

Cooking Time: 2 hrs

Cookies

Egyptian

Kahk pronounced as kh-ak are Egyptian festive cookies. They are also eid cookies which are served on festivals like eid. Kahk in Arabic means cookies. These cookies are either filled with the traditional agameya which is a hoNey filling or dates and walnuts or just plain and dusted with icing...

Veena

April 13, 2017

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Julekake – Eggfree

Breads

Danish

Julekake is a festive bread, traditional served during Christmas in Norway. This bread is more like a cake and it reminds me of our own tutti fruity bread but Julekake is flavoured with cardamom. When I baked this bread, the whole house was filled with the aroma of the bread...

Veena

April 12, 2017

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Eggless Pane Bianco#BreadBakers

Cooking Time: 3hrs 10 mins

Italian

Bread baking is therapeutically and I love to bake. I like the smell of yeast and the freshly baked bread. My kids love the bread I bake for them and I generally bake when they visit me. Now that my son is here, I decided to bake a savory bread...

Veena

April 11, 2017

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Icebox Cookies – Eggfree

Cooking Time: 2 hr 20 mins

Cookies

American

Ice box cookies or the refrigerator cookies seem to have originated in America. In earlier times keeping food cold was a challenge. In America, with the advent of rail roads, insulated boxes came into existence and eventually refrigerated ice boxes found their way into the American homes. Recipes were developed...

Veena

April 11, 2017

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Honey Cake- Eggfree

Cooking Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Indian

Here is another popular cake from Indian bakeries especially the Bangalore Iyengar bakeries. This honey cake is a basic eggless cake, soaked in a thin syrup of honey and sugar, topped with jam and some desiccated coconut. So basically it is loaded with sugar and definitely I should stay away...