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Ghorayebah

Cooking Time: 30 mins

Cookies

Egyptian

Today for the alphabet G lets travel towards Egypt. Ghorayebah pronounced as ghreybeh are shortbread or butter cookies from the arab world. These are baked with only three ingredients and I must say they are addictive. This recipe if from suma’s blog- Veggie Platter is very easy to follow and...

Veena

April 8, 2017

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Financiers

Cakes

French

A financier pronounced as finasje is a small French almond cake and baked in small finanicer moulds. It is light and moist. The name financier is said to be derived from the traditional rectangular mould which resembles a bar of gold. The cake became famous around the Paris stock exchange....

Veena

April 7, 2017

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Empire Biscuits

Cookies

English

Today for the alphabet E , we will travel to the united kingdom to bake and taste these royal looking biscuits.An Empire biscuit is a sweet biscuit popular in the United Kingdom , Scotland. The biscuit was originally known as Linzer biscuit and after world war 2 , it was...

Veena

April 6, 2017

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Dilpasand

Cooking Time: 30 mins

Indian

If you have eaten at Bangalore Iyengar bakery , then you would not have missed their speciality Dilpasand. It is a sweet dish predominately using coconut and tuttifruity and for the outer covering puff pastry is used. I had been planning to bake these for a long time , and...

Veena

April 5, 2017

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Cicek Pogaca

Cooking Time: 1Hr 50 mins

Breads

Turkish

For the third day of alphabetical baking , is a savoury bake from turkey known as Cicek Pogaca which means flower shaped pogaca. According to Wikipedia, It is also called as pogacice eaten in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Serbia and Turkey. The outer layer can be done with filo pastry or...

Veena

April 4, 2017

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Basbousa-Eggfree

Cooking Time: 1 Hr 10 mins

Egyptian

Today is the second day of this Mega marathon where we will be baking bakes from around the world in the alphabetical order and today for the alphabet B, from my kitchen is a baked dessert from Egypt called Basbousa. It is a soft moist cake made with semolina and...

Veena

April 3, 2017

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Ugadi Pachadi

Cooking Time: 30 mins

Indian Sweets

Indian

Ugadi pachadi by ingredients is so similar to our maanga pachadi. Both show us that what life has to offer us with all the different tastes like sweet, sour, tanginess, bitter and salt. the way of preparation is a little different though. Maanga pachadi in tamilnadu is in a cooked...

Veena

April 2, 2017

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Apfelstrudel

Cooking Time: 90 mins

Austrian

Recently we visited Germany for a holiday and vibha had planned our further holiday in Spain and Austria. One thing she kept telling us to definitely taste the Austrian Apfelstrudel and this happened when she took us on the one day trip to Zugspitze, the highest mountain peak in...

Veena

April 1, 2017

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Cucumber Mint Gazpacho

Cooking Time: 10 mins

Soups

Spanish

Shhhh cooking secretly challenge is a facebook group which comes up with a theme each month where the members are paired and the theme is given out to secretly get our dishes done. This month the theme was Summer coolers. Prathima who blogs at Prathu’s food is paired with me...

Veena

March 31, 2017

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Sorakkai Paruppu Curry

Cooking Time: 20

Lunch

Indian

After I moved to this self hosted wordpress blog, I told myself that I shall blog regularly but then some personal issues cropped up and I just could not come online or even cook properly. But I had to get out of this cycle and what better way than a...