It had been several months since we made "gadiya pulla" or as my cousin Akash would call it, "sweet dosa". It's basically a thin and healthy wheat pancake without any raising agents like baking powder or baking soda. It's best eaten on its own or with plain cold milk. It's sweet like dessert and perfectly [...]
Once again today, like any other random day, I was in a high spirit for making a dessert that I had never attempted before. While I was driving to the grocery store, my mind deliberately activated its thought process, trying to figure out what to make. I felt as if several desserts were running a [...]
It has been several months since I have made the Indian style bake dish that my Dubai cousin's live-in cook, Gangaram used to make the best. It's a simple combination of sweet-ish cheesy white sauce and mix veggies baked together under a lovely blanket of cheese and melting butter. Last night, my cousin/roommate Shaily suggested [...]
I was in the mood for making a dessert on a random evening last month. But I wanted to make something I had never made before. I had a bazillion desserts running through my mind but the evening was short and I had to figure out what to make. As I sat down trying to [...]
Dharti and I woke up on this amazing sunny Sunday morning craving pancakes while we were still in bed. Just while we were talking about making chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast, my mum walked into my room asking us to make something "healthy" for breakfast. So we decided to make wholewheat pancakes as they would [...]
It's mid-March and it's spring break time. I've been waiting for the weather to get warmer but wintry Baltimore can never be in favor of my cold-bearing disability. Everyone is out of town and my mother and I are spending the week alone. My friend Dharti came over yesterday afternoon to spend the night with [...]
This year, on Valentine's Day, my classmate Rohan made his first attempt at baking brownies from scratch. Honestly, I think I'm a decent baker but for some reason my brownies were always a failure and I eventually, secretly gave up on baking them. When I first tried Rohan's unbelievably excellent, scrumptious brownies, I was absolutely [...]