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Bake Fest # 42 :Event Announcement Started by Vardhini of  Cook's Joy , this series has been running successfully and now is in the 42nd edition. I'm hosting bake fest for the first time and I am hoping that we will have many great baked recipes as we are in the Easter month. The event runs from 1st April to 3oth April 2015. The rules of entries are as follows: 1. Send in any recipe that has been baked / broiled. 2. Only vegetarian or vegan recipes please. Cooks Joy normally accept eggs in baking and hence eggs are allowed. 3. Usage of the logo is appreciated as it helps spread the word. 4. Link your recipes to this event announcement post and the host, Vardhini's  Bake Fest  announcement page.  5. If sending an old entry, it needs to be re-published with the links. 6. You can send in any number of new entries and a maximum of 2 old entries. 7. Non bloggers, email me your entry and I will post it and link it for you. My email id is mayuri.ajay.patel62@gmail.com Looki...

Generosity         What is generosity? Its readiness or liberality in giving, kind, amplitude. Any charity organization in the world depends on the generosity of the people. People can be generous by donating money, providing service or being a part of the support. Providing service to the needy and less fortunate costs money. Recently my Club, Lions Club of Mombasa Bahari , held a fundraising event. The committee organized a dinner and dance event. Music was provided by our local band Mombasa Roots and Voyager Beach Hotel helped in organizing this event and providing the entertainment. I think the hardest part was selling the tickets. Its so difficult to convince people to buy the tickets for a charity event.The event went well and was supported by many well wishers. However, not complaining too much as generosity has to come from the heart. While our Club does have a few ardent supporters, some feel that most of the charity organizations just splurge money in the n...

 Feel the Light    Songs can uplift the soul, calm your mind, create a peaceful environment, bring smiles on faces, sometimes tears, transport you to a different level and make your heart beat. One such song I heard recently was Feel the Light by Jennifer Lopez. She has sung the song for the upcoming movie Home.The song is wow but what makes it even more wow is the dress she had worn for the American Idol. The 20 foot radius and 40 foot diameter long dress almost covered the whole American Idol stage. Called a projector dress it acted as a blank canvas projecting a variety of special effect lights.Watch the video to believe and at the same time enjoy the beautiful lyrics of the song - Feel the Light    Have you noticed how all the animated movies have beautiful songs. Love listening to them. I love watching animated movies.Its amazing how one can watch them again and again and still enjoy them.When my kids were growing up, we've watched Little Mermaid, Dumbo, Ju...

very berry yummy       Today was not such a great day for me. From the time I woke up I was on the go and trying to juggle so many chores all together. In all this what did I sacrifice? My exercise. By noon I was feeling a bit relieved that chores were getting ticked off my list. However come evening and again I experienced a general slum in my overall existence. Felt bad that I sacrificed exercise to do other chores. I questioned myself and thought why didn't I sacrifice my meal time? However, things had to be done so there was no other option. To add to the fight for time, I had to sit at the national id card office for over two hours. According to their records my new id card was prepared and ready. However, they couldn't find it. I knew that if I left their office leaving the relevant details with them, nothing will be done. I will be forgotten and would still have to spend the same amount of time waiting for my id card. Till it was time for them to close they could n...

Caraway is a fruit and not a seed      Our We Knead to bake challenge for the month of March was Kummelweck rolls. Kummelweck, kimmelweck or kümmelweck is topped with salt and caraway seeds which gives it its distinctive flavour. Kümmel in German means caraway, and weck means roll. So simply put these are caraway rolls.  A beef on a weck is a sandwich famous in New York. I am not going  into details about the origin of the rolls as it will be like repeating what is in the wikipedia. These rolls are chewy and crusty from he outside and soft from the inside. The caraway seeds add an earthy, fennel like flavour to these rolls. Caraway seeds are not actually seeds but the crescent shaped ridged fruit of a biennial plant belonging to the apiaceae family. Also known as persian cumin, meridian fennel caraway has the pungent fennel and earthy taste all in one. Caraway is usually used in breads, cakes, cookies and some sauerkraut. Its also added to cheese during the che...

a different type of kadhi     Our trip to India was delightful in many ways, meeting up with family and friends, shopping and the culinary delights. One of the bonus points of travelling to India was an allergy test. Yes you heard me right an allergy test. Hubby dear thought he was allergic (his whole body kept on itching) to something and insisted on an allergy test. The tests came back and we found out that he was not allergic to anything! Years ago he had developed rashes on applying chana (besan) flour. So we presumed he was allergic to besan and there started our journey in trying to replace besan with other dals. That's pretty difficult when you consider the fact that most of  the indian snacks contain besan. So the chana dal in dokhras and handvo was replaced by moong dal, for kadhi started using millet flour and was pretty much comfortable on my journey to chana less recipes. So finally there was a scientific proof that hubby dear is not allergic to chana( besan)....

Still catching up!    Yes I am still working on the backlogged recipes. Sometimes I get the feeling in my over enthusiasm have I joined too many groups? Maybe but don't feel backing out of any. They all offer different challenges.The baking eggless group was back in February after a short break. I couldn't do the Feb challenge but made the March one. The brownies are extra chocolatey, loaded with nuts and so delicious. The brownies turned baked well, and just as I turn it out onto the wire rack, the glass tray in which I had baked it fell and broke! The baking tray belonged to my mother in law and have been using it for over 32 years! Did feel bad. I found that my 8"X 8" baking tin was all rusted. We get salty water in our taps and everything rusts so quickly. We have to buy bottled water for cooking and drinking. Anyway next trip to the supermarket I am buying a 8 X 8" tin.    Coming to the brownies, the challenge is that we are given a recipe which has eggs. W...