Passion Fruit and Mango Ice Cream Sundae
You can’t buy Happiness but you can buy ice cream. Passion fruit and mango are my two favourite fruits so I couldn’t resist buying them. I usually just add them to a fruit salad but this week Read More …
Category: Desserts & Sweets
Caramel Pendas in the microwave (Indian Sweet)
This penda recipe can be prepared within minutes and taste very similar to fudge I got the idea of making these cute looking pendas by following my friend Nayna Kanabar’s recipe. I made a slight Read More …
Carrot Halwa- Gajar Halwa (microwave version)
Gajar Halwa is King of Sweets A thousand other desserts, it proudly defeats (from a poem by wordbug) I first posted my recipe for gajar halwa in 2010 when I made it on the stove top and Read More …
Strawberries with Mascorpone cream (Cheat shrikand)
Summer is here at last and strawberries are ripening so fast that all the farmers are picking them up fast and selling them cheap. Summer is here at last and strawberries are ripening so fast Read More …
Almond Barfi – An Indian sweet with powdered milk and almonds
These almond barfis were made by my husband as a surprise for me on Mother’s Day. He adapted my recipe for chocolate barfis and came up with these delicious almond barfis. They were really delicious Read More …
Shrikand (Indian dessert / sweet) : Cheat recipe using curd cheese
Today was fathers day and I wanted to make a sweet that everyone in the family would enjoy but at the same time could be made very quickly. I learnt this quick and easy cheat Read More …
Magaj for Diabetics (A Chick pea flour sweet suitable for diabetics)
Magaj is a popular Gujarati sweet usually made during the Diwali celebrations. I have been thinking about making some sweets which could be sitable for diabetics but have refrained from trying them out as a Read More …
Vegetarian Party Menu ideas
Have you heard of the saying – You can choose your friends but not your relations? Well – I’ll say no more. A number of my friends, who started off as colleagues are now part of Read More …
Chocolate Barfi – A classic Indian Sweet (Mithai)
Chocolate barfi (or sometimes spelled burfi) was a favourite of mine when I was a child and is now a favourite of my children. This is the first time I made these barfis, so Read More …
Adadiya – Indian sweet dish for winter
Adadiyas have lots of childhood memories for me. During the cooler months in Kenya, my dad used to make these Adadiyas and they used to be so good that people used to order them from Read More …