Eggless Sfogliatelle Frolle

Yesterday I shared with you the first recipe I tried for this month's Daring Baker's Challenge. And here comes the other recipe. Thought the preparation is quite simple in comparison to Ricci, it tastes amazing. Hubby liked this more than the Ricci. I myself liked this very much. The outer covering is a pie dough and filling is the semolina ricotta filling used in Sfogliatelle Ricci. I used my eggless Apple Pie crust which usually turns out good. The result was a flaky, soft crust and a soft delicious filling. I made the pie crust dough during one of the cookery class session in which I had to demonstrate it to a student. I then used it to make this yummy pastry during evening.

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Paneer Sandwich

For the third week of Blogging Marathon#34, I chose the theme evening snacks. When my daughter returns from school, the very first question she asks after entering home is "Mom, What is for snacks today?" So I make sure that she gets her favourite snack every day. Some times, when I feel lazy, I buy a biscuit packet or murukku packet. As many of you have noticed, I don't have a sandwich recipe in my blog because I didn't have a sandwich maker. But recently I got a sandwich maker as a free gift when I got another kitchen appliance and I was very happy to make this sandwich for my daughter.  My mom used to make delicious sandwiches and my brother's friends in Pondicherry were great fans of her sandwiches. She used to apply a generous amount of vanaspathi on all the sides of the bread slice and she used to make a delicious potato stuffing for the sandwich. She had a sandwich maker which has to be used on a stove and I still remember it after all these years. She used to buy 3-4 packs of large Modern bread for my brother's friends and finally we would end up with no sandwich for myself and mom. They used to devour the sandwiches and I am sure they will remember it even now. Now as I am little concerned about my health, I used butter for my daughter and I made it oil and butter free for myself and hubby. It can never beat the taste of mom's sandwich but it is guilt free. I also used wheat bread instead of white bread. But do try it with white bread and vanaspathi for a delicious treat. My daughter loved these sandwiches and I think one day she will say that nothing could beat her mom's sandwiches....

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Inji Puli/ Puli Inji

Today starts the final week of Blogging  Marathon #34 and I have chosen to blog from a fellow blogger as a special theme. The blogger I am paired with is Lisha of Nandoo's Kitchen. She has a nice collection of recipes and what interested me the most are the Kerala Sadya recipes. So I selected three recipes from her blog and prepared them. I will be blogging about them for the three days. The first recipe I made is the spicy pickle made for sadya. Pairing ginger and tamarind makes the pickle super tangy and super spicy. It was absolutely delicious with curd rice. This is an important part of the Sadya menu and I have heard a lot about it through fellow bloggers. But this is the first time I am trying this and I just loved it...

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Snow Men Butter Cookies

This month's Home Baker's Challenge was hosted by Priya of Cook Like Priya. As December is the month of Christmas, she had suggested three cookies recipes, two cakes and two bread recipes. We were to choose any of the given recipes. I loved the look of this snow man cookie and so I tried it out. It was very colourful, crispy and very delicious. My daughter loved them. It was full of butter flavour and my house was so aromatic when these cute cookies were baking in the oven. It is a very easy dough but you need a lot of patience to make the figurines. The given recipe yields more than 20 cookies. 

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Eggless Christmas Pudding

Christmas pudding is a steamed rich fruit pudding served during the dinner on Christmas. I have read about the Christmas pudding in an Agatha Christie novel in which Poirot visits a house during Christmas and solves a mystery. The ruby which he came in search of would be found in one of the puddings served on Christmas. I never thought that I will be making Christmas pudding. When I was going through my book shelf I saw this novel and decided on doing it at home. Traditionally pudding has eggs, suet ( a type of fat from animals) and alcohol. I decided to make an eggless, suet free, alcohol free pudding at home. I saw a vegetarian version of the pudding at Titli's Kitchen but still it had eggs. So I adapted Titli's recipe according to my preference and ended with  a flavourful, delicious, moist, rich pudding. This is steamed for 6 hours and once cool you need to remove it from the mould. I am having this pudding mould for so many years but never once used it. And finally it came to use and I am so so happy for recreating this in my kitchen.

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Ice Cream Falooda

I am a member of South Vs North Challenge, started by Divya of You Too Can Cook. Every month, a member from North team will challenge the South team with an authentic north Indian recipe, while a member of Southern team will challenge the North team with an authentic South Indian recipe. I try to participate every month, but once I skipped the challenge. It was on September and the challenge was hosted by Minnie. Falooda, being a rich north Indian dessert is a layered chilled dessert, the main ingredient being falooda noodle. The falooda noodles are readily available in market and it is easy breezy to make this dessert. But for me, it was tough as my fridge was giving so many problems and falooda noodles is not available at my place. I went through so many posts on making the noodles at home, but due to the lack of my fridge, I didn't attempt it. And one fine day, i.e my birthday, my hubby dear gifted me a fridge and the first thought which came to my mind was to try falooda. I didn't want to buy icecream and so made it at home. 

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Eggless Slovak Paska Bread and Paska Peeps

Slovak Paska is an Eastern European Easter Bread made with eggs, sugar, milk, flour and yeast. It has so much decorative details on the top. For the Baking Eggless Challenge this month, everyone wanted anything other than sweets and so I selected this decorative bread. This is not loaded with sugar. And the technique used in the decorations was quite interesting. There is also peeps made out of paska flour. These are cute bird figurines made with the dough and then baked. So this became this month's challenge. We had to avoid eggs in the original recipe and come up with our own recipe without compromising on the texture of the bread. Here is my experiment with the dough....

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