Food, Life and Photography
Rich, buttery brioche that can pass-off as a bread-cake! Baked it for Papa Bear’s birthday with whatever I could find at home – used Amul butter, raisins soaked in Frooti and gondhoraj zest. It’s the perfect cake for a bread lover and great for the holidays when you can leave this at the counter to snack on all day long!
Rasmalai is an Indian dessert, and here I’ve adapted Melissa Clark’s recipe for Rasmalai Cake to make my version. It’s amazing how one bite of this cake will you feel like your are tucking into the richest, best ras malai you can ever find!
 Nankhatai are Indian shortbread cookies that are made with clarified butter or ghee instead of butter and get a rich flavour with the addition of chickpea flour or beasn. I make mine a tad bit more special with the addition of chocolate chunks and cardamom powder. These are eggless and are perfect festive cookies or desserts. They store well in an air tight container 
Fresh cherries, don’t have a season, they have a moment! Which is why, as soon as I spot them in the market, I buy a big box to make this French Classic – Cherry Clafoutis! It’s crisp on the edges, soft in the centre – but always so satisfying! It’s the sort of quick summer dessert that you don’t need any special equipment for and is so impressive. Serve it with whipped cream, ice cream or just a dusting of icing sugar!
While we’re all dying in the crazy heat in Mumbai, I think I might have stumbled upon a silver lining to this crazy situation… bread making! Any kind of yeasted dough rises like a dream in this hot and humid weather, making this the ideal weather to bake homemade breads. I usually cover the dough wi
As far as homemade no-churn ice creams go, it’s really Nigella Lawson who cracked the code for us. Here, I build upon her technique by first making some Dulce de Leche, a South American classic, and then using the cooled Dulce de Leche to whip up ice cream with some heavy whipping cream
Remember when I baked this Banana Bread, imagining it to be something Mad Men’s Betty Draper would have stashed away? Back then, I was binge-watching episodes of Mad Men when it aired late in the night. A strange thing
You only need 3 ingredients to make this heavenly Nutella Hot Chocolate. The best part? There’s no cream, just loads of flavour and you can make it with milk of your choice – soy and almond milk work perfectly well in this recipe!
It’s the same every year isn’t it? You try to get organised ahead of time to deal with the Diwali madness, but it all comes down to a hectic few days. I did manage to get a head start on Diwali baking this year, but completely forgot that Diwali falls over a long weekend this year… one that beckons
I can distinctly remember that it was my Mom who introduced me to cheesecakes around the time I was 13. On its own, that’s not earth-shattering, but what if I told you that my Mom worked just a few steps away from the fanciest cake and pastry shop that I knew of in the ‘90s? Today, Mumbai has some w