Mexican Wedding Cookies

About a month ago, I made the mexican wedding cookies for the first time with some changes to this recipe. Since then I have made them thrice:) DO NOT eat more than a cookie at a time - these are calorie devils!

Thumbprint Cookies

My all time favorite cookies/biscuits are from Venus bakery in Jaipur. Along with mom's hand made ladoo and mathri, Rawat misthan's pyaz kachori, I would always have them in my suitcase when I went back to the hostel in middle school after holidays and to all the other subsequent hostels thereafter:) I was introduced to these cookies by my sister like the other zillion things in my life :) Since both my sister and brother were also at hostel's at that time, all the goodies would get divided in to three parts. Even now, mummy makes three packets of anything that even one of us asks her to bring and obviously has hard time packing them in suitcases!

Goat cheese ravioli - Sid's entry

It is clear to some of you how spoiled I am getting. Also, since "the chef" has been training for half-marathon, I decided to cook something nice to cheer her up on her long-run days!

Vols-au-Vent

When I am looking for something new to bake, I enthusiastically search on the Daring baker's site for the challenges that were rolled out before I joined this group. Usually these recipes are very reliable and most of the times fun to work on. The Vols-au-Vent challenge was rolled by Steph of a wish and a spoon in September 2009 which looked particularly interesting as they can be twisted towards savory or sweet mood/need.

Traditional English Pudding (Steamed Resin) - Daring Baker's April Challenge

The Daring Baker's Challenge for April was hosted by Esther from The Lilac Kitchen. The idea was to make a British pudding using suet. Before this challenge, I used to think that puddings are like custards but England seem to own a world of puddings which are very different from custards and are more in-line with cakes.

Naan

I often wondered about differences in the dough for pizza base, pita bread, naan, flat bread, bhature, bread loaf and thought that there should be a single recipe which can turn into any one of them based on the shape, thickness and mode of cooking. Recently, I found a recipe by Marion Cunnigham for pizza dough which I have used to make bhature and naan with great satisfaction by using some tips for baking naan in oven from the recipe here.

Stuffed French Toast

Quiz: What happens when a wife goes out of town to attend a conference and the husband wants to have a quick homemade bite using only the ingredients inside the fridge?