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Picnic-friendly Pizza Muffins

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Tadka Pasta

When you love pizza you are wont to find more than one way to savour those salty, savory flavours, that cheese oozing smoothly into puddles, stretched lazily in cream and toasty brown tones over tart tomatoes, the oregano asserting its grassy intensity on your tongue. For us, … Continue reading →

Posted in Appetizer Alley, Bakes And Cakes, Bread Binder, Breakfast Basket, Funnibles, Globe Food-Trottin', Party Planner, Picnic Basket, Snack Attack | Tagged baking, cheddar, cheese, fresh tomato, kid-friendly, lunch box, make ahead, mozzarella, muffins, party, pizza, snack, tomato | Leave a comment

Fruitcake Flip! Upside-down and Inside-out

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Tadka Pasta

Well into the holiday season, it hardly seems like wishful thinking, to want to acquire a dozen recipes, and a dozen-odd hands to execute them. There’s that sensational plum cake from the local bakery from several years ago that would be devoured … Continue reading →

Posted in Bakes And Cakes, Sweet Treats | Tagged baking, Cake, caramel, centrepiece, Christmas, cinnamon, dried fruit, festive, fruitcake, Kitchenaid, KitchenAidTurnsSanta, nuts, plum cake, spices, upside down | 4 Comments

Bonkers over Buns – Pull-apart Pav

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

Whether you call them Pav or Pull-apart Rolls, you could use them to mop up a teekhi bhaji (spicy curried veggie)or dunk torn chunks into a meaty stew, you could slit and char them on a tava (griddle) slicked with Amul butter (India’s favorite butter) or just … Continue reading →

Posted in Bread Binder | Tagged baking, bread, buns, buns with milk, dinner rolls, homemade, how to make rolls, laadi pav, pao, pav, pav bhaji, pull-apart, soft, tender, white, yeast | 26 Comments

It’s My Loaf! Multigrain Bread Tune-up

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

Kitchen science could be as labyrinthine as any other, if not more. Persnickety recipes that are so exacting in their requirements that they throw cold water on the cook who dares to substitute an ingredient or take a wee shortcut … Continue reading →

Posted in Bread Binder | Tagged atta, baking, besan, bread, corn meal, healthy, loaf, makki, multigrain, oats, ragi flour in bread, rye bread, substitute, whole grain, whole wheat, yeast | 44 Comments

No Haute Cuisine This – Lemon Yoghurt Snack Cake

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

A gentle breeze caresses the leaves of the lone lemon tree in the backyard, making its laden limbs sway enticingly within an arm’s reach. How easy it is to linger for a moment, to admire the clusters of plump, yellow … Continue reading →