Eggless Sponge Cake, with a surprise

Sponge cake is a forever favourite in our house. Yes, its heavenly – the rich , smooth , heavy cake. But I stop myself from baking it ever so often, because of the amount of butter it takes. So imagine my joy when I discovered this recipe by Nags.

Just a cup of yogurt, and half a cup of oil, and this cake is magic. Its moist, tasty and heavy, and yet with a slight crumb. Just how I like my cakes. And yet, so incredibly easy to make.

Chick peas & Kidney bean Burger, with Indian flavours

As with all dinners I cook, there is a story with this one too. And this one is similar to all the other stories. She wants to eat something different for dinner. He doesn’t relish any taste other than Indian, unless its a blue moon. She thinks hard and proposes Burgers. He makes a face. She decides to hold fast to her plan, but decides to spruce up the masalas in the burger. There… that’s tonight’s dinner story!

I got inspired by the mushroom and chickpea burger recipe posted in this month’s GoodFood, but since I am not on friendly terms with mushrooms, I decided to take the idea and work around it in my style, and make it taste like an Indian burger. The last bit is so that the husband doesn’t go starve himself tonight!

Eggless Blueberry muffins

I hadn’t baked muffins in a long time. Actually, after a few baking disasters ( I screwed up two birthday cakes that I had promised two friends :-( ), I haven’t touched the baking tin … Its been too long, and this morning I felt like baking. It was like re-entering the baking arena, so I wanted to start with something small - muffins it was…

These muffins were fluffy, yet slightly heavy because of the whole wheat flour. The blueberries added to the texture, and the muffins would serve the purpose, a healthy snack at tea-time.

Spaghetti all’ aglio e olio

Only the other day did I realize that I didn’t post the recipe to this pasta, the easiest ever and my most favourite pasta. Its so easy and so awesome that this is my forever back-up dinner dish. If I am down, or if I don’t know what to eat, and am in not a mood for some Khichdi, then Aglio Olio it is… Yes.



Traditionally, this recipe has just the basic ingredients – garlic, chilli flakes and pesto all sautéed in some fragrant olive oil and mixed with a pasta of your choice and garnished with lots of parmesan cheese. And when I make this, there is always a garlic overdose, because of the never-ending love I proclaimed to garlic ! :) And I have omitted parmesan cheese ever since I learnt that parmesan contains calf rennet… all hard cheeses do. I now serve this pasta with a slice of cheddar, and drizzle some extra virgin olive oil on top for the flavour.

Homemade Pop-corn

I love pop-corn. Well, who doesn’t, tell me?

As kids, much before Act-II made the instant pop-corn famous, the only time we would get to eat pop-corn was in movie theatres, and I remember very well that my friends would buy me an extra packet of pop-corn… always…