This is one of the recipes that Fahim’s mom taught me. I loved it so much that, when my sister and her family were visiting, I made it for them. My sister fell in love with it, too. 🙂 It’s not your usual North American fare, but it’s so delightful it’s worth giving it a …
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Embarkadeiros! No! Brigadeiros!
That’s what Fahim, the silly boy, calls ’em. They’re really called brigadeiros. They’re a Brazilian treat I learned about on Craftster. The directions in that thread say to microwave the ingredients in a deep container for 6 minutes on high. That didn’t work for me or a few others, unfortunately. When I took the concoction …
Eating Ginger Leaves? Thebu!
A little over a year ago, when our house helper lady came to work, she brought us some stalks of thebu. She does this sometimes – brings edible vegetation. Miscellaneous leaves or stalks of this or that. I don’t mind – I’m up for the adventure. 🙂 The thebu she brought is Costus speciosus. That’s …
Sauerkraut The Old-Fashioned Way
I’m trying to remember what drove me to give sauerkraut a try. I didn’t grow up on the stuff despite being of good ol’ Mennonite ancestry. In fact, I’d never had sauerkraut at all until a couple or three months ago. At any rate, I explored how to make sauerkraut and learned it could be …
Kaiser Soze Rolls
I think “life is an experiment” is a phrase I take way too seriously. 😀 I needed a recipe for buns – I’d been craving a Subway meatball sub, and since the nearest Subway is in India, I figured the only way I was going to get a meatball sub would be to make my …
Mama Farook’s Sri Lankan Chilli Potatoes
Because it’s Ramadan, and it’s difficult for Fahim to eat a full meal when breakfast has to be done by 4:30am, enough to carry him through the next 14 hours until he can eat again, he gets to make requests. At the beginning of Ramadan, Fahim had asked for his mother’s chilli potatoes. While she’s …
Nanaimo Bars
Nanaimo Bars. Because Fahim is who he is, he’s calling them NaNoWriMo Bars. But we’ll just ignore him, shall we? 🙂 Nanaimo Bars. Ah, that brings back memories. 🙂 Nanaimo Bars have been a part of my life for a good long time. Since I belong to a family of adamant chocaholics, Nanaimo Bars have …
Chocolate Larabars
This is another larabar recipe from Chocolate and Zucchini, this time from her blog post and not from the comments section. I hadn’t heard of larabars until I read about them on Chocolate and Zucchini, but they sounded good, so I gave them a try. Homemade Chocolate Lärabars Ingredients 300 grams (10 1/2 ounces) dates …
Lemon Coconut Larabars
Fahim’s already started calling these Laramie Bars, and once he starts something, he’s not inclined to let it go. He changes the names for everything, so I really should be used to this by now… :p Larabars. I came across a post over on Chocolate and Zucchini about them a couple of weeks ago and …
The Wild Yeast Version of Peter Reinhart’s Poolish Ciabatta
Ciabatta is the next bread in line for the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge, and I’d been looking forward to making Peter Reinhart’s version from the Bread Baker’s Apprentice for a while. I’d made a couple of others but wasn’t impressed with the results, so wanted to see how this version would turn out. Plus I’d …
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