Dessert Recipes, Recipes from food films and TV
Are you afraid or in love with Halloween? This year Halloween scared me into making a cemetery scene with Peanut Butter Fudge and Ganache coffins, and a few decorative Salt Dough Pumpkins. It’s Food ‘n Flix time again, the Halloween edition! In...
Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes
A Modak is a delicate preparation of coconut and jiggery filled in a tender rice flour covering that is later steamed to produce a delicacy for Lord Ganesha. I am slow to comment back and I do apologize, I am at the cottage for the week, this and my last post were...
Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes
Would you like to take your dates to the next rich step by smothering them in a thickened butter sauce? That is the Qatari Rangina dessert way, or Sweet Buttered Dates. It’s time for the MENA (Middle Eastern & North African) Cooking Group. This monthly...
Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes
These intricate Algerian Griwech pastries are made from contortioned dough into elaborate shapes, then fried and coated by a syrup and sesame seeds. The word griwech translates to “crunchy” and that is a perfect description of the texture, yet they remain...
Dessert Recipes, Exotic World Recipes
The sweet confection of baked coconut and sweetened condensed milk from Oman is called a Chaklama, a close relative to the very well know Coconut Macaroon. It’s time for the MENA (Middle Eastern & North African) Cooking Group. This monthly group has for...