Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Recent Indian food exploration

Potato Masala https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/potato-masala-aloo-masala/#wprm-recipe-container-37991

Just used potato, no dal, also didn't have onions so I used onion powder.


Moong Dal (modified) https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/moong-dal-recipe/

I didn't use tomato or onion in this, but I did use onion powder and lots of garlic in the tadka. This could have been vegan had I used oil instead of butter in the tadka 

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Chive blossom vinegar

 https://leitesculinaria.com/80938/recipes-chive-blossom-vinegar.html#wprm-recipe-container-368591


I made this and it was great. It was wonderful to make some salad dressing with this!!

And it was so pretty pink/purple color.

Birthday cakes

For Roland's 6th birthday party,  he wanted a two-tier cake covered in sprinkles.

It wasn't beautiful,  but I did it! To appeal to the widest variety,  I did half yellow cake and half chocolate cake with vanilla frosting. 

I used the chocolate cake I have made many times.  I found a yellow cake recipe on the same blog - web address- and I tried making Swiss buttercream-https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/swiss-meringue-buttercream/#tasty-recipes-80765


Since I couldn't find the right size cake pan,  I just cut down the upper layer.  I had a hard time making them even! 

I made quite a mess putting on the sprinkles, but it looked great and tasted better. 


For Roland's 8th birthday he wanted vanilla cake with vanilla frosting, so I will make this:https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/new-favorite-white-layer-cake/