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I like 3-4 recipes in this book . Oatmeal orange bread, orange walnut muffins Custard filled cornbread for a surprise.

is Apple raisin Kugel , saturday breakfast. 10.7.10 Thr Good Home Cookbook suggests refrigerating overnight before it is baked so that the uncooked noodles can absorb enough moisture to soften before baking.

Now that is not what I made. When I saw custard cups/ ramekins at Walmart, Lemon Sponge pudding recipe came to my mind. While beating just the whites, I didnt quite expect it to froth up like nothing. There was a surprise in breaking an egg to seperate the white and yellow, a small yolk and an alien. I got impatient and baked it it in coarse increments of time, when it was still runny after the recommended baking time. I used 10-oz cups, that would explain it. At Sweet tomatoes, liked the new salads - Lagniappe and Pineapple coconut cole slaw. the chocolate pudding was not worth a mention. Wonder how it would it taste as a sponge pudding.

Menu Del Dia is a spanish cook book with no pictures. But the layout of the book is quite like a story book with creamish pages and titles in color and stylish font. With most cookbooks, I tend to just leaf through them and not try them out. I dont want to have much to do with oil or too many ingredients. this book fit in the bill with not one but three recipes. In the spirit of Pan amb tomaquet , a recipe I knew I had to try as soon as I read of it, some more simple recipes. 1. Ajo blanco I couldnt put as much oil as the recipe called for. I stripped it to minimum quantity, so that I wouldnt have to finish it all by myself. The woes of food that turns out bad. Enoki mushrooms turned out so bad that I even started hating the apricot face wash for a day or two as it reminded me of the E mushrooms. Green papaya strips, first day had to be seen as something tangy and the next day, I had to consider them as bittergourd. After having blended the bread, I marveled that the bread got...

The strawberry idea on the white cake mix wasnt very enticing. With fresh fruits like mango and kiwi on the aisles, winners were already chosen. I was not sure how the cupcakes would turn out, so I put meagre amounts. People had to look for them and still didnt find the fruit. The mango was so soft after baked that now I think, I should have added loads of it. I liked the idea of this mango cupcake recipe

A Good recipe has a surprise lurking in it. A friend sent me this recipe of Icecream cookie cups . It won the Pillsbury contest. I came to know of it from the book Ungarnished Truth by a contestant winner. This was the book that got me into baking with its Spicy Dinner rolls with a stuffing of yogurt, peanuts, spices and green onions. She needed a clarification on the recipe. I could have faked understanding, not knowing what I didnt know. There was cookie dough in the fridge. All I had to do was line the dough along the cupcake liner. Bake it for a while or so I thought. When I saw the future mould melt into one mass, I could have been making half muffins. I went back to the recipe, only then did I see the gimmick it involved of using a wooden spoon to make an indentation. I did that blindly, not half trusting what it would turn out into. Given the cooling time, they sure did become what they were meant to be. I was ready for the quiz. Still better, my friend had the first step towar...

One morning while having oats for breakfast, my eyes fell on the recipe on oats box. Did it sound interesting? Bake oats,flour,brown sugar, butter mix for 15 min and then a cup of caramel, almond, chocolates for another 20 min bake. Caramel - I do not like it. I wanted to know what happens in this process. While making this, I found a recipe for jam bars on the brown sugar packet. It was a similar recipe, only with double proportions. And part of the base was used on the top. So now we know how to make all the oats n honey, fig bars et al. When I came across icecream, my interest in the icecream would have revved up within the confines of reason(I want to get the icecream and the cones as they show on the box of cones), that this recipe really had nothing to do with it. But for unsuspicous folks, there are all kinds of things that we didnt know. Oats icecream . I setup the shop early with all the things needed. When the shop assistant enquired if I found the caramel icecream topping th...

Lemon drum beats its presence. One jar of pickles that I ignored was the one with cut lemons in it. It took a friend to acknowledge its taste. She is a lemon cake fan. Lemon Honey cupcakes sounded right. When you are working with a bottle of honey or caramel, you know what ayou are getting into, but when you buy 2 cups of sourcream, theres a theater going in the cosmos, the pre making of another thing. Such was the situation where I had lots of sourcream left and a remnant of a mix of sugar and butter mix for frosting. Had I got the confectioners sugar, this wouldnt follow. With so much already at hand I dived into my first 'sans mix' cake- a Sour cream banana coffee cake . I have had this one before at havasupai. A hike buddy made it. It took a while to cook but it did a good job. Lemon Snaps.