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This Samosa  Crescent Ring  was made with Pepperidge Puff Pastry. I rolled out each third of a sheet into double its size and cut 6 triangles out of it. For this, I used 2/3 of a sheet which resulted in a smaller sheet to fit the baking sheet. Next time, I will make a bigger ring so the inner stuffing shows. When I saw the crescent ring picture along with the initial steps in an email from pinterest, I knew right away that I was gonna make it. 

It looks like some seismic activity here, but this Simple white cake  is soft and melts in your mouth like roasted semolina. I used 1 and 1/2 tsp baking powder so it doesnt taste too chemical. Strawberry Roses

When I saw this Hearts of Palm, I had to try it out. I can see that it has some similarities to artichoke and its unique flavour.  How its made Hearts of Palm  shows you how they are made right from growing the palm tree to the packaging.

With Costco's roasted chicken, its even faster to make. When I put in the spices, I had fun crushing the dried red chillies in the packet before adding it to the curry. As promised it is as hot as it said. The final look of the curry too is as on the packet. The design of the ingredient packets with numbers and very simple instructions like 'Add me' are cool.  No Need of Recipe Guide The curry tasted good.

Made Couscous last night and had it with the  Cabbage Comeliness . and I have noticed that it is very filling (same with corn upma aka polenta). While reading up on it, I came across a restaurant review of  Mombar  which almost made me want to write a surreal book after reading this line ' Pyramids of couscous are served alongside age-old recipes, like mombar, for which the restaurant is named, a stuffed sausage dish that Mr. Sayed’s grandmother used to make.' The story would have someone know that they arrived once they are at the place or something like that will be said by a soothsayer. Come to think of places and realisations while watching the FBI story,  when the scarlet macaws were found, suddenly it hit me about the 'macayo' restaurant.  (Yesterday happened to be a significant day in the movie too) Back to the mombar  Menu . another interesting thing in the review is that each town had their own cuisine.

I dont know how or why, I thought I should use mandoline for cabbage and now I am not going to remember that I used to struggle cutting it otherwise. Mandoline makes cutting so effortless and the outcome is so sightly. It takes very little time to cook because of its even and small size of the cut vegetables. I used it for onions and tomatoes for chicken gravy which looks so consistent now. Are my days of uneven curry gravy behind me?

Yesterday morning I mashed the boiled egg and added some pepper to it on a slice of toasted bread. Cap with another that was my husband's intended breakfast but had for evening snacks. while making that I pronounced that there's mint chutney in the fridge and that should be used in the next sandwich. I also recalled the first time I saw my friend make this sandwich. This morning I applied the green mint chutney on the toasted bread and had to use up a boiled egg and wondered if it would taste good and it being morning. My husband was ok with it. Nothing revs up creative confidence like a willing subject. God made internet so our spouses could be happy.  Chutney egg sandwich  is a thing. I went ahead and sliced the egg  (I so wanted to use a mandoline after Cabbage Comeliness  )neatly and arranged it on the toast. There was an arrangement question because of the way yellow came to one side and the symmetry was lost. If I should be rolling over the white boiled egg s...

I never miss an opportunity to try a new pasta. So  Barilla Collezione Pasta, Spaghetti Alla Chitarra with its story of guitar string pasta was perfect for it. Once in a while when I have tomato sauce in the pantry, I use that. I once used  cream of mushroom too in the pasta. One day I will make the white sauce (roux?). Until then, using a can of chicken pot pie soup as the last thing into the sauce didnt seem too far fetched.

I have heard many a baker say that their interest in baking took off with Easy Bake Oven. Lets see what our little eager baker does with this Bake Shoppe. She helped me roll the  Rose aux pommes . She wants to place them once rolled up in the muffin. She wants to help more than I let her too. she wants to roll the puff pastry. She wont even wait for me to read the recipe and sometimes she wants to do those mixings in an unquantified way,

Friends are raving about  Portos Bakery

My friend sent me this beautiful link to  Feta Tapenade Tarte Soleil . Funny part is that I baked and baked the tart for a golden colour that it could never achieve cause yours unbaked forgot to put the egg wash. There will be a smart oven some day which will beep that you skipped a step in a recipe. The stuffing here is what we use in  kajjikayalu . I have fond memories of watching my parents make them. Crunchy and sweet. This one is a slight twist on that as its flaky here. My husband couldnt find the pepperidge farm puff pastry in quiet  a few places. Finally when he found it, he bought four which gave me a nudge to make something new like  Rose aux pommes While it is a way of making something beautiful, its a nod to try something new from international cuisines. I recently read in The Superhuman Mind: Free the Genius in your Brain that you should  imagine a waterfall of milk in the kitchen to remember grocery list of milk  and so on and while ...

 I want to make these  Peach Pie Bites . I saw them at Costco. Finally got around to making them. Earlier I had bought canne dpeaches but still the recipe making didnt come to fruition. For Mother's day my friend got fresh peaches from Schnepff farms, so I took it as a sign that they should be made. The compote taste good. I used  Earth balance natural buttery spread  to make the pie base. I had to eat them with  Fruit honey spread .

My daughter and I watched this  Rose Aux Pommes   after watching  Sapin au pesto  after making a tart soleil. The technique of making  Roses feuilletees aux pommes  thrilled us. I ran out of apples, so made these with kiwi and potatoes. I wanted the savoury ones to have a spicy touch, so sauteed then in oil with chilli powder for a few mins. Having been through a mandline slicer, they were very thin. The left out ones were baked for as long as the Rose aux Pommes, which turned some of them black. i should totally try oven chips now. Making these Rose aux Pomes, I wonder about our fixation with Rose. After making these, i wonder if subconsciosuly we know the pattern of how roses are made and may be its that pattern thats beautiful. After baking the pastry sticks to the outer petals, like it were a pot. Pastry Pots.

Frozen  Cookie dough  used by Subway too.

My neighbour gave these  Farsi puri . By contents they are similar to matri but way thin. we were just having coffee, so great accompaniment.

This  Eggless mawa cake  has been altered a little because I went with liquid evaporated milk. I reduced the milk to 3/4 cup. I used only 3 tbsp of cream. I enjoyed the Reminded me of tres leches cake. For the first time, I used the cream in Paneer curry too. Akkha masoor recipe