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Baci di Dama (pronounced Bacay dee damah )which translates to Dames Kisses or Ladies' Kisses, are Handmade Italian Chocolate Hazelnut sandwiches taste great with the crusty/ short bready (crumbling) exterior and chocolate layer spread in between. You will not stop at one. Once you are over the high of the texture, you realize tiny pieces of hazelnut too. Novel.   David Lebovitz baci di dama cookies recipe  has the same shape as the ones in the box. so you can satisfy that curiousity of how they were made and enjoy them even more.

Sauteed Cucumbers Lemon cucumber cake

My in-laws made  sweet poori . They attached each layer to the other with butter and went the sprinkling sugar way.

Having just made chicken biryani, I altered plans of making veg biryani to veg pulav.  I started looking at Sanjay Thumma's  veg pulav  which had  a mention of  udupi style pulao  in which the vegetables are deep fried and then added in the end. By then I had already watched a video of  Desi potato korma . I didnt want to boil potatoes, and then thought may be I could fry potatoes or bell pepper and use it in this curry recipe. This udupi style veggie frying and the additions for the korma, converged and thats when I thought that this whole mish mash of somewhere in between udupi style was going to be my ultimate pulav without need of a curry. Instead of deep frying, I did free style frying with lots of oil. I added 1 cup of milk and 3 cups water for 2 cups rice. I could have gone with a little less oil. But the recipients enjoyed the pulav and made all the mental effort worthwhile.

What makes food interesting? Not just the taste,  arrangement  but the story of how it comes to be that you make this something unhad before. Its whats in your pantry, what you are celebrating and so on.. My sister likes fruit cake. There's no butter in the fridge. We are celebrating her birthday. I liked a fruity bundt cake, after much searching and a liking for this  peach cake , I decided to go with  Basic Yellow cake without butter  and place peaches on top. The peaches went for a dive. A dreamy peach cupcake