Below is a listing of the recipes & other stuff on this blog. If you are looking for something particular, you can also use the search bar on the right or leave a comment or an email to magpiemails AT gmail DOT com.
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Happy cooking!
Breakfast
- Sambhar- Spicy Lentil Stew with Vegetables
- Roasted Strawberry balsamic over Greek yogurt
- Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal Smoothie
- Wholewheat Dosas- Savory Pancakes- Healthy and Easy!
- Caramelized Bananas
- Noolappam / Idiappam / String Hoppers
- Spicy Cashew Rice Crispies
Breads & Biscuits
- Melted Brie and Balsamic Bruschetta
- Easy Onion Biscuits- Tender and Flakey in 15 mins ( No butter or eggs needed- easily veganized)
- Caramel Cinnamon Bubble Bread/ Monkey Bread ( Challah dough recipe)
- Braided Brioche with Cinnamon Apple filling
- Quick & Easy Beer Bread
Vegetarian
- Red Mung and Squash Eriserry
- Horesegram lentil and crushed garlic (Muthira )stew
- Kerala Beans Stir fry/ Payar Mezukkupurratti
- Peas and tomato curry- ( Easy, basic Indian curry)
- Mung dal- Lentil Stew the right way
- Cherupayar- Green Mung
- Sambhar- Spicy Lentil Stew with Vegetables
- Stew
- Easy & Quick Scrambled Egg Curry
- Rice Preparations
- Biryani
- Soups:
- Cumin Roasted Cauliflower Soup
Chicken
- Beer Braised Cilantro Chicken Stew
- Quick and Easy Cashew Chicken Stir-Fry
- Grilled chicken wings Indian Style
- Baked Chicken and Gravy ( Easy and Healthy)
- Easy Bourbon Chicken
- Ina Garten's Bechamel sauce and Gnocchi
- Easy Baked Chicken
- Spinach Chicken curry- Chicken Cheera
- Chicken curry in a hurry- Chicken curry in coconut milk
- Chicken Curry in Coconut Milk
- Easy Chicken Fry
- Chicken Stew in Coconut milk or "Ishtoo"
- Mom's Chicken Biryani
Meat
- Garam Masala Pulled Pork
- Kerala Style Pressure Cooker Pork Chops
- Skillet Pizza for two - with quick and easy no knead challah dough
- Sweet & Sour Pork with Vegetables
- Kerala style one pot Pork Chops
- Pork Vindaloo
Cookies, Brownies & Macarons, Petit fours
- Cardamom Wholewheat Pistachio Cookies
- Andi Unda- Roasted Cashew and Rice sweet snack from Kerala
- Whole Wheat Brown sugar Chocolate Cookies
- Dorie's Sugar cookies with Cardamom
- Cherry Blossom Lemon Spritz cookies, Baking for Japan
- Orange Cardamom Wholewheat eggless Cookies filled with gooey chocolate center
- Orange Cardamom Chocolate Almond Biscotti
- Wholewheat eggless Nankhatais-The Indian Cookie- quick and easy
- Alice Medrich's Best One bowl cocoa brownies
- Pumpkin Spice Macarons
- Macaron Ice cream sandwiches
- Baileys Macaron Cocktails- Mactails
- Chocolate Nutella Macarons
- Ginger spice Macarons with ginger cream cheese filling
- Making Macarons- Step by Step photos
- Nutella Brownies for World Nutella Day- Quick, easy one bowl recipe
- Low fat Chocolate truffles
- Orange Sponge Layer Cake with Orange Bavarian Cream Filling
- Coffee Cake with Coffee Swiss Meringue Buttercream
- 15 minute steamed nutella swirl cupcakes
- Nutella ganache frosting Red velvet cake with Khalua cream filling
- Chocolate Oreo Cake with Fluffy 7 min frosting
- Dorie's Perfect Party cake with Lemon curd and Lemon Whipped cream frosting
- Whipped Cream Bundt cake- Airy and clould like
- Dorie's Marie Helene Apple cake aka Apple Pie Cake
- Weight Watchers Banana Oat Bread
- Alice Medrich's low fat Buttermilk Pound cake and a warm thank you!
- Secretly Vegan Carrot and Plum Cake
- Coconut Blueberry Vegan Scones (no butter, no eggs)
- Coconut kissed Banana Bread (Vegan, Dairy-free and egg-less, quick and one bowl too!)
- Flourless Whole Orange Almond Cake- gluten and dairy free ( no butter)
- Vegan Lemon cake or cupcakes: Eggless and dairy free
- Cardamom Carrot cupcakes-Vegan Dairy and Eggless
- Earl Grey Cupcakes-Vegan & Eggless & Dairy-free
- Red Velvet Cupcakes-Vegan & Eggless Dairy-free
- Orange cupcakes from VCTOTW-Vegan:Eggless & dairy free
- Orange Cuptail Cupcakes-Vegan
- Coconut Orange Bundt Cake-Vegan
- Chocolate Cake- Dairy free
- Lemon Cake- Easy & Dairy free
(Below are some of the frostings and fillings I have used in cakes, cookies, macarons and other desserts, use them as inspirations for your own dream cake or dessert! )
- Chocolate Nutella Ganache (simple and easy cream) Frosting (Eggless)
- Easy Whipped cream frosting
- 7 minute frosting/ Boiled Icing/ Fluffy white frosting ( Dairy-free and Fat-free)
- Easy Cream cheese frosting
- Easy Tofutti cream cheese frosting (Vegan and Dairy-free)
- Chocolate Ganache can be (poured or whipped and then piped) (Eggless)
- Alice Medrich's Low fat Chocolate Truffle Mousse
- Quick Microwave Dulce de leche (Eggless)
- Lemon curd
- Fruit coulis (filling and topping esp over icecream/pannacotta/custards/cheesecakes )
- Healthy Chocolate or Nutella Avocado Banana Mousse (Eggless, Dairyfree, Vegan)
- Cranberry Wine Preserve with Easy Yogurt Panacotta
- 3 Ingredient Healthy Nutella Avocado Banana Mousse
- Quick Carrot Milk Pudding/ Payasam
- Lonan's Tender Coconut Agar Agar Pudding
- Roasted Strawberry balsamic over Greek yogurt
- Boysenberry Parfait
- Lebni ( Strained yogurt) Tart/Cheesecake
- Vanilla Bean Yogurt Panna cotta with Blackberry coulis- Daring Bakers
- Alice Medrich's Warm Mocha Tart
- Alice Medrich's Low fat Chocolate Truffle Mousse- can be used for cake, roulade and truffle fillings, and frozen as gelato
- Libby's Famous Pumpkin Pie-Easy & Dairy free
- Caramel Custard-Quick and Easy
- Magic Mango Pudding-Vegan Version included
- Orange Cream Tart
- Quick Microwave Cardamom Dulce de leche
- Easy Cooker Carrot Pal Payasam / Milk Pudding (no bake, eggless)
Rice Pudding- Easy & Quick (no bake, eggless and dairyfree) - Milk Sweet (Pal Khova) -Traditional Indian sweet (no bake, eggless)
- Pesaha Pal (Pal Kurruku) -Syrian Christian sweet thickened coconut milk (no bake, eggless)
- Ada Payasam- Sweet Rice pudding from Kerala (no bake, eggless)
- Andi unda -Rice and cashew sweet snack from Kerala (no bake, eggless)
- Wholewheat eggless Nankhatais-The Indian Cookie- quick and easy (no bake, eggless)
- Aam Panna/ Spiced Green Mango Granita
- Easy Mascarpone Ice Cream with Red Wine poached Cherries
- Roasted Peach and Bourbon Ice-cream without an ice cream maker (eggless)
- Salty Caramel Egg-less Ice cream with Caramelized Peaches (eggless)
- Pistachio Ice cream from Jeni's Splendid Ice creams, Columbus (eggless)
- Berry Banana Froyo (eggless)
- Macaron Ice cream sandwiches
- Alice Medrich's Low fat Chocolate Truffle Mousse-can be frozen to make gelato
- Aam Panna/ Spiced Green Mango Granita
- Bailey's Nutella Cold Coffee
- Frozen Berry smoothies
- Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal Smoothie
- Kerala Kitchen- Online cooking group
- Article on Kerala cooking for The Daring Kitchen
- Baking tips from Alice Medrich's cookie class
- Tips & step by Step Photos from my Macaron making Classes
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- Flour, butter, sugar etc : Convert cups, tablespoons, sticks, to grams and ounces for more accuracy without the guesswork and math!
- Cake pan conversions: if baking in smaller pans use the same temperature but shorter baking times
- Frosting conversions and types of frosting
- How to pit cherries with a beer bottle
- Make your own custom cookie cutters : Use paper templates and a knife to cut around it, or make these from soda cans
- Cake decorating tutorials: Zoe Francois cake decorating series
- Food safety, safe handling and packaging