French Opera Cake

French toast

Basic and the best! and with a little custard sauce! Decadent. And this custard sauce was an accident. Tried one ice cream recipe, one for the custard-style ice cream which used a lot of half and half and no milk. The ice cream was kind of dense and too overpowering to my taste, will add milk next time.

But I put it in the fridge and and it turned out to be this out of this world custard sauce.(obviously!)

Christmas 2015

The year I went crazy on my love for the British and European culinary traditions .
For the first time, I made steamed pudding in the pudding basin. With the roast duck dinner, it was almost a Dickensian Christmas. Almost, because there was no goose, just a duck.

mince pies

steamed plum pudding

American cinnamon roll ready for the oven

Swedish julbullar

French kouign amann

Austrian Linzertorte

For Christmas eve, a roast duck dinner with red cabbage and pear-cranberry relish and sambar and rice pulao/pilaf for mom

On Christmas day, a typical Nazrani dinner -- with fish, in coconut milk sauce and fried, Kerala style,  roast chicken, braised and fried beef,  beef croquettes, lamb stew and paalappam

Christmas 2018

Rum balls

Pecan balls

Christmas cookies

Mince pies

brioche

brioche

Italian biscotti/ British rusk

Swedish saffron buns

creme brulee

garlic shrimp on lettuce leaves with marie-rose sauce and tomato-onion garnish

Brioche

Buttery, delicious brioche

Thanksgiving 2018

Starters/Appetizers: corn fritters, cheese ball with homemade chips, Kerala/ Nazrani style meatballs, lil sausages, marinated olives

Tarts and crostata

sweet:

fruit tart

fruit tart

banana tarte-tatin

savory:

tomato tart

shrimp veggie tart

strawberry crostata: