Chocolate cupcake

Green lentils and chicken soup in aroma rice cooker

Braided egg rolls

Candied ginger

Valentine’s Day 2019

This Valentine's, I used my homemade ice creams to make a Baked Alaska. Always wanted to make one, but never did, till now.. At first, I thought of buying the chocolate cake, then decided to make my own. But since we only need a part of that cake for this, I did some chocolate-buttercream frosting on the rest of it, and got a nice, three-layer chocolate cake too.

Baked Alaska

Roti, layered chapathi, Indian bread

Basic and the best. 

zeppole

another Italian staple, these are made during feast days, I hear. Basic dough with yeast, deep fried and sprinkled with sugar. It has raisins too. What strikes me again and again -- the parallels between various cuisines. The same basic formula in different forms and versions. We have this same variations with our basic dough based on rice flour. Sometimes with yeast or toddy , with or without coconut, coconut milk in their various forms. Steamed, boiled, pan-seared, deep fried, sauteed, stuffed, filled, etc. etc.