One of the reasons I love summer is the availability of cherries. One bite of this beautiful, dark colored luscious fruit takes me to my happy place. I never tasted fresh cherries in India. I only remember eating cherries in desserts, and those too seemed to be preserves rather than […]
The first time I tasted a coffee cake at a local coffee shop, I was a little puzzled. Umm…where’s the coffee? Little did I know that coffee cakes refer to cakes that do not necessarily contain coffee, but are enjoyed along with coffee (or tea). Now that I’m a baker […]
My hubby has acquired a green thumb during this pandemic-induced quarantine. He has been growing spinach, chard, arugula, herbs, peppers and tomatoes in our yard. Nothing beats the taste of fresh plucked produce that you’ve grown yourself. But nothing excited me more than the microgreens he grew and plucked fresh […]
We have a plum tree in our yard that produces copious amounts of fruit every year. The squirrels would have their way with the fruit, many would fall onto the ground and bruise, we would consume some of it and share the rest with friends. But the fruit wasn’t very […]
