Eggless Banana Orange Pecan Muffin

On some days during the weekends it is tricky and challenging to keep our 3.5 year old occupied. He is so used to his friends, teachers and school during the week days that he is crest fallen during the weekends, especially in the mornings. Thankfully most of the days, he does a good job of playing on his own and keeping himself entertained. But then there are other days, when he is miffed and does not seem interested in anything and those are the days when he literally keeps me on my toes.   On a good day his morning…

Eggless Mango Cake

  Used to be many moons ago that Bawarchi (an Indian website) was the information center for cooking needs, great recipe ideas and hundreds of recipe contributions. The design and layout of the site was simple, yet pleasing to the eye with no glaring images or advertisement, simple categories and it was very easy to look for recipes. The contributors would provide their email id’s and request for user feedback. So it was in a way very early stage of food blogging.   As a new bride in Boston, with very limited knowledge in cooking I used to visit this…

Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe

I followed the recipe for this Vegan Chocolate Cake from this link here.  This website AllRecipes is a power house for recipes and baking ideas. To get ideas and variations one needs to sift through the comments and gather information and implement them. Without any surprises I have few more bookmarked to try out from here.   I had bookmarked this recipe for Vegan cake long time ago. But I kept of postponing it for one reason or the other. But this weekend, I simply could not wait to try this out; main reason being that my dear friend Upsi…