You know that feeling when you’ve had way, way, WAY too much sugar or chocolate or caffeine, and this crazy burning sensation starts inching up your back and around your neck? Or is that just me? It may just be … Continue reading
Tag Archives: baking
I LIKE MY BUNS FLOOFAY.
[Double-meaning perverted male culprits out there who’re snickering at my post title, stop that thought process right THERE. This is just a foodblog remember?] Anyhoo, let me present to you my super scientific taxonomy for bread… The Crispy and Crunchy. … Continue reading
The Big Fat Chocolate Wedding Plan. Episode 2
I’m back. And ready to lay out the rest of my chocolate wedding plan inspired by ChoCo’a’s edible designs at the Abu Dhabi Bridal Show. If you have no clue what I’m talking about, and if you’re one of those … Continue reading
I’ve decided, I’m having a chocolate wedding. Will you marry me?
I saw something this past Saturday that made me rethink my wedding entirely. [Mom, and the two hundred Indian aunties out there who I know, and don’t know – but who are convinced that they’ve rocked me to sleep when … Continue reading
Born in the hands of a fruit cake maestro
My dad has 9 brothers and sisters, designed and cast in the city of Hyderabad, India. On average, they each have had 2.89 of the individuals that claim to be my first cousins. 57.70% of this generation has manufactured grandchildren, … Continue reading
Al Ammor. Serving up Egyptian comfort foods that call out to the little girl in me.
A mournful note on 31.08.2013: Al Ammor – all three branches of it in Abu Hail – has shut its doors this past week. You can get your koshari and feteer fix at their branch in Karama, but nothing will … Continue reading
Gingerbread, Icing, and Foodies. Chez Sally’s.
Sally Prosser is a real gem of a person. She’s one of those few local gurus who has her pulse on the latest happenings on the Dubai food scene as well as the online food blogging arena. It was only … Continue reading
Now and then, even Starbucks can inspire me.
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Starbucks since the time I discovered the chain. At first, I was absolutely enamored by the lifestyle coffee concept and loved it to bits for years after, through college (especially through college, where on … Continue reading
The Big Apple pie.
My famous last words right before moving out of New York City back in February: “I love this city Mary, but I doubt I’d really miss it.” And here I am, eight months in, experiencing this sad nauseating flip in … Continue reading
When things don’t turn out as perfect as pie.
Last week, I was so inspired by the Thai cooking class with my fellow foodies at ICCA , that I baked a ‘Thai chicken pot pie’: a lemongrass and kaffir lime-infused chicken and vegetable broth, ladled into a homebaked pie … Continue reading
Blueberry Fridays.
I love waking up to Fridays like this past one. Peeking out from under the covers to a day that yawns out lazily, full of empty white hours where I don’t have to be anywhere doing anything. A day that’s … Continue reading
Alice in Bakeland. Premiering at the Wild Peeta Bakefest.
I really did feel like Alice, wide-eyed and slightly nervous and terribly curious and horribly fidgety, wanting to run a finger through those chutneys and nibble at the cakes and snap a cookie right down its sugary center. All that, while … Continue reading