Soulful Creations

Here is another eggless breakfast recipe that I tried out from Easy Vegan cooking blog. It is a lovely french toast recipe. I did not modify it much But here is mine, Ingredients Whole wheat bread slices (there's probably enough batter for 8 to 10 slices) 1 cup vanilla soymilk plus 1 cup whole milk (since I did not have enough soy milk) 3/4 cup raw cashews 1tbsp molasses 1 tsp cinnamon and 1tsp clove powder Method Blend all the ingredients except the bread slices. Soak the bread in the liquid mixture. Spray a pan with some oil and cook the bread slices on medium heat until golden brown. Serve it with a lovely sauce or some jam. I am sending this one off to the MBP event this month, Easy Breezy Breakfast Judgement It tasted so good I did not even miss the eggs in this recipe. I served with over some lingonberry sauce I made from lingonberry preserves that I bought from Ikea.

I mean who does not love Nutella- spread with a nutty, chocolatey flavor. It was originally created by Mr. Pietro Ferrero who founded the Ferrero company. An interesting bit about Nutella is that it was initially made in loaves and packaged in tin foil (you could slice them and use it in sandwiches, like cheese!). The spreadable variation came later when Mr.Ferrero realized that children who ate those yummy sammies threw the bread away and ate just the slices of nutella! If you have not tried it before you should now, I tell ya it tastes heavenly. Anyway so when I saw this dish here , I knew I had to try it out. Ingredients 1/2 c. chickpea (garbanzo) flour 1/2 c. white unbleached flour 1 3/4 c. water 1 tbsp. dark brown sugar 1 tbsp. canola oil salt, a pinch Method Seive the flour mixture then whisk all ingredients together (try not to have any lumps in the batter) Pour 1/3 of a cupful of batter into a hot, seasoned (or nonstick) crepe pan. Spread the batter evenly and fairly thinl...

What happens when your pantry is low on everything, INNOVATION!!!! That is exactly what happened- with my dad's encouragement, I tried my own pasta recipe for the first time ever. It all started when I thought I had some of the usual pasta like farfelle or rigate and therefore picked up a recipe with lentils and stuff. Well, I did not have any of those, but at least had spaghetti. The other ingredients on hand were red pepper, onions, crushed tomatoes, left over pasta sauce (I could not use all of it because my mom did not like the super-garlic taste in that sauce, it is store-bought you see!) and flat-leaf parsley. The only thing consoling about this whole thing was the fact that it was going to be a healthy mixture and probably an ideal candidate for Monthly mingle # 29. But I decided to make it more healthy by adding some split green lentils. Well this experiment reminds me of the Lynne's "Splendid Table" (she actually tries to come up edible recipes from the ingre...

I love the combination of yogurt, fruit and nuts. And there is no other better time for this delight than in the morning- this combination has a wonderful cooling and calming effect. What more it is healthy. I am sure all of us make parfaits in different combinations and here is one of my versions with the ingredients I had at hand. The original idea came from dine and dish blog, but as I was reading the various parfait recipes from bloggers I realized I did not have many of the ingredients they have listed, so I had to sort of come up with my own Here it goes Ingredients 1 cup low-fat yogurt 1-2 ripe bananas 1 tbsp ginger a good swish of honey For the fruits, I had apples, pears and grapes which are in season now I used dried cranberries, prunes, sliced almonds and pistachios Blend the first four ingredients together Then layer the fruits (dried and fresh), nuts and yogurt mixture alternatively. Garnish with some cranberries and almonds. I think I will send this really easy recipe to...

If you are like me, the one thing that you cannot resist is a late-night-hot cuppa tea with beautiful butter biscuits from one of the street vendors, especially when you are travelling. When I was little, we used to go on long distance buses pretty often and the thing that I would always get when the bus makes a stop is hot milky chai and at least four of those salty butter biscuits. I have grown up with the flavour of these biscuits. And today I have attempted to recreate the flavour, thanks to the recipe for benne biscuits from the Foodie's Hope blog. I have modified some of the amounts in an attempt to make the biscuits a bit more salty. How to make them 1. Sift 1 cup plain/all purpose/Maida flour, 1/4 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp of salt . 2. Cream 1/2 cup softened Butter and about 1/3 cup white Sugar until creamy and fluffy (I used a less than 1/3 cup plus 2 teaspoons of sugar, well it was probably closer to half a cup!). 3. Add in the flour mix little b...

It is that time of the month in the solar calendar when Lord Shiva is said to have performed the "Dance of Bliss" a.k.a Ananda Thandavam for his devotee, Nandanar. Nandanar, born in a caste whose people where not allowed into temples, was a great devotee of Lord Shiva. He was so devout that Lord Shiva ordered Nandi, the cow, to move and give way so that his devotee could get a glimpse of him. Pleased to see his devotee happy Lord Shiva or Nataraja performs his cosmic dance. Today people celebrate Lord Shiva's cosmic dance every year in the month of Margazhi (Dec-Jan in the Gregorian calendar), a full moon day (pournami) when the star is Tiruvathirai. The festival is called Thiruvathirai or Arudra Darshanam. The festival is celebrated with simple kali (rice with jaggery) and kootu (simply put mixed vegetable curry). There is a story of how this came about to be true. I have not heard this story before but you can read it here . So today my mum a lso made the dish- let me t...

I am sending this recipe for the Monthly mingle- World of spice cookies hosted by Meeta K. I got this beautiful recipe from Chris's blog. These cookies are a native of the land of Danes. Despite lacking in confidence, this recipe has such interesting mix of flavors, I just had to try it and I did. The name translates to peppernut cookies. I am not sure if it means pepper and nuts or just pepper. Anyway this recipe I have used does not involve nuts, just a combination of spices. But I have seen a lot of variations of these cookies. Pfeffernüsse For Step I 1/4 cup molasses 1 1/4 cup honey 1/4 cup unsalted butter 1 egg, slightly beaten 1/4 tsp pure Anise extract Combine the three ingredients over low heat in a non-reactive pot until the butter has melted. The mixture will become thin. DO NOT BOIL. Remove from heat and pour into a large bowl. Cool to lukewarm temperature. After the mixture has cooled beat in the beaten egg and anise extract For Step II 4 cups all-purpose flour 2 tb...