Soulful Creations

"Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: ‘I’m saving food!’ Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: ‘I’m saving my life!’"- George Carlin     When life gives you leftovers...make a crumb pie! This crumbs for this pie come from my previous DB challenge, as usual, the first attempt at the challenge was a failure. The failure was the sponge sheet cake which I tried to do vegan (the recipe for that vegan cake was adapted from a vegan cupcake recipe found in this book, a tiny book packed with tongue tickling, mouth watering vegan cupcake recipes!). Anyway the crumbs were divided- one went into the refrigerator and the other is (still) lying in my freezer. The inspiration for this recipe comes from here . Ingredients 2 cups cake crumbs (mine were chocolate) 5-6 tbsp vanilla custard powder (I buy this from Indian grocery store, you could also buy...

We moved to a new house (rental guys!!)- last weekend. And yesterday was the first time I cooked anything at all in the new house. For some odd reason- the sambar and beans subzi I made were very mediocre. So to up my spirit- I decided to make a pie and ended up making a mush-pie. The crust was good but I added too much of the filling (made a plum-blueberry filling). And the filling was too tart and sweet (read as "cloying"). So may be this weekend I can get my groove back and cook something decent, something that passes my quality test!