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...

I love Mark Bittman, you know the minimalist and his simplistic attitude towards cooking- I mean even his monstrosity of "How to" series lack the usual colorful photographs that make their way through most cook books (I love his books). I do not know about you but as much as I love thumbing through the pages of such books, I rarely have tried anything from me- may be partly because I feel like my dishes would never look as radiant as the ones in the book. I recently borrowed Bittman's " How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food " from the library and going it through it like it was my way to salvation!  Here is my version of the two recipes from this book- Rice Cakes with cheese I ngredients (My changes in red ) 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk 1 1/2 cups cooked rice 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 cup grated aged sharp white cheddar 2 tsp cumin powder 2 tsp red chilli powder 1 tbsp dried oregano salt and pepper to tast...