Apple Cinnamon Milk Shake

 An apple a day keeps a doctor away. I hate apple. When i was pregnant every other person used to tell me to eat but i hardly ate them. My kids like to eat only when i slice them and they prefer with skin. The other day i have many apples as i got few them from the temple. I made this shake. They loved it so do i....

Ingredients:-

Apples 2 sliced and seeds removed
Milk 1 packet
Cinnamon powder 1/2 tsp
Sugar 5-6 tbsp

Method:-

Take apple slices,cinnamon powder, sugar and little milk in a mixer. Crush apple into fine paste. Add the rest of the milk. Let it cool in the fridge for half an hour. Serve cool...

Egg Roast

For entire week i eat only phulkas for lunch and no rice. Only on Saturday and Sunday i eat rice. And Saturday its always rasam, rice and papad/eggs. I am not that big fan of eggs but eggs always comes as handy when you dont have any veggies or non-veg at home. I have few egg recipes on my blog and this fry goes very well with rice as a side dish. Here is the recipe:-

Ingredients:-

Eggs boiled 4
Onions 2 sliced
Green chilies 3 silted
Ginger small pc sliced
Garlic 2 sliced
Tomato chopped 1
Rai 1 tsp
Curry leaves few
Turmeric powder a pinch
Salt to taste
Red chilly powder 1 tsp
Coriender powder 1tsp
Garam masala powder 1 tsp
Sauf powder half tsp
Oil 3 tbsp

Method:-

Make small slits on the eggs.

Take oil in a pan. When hot add rai and curry leaves. Add ginger and garlic slices.

Then add chopped onions and sprinkle salt. Saute until onions are light brown colour.

Then add green chillies and turmeric powder. Saute for a while.

Add coriander powder,red chilly powder,sauf powder and garam masala powder.

Then add tomatoes.Fry for 3-4 minutes.

Then add eggs and mix well.

I served the egg roast with rice and hot rasam....

Orange Kiss-me cake

I almost bake every week. In school kids see other kids eating cookies and cakes which are store brought. i don't like store brought cake or cookies. So i end up baking a simple cake for the full week which i send to their school for snack time. I give them good lunch and the cake goes as snack.

Recently when i went to Sears outlet here i chanced upon Best of Pillsbury Bake-Off book. And i just loved the contents in this recipe book. Surely not going to do most of the recipes. But the pics tempted me to buy this book which was on sale. Brought this book last week and ended up doing this recipe.

The main thing in this recipe attracted is the notes on the recipe. It reads like this *Recipe by Lily Wuebel, Redwood City,CA. Bake-Off Contest, New york City, 1950*. So the year attracted me to go through the recipe. It's simple and little different recipe...We all enjoyed the cake and hope you to will enjoy making and eating it. Here goes the recipe :-

Ingredients:-

Orange 2
Raisins 1/2 cup
Walnuts 1/3 cup
All purpose flour 2 cups
Sugar 1 cup
Baking soda 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Milk 1 Cup
Butter 1/2 cup
Eggs 2

Topping
1/3 cup Orange
Sugar 1/3 cup
Cinnamon 1 tsp
Walnuts chopped 1/4 cup

Method:-

Heat over to 350 degrees F. Grease pan with butter and lightly with flour.

Squeeze orange from one orange and another orange peel. Remove seeds if any and grind orange with raisins and walnuts.

In a large bowl beat eggs until fluffy. Add butter and other cake ingredients. Beat all with electric mixer on low speed util moistened. Then beat on medium speed for 3 minutes. Stir in orange raisin mixture. Pour batter into pan.

Bake for 35-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Drizzle one orange juice over the warm cake.

In small bowl mix sugar  and cinnamon. Stir in 1/4 cup walnuts. Sprinkle over the cake. Cool completely about 1 hour.