Coffee Finish!!

Can you believe it, I certainly am not able to believe it that I already have 2 finishes this year!!

I simply loved working on it and love the way it has turned out. This is going to be a gift to a very special friend and so makes this all the more special for me :)

I am still trying to decide what my next project is going to be. Till next time.. Take care.. Be Happy.. Keep Stitching.. Au Revoir!!

June Tusal & Coffee Progress

I have made quite some progress on Coffee

Here's the TUSAL for the month - all from Coffee

That's about it from me today friends. Till next time.. Take care.. Be Happy.. Keep Stitching.. Au Revoir

More Recipes

V and I are continuing with trying our hands at new recipes from the stash. Sharing with you today 2 more new ones that we tried recently

White Chocolate Mud Cake

My husband loves anything white chocolate and we had to try this one out for sure. I was totally dead on the day V wanted to bake this and was not in a mood to bake at all. So, this was totally her bake and it came out really well

The original recipe is available here - http://floursandfrostings.com/eggless-white-chocolate-mud-cake/

Next recipe we tried is also a white chocolate one!! This is a recipe from Nigella's show called Nigella's table

We used crushed Bourbon biscuits and caramel sauce as topping. Nigella used ginger biscuits as base but we could not get ginger biscuits, so had to use Marie biscuit. If we had used ginger biscuit it would have tasted even better
Here’s the link to the recipe - https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/white_chocolate_22234

That's about it from me today friends. Till next time.. Take care.. Be happy.. Keep stitching.. Au Revoir!!

TUSAL - May 2018

A very short and sweet post to show you my ORTS jar as of May - year to date

and a picture of where I stand with Coffee

As promised, this is a very short post friends. More very soon. Till then.. take care.. be happy.. keep stitching.. Au Revoir!!

Recipe Stash

I realized that over the course of the years I have accumulated soooo many recipes - some saved in my email as drafts, some as links, some as magazine clippings, some in the form of facebook posts and still more in the form of the numerous sites and blogs I have subscribed to and do not have the heart to unsubscribe!! So, this year I decided that it's high time we get into action and at least scratch the surface of the recipe stash and try some of the stuff

The first is a healthy fruity semolina bread that I tried

I got this recipe from a facebook group called Homebaker's Guild. This is a heavy bread with the goodness of fruit and nuts, semolina, coconut flour. 

Here's the recipe:

Ingredients: All Purpose Flour - 1 cup; Semolina (Sooji)- 1 cup; Coconut Flour - 1/2 cup; Whole Wheat Flour - 1-1/2 cups; Baking Soda - 1-1/2 tsp; Salt - 1 tsp; Goji Berries - 1/4 cup; Dried Cranberries - 1/4 cup; Crushed Almonds - 1/4 cup; Honey - 1/4 cup; Eggs - 2 (I used buttermilk instead); Melted Butter - 1/4 cup (I used olive oil); Yogurt (Dahi) - 2-1/2 cups; Beetroot Pulp - 1/4 cup 

PROCEDURE

1. In a large bowl mix together all the dry ingredients and fruits. (1-9)

2. In another bowl mix together all the wet ingredients. (10-14)

3. Mix the two together into a nice ball of dough.

4. Form a rough ball of dough and place in a Dutch oven/ Ceramic pot / Earthern Pot (mitti). 

5. Optional step - Put a cross on it with a knife. 

6. Bake covered with aluminum foil in a pre heated oven at 220 degrees C for 20 mins. Then uncover it and bake for another 

20-25 mins. Check your loaf and bake accroding to your oven.

7. Cool it and dig in!

NOTES-

1. If you don't have coconut flour, use dessicated coconut or whole wheat flour

2. Replace eggs with 1 banana for a sweet version or 3/4 cup of buttermilk (milk + vinegar)

3. Replace beetroot with spinach or carrot

Being summer in this part of the globe, next is a summer cooler. I have been wanting to try my hand at veggie juices/coolers

Here's a cucumber-lemon-mint cooler with no sugar. Just blend all the ingredients with a tsp of honey and serve chilled.. as simple as that!! 

Do try these and hope you like them. That's all today folks.. will be back soon with more recipes and stitchy updates.
Till then.. take care.. be happy.. keep stitching.. Au Revoir!!

TUSAL - April & A New Start

After finishing Sweet Summer, my next project is one of my favorites and very close to my heart!! I cannot function without this and cannot live without.. this is what I look forward to first thing in the morning - you must have guessed what it is by now.. of course I am talking about COFFEE!!!

This is a free pattern that I got from Pinterest 

Here's the progress till date on this new project. I initially started out on 30ct linen that was left over from my LHN projects. But this thread did not show prominently and almost merged with the fabric. So I switched to Aida that I had in my stash. My aim this year is to use as much from the stash as possible and not to accumulate any more stash

This is my ORTS jar till date after finish of Sweet Summer and start of Coffee

That's the update from me today dear friends. Till next time.. Take Care.. Be Happy.. Keep Stitching.. Au Revoir!!

First Finish of the Year

I can't believe I already have a finish to share with you all!!

Sweet Summer is completed!! I loved stitching this up - lovely colors and a real quick finish

I am deciding what my next project is going to be. Till next time.. Take care.. Be happy.. Keep Stitching.. AuRevoir!!