Baking with Merry

Hi folks....Long time!! Blogging has taken a setback for the past few months due to various reasons.... Though I have been baking, nothing remarkable enough to post on the blog, it was either a repeated bake or a new one but of course, the flopped versions!! But, then on Valentine's Day, I managed to bake a Carrot Cake. This cake has been on my to-do list for quite sometime. You could frost the cake with a cream cheese frosting, but I preferred mine to be plain.... Ingredients: Recipe Adapted from: Baking by Parragon Books Eggs - 2 Brown sugar - 3/4 cup Unsalted butter - 1 cup Grated carrots - 1 1/3 cups All purpose flour - 2 cups Baking soda - 1 tsp Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp Ground cardamom - 1 tsp Nutmeg, grated - 1 tsp Almonds, roughly chopped - 1 cup Method: In a bowl, beat the eggs until well combined and add the sugar and butter. Mix well. Add the grated carrots, sift in the flour, baking soda and the spices. Then add the chopped almonds. Mix eve...

Normally, I don't like pumpkins, especially the ripe ones. So, if they are used in sambhar or avial or made as erissery , I am fussy! But that's not the case with the raw ones.... I love raw pumpkins and papaya...Raw pumpkins are good for salads  (especially their skin)  and juices; and raw papayas make a good thoran . It was my papa who introduced me to these juices made out of raw pumpkins and they tasted yummy.... . He used whatever fruits and veggies that were available in his garden for the juices... . The main ingredients, however were pumpkins, carrots and apples, with a few additions or subtractions in the ingredients. I always prefer to stick with pumpkins, carrots and apples without any sugar and we, including my little fussy-eaters love it. Ingredients: Recipe Source: My own Raw Pumpkin - 1/2, peeled and cubed Apple - 2, cored and chopped Carrot - 1, peeled and chopped Method: Place the chopped pumpkin, apple and carrot in a food ...