Baked Banana Suzette

Hi guys...........i tried this really interesting and easy to make recipe from Chef Vicky Ratnani of Do it Sweet, NDTV Good Times. Tender bananas on hot caramalised syrup!! Yummmm.......

Ingredients  

4-5 bananas  
150 gm sugar  
200 ml orange juice  
50 gm butter  
1 tbsp roasted cinnamon  
1 tbsp cardamon 

For Garnishing 
Orange zest 
Raisins 
Pistachio  
Brown sugar  

Method 

1. Peel the bananas and set aside in a dish.  
2. Melt 150 gm sugar on a pan till its color changes to brown and add orange juice, butter, roasted cinnamon and cardamon and bring to a boil. 
3. Then simply pour it over the peeled bananas. 
4. Top it up with some orange zest, raisins, pistachios and brown sugar and bake it at 170 C for 15 -20mins and serve hot

Source: Do It Sweet, NDTV Good Times

Corn au gratin

Cooking Time : 15 minutes                           
Preparation Time : 10 minutes                             
Serves 8

Ingredients
2 teacups tender cooked corn

3 teacups white sauce
100 grams grated cooking cheese
butter
salt and pepper to taste

Method
1. Boil corn in a cooker or microwave until tender.
2. Prepare white sauce with maida, butter and milk. 
3. Add salt and pepper to the white sauce and mix well. Add half of the grated cheese and mix well. Now add the corn and mix well.
4. Grease a baking dish and put the corn mixture in it. Cover with the remaining cheese and dot with butter.
4. Bake in a microwave at 200 degree C  for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
5. Serve hot.

Framed art - Quilling

I made this special frame for my best friend on her Anniversary. For this I first printed the wordings on a colored A4 sheet of paper. Then I did the quilling work on it. I traced out an oval on the right side of the page and cut it out. I got the couple's photo printed from a photo studio and pasted it behind the cut-out. Then, I got it framed from a shop.

 

 

 

 

My friend really loved this personalised gift. Below is the picture she sent to me of the frame hung in her home on a wall.

 

Quilled cards

I had made these floral accents some time back........... just reused the cream colored old brochure to make cards.

Fringed flower basket

This one was pretty easy..............made while watching tv............ fringed flowers!!

 

Quilled Jewellery sets

Jewellery sets made using quilling comb.

Jewellery set made using husking technique.

Quilled Jewellery set

Few quilled pendants

V-Day Special

This time, unlike last year when we went out of town to celebrate our first V-day after wedding, we decided to stay in Mumbai. Another reason was that my husband doesn't have an off on Saturdays now, so its difficult to go out on weekends. Well I decided to use this opportunity and give him a surprise. I baked a chocolate walnut cake for him and hid it. I also made a cute li'l card and some wall hangings inspired from Marths Stewart's website.

I decorated the room while he was getting ready to go out and he was taken aback by the surprise. The cake came out pretty well. The recipe for this cake is the same as the one posted here [http://arty-sorts.blogspot.in/2010/01/marble-cake.html], execept for the fact that it has more cocoa powder and I decorated it with chocolate ganache and powdered sugar. I used a heart stencil to create that effect with powdered sugar on the cake.

Recycled Photo frame

I made a double-sided quilled photo frame using an old desptop calendar last week. It was very easy to make. Have a look!

This is one side......

The other side.........

I removed the wire which holds the two sides of the calendar together and inserted a long quilling strip into it. To cover up both ends I just added a pretty li'l bow.

Photo Frame with Quilling

I made this frame last weekend.  Actually I have made many flowers and small quilled accents. So I thought of modifying this frame using them. 

 

Earlier it looked like this.

I wasn't too happy with the way it came out with stickers. I guess the quilled one looks better. Wat do u say?

Marble Cake

Ingredients:

4 eggs, Maida: 1 and half cup, Sugar: 1 and half cup, Butter/Refined Oil: Half cup, Baking powder: 1 tsp leveled, Cocoa powder: 2 tbsp

Method:
1. Sift maida along with 1 tsp baking powder. Keep aside.
2. Beat eggs with egg beater. For more froth first beat the egg whites only. Thereafter add the yolks and beat again.

3. Gradually add maida 1-2 tbsp at a time and fold in softly with a wooden spoon.

4. Then add oil or butter (melted) and mix in thoroughly.

5. Separate 1 half of the mixture and add cocoa powder.

6. Prepare the baking dish and pour the paste into it as shown below.

7. Alternate white and brown portions to create a marbled effect.

8. Pre heat the oven. Bake at 170 degree C for 45 mins.

Your baked cake will look like this !!