15 Marbles

Moments.Musings.Memories. ❤️Gathering little marbles from ordinary days and keeping them for our memory jar. ❤️

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Category: From my oven

  • chocolate chip oatmeal cookies

      Ingredients: 125 gms soft butter 1 1/4 cup flour 3/th cup brown sugar 1/2 cup oats 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla essence Cream the butter,sugar and eggs together.Add the essence and then fold in flour and oats.Chill it in the fridge for 20 minutes.Using a spoon,drop blobs of cookie dough(its a little sticky) on…

  • Of carrot cakes and truth about frostings… Day 5

    Ms.Aadya was going to the zoo today and its sort of a tradition in this house that Mumma has to bake her something special for such occasions.I asked her what she wanted and she said,”Carrot Cake”..So,that’s what I baked. I have to tell you,it was quite an experience,cracking eggs,when I had my own cheer-leading team…

  • Methi Paratha with Tomato Chutney

    Last week,I found a bunch of fresh Methi(fenugreek leaves) in our local Indian store and I can’t tell you how thrilled I was. Winters are here in the Southern Hemisphere and if Paratha is not a winter food what is:) My childhood was spent in a small town in Rajasthan,called Lakheri,where fresh produce was abundant.And…

  • Orange-Carrot Cake

    Remember the pulp left over from this delicious juice?Take a look: Isn’t it gorgeous?? I decided to turn it into a cake. And what a delicious cake it was. And it called for minimum sugar too. To make this cake,I just twisted,my mom’s regular cake recipe,to accomodate the pulp.This recipe was a hand-me-down from one…