Pasta in white sauce

I made this yummy pasta for lunch today. I followed Trish's recipe completely, except that intstead of fresh vegetables, I used frozen mixed veges consisting of beans, carrots, red capsicum, cauli, brocolli and corn.

Thanks Trish for sharing this great recipe...kids loved it !

Note: for the recipe, please follow the link...thanks :-)

Eggless Orange Cake

I love citrus cakes and have been wanting to bake a orange cake for ages now. Last weekend I decided to find a recipe for eggless orange cake and bake it - I was craving for it !

Bubbles got involved in it too, so we both mum-daughter team started surfing the net to find a easy but trustworthy recipe. Even though there was no pic of the cake on this recipe we found, the poster's ( Donni Larson ) note impressed me and I decided to bake it. Mostly Bubbles prepared the whole batter - I only took out the orange juice for her ! It was very light fluffy and it didn't crumble at all. I didn't frost it either.

My sister asked for the recipe and she made it next day and apparently the cake came out perrfect. So I am keeping this recipe !


Ingredients:

1 and 1/2 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup unsweetened orange juice ( I freshly sqeezed almost three oranges )
1/3 cup canola or any vegetable oil
1 tsp grated orange zest ( used from the fresh orange)

Recipe:

Preheat oven to 180 deg C or 350 deg F.
Prepare a 20-23cm round cake pan. My round pan was with my sister, so I used bread loaf tin.
In a medium bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder untill well mixed.
All at once, add oil, orange juice and orange zest.
Stir just enough to combine the ingredients. Resist the urge to overstir the batter, you will only deflate it.
Then immediately pour into the prepared tin.
Bake for 35-40 minutes for cakes or 25 to 30 min for cupcakes. or untill a toothpick poked into the middle of the batter comes out clean and it is lightly browned on the top.
cool completely before icing it.

It was perfect for kids' lunch box for their morning tea. I will try to make cupcakes out of it next time :)

Methi-palak ki roti

I keep forgetting about this blog...hmmm

Made this Methi-Palak roti today and the kids enjoyed it with yogurt.

Chop one bunch of fresh methi. I just chopped off the roots and washed n chopped the rest, including the stems. Chop approx same amount of palak ( spinach) leaves. Again I used the stems too since I was going to grind them all. Add one onion, 4 green chillies and put it in the blender.



Mix this with 3 cups of atta ( wheat flour) , add salt to taste and knead. I didn't need to add any extra water.

Make medium sized balls, roll it into round shape and shallow fry on tawa like a paratha.



Serve hot with cold dahi ( yogurt). Its yummy and nutritious :)