SWEET & SPICY ROASTED NUTS with ROSEMARY @ INA's GARDEN

Cashewnuts are as Goan to me as Cashew feni to a tourist traveling to my land of sun , sand , sea and sea food , Goa , for the first time or second or third (if u have not heard this , i have many many times over, that they HAVE to feast on the cashew feni when in Goa on a holiday or not )

 

Too good , too fast to be true...

See how well the sweet and salty spiced butter coats the nuts..

Never leave Goa without some of these.......

 

Even if i cant generalize that , well i want to for the love of Cashewnuts anyway , besides being a wonderful nut , it connects me to my goan connection , in a good way .

Always looking forward to grind , slice , chop cashewnuts in baking or cooking , here was another opportunity and so for this weeks Appetizers and snacks , Rosemary roasted cashewnuts from Ina's Barefoot in Paris .

I dont know what part of this recipe is French but i like the sound of it ....

U simply cant stop at some....

VANILLA COCONUT LAVENDER CREME BRULEE with VANILLA FLUER DE SAL

I know , a long name as ever but thats what it is (lots of) VANILLA COCONUT LAVENDER CREME BRULEE with a sprinkle of VANILLA SEA SALT on some and dotted with SALTED BUTTER on some.....

Like that Creme Brulee is a French word for what the English refer to as burnt cream..

Simple ingredients Milk , cream , eggs ,sugar and Vanilla come together to make this delicious dessert.

Never too much Vanilla.....

For this months recipe choice for Baking with Dorie GrapeFruit picked the Creme BRulee and aint we all glad she did.

We bake together once a month and would love u to join along too , come here  and lets bake all the wonderful goodies together , so much fun....

♥LOVE STORIES♥ 1 ♥....COME♥ FALL ♥IN ♥LOVE♥....

The storms in her happy Life......

"" I love u♥ ....i Love u ♥......i love u ♥...very very much..... ♥.

I want u to  know how many tears have been shed and how muc i miss u .....

I wish u had'nt changed overnight and things were back to being when we first met and spoke...

My heart cries for things to be sweet , simple and happy , so like my life was before this hurt.....but all i get is hurt ,pain , more pain and complicated...

I still want to do all those things together , that u said we would do...simple things that would fill me with glee ....

not jus coz u loved to do them with me , but coz i loved that u wanted to do them with me...

I still want to hold your hands , look into those deep blue eyes and feel ur heartbeats...feel ur heart beat next to mine ,and take away this heart ache with fun laughter and song....... " "

SWEET BAKED CHOCOLATE LOVE CUPCAKES @INA'S GARDEN

If u think my creativity begins and ends with hearts , ur right , most of the times it does:-)
I mean the pink and hearts lover in me , more often than not cant see beyond hearts and pink.
After all aint i the one who floats on air as i walk , all the while seeing pink hearts popping around me and some violin or piano belting some love songs all along....whewwwww...

Back to another love , cakes , baking and chocolate , happening here in the same breath in Ina's Garden for the theme going on at the moment ''Sweet Baked Love''.

Sweet Baked love is the theme for chosen by urs truly for this fortnight of Ina's Garden and if u at any time posted about any of Ina's baked recipe or even this pound cake , do link up here , we'd loveee to see what u bake along with love....

We would so love u to join us this time , next time or whenever u can , and do hop by our blog for announcements and to know us gang of Ina's recipe lovers who get together every fortnight to bring to u good food with good friends and sweets memories.

How cool is that....

BAKED GARLIC SHRIMPS @ SECRET RECIPE CLUB

Is this the longest time i have been away ...though i would totally love to say Yeah yeah yeah , it aint so coz omce i was without a computer and the company too the longest time to deliver the new laptop , and well i was away.

This was one long crazy month and i say it in such a good way , but this was really really not planned ok , absolutely NOt.....

Though der is a niggly little heart break dat refuses to budge i still had a very beautiful month , even away from the internet and life is jus getting so beautiful that i still wanna throw up both my hands high in the air and say hooray...im in love.......

And i so missed being around and saying hullo to u all and though its gng to take me a bit to catch i sure sure will...and absoultely...

I have been cooking and baking lots and lots of good food , mostly local goodies,coz we have been entertaining a bit and though we sure can get somebody to cater there is nothing like home cooked goodness topped with love.

Lets get talking about food right away and to begin with is my very very late posting for the secret recipe club...

Secret recipe club begun by Amanda of Amanda's cooking  is a fun group to be a part of and u can join in here , and believe me , its totally fun not only coz till the last day u dont k now who is assigned ur blog but u do get to discover some very wonderful blogs and some very wonderful foods.

I have know Lizzy for awhile now and before i go gaga about her wonderful blog i must say she has one of the most wonderful hearts , she is so kind and sweet and her words and thoughts to me always scream so.

I love the love about her and to top that she has an absolutely delicious drool worthy blog....oh its soo yummy!!

I have bookmarked so muc from her blog and was more than jus thrilled to be assinged with her blog.

This and this and this and this ....oh there is more too and i sure have to try the stuff soooonnn.Its also an added bonus that her recipes are so so quick and easy and so good to have at hand on a busy weekday night or relaxed weekend ...

And more so if u have guests , unannounced, whatever ur situation or ur tastebuds demand , she has a recipe for u.....

Now having jus come online , was a little lost catching up and though had planned on min of 3 recipes from her blog i simply couldn do it and went with this favourite.

I had everything , except bread crumbs in the pantry and am sure u do too , this recipe comes together at the snap of the finger , and not to forget is soooo absolutely delish too.

I didn add muc butter as the original recipe and used one red serrano peppers , for a little bite .

 Also stuck to whole black peppers , which i love to bite into.

Where crushed pepper goes Habareno pepper and Chipotle pepper flakes worked well for me , infact very well.

All u need to do , is toss all the ingredients together or simply line the shrimps in a single layer on a baking tray and sprinkle it all over and bake..

If u have some garlic bread u can add it to the oven , in the final minutes of baking so u have some warm bread to dip the juices in.

Lizzy does delicious with some warm french bread... me love...

BAKED GARLIC SHRIMPS

recipe from Lizzy's blog

Easily double and please triple actually :-)

12 shrimps ( peeled and deveined with heads and tails intact)

a good drizzle of olive oil

2 tablespoons red pepper chopped

2 tbh parsely/cilantro minced

4-7 cloves garlic minced

1 serranno pepper,deseeded sliced long(optional)

  red pepper flakes to taste

   black pepper to taste

   garlic powder (optional)

   butterdepending how buttery u want it

parmesan cheese to sprinkle.

salt to taste

Arrange the shrimps in a single layer in a baking dish and sprinkle all other ingredients except butter and cheese atop.

Dot with butter , sprinkle with cheese and bake in a preheated oven till done .

Here are all the goodies of the Secret Recipe club members...enjoy....

SWEET BAKED LOVE @ INA'S GARDEN

Is this the longest time i have been away ...though i would totally love to say Yeah yeah yeah , it aint so coz omce i was without a computer and the company too the longest time to deliver the new laptop , and well i was away.


This was one long crazy month and i say it in such a good way , but this was really really not planned ok , absolutely NOt.....

Though der is a niggly little heart break dat refuses to budge i still had a very beautiful month , even away from the internet and life is jus getting so beautiful that i still wanna throw up both my hands high in the air and say hooray...im in love.......


And i so missed being around and saying hullo to u all and though its gng to take me a bit to catch i sure sure will...and absoultely...

I have been cooking and baking lots and lots of good food , mostly local goodies,coz we have been entertaining a bit and though we sure can get somebody to cater there is nothing like home cooked goodness topped with love....

Talking about love , lets get going towards baking , after all love and baking rock my world and so go beautifully hand in hand dont they?

Sweet Baked love is the theme for chosen by urs truly for this fortnight of Ina's Garden and if u at any time posted about any of Ina's baked recipe or even this pound cake , do link up here , we'd loveee to see what u bake along with love....

Baked with  love  goodies are so welcome and warm the heart and no they dont need to be heart shaped or loaded with heart sprinkles (ahem ...ahem), to have the love factor coz there is already so muc love added in there.

LAVENDER VANILLA APRICOT BARS with A PECAN CRUMBLE @BAKED

 Its Fathers Day today and somebody asked me the question , what is the best thing ur Dad taught u , without battling an eyelid or thinking , i replied "" Love , to love . And he taught me that by loving me immensely , unconditionally , always .....till i was brimming ...and im till date..."".

Love sure makes the world go round and fills me with a positive energy like nothing else can , its lends a bounce to my step and makes me give my best ...always...

When i think of him today , my heart swells and my eyes fill ...i love when someone see's a lot of him in me .....

I havent seen him in a long time , a very v longgg time and it feels like a longer time.....but i have the hope of seeing him someday soon, in heaven, when we meet again.

I wonder how he would be today , i would have so loved to bake and cook and go for long drives with him today , with me behind the wheel...

Miss u dad, lods n love ya forever...with all my being...

Not jus today , but 365 days , coz dats the real meaning of love the thought behind these special days.

Moving on to these bars , these have nothing to do with dad , infact i never baked these for him , i dont know if u would have loved them ,for besides the fact that i baked them.

I wish i had .....

Never  miss to spread the love by wishing ur pals and family who are dads , a fantastic Fathers day * 365...

They are the most special people for the children for whom they make rocking dads!!

 I want to go thru building these bars step by step ,not to make it seem lengthy or difficult which they are surely not but coz each layer is pure joy to make as much as fast and easy to put together.

I used Lavender instead of Rosemary coz its not everyday that we find rosemary here and i LOVE lavender with VANILLA...
Add a little zest and u have all my fav flavours in one bar....

INDONESIAN HONEY GINGER CHICKEN AT INA'S GARDEN

I had to add the honey to the tittle of this very flavour full chicken coz it sure plays a wonderfully sweet role in this chicken.
I mean jus 5 ingredients ,including the chicken , and all u need to do is marinate the chicken overnight , and pop it in the oven the next morn for a delicious treat.

This is the chicken i wanted to bake for this weeks theme at Ina's Garden   and it is April ,of 21st Century Housewife who chose a them which revolves around Chicken , ie Comforting and delicious chicken recipes so if u have ever made any of Ina's recipes , be sure to link them below so we can all check them out as well.

And our next posting at Ina's Garden is on July 7th which is Ina's Zucchini Gratin and u will find the recipe here.

The recipe sure calls for quartered pieces of  a whole chicken but i missed that part and had already kept these pieces ready so i went right ahead with the recipe.
The ground ginger and garlic along with the soy work its magic overnight and the honey ....well the honey sure does too....

I think all the glaze is coz of the honey , and the sauce is rich and dark brown.
I used my fav sweet soy sauce but u can use any one u like and a sprinkle of pepper would be great too though we all loved it the way it was.

Ahh, shrimps ...when i say i love sea food , i always mean shrimps (unless its oysters and clams am referring to) , so i went right ahead and marinated some shrimps too.

 
And am sooo glad i did , the marinade mixing with the juicy juices of the shrimps gives u a good lunch with some lettuce and green onion ...
Actually lodsa mixed lettuce and greens of spring onions is more like it..

 
 And then get really soft and tender and absolutely succulent with all the marinating and baking....

Drizzling jus a bit of sesame oil atop a few of these gives them a nice twist too...

ORANGE ALMOND CRUNCH CARAMEL CAKE @ CAKE SLICE

When there are good times , there got to be cake ...and real good cake ...
Two months into our new move and its been so beautiful , oh yeah there were hiccups and a sad incident but now its beautiful , very....

Moving has u looking forward to a new life and this has been one , in every way and so abundantly good too.
If there is so much of good news coming thru in ur personal life and family as well , u have nothing but to be excited and jump with glee...
Its got busier but with a schedule i'm in love with, beautiful early morns , a little nap that works wonders on the skin sometimes at noon and more...

And then u bake along , specially a cake like this , it gets yummy luscious...

WARM ,HUGGY & GOOEY QUINTIPLE BROWNIES @ BWD

If you are looking for gooey , seriously chocolaty (though i dont think i know what that really means) brownies your in the right place , at the right page , on the right blog , at the right time....

I also so wish i could send u all some of these , but since we cant really do that , lets do the next best thing , talk all about the brownies so u can bake them right in ur kitchens and have the fantastically warm , heart tugging (cant decide if taste bud tugging sounded better ) soonnnn all to urself.