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GIGANTES- Large white Beans/ Elephant Beans – ONLY 4 ingredients

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.– Oscar Wilde
 
GIGANTES- Large white Beans/ Elephant Beans – ONLY 4 ingredients

Largely popular in Greece with a light tomato sauce, this dish is not something that comes to mind when we think about Greek food right..?  GIGANTES also known as elephant beans(it looks like elephant ears)are quite popular there. I can say, that it is much flavorful than I thought it would be.  They adapt to their cooking environment very easily, are so meaty and very hearty for the non meat eater, perfect for vegans.  I had these beans at a restaurant Kokari  in the bay and wanted to reproduce it for a while now, but of course you add your touch.  How many of you, go to some restaurants, have something tasty or unique and have an urge to cook that up at home? I do it all the time, I take it as a challenge in  which I succeed at times and sometimes not.  It’s always worth a shot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pepper Spiced Bread- Iyengar Bakery style Buns

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“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in it’s evocation of innocence and delight”. M.F.K. Fisher
Pepper Spiced Bread Roll

Walking down a bakery creates a sensory overload, especially when we’ve had a long day.  Mom would come home in the evening  passing this Iyengar Bakery(a famous bakery in the southern part of India,which is still very famous for their special baked goods), and she often would buy the Masala Bun or Bread.  The two other members of the house were not fond of bread, then why?, I used to think then.  As time passed , I realized my mom loved a good hearty spicy bread/bun.

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Orange Chiffon Cake – fresh and light

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If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable – each segment distinct.  Letty Cottin Pogrebin 


Orange Chiffon Cake
Baking is an obsession and I’m in love with it.  The basic cake is spruced up with freshly squeezed orange juice and  it’s zest.  The freshness of the ingredients make this for a  light and irresistible dessert.  California is famous for their oranges, we find them everywhere.  Backyards are filled with trees blooming with oranges.  I’m one of those fortunate few, with friends who have a green thumb and a big heart to share their produce.  What can I do to thank them, I bake for them:)

Baking-Chocolate Cupcakes- Vegan Allergy free

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      “When you share a cupcake, you share love.”  ~ Unknown Author
                                                 

Are you a chocolate junkie, I confess I am.  There’s not a single day that goes without having chocolate in
some form.  Screams celebration when there is chocolate and cake.  I truly believe you can win over anyone with these these beautiful looking cupcakes.  Cupcakes with all it’s glory has become a star the past few years, with Cupcake Wars(which i religiously watch) and shops dedicated purely to these sugary goodies..   Why not right, they are portioned out, you think of a flavor, you can make them or find em’ and most of all loved by most.

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BAKING- EL SALVADORIAN Sweet Bread- Semitas De Dulce(Sweet Suffed Bread)

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“I like reality that tastes like bread.”

Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)

Although popular all around Central America, this version of the  Sweet Buttery Bread stuffed with jam is found in El Salvador.  SEMITAS De Dulce is so famous, you can find it in bakeries throughout Central America and when walking around touring this small country but a fast growing one, you can see street vendors with their version.. 
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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six. Yogi Berra

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Recently, I had reasons to do some research on the ubiquitous Pizza. I was amazed to find how ancient the concept of pizza is!! The common history of the birth of the pizza, as a popular dish, is a romantic story of how a poor man’s meal became the comfort food of the high and mighty and the prosperous and has since become a truly democratic dish!

What I also discovered in my scouring was that the term “pizza” has been prevalent as early as 997 A.D but wasn’t even given the status of being an edible dish until much later. It was initially a baker’s tool used to verify oven temperature!!

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