Hi , Making cake is one of the stress busters for me. I can make cake anyday anytime. This chocolate cake is basic recipe by which you can make so many cake varieties, This cake can be used as base for pastry cakes. Even the cake can be served as chocolate sponge cakes. I make most o my chocolate cake varieties with this base. Here below is the recipe for the most yummy, easy and fool proof chocolate cake , PREPARATION TIME : 20 mins. COOKING TIME : 35 MINS. SERVINGS : Around 750 gms of cake. INGREDIENTS : Maida (All purpose flour) – 1 cup. Cocoa powder – 5 tblsp. Salt – 1/8 tsp. Baking powder – 1 tsp. Sugar – ½ cup. Eggs – 3 nos. Vanilla essence – 1 ½ tsp. Odour less oil – ½ cup. METHOD : 1) Seive maida, cocoa powder , salt, baking powder twice. 2) In a dry bowl add eggs and start beating at very low speed. 3) When egg starts foaming and colour starts changing add sugar slowly and beat. 4) Gradually incre...
Hi, Sea has lot of creatures in it that we can cook and we were much more unaware of many . Squid fish is one among the yummy species which I was totally unaware even after coming to Chennai.One day in market I saw them and surprised that they are selling octopus ( it looked like that to me :)). Then I surfed in net and found actually they are squid ( kadamba / kanava) and not octopus , My friend Saranya cooked this gravy for us during her visit to our home .I copied the recipe from her and tried next week itself.Though the squid fish looks very weird the taste was so yummy and there is no fish odor in that.It just tasted like mutton. The cleaning part is little tricky but easy, I suggest once you finished cleaning dispose the waste immediately out of your house as the waste from squid fish is very smelly and also it starts leaving water .So dispose the waste of squid as quick as possible. Other than that the fish tastes heaven , spicy, yummy and very easy to cook. I have...