Open face Avocado Sandwich

Butter or Avocados, I would say Avocado. I love these little greens too buttery for a bite! This sandwich is one of my pleasures. It's great, no hassles lunch, or dinner, just face it! Sometimes, we do not feel like cooking.

If you cut the bread into smaller squares and toasted them in the oven, this would make a great appetizer. Any recipe that invites Avocados, invites me too! They are so tasty and requires no cooking at all. That makes my life simple! I will not call this as a recipe at all, it does not require much do about. 

Moist Mango Nut Bread

Why does Mango come in this season? We are all Mango maniacs in our home! When we find yellow Mango in the shop, we get them! These mangoes are from Ecuador, and they are lovely to make desserts or any other baking. They are not juicy but sweet and tender to bake.
They are quite similar to Alphonso mangoes. Quite lot of fibers and when they are naturally sweet we do not require much sugar for baking.

I prepared a small loaf of the bread and it hardly lasted for 2 days. I always like to share (testing samples, may be!) my new creations with my neighbours. But this time, I hardly had a very small piece to give. So I prepared some more for today, I think by the time Sundar is home they will be distributed :)

The bits of mangoes dotting the bread and the slight crunch of nuts makes this one of my favorite breads. This recipe was passed on to me by my aunt from some TV show. When I baked for the first time, I used eggs and today I ran out of eggs. So added Mango puree instead or by increasing the oil. Just blend few pieces of the yellow goodness and blend it and replace for the egg whites.

Basic Sponge Cake

I just wonder How many times I have baked this, since I started baking. I know, countless! And not penned the recipe here.
I have lots of sweet tooth at my home, anything sweet, just this Pound cake. Made these couple of days back for their cravings. Now, I realize, Baking isn't really that hard as long as you stick to measurements.
Sundar, likes to take them for his snack time :)

Butter Jam Cookies

I was looking to prepare something nice for the kids for our princess birthday. Then my brother jittu suggested me for a cookie that we loved to eat when we were kids. Buttery cookie with lots of Jam on top of it which has great taste that stays for along time in our mouths. I found a easy and simple recipe from the Food Network website. I must say they were very delicious.

You need:

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), softened
2/3 cup sugar, plus more for rolling
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/3 cup strawberry jam (or raspberry/cherry jam)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl.
In another bowl, whip the butter and the sugar with a hand-held mixer until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in the egg and vanilla until just combined. Slowly beat in the dry ingredients in 2 additions, mixing just until incorporated.

Scoop the dough into 1-inch balls with a cookie or ice cream scoop and roll in sugar. Place about 2-inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Press a thumbprint into the center of each ball, about 1/2-inch deep. Fill each indentation with about 3/4 teaspoon jam.

Bake cookies until the edges are golden, about 15 minutes. (For even color, rotate the pans from top to bottom about halfway through baking.) Cool cookies on the baking sheets. Serve.

Store cookies in a tightly sealed container for up to a week. Hasini loved to give them for her friends along with a gift.

Sending this to Krithi's kitchen for serve it Savory baked and Denny's blog

Bread Pizza - Delight in every bite!

A lazy weekend morning begins quite late after friday midnight movie. None of us like to have a regular rice or even dosai for that matter! Of course we all want cook something healthy. We most of the time purchase only multi-grain bread without HFCS.  So, without anything different on this bread will be really mind-numbing. Bread pizza is a very popular snack, an instant gratification as a snack, for killing our craving for pizza.
I would be happy to have any snack at any time of the day! Nothing else gives such a contentment than a snack esp., on a weekend. When sundar wakes me up with a coffee in the morning, and milk for kutti sundari, anything in this world would go for this!
Bread Pizza is a slight heavy for a snack! Still, if it is going to be a weekend morning I would go for it. Less time consuming and less work intended.
Sundar was hurrying to his friends house shifting and I need to prepare something before that! There is no time for big baking or deep frying. And there were almost 8-9 loafs of bread. I have been looking for the bread pizza recipe all over but never felt a satisfying one! I have already made pizza, so lemme do this myself.

You need
8 slices of bread
3 tspn of marinara sauce for each bread
1 pack of shredded Mozzarella cheese
Capsicum cut into 1" squares (2-3 squares for each bread)
Onion sliced (as per taste)
1/2 cup pitted Black olives
Crushed red pepper to taste
salt to taste

On a baking tray, brush with olive oil. Place 4 breads, and apply marinara sauce lavishly, I used 3 spoonfull for 1 multi-grain bread and do this for all the breads. And now keep all the chopped veggies over the sauce.

Finally, add the shredded cheese, remember to use the packet of cheese to be used for 8 breads. If you add extra cheese, it might not get cooked well. Bake at 420F for about 10 to 15 mins. For Hasini, I added a slice of cheese after baking, and it almost melted over the pizza by the time she was about to eat.

Top with salt (we wanted to have little, as we used low fat shredded cheese), and crushed red pepper. Serve hot with tomato sauce.

I'm sending this recipe for the Kids delight even celebrating their 3rd anniversary