Melon Balls in Orange-Lavender Syrup

Looking for an easy breezy, summer style dessert for your meal or for a get together, i have something to share with you. My today's post is an excellent summer friendly dessert, which is definitely a quick dessert to prepare. Scooping melon balls may take some time but trust me its one of the quite interesting, fruity dessert to relish after a meal. This dessert can be prepared a day earlier, obviously you doesnt need to worry about to prepare these sort of desserts. I opted for an aromatic syrup to serve this melon balls. Once its summer here, you can see lavender plants shows their head in every corner of the streets or in gardens. We have planted some lavender plants in our school garden during spring season . After three months,lavender sprigs are just prefect to harvest to prepare some pot pourri (which is a mixture of dried naturally fragrant plants) or else to use in cooking or baking.

Pineapple Basundi/Single Serve Exotic Basundi

Basundi, this word itself makes me drool, i just love milk based sweets very much. Yes my sweet tooth craves always for some milk sweets. Though we have few Indian sweet shops in Paris, i love to prepare myself those easily available sweets at home. However i love to experiment in my kitchen rather than grabbing some from shops. Coming to my today's single serve desserts, yes my theme for this week's blogging marathon is single serve desserts, i opted for a fruit loaded basundi. Basundi is prepared by reducing milk to half of the quantity.Its quite a fantabulous sweet, one can enjoy this dessert along with some deep fried pooris, actually basundi makes an excellent pair with pooris. However people enjoy basundi chilled as much as like rabdi, an another milk dessert prepared almost like basundi.

Single Serve Eggless Mango Mousse

Its summer here and mangoes shows their head in our farmer's markets. However i grabbed two boxes of succulent sweet mangoes from Indian stores. Back home, after relishing with our meal, i kept few mangoes aside to dish out some delectable desserts with. And one among those desserts is this fantastic, eggless and agar agar/gelatin free mango mousse. Actually i prepared this dessert for our Sunday lunch as i had my cousin family for lunch. Since it was a sudden visit, i couldnt bake or make a chocolatey dessert for him. Hence i opted to dish out this simple, yet a delicious dessert to relish after our heavy Sunday meal. Just with three ingredients, you can finish this mousse in a jiffy. Yep just three ingredients, whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk and mango puree is enough to prepare this mousse.

Watermelon & Greek Yogurt Salad

You might have noticed that i have been posting Summer friendly salads for this week's blogging marathon which was totally enjoyed and approved by my kids. Yes this week's blogging marathon's theme goes for Kid's friendly - Summer salads. When summer season starts, we look eagerly for Summer fruits especially for mangoes and watermelons. We just love these two fruits very much and we never fail to buy them once they shows their heads in our farmer's market. Watermelon is everyone's favourite summer fruit. Once i picked Summer salads as theme for this week's blogging marathon, i planned myself to dish out a simple salad with watermelon to stick with the theme for this week.

Kiwi & Vanilla Icecream Shake

Though climate is too chilled and snowing here, nothing stopped us to enjoy some icecream shake as dessert for our sunday's lunch. This time i prepared a simple, quick icecream shake with my favourite fruit 'Kiwi'. Kiwi, this incredible fruits have their own place in my fruits basket. Few years back, i had some allergic reaction whenever i had this fruit. After following a strict medication now i can able to have this fruit either by combining with other fruits in shakes, smoothies or else by cooking as fruit compote or baking them in cakes or muffins.

Lychee Pannacotta

Pannacotta is one of the light,creamy dessert to relish after a meal. Its an Italian dessert which calls for cream, gelatin. Sweetened cream thickened with gelatin and molded makes this luscious dessert 'Pannacotta'. Though gelatin is a must in this dessert, you can replace gelatin with agar-agar/chinagrass. Chinagrass is a vegetarian version of gelatin which is often used in many Asian cuisine. My today's dessert is a gluten free,stylish Italian dessert which is simply flavored with freshly squeezed lychee juice and lychee chunks in it.

Toasted Muesli

Muesli, a prefect breakfast loaded with oats, nuts and fruits. I have been preparing myself my own muesli from the past few years as they are very easy to prepare at home with any sort of nuts, seeds or dried fruits of your choice. My today's post is one of our recent favourite as this toasted muesli goes for some crispy cornflakes, chocolate chips along with rolled nuts and loads of nuts,seeds.Since this toasted muesli have chocolate chips in it, kids will definitely enjoy this ultimate healthy muesli for their breakfast without any fuss.

Apple Jaggery Cake with Oats & Chocolate Chips

Replacing sugar with Jaggery in cake makes them more appealing with a beautiful colour. I have baked couple of cakes with organic jaggery or else with palm jaggery.Every time i bake a cake with jaggery, i simply love the colour of the cake's texture. My today's cake is an another ultimate cake which i topped with apple chunks,rolled oats and chocolate chips. A prefect snack cake to enjoy thoroughly with a cup of coffee or tea. This cake turned absolutely super moist, and adding apples and oats makes this simple cake more healthy and nutritious.

Eggless Cheese Pumpkin Bread

I love to bake breads very much at home. Yeast god behaves prefectly awesome with me, obviously i have been baking breads since few years. Yeast can be either fresh, dehydrated, levain, but still breads can be baked at home. Every weekend, i dont forget to bake breads at home as my kids enjoy homemade bread with their favourite spread or butter/jam. Either sweet or savory, everyone at home love  to grab a slice of those homemade breads once they comes out of the oven. Sometimes, even before i click pictures, my kids finish the bread as they couldnt resist to the aroma of freshly baked breads. A life of a blogger is not that much easy. Obviously a blogger need to pre-plan everything and to google or check their cookbook collection to bring some delicious dishes  virtually to their readers.But still blogging is a real passion for me after cooking,baking,crocheting and knitting.

Apple & Chocolate Chips Cream Tart

Tart is a open top baked dish prepared with a pastry base. The pastry base usually used for making a tart is always shortcrust pastry and the filling may be sweet or savory. But somehow modern versions of tarts do exists with biscuits, fruit-based or sometimes with custard. Most known tarts include Treacle tart, meringue tart, tarte tatin and bakewall tart. However some easy versions of tarts do exists, yes simple jam tarts are quite easy to bake and to enjoy if you have short crust pastry sitting in your fridge. Tart is one of our favourite dessert after a meal, especially when tart is prepared with fruits.

Pumpkin & Sun Dried Tomatoes Pain D'epi/Pumpkin Wheat Stalk Bread with Sun-dried Tomatoes

Pain d'épi is known as the wheat stalk bread which calls for an impressive twist on the classic French baguette. Epi de Blé is the name given to the bread which looks like wheat stalk or the ears of wheat. This bread is often baked during special holidays and celebrations, this bread calls for an easy preparation and sounds almost like French baguette. Apart from cutting the dough to resemble as much as like wheat stalk, this bread calls for easy ingredients. Since its fall season here, pumpkins are showing their head in farmer's market. Obviously i want to try this famous French bread with those fall fruit.Pain d'epi is definitely a piece of art to shape and bake at home.

Easy Apple & Chocolate Chips Strudel

Apple Strudel is a traditional Viennese popular pastry which is quite known in many countries in Europe. Wiki says that Apple strudel dough is a thin, elastic dough, the traditional preparation of which is a difficult process. The dough is kneaded by flogging, often against a table top. Dough that appears thick or lumpy after flogging is generally discarded and a new batch is started. After kneading, the dough is rested, then rolled out on a wide surface and stretched until the dough reaches a thickness similar to phyllo. Cooks say that a single layer should be so thin that one can read a newspaper through it. The dough is also stretched carefully to make it large enough to cover the kneading table. Since the strudel dough calls for a difficult kneading and stretching process, i opted for an easy method. And the puff pastry sheet is a better one to replace the traditional Apple strudel dough.

Mini Vanilla & Black Currant Cake

Life is becoming so busy obviously this keeps me super busy, however i couldnt give up blogging for any other reasons. Yes blogging is one of my passion, am running this year's bakethon again as i love baking very much. Baking is definitely a stress burster, its completely therapeutic if you are running like headless chicken with your daily routine. Baking, this word itself makes me happy. And this year's Bake-a-thon is going to be some delightful bakes. I will be posting three baked goodies per week, obviously dont forget to visit my space on mondays, wednesdays and fridays. For the first day of this year's bake-a-thon, am posting some super spongy black currants loaded vanilla mini cake. Very simple to make, you can bake this ultimate cakes for your evening snacks or for after a meal desserts with less efforts.

Apple, Oats & Chocolate Chips Pudding

Pudding, this dessert can be prepared with fruits, bread slices or else with grains like rice, oats etc. Pudding can be sweet or savoury, also they can be prepared either by baking, steaming or else by boiling. Depending upon the ingredients went in it, pudding can be served as main course or else for desserts. Today's post is a delicious, simple and fruity pudding baked with apples, chocolate chips and rolled oats. Easy to prepare this pudding can be prepared quickly. Almost like one bowl cakes, you just need a bowl and a whisk to prepare this fantastic pudding.

Apple & Peach Crisp with Oat Topping

Though its fall season here, we do get some summer fruits eventhough they are very rare in farmer's market. Recently hubby brought to home, a small paquet of peaches from the farmer's market but unfortunately they were nt sweet, obviously none want to have those peaches. Since i dont like to trash anything easily, i turned those sweetless peaches as a fabulous dessert along with apples. Apples and peaches works awesome as crisp and these crisp turned out extremely delicious. Served either as warm or chilled, this ultimate apple and peach crisp makes an excellent dessert to relish after a heavy meal.

Apple & Nutella Galette

After three months break, am kick starting the usual three days of blogging marathon with a fantastic theme, my theme for this week's blogging marathon is Apple Desserts. Apple is the fruit we get almost every season of the year. From red apples to golden apples, apples are my favourite fruits, but unfortunately i cant eat them as am allergic to this ultimate fruit. Obviously i bake many delightful baked goodies or desserts with this incredible fruit to please my tastebuds. Since i picked Apple desserts as theme for this week's blogging marathon, i baked three fantastic baked dishes with apples. To kick start this first day, am posting a rustic style galette with nutella and sliced apples, topped with almond flakes.

Gluten Free Raspberry Sauce

If you are looking for a fantastic sauce to top your crepes, pancakes or else your cheesecake or simply to drizzle over some scoops of icecream, please take a look to my today's post. With simple cooking process, this raspberry sauce gets ready very quickly than you can imagine. Either with fresh raspberries or frozen ones, this raspberry sauce calls for simple stove top cooking. With just 4 ingredients, you can dish out your own raspberry sauce with less efforts. I prepared my raspberry sauce with frozen raspberries, obviously if you get fresh raspberries, dont forget to make your own sauce either by spicing them with whole spices, however i didnt spiced mine.

Vegan Raspberry Almond Milk Popsicle

Vegan Raspberry Almond milk popsicle is a prefect summer treat to relish with your near ones with less efforts. My today's post is again a simple popsicles prepared with almond milk and frozen raspberries. Blend everything together with enough sugar and pour the mixture in popsicle mould, freeze it and your popsicles are ready to relish. How simple na, i prepared this popsicle as a vegan version. I used almond milk but trust me rice milk, coconut milk works awesome as well. Not to forget that even any sort of berries  works prefect to make this excellent frozen desserts aka this popsicles.

Vegan Cherry Popsicles

We are getting some super sweet cherries in our farmer's market since few days. Cherries are my favourite fruits. Obviously i grabbed a kg of this cherries and back home, after munching some, i couldnt resist to prepare a simple cherry popsicles to fix the theme of this week's blogging marathon. My theme of this week's marathon is Kid's friendly-frozen foods. After a lipsmacking mango sorbet, my today's post is again an another easy summer treat.

Mango Sorbet with Smarties

Its getting too hot here in Paris. Though its not officially Summer here, weather is not far from the usual summer temperature. Nothing can beat some homemade refreshing icecreams or sorbets to relish while the weather is hot outside. My today's post is a simple sorbet prepared with fresh mango chunks and mini smarties. Definitely a kid's friendly frozen food to relish without any fuss. I just love the popular 'Gems' those chocolate toffees are my all time favourite, but i dont miss them here as we have smarties here. Smarties replace Gems very well.