Stuffed Bread

When going through Chitvish recipes in Indus ladies. I happened to see this one. Made slight variation to suit my taste. I became too greedy and added all the vegetables I could lay my hands on from the fridge and tried it today for dinner! It tasted very very nice.

Bread:

Multi grain atta - 1 cup

Maida - 1 cups
Salt - as required
Sugar - 2 tsp
Olive oil (recipe called for refined oil or ghee) - 2 tbsp
Milk & water - ¼ cup each
Dry yeast - 1 tbsp

Dissolve yeast in warm mixture of milk & water stir well leave for 10 mins. Take atta + Maida + Sugar + Salt + Olive oil and make a very soft elastic dough and wait for 1.5 hours to double

Filling:

Grated Paneer - 1/4 cup
Finely chopped tomatoes - 2

Finely chopped Onion - 1

Green chillies - as required

Sliced Garlic pods - 10 nos
Jeera - for Tempering
Finely chopped Coriander leaves - as required
Carrot and cabbage shredded - 1 cup

Boiled mashed Potato - 1

Boiled Green peas - 1/4 cup

Sweet corn kernels - 1/4 cup

Olive Oil - 1 tbsp

Heat pan and add oil. Add the jeera to it then add onion and green chillies.
Add the tomatoes and fry for 3 minutes. Now add Carrot, cabbage, mashed potatoes, peas, sweet corn, Salt. Fry till the mixture becomes dry. Add grated panner, garam masala and coriander leaves.

Let it cool for some time.

Followed the procedure to make the braided bread as in the original recipe. Recipe asked to keep in a closed cupboard. Didnt know where to keep. So kept it inside the OTG, of course when switched off. It rained today and the temperature was a bit low so thought it would be safe there as the dough also needs warm place to raise. After an hour brushed it with warm milk. I had kept the dough for 4 hours. Prepared the dough by 4pm. Made the braided bread by 5.30pm and baked the bread by 8pm.
Preheat oven to 220 deg celcius and bake for 20 minutes or till brown.

Oats Almond cookies

This is a low fat cookie I baked almost a month back. I followed the recipe from a little bit more religiously. I didnt have oats flour, so just ground the quick cooking oats and neither bothered to sift as the recipe asks and additionally I added the raisins.

It was a guilt free cookie. Never tasted different from any other cookie with loads of butter and sugar!

I totally forgot to take a snap of the cookie to post here till I packed the last cookie in DH's snack box. Didnt have time in the morning to move it to a plate and didnt bothered abt the angles or anything. Just clicked it!

Vanilla cup cake

I am brave enuf to blog about my screwups now!

I cannot really say it a screw up but it was not upto the mark! Of course edible and already gobbled. Only last few pieces left..

This is the first time I am baking muffins. This can be an excuse as I am a first timer for muffins.

Most of the remakes are not working out in tamil cinema! Exactly same thing happened to me. The original recipe was from Jayasree of Kailas Kitchen. The end product was looking heavenly with chocolate chips and wonderful shape. She has even done a coffee version of that. Mine looked famished. But the taste was good, I am emphasizing again.

Not much changes made. I dint have chocolate chips, so substituted with tutti fruity. I just made half of the measurement just to be on the safer side.

Now time for you to have a look at it:

Can you guess why I have cut the muffin into four?? It got blasted on the top!

There were 4 splits on the top of it.. so i had cut it to make it visually pleasing.

Glass Painting

It is appropriate to call it bottle painting!

Painted these Heritage flavoured milk bottles with Glass colors. Initially intended for money plants now it has the colored bubbles!

Ganesha Wall hanging

Yet another art work using chalk powder..

This time a wall hanging.

The base is a card board from calendar. The wavy effect, outline, Jewellery and designs in the dress for Ganesha has been given by Chalk powder + Fevicol dough. Used Acrylic Pearl metallic colors and some kundan stones.

Chalk powder Jewellery

This is the first work I completed using the chalk powder. I made this for DD for one of her silk pavadai.

In this piece, the pendant, earrings and the golden beads in the necklace are made of chalk powder. I mixed the chalk powder and Fevicol in a consistency of Chapathi dough to be shaped. Made balls from the dough and inserted a thin stick for making holes on it for beading with the gear wire. Shaped the pendant and the earrings. Once dried, coloured with Fevicryl pearl metallic golden colour and let it for dry. Applied blue paper glitters for the pendant and the earrings. Had some age old blue beads with me. Alternated that with the golden beads and attached the pendant!

Decoration with Chalk Powder

I requested DH to to buy ceramic powder for making ceramic jewellery from the hardware shop but he ended up buying chalk powder. I didnt know anything to make from that. But once I bought it I googled day and night, (yes its true) to make use of it. You know its such a costly thing! Costs Rs.14 per kg :-)

Sad that not many used chalk powder extensively. So I replaced the ceramic powder art works with chalk powder and started my expedition and here is my first work(First conceived but finished last)!

It is a candle holder bought some 3 years back without much use.. Stuck DD's photo and decorated with the flowers made from a mixture of chalk powder and Fevicol MR.

Shaped the mixture(should be like chapathi dough) into flowers and leaves. Used Fevicryl pearl acrylic colors to color them and stuck it on the candle stand with Fevi qwik.