FEBI'S COOK BOOK

Now I feel lucky to be a house wife. When I was in school i was One girl with high ambitions in life. Scoring high in Grad school, then working and earning was my dream. But after I got married, the whole scenario changed. Even though my husband did not have any objection in me working, my priorities changed to being a good home maker. While I waited for kids to grow up and things to settle down, things got out of my calculations and I got confined inside the four walls. And it was late before I realised that being a house wife or home maker is no less than all other paid jobs plus I now feel lucky that I discovered a new passion which I would n't have discovered if I were a working person. I dont make money but I have plenty of time to execute my passion. Not that I have no work at home, of course i run in short of time and that is not rarely and that is the case always with three little kids but I feel atleast I am not bound by work or a boss which would have been otherwise...

 Nowadays my focus is shifting to something else. Not a vague obsession, This time I am investing most of my time for it too.... Its a cake thing.. Cake has always been my weakness, not in terms of taste but in baking it. But recently it has shifted to cake decorating and its only a while back I started getting it right without any mistakes. For months I had this problem of either not getting the cream rightly whipped or over whipping and yielding butter out of it. Now that I have started getting it right, my next look on was for different ways of cake decorating. Now that I have started doing it artistically, I started making it for friends and families. Also I started getting requests from some neighbors and friends in doing it for them. Thus my cake page on facebook   'The Cake Mistress'  was born. Click on the link to see some of my works. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cake-Mistress/341317546074465?fref=ts .  If all you people...

Ever since I was introduced to this large group on fb, all my heart-bookmarked recipes has been coming to implementation which i delayed solely due to my busy schedule. The group demands bake along by every member of the group in which a recipe is posted every week. I always wanted to try a classic pancake, but with so many recipes on internet and failing to settle on one and also doubting if that would turn up good, I always hesitated to give it a try. But being part of the group left me with no choice other than giving it a try and fasting hubby meant I had to prepare breakfast only for kids who would love to have this even as lunch. And so did I tried and came out awesome. Recipe adapted from here Ingredients: All-purpose flour – 1 1/2 cups Baking powder – 1 tablespoon Salt – 1/2 teaspoon Sugar – 2 tablespoons Egg – 1 Pure vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon Milk – 1 1/4 cup Butter – 75 gms Honey – to serve, optional Method: 1. Add all the dry ingredients t...

Up on post today is one of my favorite veggie curry. Very less do I experiment veggie curries. I usually make any simple curry with veggies and repeat the same stuff when it is a vegetable meal day in my house. And so it turns out boring and is always a left over. Veggies do not excite me much and so I do not make much variety with it. This time also in a mission to make my family feed with more veggies, I decided to try something new and found this recipe. As the recipe mentions, I did not use fresh mushrooms, instead I used tinned ones and replaced the frozen green peas with fresh ones. This curry once tasted turned out to be my favorite and whenever now I find a chance to make Vegetable curry, I make this. Over to the recipe, Recipe adapted from here Ingredients: Oil- 2-3 tbsp Cumin seeds- 1/2 tsp Green peas (fresh or frozen)- 1/2 cup Mushroom-1/2 cup chopped. (I used tinned mushrooms) Tomato- 3 Ginger- 1 inch piece Chilly- 3 Cream- 1/2 cup Asafetida- a pi...

Thinking about  blessed holy month of Ramadan already fills me with chills when people are so much around, mosques crowded, streets busy, everything seems so special. Especially being in an Islamic country like UAE, I enjoy the benefit of husband returning from work early, due to short working hours for all companies and then roads during night time is so lit up and busy, anybody can roam around safely no matter even if you are alone. Its definitely a month of devotion and religious commitment, which is only why you can still fast in full spirit no matter how long the fasting hours are and that too when summer is at its peak. Its a month when Quran was sent to our Messenger Muhammad S.A. and we give so much importance in spending our time in recitation of Quran and that is mostly how I spend my time of worship or Ibaadah apart from obligatory prayers during Ramadan. Ofcourse apart from religious commitment, we are supposed to cook for the Iftar (fast breaking time) but t...

This might sound long and difficult. But it isn't. I love the buttery flaky texture of puff pastry sheets and I always felt that making those at home are really not worth when lots of them are available in stores. But after having tried and failed a few times those store bought sheets, which I found hard to separate and did not puff up in the oven, I decided to give it a try at home. But it took me ages to find the courage to really give it a try. The steps are simple. U just to have fold it three or four times but keeping intervals and refrigerated between each folds which was the real annoying thing for me as I couldn't finish the work when my kids were fast asleep. But I was happy with the out come. It was really easy to make. Far better than I imagined. Tasted exactly like the bakery ones. Over to the recipe Ingredients: All purpose flour- 3 1/2 cups + 1/2 cup Butter- 450 gms+ 100 gms Cold water salt  Chicken filling of your choice Method: First mix 3...

Oh berries! How much I love them. But  here in desert, we hardly get berries.. Now that's a false statement. You get berries here throughout the year but you need to pay twice as much as its quantity. I mean it. I am not boasting. Its about 15 Aed for a small pack of blueberry with only 10 or 15 of them. Every time I admiringly gaze at those beauties in super market, take them in my hand and then return them to fridge. This is the case with all the berries so buying a berry and having them is like my distant dream except for strawberries which are affordable at least during winter. And to take my cravings to extreme, my fellow bloggers in west have their blogs loaded with lots of berry recipes and without able to try them, I put my cravings to sleep. This one I found for pretty good deal. When i found those, though they were still quite expensive, there was no second thought and i bought those, calculating to try loads of berry recipes when i was still aware that i had on...