Norwish Recipes

Toscano  is one of my favorite restaurants in Bangalore and I did not want to miss the cooking demo they had last week on French cuisine and who would miss the amazing three course meal....for a price of course...it was a nice experience ...got to learn a lot and also met few nice people out there. I got to learn 4 dishes and I will try to create it in my kitchen and it is going to be called 'Mission Toscano'......yeah I have a thing for silly names....how else do you think I ended up with 'Cherie's STOLEN recipes".........hopefully I will get to take part in the next months demo too.....I can add more recipes to the 'Mission Toscano' list Gratin potato is a very simple accompaniment with pastas and steaks......I think, I am more of a 'mashed potato' person. Ingredients Print this recipe 5 large Potatoes 200ml Milk 200ml Cream 1 medium Onion ,chopped 1tbsp chopped or crushed Garlic Salt to taste Pepper to taste 100grams Mozzarella , grated 100grams ...

                                   Again......planned to write 1000 words....but this is all I could come up with... Dad you are my hero........Happy Birthday Recipe Source: Smitten Kitchen Ingredients Print this recipe For Cake 480grams Cake Flour (4 cups + 2 tbsp) 2tsp Baking powder 1 1/2 tsp Baking Soda 1 tsp Salt 225grams unsalted butter (softened) 400grams Sugar (2 cups) 2 tsp Vanilla extract 4 large Eggs (room temperature) 2 cups Butter milk For Butter cream icing 225grams unsalted Butter (softened) 188grams Icing sugar 1 1/2 cup Dark Chocolate (melted and cooled slightly) Method Make cake flour : Once you measure plain flour remove 8 tbsp  and replace with 8 tbsp Cornflour. Sift 3 times.Cake flour is ready. Buttermilk substitute : add 2 tbsp vinegar to 2 cups of milk,let it stand for 5 to 10 minutes,use this for cake batter. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.Line two 9 inch baking pan with b...

Clotted Cream 4 C heavy cream (NOT ultra-pasteurized) Place 4 C cream in a glass 9x13 pan and cover with tin foil.  Place in 160-180 degree oven overnight or 8-10 hours.  Cream is clotted when you can see the two layers. Remove from oven.  If there is a brown film on top, remove with a fork while still warm.  Replace foil and place in fridge until set, 4-6 hours.  Spoon clotted cream off top, or pour liquid out from underneath, which ever comes first.  Mix clotted cream until smooth.  Serve at room temperature. Can be stored in the fridge for a few days. Should yield 2 C clotted cream.  Serve on English Scones ! **Seriously delightfully reminiscent and yummy! ** If you've never had it, it taste like a mix between unsalted butter and whipped cream....a touch sweeter.

English Scones Chocolate Chip & Cranberry Orange 2 C flour 1/4 C sugar 1 1/4 t baking powder 1/4 t baking soda 1/4 t salt 1/2 C unsalted butter, cold and cut into pieces 1 t vanilla extract 2/3-3/4 C buttermilk For Chocolate Chip Scones 1 C chocolate chips (if large chips, do a rough chop) For Cranberry Orange Scones 1 C craisins (I prefer rough chopped) 1 T orange zest 1/4 C fresh squeezed orange juice In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, powder, soda and salt.  Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs (I seem to have best luck with my fingers). Add chocolate chips or craisins, zest and juice.  Add vanilla to buttermilk, using 3/4 C for chocolate chip and 2/3 C or a bit less for cranberry.  Mix until just combined and soft and sticky dough has formed.  Flour counter and form dough into two 6 inch by 1 inch disks, flouring both sides.  Cut each disk into 8 wedges.  Place on parchment lined cookie sheet.  Brush with buttermilk and sprin...

Liege Belgian Waffles 2 T sugar 3/4 C lukewarm milk 3 eggs 1 C melted butter 2 t vanilla 3 C flour 1 T instant yeast 1/2 t salt 1 1/2 C Belgian Pearl Sugar (Lars' Own - Pirate O's in Sandy) Whisk sugar, milk, eggs, butter and vanilla until blended.  In a separate bowl, mix flour, yeast and salt.  Add egg mixture to flour mixture. Mix until soft dough forms.  Cover with a light cloth and let rise in a warm place (80-95 degrees) until doubled in volume.  About 30-45 minutes.  Preheat waffle iron. Gently mix in pearled sugar.  Place approximately a 1/3 C of dough on preheated waffle iron and cook until crisp, approximately 2 minutes.  Be careful taking waffles out of iron, the sugar gets scalding hot and can easily burn the fingers.  Delicious alone, but divine served with fruit and cream or biscoff spread. **Thanks to a trip to a farmer's market and the "waffle love" truck, I was introduced to the Liege waffle.  The pearled sugar makes these wa...

Anyone who watches Masterchef would have come across this dish,I have seen quite a few contestants creating Cherry Clafoutis.....recent one being Fillipo and I remember the judges saying that it tasted like sweet cherry omelette.....well that is exactly what I ended up with in my first attempt of making Cherry Clafoutis....I did not enjoy it and was wondering whats so great about this dish with a fancy French name and I was also very glad that I was smart enough to have halved the recipe....I was so surprised that my granny enjoyed it...in fact she was asking if there was more...then I thought....maybe its just my palette that is so used to having chocolate....and maybe this dish failed to hit the right chord for me....so I decided to give it a try again...this time I made few changes ....increased the level of sweetness and baked for lesser time(coz I definitely did not want to end up with cherry omlette).....my mom,dad,daughter, granny and my maid enjoyed Cherry Clafoutis......

Brownie Cookies 8 oz or 1 1/3 C semisweet chocolate (or chips) 3 T butter 1 C sugar 3 lg eggs 1 t pero powder (could leave out) 1 t vanilla 1 C flour 1/4 t baking powder 1/4 t salt 1 C semisweet chocolate chips (optional - but we like) Melt chocolate and butter in the microwave, for 20 seconds at a time just until chocolate melts. Do not over heat.  In mixer bowl,  beat sugar and eggs.  Add melted chocolate and mix until combined.  Add remaining ingredients, mixing in chocolate chips after all of the flour is incorporated.  Refrigerate dough for an hour to make it easier to handle.  Bake at 325 on parchment or silpat lined cookie sheet. 1 T cookie bakes for 7-9 minutes or until center is just dry/set.  1/4 C cookie bakes for 11-12 minutes. *Adapted from King Arthur Flour **I've made these a few times and we love them.  The dough is a mess, next time I will put it in pam sprayed plastic wrap and refrigerate it in a log shape.  Then I can just ...

M & M Cookies 1 C sugar 1 C brown sugar 1/2 C butter 1/2 C shortening 2 eggs (preferably large - I use Costco's - if not using large, reduce flour) 2 t baking soda 1 t salt 1 t vanilla 3 C flour 2 C plain m&m's Cream together sugars, butter and shortening.  Add eggs and beat until fluffy. Add soda, salt, vanilla and flour.  Mix well. Dough should not stick to the sides, if it does, use a little more flour. Stir in m&m's, the mixer breaks them. Bake on a parchment or a silpat lined cookie sheet at 350.  1 T cookie bakes for approximately 6 minutes. (I say approximately because both my ovens bake differently.) 1/4 C cookie bakes for approximately 8 minutes. 1 T cookies bakes from ball form, 1/4 C cookie is a bag flattened slightly. *Adapted from Breanna's Recipe Box *Freeze wonderfully, but once they are in a ziploc at room temp, the texture changes. Just sayin' :) *1 batch makes 72 (1T) or 36 (2T) or 18 (1/4C)

Have you ever fallen in love........with a dish.......when I say love I do not mean....'feeling weak in the knees' love......or having an 'organism' love...neither 'getting turned on' love.......nor 'sinful love'......I am talking about just 'Pure Love'.......from the heart love.......coz believe me this is that dish......LOVE. I know I am in love with a dish ....when ...'ME'...known for my laziness.....actually gets up middle of the night,walks down two floors...in pitch darkness...into the kitchen.....all the while praying that there is no ghost following me....open my refrigerator....just to steal a bite.....yes.....that is when I know I am in LOVE....from the heart PURE LOVE.  Creme au Chocolat is like heaven for a dessert lovers and perfect for couples in love......or maybe for my sisters and me who are in love with chocolate.There is no way anyone can hate this dessert......spread some LOVE.....make some Creme au Chocolat.....oooooo...

We cousins are a crazy bunch.....if one zones out....the other one just loves to dance and eat ........one loves to cook and eat.........and our cousin Kooky is one of a kind......apart from her unique feature....her big beautiful ears she is also known to go mad after 11pm and is just crazy about chocolates....what better way to celebrate her birthday by sending her virtual 'Totally Chocolate - Chocolate chip cookies'........and the best part .....'Cookies for Kooky' sounds cool :).....Wish you a very Happy Birthday Kooks....I have wonderful memories with you.....I love your after 11 madness....throwing your leg up in the air and singing ....Yeh jho mohabbat hai.......you are special.........waiting to see you soon. This post was long due....Neetu, Devs and me wanted to make these cookies for Kooks for long time...Well here it is "Kooksu..... My chaddi buddy....only cousin who tolerated me as a child....as described by my sister....Kooksu is our MAD CRAZY ONE....t...