This post was originally published on October 13, 2006. It has been updated once since then.

Bake is a popular breakfast bread here in Trinidad. Hearty by nature, its heavy crumb it keeps you feeling satisfied for hours. Especially when taken with a savory topping. My version here, raises the fiber content through a healthy dose of wholewheat flour. Be sure to pay attention to the resting time and icy water, it’s necessary for tender results

Wholewheat Bake
Ingredients:
1 cup white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp …

Finally! I have completed (and posted) a Daring Cooks Challenge on time! I have been cooking along with this most recent adjunct to the Daring Bakers community but have always ended up missing the deadlines for one reason or another. No more!
This time around the challenge was Indian Dosas. I’ve made dosas before but this was my first time doing so with gluten-free flour. Two suggested accompaniments were also given; a curried chickpea filling and a coconut curry gravy. I decided to use the recommended filling but broke away …

Earlier this year when my mother was diagnosed with severe gluten-related allergies it came as a surprise to her, and us. We never realized such an allergy could rear its head so late in a person’s life. After seeing what she went through physically in the weeks it took to diagnose we have all gone the extra step to make sure that gluten-free dishes and snacks are on hand. This being Trinidad many alternatives that are used by those in food blogosphere are hard to find, or when found astronomically …

Hoorah for World Bread Day! It’s been 2 years since I last participated and I was extremely not to miss the deadline this time around. Hosted each year by kochtopf World Bread Day aims to highlight bakers and bread recipes from around the world.
Around this time of year the food blogosphere proliferates with temperate climate fall recipes. Pumpkin bread recipes especially abound and, for a moment or two, I was tempted to give one or two of them a try. That was until a hankering for curry created …

OK guys, so sorry for taking so long to return but things have been INSANE! Avon has been taking over my life, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but definitely unexpected! It’s quickly becoming my main source of income, which after a year of having little to no income is a very welcome thing, especially since I love everything it involves I have however not stopped cooking and I have finally found the time to complete some of the many unfinished entries that are currently lingering in …

When I saw the specifications for this month’s “Weekend Breakfast Blogging: Ethnic Dishes With A Twist” I was both excited and anxious. You see Marie (this month’s host) wanted us to make a dish from a culture, country, or ethnicity other than our own. Well wow, that really left me in a bit of a tizzy I’m not familiar with that many breakfast dishes, and those that I do invariably come from my own cultural/ethnic/national mixes. I would have to really dig deep this time around. Nothing I …

Coconut rock buns are a nostalgic treat for me. I vividly remember saving up my allowance, as a child ,to buy them from the lady who sold baked goods out of the back of her station wagon every Wednesday afternoon at my prep school. Now and then I would stray from my old standby and purchase a sugar bun or currant roll, but invariably I always returned to my faithful friend, the coconut rock bun. I don’t know why coconut rock buns appeal to me so much. I think in …

So I’m down to the wire, poised like a racehorse at the starting gate, determined to meet the deadline of this month’s Bread Baking Day. So what if I waited til the last possible moment, it still counts right? This month the theme is ‘Bread with Fruit’. Well what could be more tropical, and more classic, than banana bread? So far to date I’ve had luck with the recipes on GraceFoods.com so I thought that there Banana Bread recipe would also be a home run. Well, I don’t …

When I saw that Zorra at Kochtopf had decided to start a monthly bread challenge I knew I had to take part. I love to make bread and I don’t make as many varieties as I would like This would be an opportunity to really challenge myself and put to use some of the many tips and tricks I’ve been absorbing through osmosis via The Fresh Loaf
For this first challenge Zorra wanted us to make a bread that contained herbs. My first thought was to …

Hearty, dense, earthy, wholesome. These are the words that I traditionally associate with muffins, thanks to years of my mom’s bran-carrot-raisin concoctions. As good and nutritious as those are they are also the polar opposite of everything that this recipe was. Yet another slam-dunk from The Good Home Cookbook: More Than 1000 Classic American Recipes, these muffins were light, airy, and delicately sweet from the natural sugars of the apple chunks studded throughout. The light streusel topping is equally subtle and far from overpowering. It was really enjoyable to put …