Breakfast Smoothie – Turbo Charge your day !!!

Breakfast, the most important meal of the day, often tends to be just carbohydrate rich. It may provide us that quick energy boost but it may also make you feel very full and lethargic. More often than not your breakfast may also be devoid of the necessary vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. So how about a  quick breakfast smoothie which not only gives us a feel good factor, but also gives us the daily  dose of natural nutrients and energises us to kick start the day? Continue reading “Breakfast Smoothie – Turbo Charge your day !!!”

Let food be thy medicine….

“Mom, I will be very late tonight! I have emergency duty at the hospital. Pack me some extra food.”, said my ‘soon to be doctor’ daughter as she was leaving for the hospital. You can very well imagine the precarious position I would be in whenever I have to discuss food with my daughter. She knows that eating the right food at right time is essential and but actually getting her to do that is a tough job! Most moms will identify with this. Continue reading “Let food be thy medicine….”

Its a Topsy Turvy World!!!

Some of you would have watched this sci-fi series on Netflix called ‘Stranger Things’. For those of you who haven’t, its a thriller series that talks about another parallel universe that exists in the upside down and that isn’t normal. While watching that series, a thought struck me that there is an upside down world in baking as well and that is absolutely normal, delicious and desirable! Yes I am talking about the Tarte Tatins and upside down cakes of the sweet world! Some baker out there thought out of the box and created this absolute delicacy called the upside down cake! After all what philosopher Edward De Bono said is so true, “ Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way”. Continue reading “Its a Topsy Turvy World!!!”