food & photography
Some flavours are so great to be paired together, that you just want to give it a try without giving any second thought. This is what happened when I was watching a cooking show on TV a couple of weeks back where a local home baker of Turkish origin was shown baking some pistachio orange syrup cake and then finally serving them with some greek yogurt. …
Who doesn’t get fascinated by some seriously dark chocolate cake with hot melting ooey gooey chocolate centre? Add some peanut butter and a dash of espresso coffee, it fulfils your chocolate cravings to another level of gratification. Exactly this is what happened when I bake these decadent espresso peanut butter choco lava cakes a couple of days back….
So this bag full of gorgeous and healthy cacao nibs, which I bought last year during my visit to London, has been sitting in my fridge staring at me in deep anticipation of being picked up. And I was guilty of not having done a justice to these lovely healthy chocolate beans. For the uninitiated, cacao nibs are basically cacao beans that have been roasted and broken into smaller pieces. So naturally, they don’t contain sugar and a very good source of essential nutrients. …