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Of Bake Sale Fundraisers and Gluten-free Jowar Rosemary Seeds Crackers

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Back to School(and Baking) and Gluten-free Cheese and Coriander crackers

After two months of summer holiday, getting into school life took sometime. A month. 🙂 Between a hectic work schedule, new things happening at the school for both kids and several aspects of OMBC needing my attention and time, I didn’t find a lot of time to bake. But my persistent focus on finding small pockets of time in the day when I can wind down even if it means for a span of 10 minutes…

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Independence Day and Wholewheat Flaxseed-Oat Bran buns

Independence Day and Wholewheat Flaxseed-Oat Bran buns

What are the odds that our children are learning the same songs that we learnt during Independence Day preps? I finished school 23 years ago. But as I heard little voices ( my son and daughter) both practicing ‘Nanha Munna RahiId Hoon’ and ‘Hum Honge Kamyaab’ before Independence Day, I spent all afternoon thinking about the beauty of things that survived the onslaught of change, tech disruption…

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Baking Bread and children who gobble it

Baking Bread and children who gobble it

It was a long day yesterday. But since I promised myself ( read:the kids) that I shall bake bread every Tuesday and Saturday, so well – here it is. I baked it and I am not exactly sure if I would have felt better that it was gobbled down or if it had been savoured at a leisurely pace. When you put in a lot of effort in getting the bake together, you wonder what is the best way to do justice to…

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Turning tradition on the head & Lower Carb Gluten free Bagel

Turning tradition on the head & Lower Carb Gluten free Bagel

Bagels are usually extremely high carb, some studies put them at almost double the amount of carbs (unhealthy ones) as compared to even white flour bread. And pretty much why most folks look skeptical when we say healthy and baking in the same breath. Not their fault. Traditionally most of the baked goods are sugar laden, refined white flour based bakes. But then old traditions which are not…

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Making these Wholewheat Flaxmeal Buns

Making these Wholewheat Flaxmeal Buns

All of you have been kind enough to put up with multiple bread pictures in the past few weeks but the children had had enough of trying breads so well, it’s bun time! Which they absolutely loved. I was worried about their reaction when I told them its a Wholewheat Flaxseeds Flour bun in which I had used up leftover Tomato Basil soup. But they didn’t bat an eyelid before jumping onto tasting…

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Fear of failure and Wholewheat Focaccia Bread

Fear of failure and Wholewheat Focaccia Bread

Bread has been my bane for some years. It was the last baked item I tried in my hands on. I could happily jump into creating recipes using all kind of alternative flours for cakes, cookies, crackers. But when it came to bread I would be worried to even try out a refined flour one. What was stopping me? Fear. I guess, all the healthy bakes I had created recipes for and tried out were working…

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Adapting to Change & Gluten-free Oats Almond Cookies

Adapting to Change & Gluten-free Oats Almond Cookies

Remember I shared some posts about how as a family we only do desserts on the weekend now for the past 6 months and one low carb dessert per weekend. But once in 5-6 months I am trying to do something similar to what I used to earlier – healthy flour plus natural unrefined sweetener bakes. Often as parents we think that kids are ‘picky’ eaters or that they are not going to change their food…

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Adding the fourth element & Khapli Wheat Moringa Loaf

Adding the fourth element & Khapli Wheat Moringa Loaf

Do you like a bread that is flavourful? I know that sounds like a strange question because who doesn’t like that. But most people still go on and use store bought breads which not only lack flavour but also the right nutritive value. And then we go ahead and blame baked goods for ill-health. We have the knowledge to make discerning choices. We have the access to ingredients that were never…

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Overcoming this time and The Wholewheat Pizza

Overcoming this time and The Wholewheat Pizza

Weekends need a little bit extra, even if for those of us who are working from home endlessly, it seems like there is no difference from one day to the next. The pizza dough getting ready. When ‘yeast the beast’ is happy and bubbling, and the dough is doubling, it’s a good day in the kitchen. I have recently started working in a role that takes up a larger part of my day than all the others I…

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Hold Onto Hope & Low-Carb Gluten-free 4 Seed Baked Bites

Hold Onto Hope & Low-Carb Gluten-free 4 Seed Baked Bites

The scariest and yet the bravest thing to do when the world around you is so bleak, is to hold onto hope. Hope that has been shattered so many times that you have lost count. Hope that has been crushed so many times that you can’t remember. Hope that has been destroyed so many times that you can’t find it inside your heart. But it’s also the same hope that is not fragile. It’s strong. Because…

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"Sweet" Childhood Memories & Low Carb Almond Laddoo

“Sweet” Childhood Memories & Low Carb Almond Laddoo

When you think of childhood memories the most evocative ones are almost always related to food, especially when it comes to homemade sweets or desserts and a child’s spontaneous reaction to them – when the cake batter was getting made, dipping a finger in it to steal a taste of it before it was popped in the oven, when the halwa was taken off the stove to cool off burning your tongue by taking…

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Conversation with Lecin and Low Carb Gluten Free Almond Mint Ribbons

Conversation with Lecin and Low Carb Gluten Free Almond Mint Ribbons

As always conversations that cover a crucial topic but involve a fun interaction are my favourite ones. So as Nupur and I spoke about the importance of Early Childhood Education, Learning , Nutrition and their inter connectivity, it was great to be able to share what I felt had worked or was working for me. See the entire conversation…

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Mental tug-of-war and Low Carb Almond Mini Buns

Mental tug-of-war and Low Carb Almond Mini Buns

A lazy Saturday afternoon, I sat in front of the laptop screen, To work on somethings, without any distraction. But my eyes flitted from the screen, to the tree outside the window, And back to the screen, for some action. That’s the story of my life The mind is in a thousand places at the same time. It wants to read what’s written on the screen but it also wants to keep watching the tree…

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Compassion Fatigue and Low Carb Vegan Gluten-free Baked "Coins"

Compassion Fatigue and Low Carb Vegan Gluten-free Baked “Coins”

A few days ago I was reading an article that spoke about “compassion fatigue”. Well, Google will tell you that this terms means – that this is basically indifference that people experience, towards charitable causes because of being exposed to such causes or appeals too many times. When I read that I stopped to think. We do a ton of things on OMBC (Ovenderful Mom Bakers Community) which are…

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Life is simple, people are not and Vegan Gluten-free Baked Zucchini Chips

Life is simple, people are not and Vegan Gluten-free Baked Zucchini Chips

A couple of days ago I shared a post which described my daughter’s diagnosis and shared the recipe for Chocolate Doughnuts – made with low carb flours and stevia powder. And since I have been writing and sharing as much as I can, to raise awareness as much as to share my own experience, about this, I am always hopeful when I read comments from people about the recipe and the use of…

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Last few months and Low-carb gluten-free Almond Flour Chocolate Doughnuts with Stevia powder.

Last few months and Low-carb gluten-free Almond Flour Chocolate Doughnuts with Stevia powder.

Four months exactly since my little girl was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. The day just flashes past my eyes – the doctor sharing the diagnosis with us, rushing to the paediatric ICU, lying down with my little girl on the hospital bed holding her hands as the doctors took charge, talking to her softly as she started taking in her surroundings, even though I knew how unwell she was and how…