Food tricks

A simple and easy way to make individual servings of dessert that are perfectly portable is baking in a jar, These are super cute and a great way to put up my canning jars for a good use. Baking in jars give you an opportunity to present packaged baked goods to your friends and family. Wrap pretty ribbon around the sealed jars complete with a special card. You can use any basic cake recipe but I prefer this simple and quick ones. There are so many recipes that can be baked in jars. Vanilla Cake In a Jar is baked with melted butter instead of oil and added just half a cup of sugar, this suits my taste. This Vanilla Cake In a Jar recipe filled 3 jars of 18-oz, this is the size I had at the moment. By using a 12-oz jar, you could get more than 3 definitely. It is important to use wide mouth canning jars for filling the batter with ease and would slide out easily. Make sure the use a proper jars that can withstand the heat and safe for baking..

After a long gap, I haven't eaten samosa and the last time I made was this Mini Samosa . Samosa is made by two parts, the crust and the filling. Traditionally shaped into triangle and deep fried, I came across other interesting filling such as cheese, chocolate, fruit and nuts instead of potato or meat. Some make it healthier by baking them. . There are ton of recipes for samosa with varied spice combo, some without onion, coriander, cumin or garam masala either way you choose it still turned out tasty, Done without mango powder but added some lemon juice for this Peas & Potato Samosa. The secret to perfect samosa was the way you fried them. It needs time to get that golden brown and crisp exterior by using medium heat only so be patience. You would like to pair these Peas & Potato Samosa with green chutney or ketchup but we enjoyed them without those.