For the love of food and travel

♪ It's the most wonderful time of the year ♪  Come December, and that's the song that goes on in my mind.  Probably the most celebrated holiday in the world, our modern Christmas is a product of hundreds of years of both secular and religious traditions from around the globe.  Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. It is generally celebrated on December 25th by most of the nations. Christmas celebration starts almost a month before. It includes decorating the houses with colorful lights, stars, etc., decorating Christmas trees and making a small manger. People sing carols rejoicing in the birth of Jesus. They are also busy making goodies to share with friends. Christmas is also called the 'season of giving' and people love to exchange gifts with loved ones and give gifts to the poor. Finally the actual Christmas day is celebrated by wearing new clothes and going to church, bursting fireworks and having a great feast with family.

   I'm sure most of us have eaten pizza at least once in our lives. I remember eating pizza since I was a little girl.....and I absolutely love them.  Though the deep pan pizza, the Chicago style, the one with the soft and buttery crust is yummy and filling....I personally like the thin crusted Italian style pizza.  Pizza is typically yeasted flatbread. The modern pizza was invented in Naples, Italy, and the dish and its variants have since become popular and common in many areas of the world. Foods similar to pizza have been made since the neolithic age. Records of people adding other ingredients to bread to make it more flavorful can be found throughout ancient history. The ancient Greeks covered their bread with oils, herbs and cheese. A popular contemporary legend holds that the classic pizza, pizza Margherita, was invented in 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commissioned the Neapolitan pizza maker, Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honor of the visi

Biscuits and cookies are one those favourite snack items of your kids. And they would be munching on a couple or more every now and then when those little hunger pangs keep knocking. As a concerned mom, who is not very pleased on the store bought ones and is always determined on feeding healthy stuff for my kids, I make and bake cookies at home. I think there are many moms (dads too) out there who think like I do too.....and have got into baking cookies & biscuits for this same reason. Butter cookies (or butter biscuits), known as Brysslkex, Sablés, and Danish biscuits, are unleavened cookies consisting of butter, flour, and sugar. They are often categorized as a "crisp cookie" due to their texture, caused in part because of the quantity of butter and sugar. It is generally necessary to chill the dough to enable proper manipulation and handling. Butter cookies at their most basic have no flavoring, but they are often flavored with vanilla, chocolate, and coco

Baked meals are one of my favourites. I love it, when my meal is baking in the oven.....and meanwhile I can do some stuff at that time like clean up or spend some time with my kids in their playtime or study time or even just take a shower. And before I know it, the buzzer is turned off and dinner is ready to be served.  It's also great when you're having guests over for a party....and definitely when it's a time you have so many things to do and make and organise.  Here's a recipe I made for a potluck Christmas Bash at a dear one's home. And I took my special glazed pork to the party.  It's a very simple recipe. I've used this a couple of times with chicken wings, but with pork it was the first time. Well....it came out yumm......everyone enjoyed it and I've been asked to share the recipe. So this post is especially for them.  Ingredients:  1/4 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar 3 tablespoons peeled and finely chopped fre