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Homemade Instant Garlic Bread

Breakfast is an important meal for all and especially considering at home we have only the breakfast and dinner together, its even more important to make sure that I make something which is liked by everyone. Its really difficult to come up with something new for breakfast everyday. I myself don't like to repeat the same dishes, leave apart the weird faces my hubby and son make :( Yesterday, I bought a loaf of triangle shaped sandwich bread thinking I'd make sandwich's for breakfast today. I had decided to make a vegetable sandwich but as luck would have it..I got up a little late and everything just got delayed. I decided to switch over to a faster option of Instant Garlic Bread.. Here's how I made it... Ingredients: Bread slices , 4 tbsps salted butter , 7-8 garlic cloves , crushed or very finely chopped, Oregano seasonings , (I've used the one's you get from Pizza Hut/Domino's) Chilli flakes , (optional), (I've not used it here) Salt as p...

Orange Cake with Orange Glaze

A few months back, for Christmas, I had a small tea party. I had decided to make an Orange Cake from a paper cutting I had resevered for sometime. Shortly, after the tea party, I went off on a vacation and this post just did not get published. When Aparna announced the FIC-Orange this month, I knew what I had to do :-) Food themes like this, inspire you to get your posts out however lazy you might feel..:-0) I had never made an Orange Cake before and this recipe was fairly simple. Thought of giving it a try. Good quality oranges are available during winter here (though nowadays oranges are available all round the year)especially the imported ones. The orange glaze is the best part about the whole cake which I realized only after eating it!!! This cake makes a perfect tea time cake, if you have some oranges handy.. Ingredients for the basic Orange Cake: 2 cups flour , 1 cup powdered sugar , 1/2 cup unsalted butter , softened, 2 eggs , 1/2 tsp salt , 2 tsps baking powder , ...