Malabar Muffins

This one was for my little baby Efrem who's allergic to ALL meat protein and dairy products. Being allergic to things most people take for granted is not easy. Luckily for us, he's not really known life another way. He probably thinks all milk everyone drinks tastes like Soy milk (ugghh!!) and he's never actually enjoyed an egg in his life (Sigh :( ). So this aunt went to work trying to make something which wasn't just sugared soy biscuits, but something a little more interesting. I wanted him to have a taste of home, a taste of our roots, land and country. What's more 'home' than Plantains, Coconut and Cardamom to anyone from Kerala?

C'est moi

Hi,

My name is Maria George and if you've reached this page you're crazy. Well, no, Seriously! haha! I'm happy to have you here.

This is my tiny little contribution to the few people who have asked me for recipes of things I put up on Facebook. I am a baker, I always was and am fairly sure always will be. I baked my first cake on my own when I was ten, but was helping my mum around the kitchen way before that. I love tinkering around the kitchen. Going through my mum's refrigerator is one of my fav hobbies. I also collect bakeware, crockery, odds & ends for the kitchen and am known to sit crosslegged in Jamal's Bangalore for hours going through their stuff.

I make things I enjoy. Sometimes it depends on whats in my kitchen, sometimes on the season and sometimes on what I'm reading at the moment (Why does Enid Blyton make scones sound so exciting always??!!!) Most of these recipes are heavily influenced by other recipes online. Occasionally I flip through a cookbook and try something. Thats a rare occurrence though. In times of trouble, Google is my biggest helper. But the last and final call always goes "MUMMMMMMM"

I hold a degree in Architectural Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut and am a Marketing graduate from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. A better marketeer than designer I can fairly say, cos I've never practiced Architecture and don't think I ever will. It had been a dream almost forever to go to Le Cordon Bleu for a course. In 2012, I finally attended the Basic Patisserie course at LCB, London. Hence Cordon Bleu certified too! Though, I think I liked my time in London a tad more than the course itself ;-) More on that at some point.

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