cooking utensils

Cooking is an artistic way of combining nutrition with flavor, taste and appeal. Such a master piece can be created every day almost every meal when the gadgets are right. Some recipes tastes their best when cooked in a special utensil. Lot of you would heard about the taste of every individual human who cook the same recipe in 100 different ways. Utensils plays an important role not only in cooking enhancement but also food safety, as well as safeguard against diseases.

There are variety of vessels available in the market which creates confusion to the buyer, when most of short list the variety by price very few go by the aesthetics. at least some of us once in a while will think    which is safe to use and which carries most nutrition in food.

Iron /cast iron vessels:

Earthen ware / clay pots:

china ware

silverware

hardanodised vessels

non-stick

copper vessels

glassware

aluminium tins

stainless steel

plastic containers

Race car (macqueen) cake

It's been a long time in the cake journey for its more than one year now I baked & decorated a cake. This was Sriram's fifth birthday and all that he wanted was a lightning McQueen which is a one year old request. With two kids its pretty tough to do all that i wish to complete in a day. It took a lot of determination for me to venture in to this cake, but was a big hit in the school and among all the kids. when i placed the cake on the small center table all i could hear was a big "oh" a cake ... first, then a car cake....  celebrating birthday at school is the first time and different experience for him. He was very upset the previous day that we did not call our friends for a party, but I promised him to make his day more fun and special at school which he didn't realise until experienced.

As usual a chocolate cake with white frosting for the stage to place the lightning McQueen.
the white frosting is a pure butter cream frosting. the recipes for chocolate cake and butter cream frosting has been published earlier.