D innovation series 2

Home made bread.

Yes, seriously on an idli steamer. She tweaked it here and tweaked it there and has now come to a fairly acceptable bread preparation. So much so, they had vegetable bread burger for breakfast, made from first principles, including baking bread, the vegetables and the sweet and sour chutney to give the ultimate topping.Woh!

She is not resting on her success. She says she will have the dough stay for some more time the next time she tries to make bread(which is today, by the way) and watch the results.

For her father this is the ultimate in home cooking. He has been forever fascinated with baking bread at home. He has told me this on several occasions. Well, not directly, but in passing. It goes like, " Freshly baked bread will be so fluffy and tasty" ." I don't know if it is at all possible to bake bread at home, it is just a fanciful idea that I have".  So he is maha thrilled. D made banana bread as a beginning.She said it is not really bread, it is a crossover from a cake recipe.She tried that a few times and added her own thinking into it and it is just right for their taste now.

She has promised that she will make coffee cake for me when I visit them next.

I remember a friend of ours had made  some very delicious baked vegetable dish when we had gone to their house for dinner. She told me that she is not a very enthusiastic cook as far as traditional dishes are concerned.But she always likes to bake something new when she has guests. And how we enjoyed the preparation.

Perhaps D is also taking that path!

With this my maid and her circle will start baking bread in their idli steamer. Next you will find roadside idli shops replaced with homemade bread burgers!