How many times have I searched for a good recipe, and when upon finding the right one only then to groan at the quantities listed in the ingredients for chicken, lamb or seafood !! It has driven me to despair time & time again. Especially when I have already bought the main ingredient prior to deciding on the recipe. Unfortunately there is no standard across the board, each writer uses quantities that they are comfortable with. And no book tells you how to divide OR multiply the ingredients, which can be tricky where spices are involved. Finally I decided to create a list of Indian cook books based on quantities to avoid the despair which I am sharing with you:-

Books for 500gr to 800gr meat or poultry are

• Anurag Aggarwal
• Atul Kochhar
• Cyrus Todiwala
• Denise de Silva Sankh
• Kausar Raja
• Maunika Gauwadhan
• Mehak Kansal
• Monisha Bharadwaj
• Rohit Ghai
• Romy Gill
• Sanjeev Kapoor
• Suki Pantal
• Vijaya Selvaraju
• Vikas Khanna
• Vineet Bhatia
• Dishoom

Books for 1kg & ++

• Asma Khan
• Ashok Bajaj
• Rupa Gulati
• Camelia Punjabi
• Jiggs Kalra
• Vivek Singh
• Kumar Mahadevan
• Hardeep Singh Kohli
• Madhur Jaffrey
• Pushpesh Pant

Books for 1.5-kg

• Karan Gokani

… but I’m not mad about it!!

Welcome to Mimi's Tastes Delicious Looks like Hell Bakery!

I was watching a rerun of Great British Bake Off and one of challenges was a walnut cake. It piqued my interest so I decided to look for a similar recipe. Found this on in Snacking Cakes. It's wonderful! My husband and I are empty nesters, so small cakes are ideal.

The only thing I wish was that the maple flavor was more present. I'll use more next time

My bakery (imaginary) bakery is named that because my stuff usually tastes delicious but always looks a little rough!