Harveen's Baking Affair

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and if you are still vacillating about your dinner menu for that day , let me take take the sweat out of the side options atleast with this blog post. Don't these baked hassleback sweet potatoes seal teh deal for you appetizer wise? They are healthy , take minimum fuss to prepare and have Thanksgiving written all over them. Need more pitching ? How about the extremely healthy dip/sauce that goes with it ?Give it a try and you are bound to get compliments galore !! Please feel free to leave a thank you note later :-) Ingredients - 3 medium sweet potatoes 1 tbsp unsalted butter 1 tsp olive oil 1 tbsp Italian seasoning 1 finely grated garlic 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp black pepper For the sauce - 1/3 cup non fat yogurt 1 scallion finely chopped Method - Pre heat the oven to 425 degrees F and line a baking tray with aluminum foil. Wash the sweet potatoes and now make 1/8 th inch cuts 2/3 rd of the way through. Take...

We are celebrating our Thanksgiving the typical desi way ..yes, you guessed it right ..we are having a potluck party . Before you dismiss it as another boring affair , let me point out that we are doing something "different".. we are having a Thanksgiving brunch instead of the traditional dinner. While you may feel the need to compliment us for doing something "hatke" let me assure that it was more out of necessity. Black Friday sales have now formally invaded Thursday Thanksgiving dinner ..the lure of the all deals was just too hard to resist...so moved the potluck  early  from dinner to brunch. Cranberries are a staple of any Thanksgiving feast and I for one wasn't making an exception ? Have to admit that I was getting kinda bored with eating this antioxidant rich food as sauce only ...that too store bought are just nothing more than sugar jellies. Google came to my rescue and the possibility of baking  a  cranberry upside down cake got embedded in ...