Sugar Donut Muffins

 

Two days ago I was badly craving for Donuts. I knew donuts are available in my office canteen. Before leaving home, I planned to get one to fulfill my craving. Poor me, when I went to the donut shop, all the donuts were sold out. :-(



To add to my woes, there are no Donuts shops on the way to my home. What else I would do? Go home and prepare it. After a quick browsing, I found this recipe and started baking it. The pictures posted below are clicked during the evening time, so excuse the picture clarity. For now, just enjoy the muffins :-)



Basic Information:

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Tme: 15-20 minutes

Makes : 11 muffins

Ingredients:



For Muffins:



Granulated Suar - 3/4 cup

Egg - 1 no, large size, at room temperature

All purpose flour / Plain flour / Maida - 1 and 1/2 cups

Baking powder - 2 teaspoons

Salt - 1/4 teaspoon

Ground Nutmeg - 1/4 teaspoon

Milk - 3/4 cup

Vegetable oil - 1/4 cup

Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon



For Rolling:



Butter - 2 tablespoons, melted

Granulated sugar - 1/2 cup

Ground cinnamon / Ground nutmeg - 2 teaspoons

Method:



1) Preheat the oven to 350F/175C for 15 minutes. Grease the muffins tray with oil or line it with muffin cases. Keep it aside.

2) In a medium size bowl, beat sugar and egg until it is light and creamy.

3) In a large size bowl, mix all purpose flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Mix well.

4) Add the beaten egg, sugar mixture to the flour mixture. Mix well till it has blended well.

5) Add in vegetable oil, milk and vanilla extract. Mix well.

6) At the end, you will get a creamy, smooth batter.

7) Pour this batter equally to prepared muffin tray, say about 3/4th full.

8) Bake it for 15-20 minutes or until the tester/toothpin inserted into it comes out clean.

9) When the muffins are in oven, prepare for rolling.

10) Melt the butter in one bowl. Mix sugar and cinnaman/nutmeg in another bowl.

11) When muffins are ready and warm, dip the top of the muffins into the melted butter and roll it in the sugar cinnamon mixture.

12) Serve and Enjoy!

The World's Most Expensive Toilets

It seems that having a porcelain thrown is just sometimes not enough! All over the world, new (and costly we might add) toilets are being created that leave us common folk dreaming of what could be. Here is a rundown of the world's most expensive toilets. 

Russian Toilet System for NASA

This beast is specially designed to work in space. At a cost of $19 million, it includes straps to hold down astronauts and a fan to suck everything up into a septic tank. It may not be the best looking, but it is definitely the most advanced! 

Hong Kong’s golden toilet  

This little beauty is made of 24-carat solid gold and is currently on display in Hong Kong. Cost is just around $5 million. It's made of gold; not much else to say!

“Dagobert” Wooden Toilet Throne

Hand painted with a medieval design, this ash wood toilet has a price tag of $14,123, it comes complete with a pull chain flush.

Toto Neorest 600

Certainly the most 'normal' looking of the bunch, this toilet is still slightly out of reach for most, costing $5,800. If automatic hands-free lid opening and closing, heated seat, automatic and remote hands-free flush, automatic and self-cleansing system, water conserving dual-flush mode, warm air drier, and air purifier are things that you can't live without, then you might want to check into getting one for yourself.

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Thai Red Vegetable Curry

Food Blogging made me to explore many international recipes across the world.  I have tried few recipes based on the food I tasted while going out with my hubby. I came across some international recipes through my fellow bloggers.



Few months ago when I was in abroad, my husband was telling me about Thai food especially the tom yum soup which he loved it most. I wanted to try it at home for him and searched for the recipe over web. But instead I landed here for the Thai red curry. While going through it, I found the preparation to be easy. I can't describe the feeling when you find some good recipes which can be prepared without the need to shop extensively. Yes, to prepare this recipe, I had all the ingredients except lemon grass and Galangal. So the next day, I bought these ingredients from the nearby shop and prepared it for lunch.

Basic Information:

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes

Serves: 3



Ingredients:



Oil - 1 tablespoon

Thai red curry paste - 1/4 cup (Click here to prepare Thai Red Curry paste)

Coconut milk - 2 cups

Soy sauce - 2 tablespoon

Salt - to taste

Sugar - 1 teaspoon

Asparagus - 3 nos, chopped

Eggplant - 1/4 cup, cubed

Mushroom - 5 nos, sliced

Tofu - 8 nos, 1 inch length cubes

Baby corn - 3 nos, chopped

Red / Green bell pepper - 1/4 cup, sliced length wise

Green peas - 2 tablespoons

Shallots / Small Onions - 1 nos, chopped

Basil Leaves - 5 nos

Method:



1) In a wide pan / kadai, heat oil.

2) Add the red curry paste when it is hot, saute till it releases oil in sides.

3) Add the coconut milk now. Mix well till the red curry paste blended with it.

4) Add the soy sauce, sugar and salt.

5) Add the vegetables and tofu given under ingredients to this gravy and cook till it becomes soft and at the same time retains its shape.

6) Add mushrooms now and mix gently.

7) Add 3 torn basil leaves and continue cooking for 5 minutes.

8) Taste and adjust the salt. When all the vegetables are cooked enough (also they should be firm), Turn the flame off and garnish with remaining basil leaves.

9) Serve hot. We enjoyed it with hot steamed rice.

Notes:



1) Use any vegetable which are available in your kitchen.

2) I used canned coconut milk. You can also prepare coconut milk out of coconut powder or by fine grinding fresh coconut.