The Spin (ach) in the Corn

Hi Friends!

Winter is firmly in and the market is flooded with an assortment of green vegetables, mushrooms, corn etc. This time of the year is a fun time to experiment with new recipes because preparing and eating both are pleasurable experiences as no sweat trickles down your forehead and back!

Spinach corn stuffed bread

I am in love with this season when the winter just begins to make itself felt with emphasis...My taste buds get adventurous! So my hamper from HFT comes with interesting mix of bakes and spreads which includes spinach corn bread.

This wondrous green leafy spinach is rich in minerals and vitamins and a good source of antioxidants. And to this the nutrient rich corn, which is low in saturated fat, and cholesterol, is added to stir up a unique flavour to make a great combination as stuffing in bread.

Conjure up an image of spinach and corn stuffed paranthas, but unlike the paranthas which are shallow fried in loads of ghee, the bread with the same filling comes with a better option for wholesome, nutritious and and tasty option for an evening snack or even breakfast.

I would say spinach corn stuffed bread must find space in your kitchen for a family that eats healthy. If you are not one, then start from today..

The Bajra Brag

Hi Friends!

Winter is tightening its grip and with this we have to have a dekho at what we are eating. It is the season to keep warm and HFT's Bajra Country Bread is a perfect breakfast option alongwith steamed vegetables with seasoning to make a good combo. I topped it liberally with cheese and believe me it was sheer ecstasy.

Bajra-A Pearl of Country Bread 

The saundhi aroma of Bajra when straight from the microwave will make you an ardent fan of this pearl millet. The benefits of Bajra are many. It is a gluten free grain and so can be easily consumed by those allergic to gluten. It is also very high on fiber content and provides disease fighting phytochemicals that lowers cholesterol. Bajra has antioxidants, folate, iron, magnesium, copper, zinc, vitamins-E and B-complex, thiamine, riboflavin and niacin. You can count the benefits of each nutritive component and sum up the total power packed energy and benefits of this millet. It is mind blowing!

Eating Right is one good way for the envious glowing skin, lustrous hair, and a healthy body. Let healthy food recharge you from within while your visit to the beauty parlour and gym will take care to a little extent the external beauty.

Once hooked to Eating Right see real beauty emerge from a healthy body and mind. Begin with HFT Bajra Bread...

Cup of cascading flavours

Hi Friends!

It is bread time again...

The bread basket on my dining table just got replenished with HFT breads. It is an appealing sight to see the appetizing breads of various sizes, shapes and to it were the single-bite-buns in green, red, yellow shades-carrot, spinach, lentil flavours. My eyes lit up and lips twitched at the corners as I stretched and sneaked from under the heap a chocolate cup cake. I had just finished lunch a while ago and so feasting on something sweet was according to me not a sin. I bit into the soft melting cake and then was lost in the bitter sweet aroma of chocolate flavour. It was heavenly.

Cup of Delight

Done exactly right, the cup cake was perfect in every sense, including flavour and measure of sweetness. It was after a long time that I had really tasted such good cup cake. The banana walnut, fruit jams, and the liquid cheese muffins also looked at me indulgently that it would melt even the iron hearted. I had to tear my eyes away from them and look for the TV remote to surf some interesting channels to keep temptation at bay.

The HFT bread and spreads hamper is worth the money. Pppssttt..I wouldn't mind a hamper exclusively of cup cakes...tip the weighing scale if it has to.

Hey, am not sharing any goodies with you, so order one for yourself and feast...

Face -to-Face with HFT

Hi Friends!

HFT Breads & Spreads Hamper

They say word of mouth news is lapped up faster that anything else. No wonder idle gossip good or bad is a wag away! But this time its is the superior version of a wag-technologically speaking-through a blog.

So it came to my mind, why not use the all time tested mode of communication with you to popularize the need to look differently at breads that is innovative and will perk up our daily food fare. So here is the FB link of Home for Food Traditions: https://www.facebook.com/hft.co.in

Browse the many options you have and try out the adventurous offerings in bread and other baked products of HFT, that has become a part and parcel of my life just like a cuppa of steaming, aromatic coffee.

Bite the tantalizing HFT bakes for all the right reasons.

More when we meet again... 

Diwali Cheers by Breads

Hi Friends!

A Very Happy Diwali to all of you.

The past week has been hectic with preparation for Diwali, the celebration itself and post festival niceties and that was a lot of people visiting, exchange of greetings...   khana peena going on... Bing a hardcore vegetarian, I stuck to greens and dairy products. Sweets were of course much to my liking. I blame it on my incorrigible sweet tooth. No guilt then and am not in the race for the next Ms Universe!

Diwali lifts ones sagging spirit to work for welcoming the Goddess of plenty, and who doesn't want her around! I do for sure. How was the day for you? How many of you tried the HFT bread hamper or gifted it to your close family and friends? My dining table looks slightly desolate without the attractive bread hamper and so have ordered for replenishing my stock.

Well, any success with collating the different kinds of desi or indigenous breads in our country. Share the ingredients and also the recipe of the accompanying dish with us. Those wanting to get more adventurous can also send the kinds of breads available worldwide.

Come friends be a sport and lets play bread - bread...

Ring in Diwali with exotic breads

Hi Friends!

Weekend is here and so is the festive season of Diwali. Catching up with  family and friends, incessant gup-shup over dinners, tea and just snacking in between meals has kick started.

Plans are afoot on gifts, return gifts, delicacies to be served to guests dropping in to greet diwali has pepped activity as well as imagination. Each coming up with his or her own ideas. Diyas, chocolates, cookie boxes, traditional sweets, dry fruits, an assortment of bakery stuff, crockery set and weird suggestion came up in the run up for the celebrations.

The exchange of gifts is a part and parcel of the entire festival preparation. As I munched a few cashew nuts, I dropped the bombshell.-Breads! There was silence and then what followed was loud chatter in varying decibels. I reasoned that a healthy, tasty and useful gift was the best choice. I pressed my argument saying that the latest fad of the health conscious tribe did not go for sweet and salty munchy stuff. Our hard earned money would go down the drain if it is kept aside, neglected and later thrown away. This swung the decision in my favour. I was the centre of power in the family for a while!

I updated them of my latest find -HFT Breads and Spreads. Made with best of original ingredients, and innovative in taste, their hamper is worth a try. Kya sirf double roti hai hamper mein? was a poser from an aunt.  I did not miss out on her frown. I plodded on and informed that cup cakes, bread sticks, stuffed breads, multi-grain breads, whole wheat breads, vitamin bites, rusk, tea breads, cookies, pav, chocolate and almond rocks made for a wide range of taste and variety in the hamper. The faces around brightened up. I scored.

So HFT bread hamper is what will be the surprise gift to our close associates, friends and relatives....I believe in 'healthy celebrations.'

Manna from the Fields

Hi Friends!

A bright and cool morning...yes, cool because the early winter nip is in the air!

My heart beat picked up as I set into the pace of yoga. A brief break and my health drink of honey and lime in warm water gave me temporary relief. Life, thereafter, was back to routine. However, today was organic dalia for breakfast and not cornflakes. Change if good is always welcomed.

Healthy Crops

Aaahhh... organic dalia- this remind me of the rows of wheat and wholegrain stuff stacked on racks of food bazars and malls. It seems we are back to the good healthy eating days  of our forefathers. The emphasis was on a lot of bran, course cereals, millets etc., that held on to the nutritive content or only a negligible amount was lost in its processing. The suave city dwellers end up eating what our grandmothers wanted us but call it by fancy names to placate their so called belief in belonging to an era that is more civilized!

Everyday, for breakfast or evening snacks, or after a tiring day from work the stuffed breads, natural flavoured breads and even cakes and muffins are a great comfort. Snacking becomes merrier with family and friends.The breads from Home for Food Traditions (HFT) have all the ingredients that would have made our grand moms and moms happy. So HFT bread basket has a permanent perch on the dining table at my place.

So friends it has been the tradition to eat coarse or whole grains of different varieties and HFT breads are a safe bet. Integrity in whatever they do is their baseline- bread bakes included.