Soft eggless cupcakes topped with pink glace icing and silver sugar decorations. Simple yet pretty, the perfect birthday cupcake.

My version of the Sicilian caponata, served on crostini. Made with baked eggplant and dried figs, a tomato sauce and pine nuts.

Thick spiced roasted tomato, carrot, onion and bell pepper soup. Served with Basil Cream.

Perfect coffee/ tea time cake – fresh mango, cashew nuts and cardamom with a crunchy crumb topping.

Soft and healthy garlic and rosemary whole wheat yogurt crerscent rolls. Serve for breakfast, with soup or just snack on them.

French style layered and seasoned potato slices baked to crisp golden at the edges and creamy soft in the middle

Eggless cardamom flavoured banana squares with semi-sweet chocolate chip morsels.

Fresh fig ice-cream on browned butter pound cake, covered with chocolate ganache. Daring Baker challenge.

Healthy lentil-vegetable loaf with dried apricots. Also eggless. Served with a sweet and spicy mango-jalapeno chutney.

An easily made Indian semolina and saffron halwa/ pudding flavoured with cardamom.

Spiced rice in three flavours and colours (saffron, white and green) celebrating Indian Independence Day.

Slightly cake-like and fudgy eggless brownies made with WW flour, white beans and no added fat. Healthy, delicious and guilt-free.

Simple, easy to cook Indian style stir-fried okra with just enough spices to bring out the fresh flavour of the vegetable.

A pound cake made with home-made paneer (Indian soft cheese), just an egg and a lot less butter, but no less delicious.

Soft, white Indian bread rolls that are baked as a sheet. Served here with pav bhaji, a popular street food in India.

An eggless avocado bundt cake spiced with chai masala and drizzled with chocolate.

Ice-cream cake with eggless mango and cookie crunch vanilla ice-creams covered in vanilla swiss roll slices. Daring Baker challenge.