Long holiday weekends are delightful – you can sleep in, take long drives, have a mini vacation, binge-watch your favourite shows, have leisurely meals, or you can do absolutely nothing and simply enjoy the down time. I plan to do the last on the list, with a couple of kitchen bakes thrown in.
There are a few things I want to try. I am toying with the idea of making tea buns with the rum fruits we use to make Christmas cakes. Another idea is to make cinnamon rolls but replace the cinnamon with cardamom (elaichi). I’m also considering a raisin-cardamom bread using a combination of green and black cardamom. Black cardamom is mostly used for stews and hearty meat dishes because of the deep flavour it imparts, so I want to play around with its rich notes and see how well (or not) it goes with the flavour of green cardamom. And yet another thing I want to try is making Sada roti stuffed with mashed, seasoned cassava. The idea comes from making stuffed pot bakes and aloo roti. What do you think of these ideas? I am not planning to do all of these things in one weekend, I have to pace myself as there is much to be done for the day job, like grading communication assignments, and reviewing final project proposals.