Friday, November 23, 2018

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Home Delivery Service in Bangalore

A2A Service - Home Delivery

Delivery of Baked Goods

This is a service which is beneficial to home-bakers and professionals alike. You can avail this service to get someone to buy items from baking shops like ArifeLa Moulde and get it delivered to your home.

Imagine the time you save if you have to go through the traffic! It's time some cab service like Ola or Uber adds this kind of service on their mobile app!

A2A Transit
Call 99016555602

Bangalore

I wish such a service exist in other cities like Trivandrum too. 

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Baking Store New Arife Lamoulde Koramangala

New Arife Lamoulde
Almond Powder


Cutters - cake decorator's dream wall

Callebaut Coca Powder

Address: 7th block, No. 225, 1st Main Rd, 7th Block,
Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095

Closest Landmark:
Opposite side of Star Bazar Koramangala
Bosch Back gate

Hours of business:
Open ⋅ Closes 8PM

Phone: 080 4121 1122




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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Baking Intern Vacancy at Bangalore

Baking Internship 

Baking Internship
Are you a baking diploma student or a hospitality management student or an experiment home-chef? Is making up cakes all day a second nature to you? Do you enjoy learning new recipe, willing to experiment – do, undo, tweak, and with an eye for detail?

If yes, then I have a place for you as an Intern.

I’m looking for 2 Interns ( girls) who should be ready to spend at least 3 month on a full-time basis.

The interns get real hands-on experience, and you’ll learn to work side-by-side. Interns perform a wide variety of tasks from scooping cookies to shaping loaves as well as cake work and cleaning the workstation area, learning food photography, sharing images on online platforms, etc
.
The candidate should have experience in baking, good attention to detail and the willingness to work efficiently. Candidates from a culinary institute are preferred.

Internships are full-time and paid.

About myself ( Marina)
My name is Marina Charles. I've come a long way through food blogging, and also as a culinary trainer. I have been taking baking and cooking lessons for the past 7 plus years in these cities - Trivandrum, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
My blog : https://mennas-cooking.blogspot.com/

I currently require the intern in Domlur, Bangalore. As an Intern, you should be assisting in my training session and during other days, you should be carrying out other tasks like recipe development, etc. Also, as an Intern you must be willing to travel with me to Trivandrum and Hyderabad and assist in my classes. 

Accommodation and meals is provided for candidates.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTION
Bake daily – often new recipes
Document the process and steps
Acquire knowledge of, and ability to use
Plan and analyse the process and suggest steps to improve

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS and DESIRED SKILLS
Desire to learn the skills and practice
Flexibility with scheduling
Availability to work weekends
Good communication skills
Willing to do the dishes and sanitize the work area
A desire for continuously improving baking skills
Enthusiasm for baking

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Culinary or baking and pastry students with experience working in a hands-on production bakery or food service establishment are preferred.

What’s in for you?
1. Develop your skills and practical learning
2. Learn new recipes and mentorship
3. Short duration – 3 months
4. Meeting and interacting with people
5. Personal growth and new experience
6. Exposure to web marketing, design, food blogging, etc.
7. Certificate of participation and stipend

Call or msg or meet me in person to discuss about internship in details.

Check out this post about the baking interns who had worked with me. 

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Happy 50th Birthday to my wonderful partner

Yesterday (7th November 2018) you have entered your 50th year of life! We get to celebrate YOU.
I have had the privilege of being around you for awhile now, and you are the same today as you were 12 years ago when our friendship first began; the same sweet man with a quiet yet strong presence and a warm heart.
Wishing you another wonderful 50 years of new ventures and adventures 





 Happy Birthday to my wonderful partner in life.

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Looking for Interns


Looking for Two Interns ( Girls) Photograhy and Social Media Intern
If you love to take food pictures/video, create inspiring content and story that will gain traction with the audience, on top of that, willing to challenge yourself with self-learning, then I've a place for you!

I'm looking for someone who has good photography skills and understands the lighting and angles also knows how to edit photographs and videos for the blog and social media posts.
Interns will be involved in writing clever copy and captions for social media posts, across multiple platforms. If you have an interest in baking or cooking, then it will be an added advantage.
Roles And Responsibilities:
1. Food Photography and video
2. Take photo of workshop
3. Photo Editing of the images and video
4. Create PPT and short 3 min video
5. Post on social media posting majorly on Facebook Page
8. Working hrs 8-9 hours
9. Finding opportunities for collaboration
Benefits as an Intern:
1. Horne your skills and learn on the go and mentorship
2. Learn new recipes
3. Short duration
5. Meeting and interacting with people
6. Personal Growth
7. Certificate of participation and basic stipend
8. Exposure to web marketing, design, food blogging, etc.
What I'm looking out for:
1) Writers and photographers ( Girls preferred)
Ideally, those who are freshers, graduates in communication stream
- must own a DSLR, Understands how to use visuals to capture attention and tell a story. Ideally, someone who understands what makes good and shareable content.
- Have your own laptop to work
- You have experience with Photoshop/video editing application
- Speaks well and adapts easily on-the-go
- Be able to commit full-time
- Prefer someone based in Trivandrum. Outstation students will be considered.

-Daily work Profile
- Take pictures of classes of cakes/bakes and create PPT, short video and posters for events
- Self learning - Daily read and find out new ideas, tips from leading blogs on food, art, photography, etc and share these new ideas. 
About me:
My name is Marina Charles. I've come a long way through food blogging, and also as a culinary trainer. I have been taking baking and cooking lessons for the past 7 plus years in these cities - Trivandrum, Bangalore and Hyderabad. I'm looking for 2 young energetic people who can infuse new ideas, capture picture, create memorable posters, videos etc.

Reach Out!
Those interested may send a short-write-up ( 3 or 4 paragraphs) about your journey - experience, education in an informal email or Whatsapp msg.
Pls do send sample of your prior work on content or photographs or posters or video work to email: mennasdelight@gmail.com
Or Call Ph# 9379398865
MENNA’SDelight

Marina Charles 
: +91 9379398865,8861389165
http://mennas-cooking.blogspot.com/?m=1

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Mom's love for cooking



Can't match up with her. My mom is always full of #ideas and always #innovative . She makes one of the best and tastiest #cutlets I have ever had.
Today she came up with a #chickencutlet with #mayonnaise inside it. After frying when you cut it the mayonnaise oozes out. Just loved it.

Friday, October 5, 2018

Fat Free Sponge Cake

My mom baked today after so many years and I just loved it. The same old sponge cake we used to get it as evening snack when we get back home from school.
Even though I am into teaching and baking cakes for the past 10 years , I feel nothing can match up with her bakes.

Ingredients to make this fat free sponge

2 eggs
4 tbsp of Maida / All purpose flour
4 tbsp of Sugar,
1/4 tsp Baking powder
1/4 tsp essence

Method 

Sieve the maida and baking powder three times
Beat the eggs well along with essence to a soft peak, now add the sugar and beat in slow speed
Fold the flour gently to the egg mixture till everything is combined
Pour into a 5 inch baking pan which is well greased.
Bake in 180 degree for 15-20mts



Note: This is a 250gms cake, double the recipe for 500 gms
Please use a 5 inch cake tin for 250gms cake batter.
Beating of the egg is important, the volume of the cake depends on the beating of your egg.

Enjoy baking and please let me know how it turns out.

Happy baking

Monday, October 1, 2018

Plum Cake/ Christmas Cake 2018



93 days for #christmas . A wonderful and beautiful #saturday #eveningteaching the #traditionalchristmascake and #gingermencookies with #royalicingcookies at #mennasdelight #bangalore

So, here's the plum cake recipe to make a flavorful and dense cake for this Christmas season. 

All the way from UK for the Love of fish

I got a call on Wednesday afternoon from Robin Honey that he wants to come for a cooking class along with his friends the next day for a Fish Curry session. They had come down from UK to attend a wedding at Ernakulam and loved the taste of the fish curry
This time I ordered the fish through Licious I could say that it was fresh and I had the same feel when I had cooked the fish on the first day of their product release in 2015 along with chef Joe Manavalan.
Very happy Abhay Hanjura and the Licious team. The freshness had made my curry tastier. Robin and friends had a good time cooking fish curry, paratha, dal, veg and Lemon Rice. Happy stay in India.













Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Kayalpura Homestay - Kollam

We had a wonderful stay at this homely homestay overlooking the vast expanse of backwaters. From the moment we landed in Kollam auto stand to reach Kayalpura Homestay till the moment we were dropped back - all our request were taken care in a polite, proactive and responsible way.

We had booked for a day’s stay at this idyllic place with an intention to just unwind - do nothing much but just read, browse, and soak in the solitude. This place has just turned out the way we have thought. Once we settled in, we soon got into the same groove of slow paced life on the backwaters.

 
The view of the serene backwaters from the room – sight of fishermen rowing catamaran and the far away sight of motorized fishing boats thudding their way to the sea all was just prefect setting for our stay. My impatient partner had a fishing rod to try his luck and the host was proactive to get fresh shrimps for the bait.

Here are some observations about this home-stay.

1. Right place to unwind, read, and browse without any disturbances 2. Verdant view ideal for daydreaming and chalking out new ideas

3. Homely food - loved the breakfast (broken wheat and payar)

 For those who have time and inclination, there are many other places to explore in and around this homestay. For example, you can go for a boat ride which takes you through the labyrinth of small water strips and see life up-close in the inside part of this town. Apart from that, you can take a houseboat or a boat for a day's cruise exploring the backwater area.

Thanks to the host, they arranged an auto to take us to the Thangassery light house. It was an exhilarating trip to the top of this lighthouse and view of the sea in the evening jaded sunlight was just memorable.
 

Special thanks to the host for dropping us to the railway station in his car.

Besides, it was great to see the extended family involved in the upkeep of this place and making homely lunch and special dinner for us. To sum it, it was a deserving break for us.

Thanks and Keep the good service.

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Home

I am not sure which city I belongs to, 20 days in a month I am at Trivandrum and the next 20 days in Bangalore. Both the places are my home, my heart and miss when I am away.
The best part is the train journey which shuttle me between two cities. They are a window to an unknown world. Stranger's peek into  your  life, exchange stories with them, share their food or just be a silent observer.
This time going back to Bangalore with a different experience of pain, loss ,  strength of unity and feel of humanity.

Monday, September 3, 2018

Maturing the Christmas Cake

Few weeks back when I opened the wrap to feed my plum cake which was baked last December 2017, I was so tempeted to taste them along with my home made grape wine.
"maturing" of Christmas cakes is required if it is kept for more than 3 months. After 3 months prick the cake and brush the surface with couple of tablespoons of Cherry alcohol and wrap it tightly in a double layer of greaseproof paper followed by a double layer of foil and then store it in an airtight container or tin and keep it in a dark cool place away from direct sunlight. Do not directly wrap the cake in foil as the fruit in the cake can react with the foil. Feed the cake occasionally to help it to stay moist.
114 days more to open my one year old matured Christmas cake.

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Red Box for drying Sugarcraft flowers

Much awaited Redbox arrived today. Just what you needed for this  humid.
If you are a sugar artist living in a humid place like Kerala this is a blessing.
Red box from Gourmet delight, Dakshha