Date & Walnut Cake (Eggless)

Eggless Date & Walnut Cake

I was so sure that I had already put down this recipe in an earlier post, so decided to run a check on my blog for cakes...to my surprise did not find any entry...What?!?  cannot believe I did not post any cake recipes at all...well that is certainly not the case, so then....duh...guess what? somehow I had not put that down as a label at all, so had to do a more thorough check thru the dessert list and found I did have a chocolate cake down ( one of the many I make regularly )...but no entry for the above date cake - which is an absolutely amazing cake and one of my favourites.
Wondering however did I miss both the label cake in my blog and the post for this date cake...anyway set out to rectify both. 

So here I am, in the process of baking this once more ( this time at a request from hubby )...took some pictures of the final product - sorry do not have any of work in progress cause as I said - did not know that this was not down already in my blog...so anyways the next time maybe I might manage to get that too...

There are a lot of recipes for the same on the net... this one was adapted from one of them - have made the original one too but this is more moist and had a more intense date taste, due to increase in the no. of dates used.

I have passed on the date cake recipe to many and all have loved it, including my friend C who visited us the other day - she had come over for lunch and the dessert for that day was a rice & date kheer ( another recipe I really need to get down here ) - nyways this started her off on a discussion on the date cake - and how simple it is to make and how amazing it turns out, and how all her colleagues and friends with who she has shared the cake and recipe loved it....etc...

All this talk on the date cake made hubby long for it too...and hence the request for it ( not that I need a reason to bake it )...

Oh and did I mention that it is egg less - a boon for when I have to take something across for those of my friends and relatives who are vegetarians ( including C ).

Rasam - Saaru ( A South Indian Speciality ) - Tomato & Lentil Soup

Rasam
 

Well this was a certainly a long time in coming...why is it that when we learn new dishes and recipes - some of the old ones fall by the wayside...at least it seems to happen to me. According to T - each of the different places that we have lived in had a totally new set of items on our regular menu...:-) .

I think maybe I do agree with him - cause there is no excuse for me not making one of my and all in our family's favourite dishes ...the absolutely mouth-watering  rasam ....more often. When we were kids - my sister used to love lunch when it was aloo ka subzi, rice, and rasam - the most simple and yummy fare...and when she was down or not too well and wanted to feel pampered Mom had to prepare this ...nothing else would do...we call it saar or saaru...and the recipe has undergone slight changes over the years...

Here's how I made it today...though this is one dish which could do with a lot of different additions or subtractions...and tastes best with plain steamed rice. It can also be had with vadas, in fact when in US whenever we went to a South Indian restaurant - we would start off with vada rasam, then move on to the rest of our meal...they would make it pretty spicy...the version given below is not as much...but that is something that can be upped if required...entirely as per your requirements. This can be had as a soup - a very tasty and spicy tomato & lentil soup.