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Christmas Fruit Cake

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   Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way. Oh! what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh.                           Year will end soon, but before the year ends, we all can enjoy Christmas. Its November end and its just almost a month is left for Christmas.In India, even if you are not Christian, all the people enjoy Christmas plum cake. You will find the Christmas plum cake everywhere, right from local bakeries to high end patisseries.I am not greatly fond of plum cake, but most of my family members and friends love the cake. So, bowing to their wishes, I am going indulge you in this journey of making Christmas plum cake.                                  But if you ask me, why am i talking about baking the cake so soon.Its best to make Christmas cake a few months before the big day, two months is good. The reason for making it so early is that the flavors of all the dried fruits baked together with the spices, eggs,  flour butter etc has time to matu

Fat Free Sweet Corn Chowder

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                      Winter is near and almost here.. Winter to me means cozy blankets sipping a cup of warm soup and watching old classic movies. Its lazy wintery evening and you really dont feel like cooking dinner but you crave for something warm , hearty and tasty light meal.. Heres what you do....                         Make yourself a large bowl of CHOWDER.. Whats a chowder????  Well, a simple dish of chowder, in the past considered to be "poor man's food," has a history that is centuries old. Vegetables or fish stewed in a cauldron thus became known as chowder in English-speaking nations, a corruption of the name of the pot or kettle in which they were cooked.                       Here is my feeble attempt to make sweet corn chowder, thick soup of creamy rich sweet corn served in a sour dough bread. If you dont find sour dough bread ( which sadly is very difficult to find in India), serve the soup with slices of french loaf. Serves 4 Ingredients: 4