A mother is everything! She can alone handle all the relationships and give one the taste of all the love one gets from different members of their family. She is the best friends you can share your life with without bothering to be judged. She cares for her children whole-heartedly without asking for anything in return.

Mother’s Day 2018 will be celebrated on 13th of May. It gives you an opportunity to show how much you love and care for your Mom. You can start with a cheerful day for her serving her breakfast in the bed and she will love to see you as a responsible person. You could proceed further with preparing for a delicious meal making her feel special. Here are some great Mother’s Day recipes ideas about Mothers Day breakfast, brunch and dinner recipe.

 Ingredients

225 g unsalted butter (at room temperature) , plus extra for greasing

225 g white caster sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

4 large free-range eggs

225 g self-raising flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 splash of milk

FILLING

200 ml double cream     1 vanilla pod     1½ tablespoon of icing sugar , plus extra for dusting     250 g fresh strawberries

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC/gas 4. Grease and line the bases of 2 round 20cm sandwich tins.
2. Cube up the butter, then cream together with the sugar in a large mixing bowl until pale and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla extract.
3. Beat the eggs, then gradually mix into the creamed butter and sugar. Sift, then fold in the flour, baking powder and ¼ of a teaspoon of sea salt with a large metal spoon until just incorporated (don’t overmix).
4. Stir in 1 splash of milk to loosen the batter, then evenly divide it between the 2 cake tins.
5. Bake the cakes in the oven for 22 to 25 minutes, or until golden and cooked through. To test, insert a skewer into the middle of a cake; it’s ready when the skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool in the tins for 5 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.
6. Once completely cool, pour the cream into a large bowl, scrape in the vanilla seeds and whisk until you have soft peaks.
7. Sift in icing sugar and gently fold through. Place one of the cakes on your chosen plate or cake stand and spread over the vanilla cream, but not right to the edges or it will spill later.
8. Hull and roughly slice the strawberries, then scatter on top of the second cake. Dust with icing sugar and decorate with extra strawberries, if you like.

Mothers Day Brunch Recipes：Cheese Balls & Rava Palappam

Cheese Balls

Ingredients
1 cup: Cheese- grated     Â¼ cup: Refined flour     2 no: Eggs     Â¼ tsp: Chilli powder     Â½ tsp: Baking powder     Oil for frying      1 tsp: Salt

Method
1.Mix all the ingredients except the oil and beat to a fluffy batter.
2.Rest in a cool place about 15 minutes.
3.Heat the oil and deep fry spoonfuls of the batter to a golden color, first at high then medium.

Rava Palappam

Ingredients
Semolina or Rava Fried to Brown     Milk 1/2 litre     Ghee     Dry Grapes 150 gm Vanilla Essence 2 tsp     Sugar – to taste

Method
1. Boil the Milk and add sugar in it.
2. When milk boils add Rava or Semolina and grapes.
3. Stir to get a pasty level.
4. Add Ghee – 1 teaspoon.
5. Cut off heat.
6. Now, paste Ghee in a flat vessel. Level some sugar on bottom.
7. Pour the content to the flat vessel and flatten.
8. Add Vanilla essence.
9. Again put some ghee and sugar on top.
10. Allow to cool and freeze.
11. When chilled cut to slices and serve.
12. Rava Palappam is ready.

Mothers Day Dinner Recipes：Marinated and grilled salmon

Ingredients

2 sticks fresh lemon grass

½ small bottle low-salt dark soy sauce

1 bunch fresh coriander , stalks finely sliced, leaves reserved

1 thumb-sized piece fresh ginger , finely grated

4 cloves garlic , finely grated

1 large salmon fillet , (about 1kg), from sustainable sources, ask your fishmonger, scaled and pin-boned

4 tablespoons runny honey
2 red chillies , deseeded and finely sliced

4 spring onions , finely sliced     2 limes

Method

1. Bash up your lemon grass and mix it with the soy sauce, coriander stalks, ginger and garlic then rub all over the salmon fillet. Leave it to marinate for an hour or so, either in a plastic bag or on a tray covered with cling film.
2. Preheat your grill to its highest setting. When you’re ready to cook the salmon, remove it from the marinade, brush with honey and grill for 10 minutes.
3. Fork up the cooked salmon a little so everyone can see the lovely, dark, sticky outside and the juicy, pink fish underneath. Serve sprinkled with the chillies, spring onions, reserved coriander leaves, then squeeze over the lime.

Surprise your mother by trying out these recipes for Mothers Day and and let her know that you love her so much.