Sultanas Palate

Saturday, October 10

Please Dont take my pictures!

This is just to let everyone know that if you want to use my pictures from my site, just ask! no stealing please! All of these pictures are my own and if you would like to use them just ask me and i would never say no unless you wanted to use them in a incorrect manner....

you can use them if:
1) you want to put them on your own website just please post a link of my blog with the picture from my blog to your website so credit is given to me.
2)email me and ask me, no worries....

no stealers please! i wouldnt go to your website and steal your photos, so please dont do it to mine....

Saturday, September 19

Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Click the Title to be transported to the recipe! My only advice for this recipe is to make the size of the cookie small, not big. Use a teaspoon and drop a generous size tsp of dough on the baking sheet. Then bake as normal. You can also add M&M's!

Le-ge-matt!

Click on the Title to be transported to the recipe.

After they are done, drizzle natural honey over them to coat them thinly with a sticky sweet layer of natural goodness!

Roast and Veggies

Here is another Roast using the same recipe as the previous one, just different spices. I used Spring Onion Seasoning and made more juice in the roast with oxo cubes, then when the roast was done i thickened the juice and made a sauce with some for mashed potatoes and took the meat out and left the veggies to brown gently on the top. The meat was very tender. This piece of meat is called a Rump Roast for those of you who want to know what to ask for in the supermarket.

Monday, September 14

Louisiana crab, shrimp and corn bisque

Cooking the veggies

making a "blond" Roux

Simmering!

All Done!

Here's a delicious recipe I found for Bisque. Naturally, as I'm a Muslim, Ive left out the wine,but its no less delicious!

You can also just click on the title and youll transported there in no time!

Bisque is a thick, creamy, highly-seasoned soup of French origin, classically of pureed crustaceans. It can be made from lobster, crab, shrimp or crayfish. Also, creamy soups made from vegetables instead of seafood are sometimes called bisques.

If you would like, you can puree the ingredients before adding in the shrimp in the end, i like to leave the shrimp whole so i can savor them!

Friday, September 11

Halloumi Sandwhich

Youll need:

1 pack of halloumi cheese (or any halloumi like cheese unsalted) sliced thin

1 thin sliced tomato

1 longways sliced thin cucumber pieces

lettuce

mayo

4 hot dog buns

Fry the halloumi slices gently till browned a little. set aside. slice open the bread and spread mayo over,place onto bread the lettuce,tomato,cucumber slices and then halloumi pieces. your done!

this makes 4 sandwiches.

Thursday, September 10

Todays Dinner-Recipes to Follow

Chicken Bashamel

Lentil Soup with Coriander Garnish

For the Salad:
sliced purple onion
cubed small cucumber
shredded lettuce
cubed tomato
chopped coriander
mix and serve with any salad dressing you like!

Tuesday, September 8

Chicken Nashif and Lemon & Rose Punch

These tasty recipes' can be found at Fahad Inc. Just "click" my title and you'll be transported there in no time!

Tonights Ramadan Menu

Dates for breaking our fast, we usually only eat these in odd numbers with glasses of Laban Up and Fruit Cocktail Juice on the side.

Batheeth up-close
Usually we serve this for guests and with Arabic Coffee.

Batheeth

Khanfaroush
Made with Rice Flour.

Khanfaroush

I decided to try out some recipes found in Fahad Inc.

The recipes for these 2 dishes pictured above can be found here......

Next, I will be posting Chicken Nashif and Lemon & Rose Flavoured Punch...

Enjoy!

Monday, August 31

Oh, Baby!

Here is a recipe for a baby meal for 6 months+ Babies.
My Babygirl eats this twice a day and she loves it. I prefer to use Gerber Oatmeal with banana as the base and any kind of fruit in Baby food jars that my baby likes. When i started her first solids I used the Gerber Oatmeal.

you will need:
Any kind of cereal or oatmeal base for Babies 6m+
1 jar of babyfood (fruit, veg, etc ) for 6m+
60 ml of your babies milk already mixed

now:
take the 60 ml of liquid milk and add enough baby cereal to thicken to spoon hugging texture, next add half a small jar of any babyfood your baby likes, mix well, and serve!

Tuesday, August 25

Madhrooba!

Here is a delicious recipe for Madhrooba from "Emiratican Kitchen". I tried her recipe for this yesterday and it was delicious! Its very different from the way i make it normally and the ingredients are also a bit different, but no less tasty, and probably much healthier than mine because she uses Wheat seeds and mine uses rice.....This dish makes for a great Iftar treat!

Please "click" on the title Madhrooba to visit her site and recipe for this delcious dish!

Wednesday, August 12

Slow Roast Beef and Potato Salad

Slow Roast Beef

1 Beef Brisket (as many lbs as you like)

Seasonings you like!

BBQ Sauce

Season the meat with whatever you like! Let it marinade and soak up the seasonings overnight in the fridge. Bake covered completley by tin foil in a pan at 350F for around 5 hours.

Check it every hour, if it starts to brown, add water or little beef stock to the inside of the foil and close around meat. Shortly before done, put BBQ sauce over meat and close again till done!

Sunday, August 17

Grilled Shrimp...Tuna and Egg Scramble

For the Grilled Shrimp:

Set up a BBQ for grilling the shrimp. DONT peel the shrimp, only slit them into halves at the back on the vein side. Rub any spices you like into them and toss to coat in a big bowl. Place shrimp on the grill with the slit sides down and cook then do the same for the other side to give them a grilled look. When done, place all of the shrimp in a big platter and slice lemons to squeeze over them OR serve with an assortment of sauces like sweet and sour chilli sauce, etc.

Tuna and Egg Scramble

Melt a small amount of butter in a skillet, when hot, add diced tomato and cook till soft, add tuna and 1 tsp cumin powder and cook till little browned then add to this 3 eggs and scramble till done. Add salt and serve with pita bread or on sliced bread. Enjoy!

Im Back! Just in time for Ramadan...

After being gone as long as i have been i wonder if I'm still remembered! I am really happy to be back to blogging after a looooooong absence. Since February ALOT has happened in my life and alot of new things have entered my life. For those of you who followed my blog through the year and my "dieting" exploits, you will be quite amused to know that after all my hard work and kilos lost i am now, pregnant!.....(al hamdulilah)..... also, as my body is changing so is my palate! You can expect to find some "interesting" recipes from now on as well as my rantings on pregnancy and how it affects me day to day...
Ramadan will be coming around the corner any week now and what a better time to start blogging again and sharing recipes with you all. Enjoy!

Monday, February 11

Taking a Breather from Blogging

Hello Everyone!

Yes I guess considering how much ve been around lately its inevitable that I would take a break from blogging! I started this blog to share my recipes and life with anyone who would be interested in it, and i do hope that i have acheived my goal in doing this.

BUT, for now with everything going on in my life, i have lost space and time for blogging on a daily basis temporarliy, inshallah......not permanently!

So, please feel free to travel through my dusty pages for any inspiration or info you might need to get a meal on the table and if you need anything or just want to say hello feel free to email me!

I dont know how long I will be gone, but, inshallah, not long!

Thanks to all of my blogger freinds who ALWAYS comment on my blog(you know who you are)! I will really miss you!

Your time and comments here are precious to me and I cannot thank you enough for taking time out from your own day to make mine brighter with your lovley and flattering comments and compliments to me....

Until we meet again!

Wednesday, February 6

Roast Chicken Sultana Style!

VERY SIMPLE!

Cut up all the kinds of veggies you want to roast. I used garlic heads,bell peppers,onions,tomato,potato,carrot,and zucchini.

Sprinkle over this any spices you like the tastes of. I used garlic salt and ras el hanout spices with salt and pepper.

Stuff the chicken with sliced onions and a garlic bulb and a half a lemon which you used for putting over the chicken.

Rub spices over the chicken and the juice of half of that lemon you used to stuff the chicken. Put it all in a pan like above and drizzle over this olive oil.

Roast in a moderatley hot oven for one hour and for crispier chicken put it closer to the heat source in the last 5-10 minutes. Then serve!