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.

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!

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.

Todays Dinner-Recipes to Follow

Chicken Bashamel

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

Rotisserie Chicken and Tom Yum Soup

The Rotisserie Chicken is found here:http://www.recipezaar.com/152116

The Tom Yum Soup here:http://www.bigoven.com/26201-Tom-Yum-Soup-recipe.html

Snacks and Dishes from this Week

Sliced Carrots with Hummus Dip
BabyBell Low-fat Cheese with Walnuts
Minted Sweet Peas
Scrambled Eggs with Tuna

Stuffed Grape Leaves and Stuffed Cabbage Leaves

This is a VERY typical Middle Eastern dish. Stuffed Veggies and leaves are constantly consumed for lunch, dinner, snacks, etc...They are not very fattening besides the rice and everyone has their own "secret" recipe for them :) I like mine with lemon...I will not post the recipe because really, it is easy to find delicious recipes on the net to satisfy your taste for this dish. There are many different ways to make it!

Enjoy!

Labneh with Zaatar and Banana Pepper Snack

Labneh with Zaatar
Labneh with Zaatar Inside

Banana Peppers fried with Egyptian Farm Cheese

Raggag Bread-thin and crispy

Strained yoghurt or labneh is popular in the Levant. Besides being used fresh, labneh is also dried then formed into balls, sometimes covered with herbs or spices, and stored in olive oil. Labneh is a popular mezze dish and sandwhich ingredient. The flavour depends largely on the sort of milk used: labneh from cows milk has a rather milder flavour.

The Banana peppers were fried in a bit of olive oil and when soft white farm cheese was added to it over low heat and taken off fire when melted a bit. This recipe was inspired by:http://almostturkish.blogspot.com/

Raggag bread was used for soup and the recipe can be found in my recipe collection.

Enjoy!

Quick Chickpea Salad

This is a quick and nutritious salad you can make on a busy lunch break...I make this salad and different variations of it regularly for my family. You can add anything you like to it to "jazz" it up...

The basic mix is:

tomato

cucumber

danish white cheese or feta

canned chickpeas

dried mint

garlicky vinegar salad dressing

I must add that I am soon to be on a "seriously strenuous" gym routine to lose a bit of weight, so you will be seeing alot more salads here soon!

Todays Menu

Cubed Potato:A Start to Lunch

To Keep Your Coriander Longer:Wash,Roll in Clingfilm,Roll that into Aluminium foil,Freeze. It chops up very easy when unrolled!

Fried Spicy Potato

Fried Spicy Potato and Scrambled Eggs with Cold Spinach-Yogurt Dip

Tuna in Rich Sauce eaten with Parathas