Happy New Year!! I cannot believe that 2012 just whizzed past in some blur. It seems that time goes by faster and faster every year. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who support me by reading my ramblings and commenting and trying out my recipes. Maintaining this site is only fun because I get to meet so many wonderful bloggers and people from all around the world who take their time to visit my site and leave wonderful comments and thoughts. So, thank you! Your support means the world to me! This week I am in The Lone Star State visiting my friends and family. The plan came about quite suddenly since Trace was able to secure a week off from work and once the children found out, well, there was no getting around it. Besides, the best time to visit Texas is in the winter time, when it's tolerable and most of the bugs are absent. We're on a whirlwind tour starting in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and ending in San Antonio to visit my father in law. I thought I'd start the New Year off right by posting a sweet recipe. One of my favourite bread/loaf/cake, lemon cake. This is a very tangy, pound cake like loaf but without all the butter of a pound cake. I used Ina ... continue reading...
Almond, White Chocolate and Cranberry Biscotti
What is it about snow that makes you instantly want to turn on the oven and start baking in some sort of end of the world frenzy? Which, by the way turned out to be a load of codswallop since here I am posting on the 22nd of December! Back to the snow, so yes, we had a nice little snow storm earlier this week. For some reason snow=baking and not just any old baking; decadent, dangerous, delicious, dessert- like baking. You want the smells of brown sugar and vanilla, mixed in with creamy butter floating through your house as the snow flakes swirl around outside your kitchen window; giddy from the heavenly aroma. I had all that going on with these wonderful biscotti. A few months back I had finally made a batch of biscotti for the first time. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy they were to make and particularly loved them because there was no rolling out required. I no longer buy biscotti because I can make every kind we enjoy and my husband loves them. He particularly enjoyed these ones I made and ate like 7 at one sitting! They were mini ones but still. I was a little apprehensive about using the dried cranberries because I typically, don't like raisins or dried fruit in my ... continue reading...
Jam Tarts
Jam tarts, there's hardly anything gourmet about these delicious, jewelled morsels but despite their simplicity they are delightful. They used to be my favourite things growing up and I always made sure to get a box of Mr Kipling's Jam Tarts whenever I accompanied my dad to the supermarket. In fact, that's why I went. My mum was a great cook but she didn't dabble in baking too much so I had to get my fill from the boxed kinds. My son has been asking for jam tarts for months now. I have been putting him off every month. However, Monday, I made these for him. You see, Laith is 7, the same age as all those little angels who lost their precious lives on Friday at the Newtown school shooting. I can't even begin to imagine how their parents must be feeling at the loss of their child. I have been an emotional mess all weekend. I see their little faces everywhere, when I hold and kiss my son, asking God to always protect him or when I go to pick him from school and see all the other 1st and 2nd graders running and milling about. What happened on Friday is a tragedy of the worst kind and the lives lost, especially those of children is what makes it so difficult to fathom. I would be ... continue reading...
Kousa Mahshi ~ Stuffed Squash
The last few weeks I have been on a very limiting diet in hopes of helping my inflammatory arthritis. Despite medication I have been getting quite a few inflammation attacks that temporarily disable me. For someone writing a food blog, it's a bit inconvenient if a hand, arm, foot, knee is dud because: 1. one can't cook 2. one can't write about the food they can't cook. So, in an effort to find out if the root cause is a food stuff, I have been on a diet. This diet allows me nothing; hence my absence. I only have a couple of more weeks on it but I have been cheating and only because I thought I was going to pass out the other day! I am not allowed to eat grains so it's been very difficult because I am a rice and bread girl. Today, I really wanted something substantial and it had been so long since I made these addicting stuffed squash, I was craving them. These kousa mahshi in Arabic, or stuffed squash are Egyptian in origin but are made all over the Arab World. I have always loved Middle Eastern food probably because I have been eating it from a young age. Not only do I have a lot of family in the Middle East but I have many best friends who are Syrian, Palestinian, Egyptian ... continue reading...
Apple and Onion Chicken Sausage
After a couple of weeks of being under the weather with a nagging chest cold, then wonderful, rheumatoid arthritis flare ups and then a hectic Thanksgiving week entertaining visiting family, I am finally back to the computer. My flare ups were concentrated on my shoulders and wrists which made doing computer tasks impossible. I haven't posted anything or even visited my favourite bloggers. Tasks in the kitchen where non existent too. My poor husband had to cook quite a bit while I nursed my shoulder and shouted out instructions from the kitchen table. We made it through and I am feeling much better. I am glad that I was well enough to host my cousins who were here from California and Texas for the Thanksgiving break. We had a blast eating, laughing and just enjoying each other's company. These cousins of mine, all guys, liked to sleep.... a lot. We ended up having breakfast at 11am or sometimes 12pm! But it gave me a chance to get up leisurely and enjoy coffee with my husband and then get to work baking, frying, scrambling and so forth. After a late breakfast, we headed out for a little sight seeing. I took them to Estes Park one afternoon and we walked around the cute little town ... continue reading...
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