One particular phrase that I have recently come across is the description of spreading butter on fresh-baked bread: The woman said: “That bread would be wonderful with lashings and lashings of butter” It made me laugh with delight. It was t…

Pietro Ferrero, 47, has died in an accident in South Africa. He was the joint chief executive of the Ferrero Group, makers of Ferrero Rocher, Kinder, and Nutella (LINK). Filed under: Death, Film & Ads, Food, Life, Links, Men, News

The Icecreamists at Covent Garden now offer  ice-cream made with fresh breast milk which has been pasteurized before being churned with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest and is offered for £14 a scoop. That was a mouthful. Would you or wouldn&#8…

A naked  Gino D’Acampo cooked a saucy and creamy gammon dish with peas on This Morning (UK ITV channel)  in fulfillment of a promise he made to cook in the nude if the show won in the National Television awards. Imagine one of our local TV chef…

The first day of my diet has started! I woke up anticipating my box of food would arrive before i got out to work but it didn’t so i had to have breakfast on my own this morning… The food comes in a cube carton box with handle… by the time i arrived home it [...]

I went with the LoFat Diet I signed up for the silver subscribtion of breakfast + lunch + dessert for two weeks. It cost me 79 KD All i had to do is phone them up, they faxed me their silver two weeks plan menu… they had TONS of things to choose from, and for [...]

On the first morning of the year 2011 we decided it was a fine day to go out for breakfast. I woke up with a sore throat but i thought what the heck a good breakfast would surely battle away the flu symptoms… To our surprise the place was PACKED! People were sitting outside in [...]

Yesterday Afternoon my mother had some fresh coals burning on the portable dowwa to make some chai fa7am… So a thought had struck me… why don’t i try to make Qer9 Moqla?!  Of course all i needed was a moqla (pan)… some butter… and the qer9 moqla mix! So i got the ingredients out to [...]

After my Zerda post asking for zerda recipes my dear fellow blogger Bent El Deera contacted me to let me know she has a home made zerda for me!!! For those of you who do not know Bent El Deera… she is an AMAZING cook masha2 Allah la elaha ella Allah tabaraka il ra7man…her blog [...]

We took a quick road trip to Khafji in KSA for the sole purpose of two reasons: 1- Find the book Hind wal 3askar i am searching for and 2- Visit Hungry Bunny for a nostalgic childhood meal… Directions? Take 6reej el shalehat, road 30 or 40 i am not sure, go straight straight until [...]

Where was i yesterday? Busy & Not posting?! A dinner gathering was held in honour of FourMe’s recovery from Cancer The dinner was hosted in her bestie Shoso‘s place and bloggerette Walladah brought over a Noon she had vowed to throw on FourMe when she goes into remission and she was true to her word [...]

I was feeling a bit cranky yesterday at 9:30… and i was also craving some frozen yoghurt… for some reason New Q8 Bride’s post kept popping into my head so i went to my mother and sister and asked if they want any frozen yoghurt? You should have seen my mother’s beam when i said [...]

Once upon a time very long ago, we gathered in the tent in front of the dowwa in the then freezing Q8y winter… one of my aunts would bring a little pan (moqla)… mix some eggs milk saffron cardamom & flour with sugar, then pour the mix into the pan and over the coal she would make [...]

Whenever i see the dark green box of After 8 chocolate mints something comes over me and i grab my self a box for me to enjoy later. It is not the best tasting chocolate on earth but there is something different about it’s dark colors and posh feel and it’s tangy minty taste is [...]

With 4 days left to go i have absolutely no idea what to do this new year eve… i usually am in London this time of year celebrating by staying home and having a good meal and watching telly… i used to love the idea of celebrating in a restaurant that is until i realized [...]

The Bodouir commented on my Zerda Post the other day that Crismon Garden makes something similar to the dessert i described. I had to see for my self of course so on Friday i went with my mom and my husband to Crimson Garden Spoons… the weather was amazing and we sat outside, people watching and [...]

I was introduced to this dessert for the first time last week when i had it at a family dinner… Apparently Zerdah is a rice based pudding thing like 7alwat 3aish… infused with cinnamon, sugar, and nuts… and it sits on top of a m7albiya like base that is sugar less… you would have to [...]

One guilty pleasure i cannot resist is the orangy translucant gooey texture of 7alwa infused with saffron and nuts… just smelling it makes my heart melt… i cannot resist it… yet i run away from it… when i go to bahrain i make sure to go to the old souk early in the morning when [...]

Yesterday afternoon as i got out of my orthodontists appointment i had to eat something soft to eat… and since i was craving Koshary anyways i thought let me make the trip to the alleys of Hawalli to get my self some… I honked and yelled and cursed all the way Koshary Jo7a in 7awalli, [...]

Since i get so nervous on the day i am travelling back to Q8 i usually only have breakfast and skip lunch… therefore by the time i go past customs into the tax free area in Heathrow Terminal 5 i would be STARVING… Knowing that the only meal that would await me on the plane [...]

The frozen yoghurt mania is still going strong in Q8… one latest addition to the Fro-Yo q8y scene is…. IKEA! I was in Ikea yesterday when i saw an ad for Frozen Yogurt!!! I  used to be a fan of their soft serve ice cream back in their old building but ever since they moved [...]

I woke up this morning with the strangest craving ever… I was craving Koshary! Not only plain old koshary… no no no it won’t do… i was craving koshary topped with chickpeas… something we do not have in Q8… this strange craving comes from reading Ansam’s Post about Koshary Abu Tareq!!! What was i supposed [...]

When i fist so Moaz and to be absolutely frank i was shooting something from across the street of  Moaz while my husband waited in front of it. Since i take forever to shoot he busied himself peering into the not so promising looking place…  when I came back to my husband insisted we go inside [...]

If you are going to London during the Christmas Holidays you must pass by Fortnum & Mason and grab yourselves a red tin of their special Xmas Blend tea! It has a whiff of orange and cinnamon and some other herbs that i cannot place but the resulting aroma and taste is just too good to miss! [...]

I found this very promising looking box of Jaffa cake like biscuits from Milka in the International Mill… there was a chocolate one and a raspberry one, so i grabbed my self the raspberry one and planned to have it for breakfast… With tea it was the perfect weekend waking up late breakfast… a couple [...]

I brought home with me a tiny little box of this newly discovered chocolate in Marks & Spencers London…There are three kinds of Micro Bites: Rocky Road, Chocolate Cornflake, and Extremely Chocolaty Mini Bites… the only one i have to photograph is the Cornflake one. They are yummy but not as yummy a the Extremely [...]

Tucked away in a tiny busy street of China Town is a tiny Crepe making place called Pandora… Never before have i seen a Crepe place with a more scrumptious window display!!! Just like something out of a cartoon!!! It makes your stomach turn and want to eat!!! They also sell this Takoyaki treat… i [...]

I have heard mixed reviews about Fatburger… and being a vegetarian i wasn’t looking forwards to trying it. But then my husband told me that they did have a veggie burger on the menu so i thought why not? We order two meals: Mine a veggie burger with onion rings and water and his was [...]

You dine in a restaurant, have a good meal, then it’s time to go. You ask for the bill… you skim the bill for anything missing or extra… you see the word “Service Charge” added to the bill and you assume that it’s part of the bill so you pay for it. I have heard [...]

On my last day in London I planned to meet with FourMe for a good bye chat in the evening. We decided to meet in Carnaby Street since both of us were in that area… I knew of a small tea house in Kingsly Court, a favorite shopping place of mine in Carnaby Street that [...]