In the first days of December (or January)… when the cold starts to seep into your bones and shake you uncontrollably from within… there is nothing like a hot steaming cup of Milk infused with golden Saffron strands and spicy sweet Cardemom pits to hold between your hands…

Step aside you bland hot cocoa with marshmallows! To [...]

Ramadan 2000, sitting alone at home after Fu6oor roasting some chestnuts over the dowwa… i hear footsteps coming down the stairs and someone chanting ”Degedeee Degede Degedeee Degedee Degede Degede…” … the singer was my father who thought he was alone and no one could hear him and apparently he was smitten with the song but too shy to [...]

OH MY GOD! I remember it was the 80’s, every year there was an IT masra7iya by Huda 7sain o we all had to go… i remember this ad coming on TV and us jumping up and down in ecstasy until the day my mom took us to see it! And this one is my [...]

Tazkroon?! I can’t stop singing this song now o imagining the taste of Hungry Bunny!!! Allaah… o Hungry Bunny Keifan wya il kowar…
A drive to Hungry Bunny Khafji Tommorow will be planned NOW… Tboon shay min Hungry Bunny?
P.S. none of the hungry bunyat ilee bel q8 are the real thing tra…
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After a long day shopping in my fav. UK department store, there is nothing better than sitting in the Yellow Cafe @ the Basement of Selfridges to have some afternoon Tea!

It is a quiet haven amidst the jumble of shoppers. You get to watch passers by yet you hear the piano clicking away to soothing [...]

If you are in the UK any time soon you must try those 100th celebratory Selfridges chocolates! They are really good… esp my two favorites: The Rose Cream and the Violet Cream! Needless to say they didn’t last overnight with me around
and here is another picture. There are several sizes available, mine was [...]

I love Khobiz Irani, or Khobiz il Tanoor… how many of us tagged along with one of our parents to the nearest khabbaz o stood in line to watch as the khabbaz shapes the little dough and throws them into the blazing oven?!
I remember the heat from the tanoor mildly scorching my little face [...]

Remember when we were kids in the 80’s, and we loved the chocolates above?
How we would love to tear away the colorful qasdeer, and usually the chocolate is melted so we would lick it off, or if it was in the fridge we would pop it out? How then we would flatten the qasdeer out [...]

I KNEW IT!
It was too good to be true. He cannot contain himself any longer. He must must MUST interfere at some point and try and SABOTAGE MY DIET!
and he is GOOD… he is very very good. He knows my one weakness in this world, the one thing i cannot resist. The one thing genetically [...]

I recall the day i knew what i wanted to be when i grew up…
I was 7 years old, and daddy walks in with a Sakhar MSX PC in hand. We all gather around him, open mouthed, while he connected it to our tv, put in a cartridge called Alf Ba2 Ta2, and started making [...]

We recieved a box of mini Flakes from the UK… YAY!!!
So… Tea time (or coffee time) for me is sacred. It always reminds me of my father, who after waking up in the evening would gather us around him o feed us tea, mary biscuits, and cakes!!!
So, today i was fasting with Bu Tootee, i [...]