I love waking up to Fridays like this past one. Peeking out from under the covers to a day that yawns out lazily, full of empty white hours where I don’t have to be anywhere doing anything. A day that’s … Continue reading
Category Archives: Kitchen experiment
If Dad can cook, so can You.
…or can you really?
Every time I ask dad how he creates his incredible slow braised, Indian curried turkey, he modestly responds, “It’s not hard at all, anyone can do it!” Sort of reminds me of that old TV cook show from the 90’s … Continue reading
Buttermilk Biscuit-topped Baby Pot Pies
(…and my biscuit craze continues…)
I loved the Mediterranean-style Southern biscuits from my last kitchen experiment so much that I had to find a way to resurrect them in my next experiment as well. Frankly, I couldn’t have cared less what the rest of the … Continue reading
Warm and buttery…Southern-style Mediterranean Chicken Biscuits
I’m a recipe thief. One of the worst kinds of culinary offenders out there. I steal not one, not two, but many, many recipes and fuse them together into an uber copied-concoction. And then garnish it with something I’ve seen … Continue reading
A four-course flatbread finale of my weekend of indulgence in Seattle (part 4)
One of the things I miss most about leaving the U.S. is visiting the farmer’s market, picking up the freshest and yummiest things around, and then figuring out how to cook with them. So my last day in Seattle was … Continue reading
Embarking on a stuffed buns escapade
…and no, these are not just veggies jammed in store-bought burger buns.
An email exchange with a friend… I wrote: Check out the 2 pics from my latest cooking experiment…stuffed buns…turned out to be pretty edible. Killed mom’s kitchen in the process, but she’s recovered. His reply: That’s called making a sandwich … Continue reading
Friday brunch take on Banh mi.
Warning: Content may be offensive to Banh mi purists
I’d had a major craving for Banh mi the last week of January, right before I was leaving New York to move back home to Dubai. And for some inane reason or another, I never had a chance to fulfill that … Continue reading