June 2015

  • Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Quail Ozzi with Saffron Boiled Eggs

    Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Quail Ozzi with Saffron Boiled Eggs

    Found some quails at Tesco recently, and was really curious about them.  I remembered that Chef Ammar had a quail recipe in his book, so I decided to grab a bag of ten birds.  Making this dish marked a few firsts for me; first time preparing quails, and first time frying breaded stuff in the…

  • Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Bukhari Rice with Roasted Chicken

    Weekend Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Bukhari Rice with Roasted Chicken

    Happy Ramadan, everyone! Fasting month makes me feel like cooking more, so on this first weekend of Ramadan, I’ve been making dinner two days in a row.  Today I wanted to try something new but didn’t want anything too complicated, so finally I chose Chef Ammar’s bukhari rice with roasted chicken. This turned out…

  • Weekend Cooking: Roast Leg of Lamb

    Weekend Cooking: Roast Leg of Lamb

    While hanging around the frozen meats section at Tesco I spotted a whole stack of frozen lamb legs.  It took me quite a few grocery shopping trips after that before I finally picked one up; aside from that one time making lamb Mandy, I’ve never really handled lamb before so I was really curious…