ramadan

  • Shorba (Meat and Oat Soup)

    Shorba (Meat and Oat Soup)

    Mummy has been losing weight of late, and I’ve been trying out different soup recipes for her to have some variety in her diet.  I wanted to keep things interesting enough for her to want to eat. At the same time I wanted to provide her with all the necessary nutrition to stay healthy.…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Shrimp Scampi Pasta

    Ramadan Cooking: Shrimp Scampi Pasta

    I found some really nice (albeit expensive) shrimp at B.I.G. recently, and at the same time was having such a craving for pasta.  I’ve mentioned previously that I really love the shrimp scampi at Tony Roma’s, although over the years they seemed to have modified the recipe or something and even that has lost…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Moroccan Lamb Soup

    Ramadan Cooking: Moroccan Lamb Soup

    I bought some lamb cubes some time back and never got around to cooking them.  Since it’s Ramadan and the evenings have been so rainy of late, I wanted to make something comforting and soupy.  Besides, Mummy is watching her health more carefully and no longer eats any red meat, so even though she’ll…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Peri-peri Sausage Rolls

    Ramadan Cooking: Peri-peri Sausage Rolls

    Ramadan mubarak, everyone! I can’t believe a year went by so fast.  Since I get off work an hour early, again I try to make small dishes like appetisers and snacks for breaking fast.  I still have a few bottles of Nando’s PERi-PERi sauce in the larder, so I looked through their website for…

  • Eman’s Chicken Kabsa

    Eman’s Chicken Kabsa

    Mummy wasn’t feeling well a few weekends back, and I was really worried because she took so long to recover and had such poor appetite.  I decided to make something nice for her for dinner, in hopes that she’d eat more.  I didn’t want to do a lamb dish, because I figured an elevated…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Lamb Makhtoum

    Ramadan Cooking: Lamb Makhtoum

    It’s almost the end of Ramadan, and I was hoping to cook a few more dishes before I’m no longer allowed to leave work an hour earlier.  I found a YouTube channel called Saudi Food Eman, and I really liked her videos.  This lamb makhtoum looked simple enough to make, and I happened to…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Peri-peri Cornflakes Chicken

    Ramadan Cooking: Peri-peri Cornflakes Chicken

    It was the last few days of Ramadan, and things were reaaaally slowing down at work.  As I was staring at my laptop screen wondering what work I should do for the day, an email came in from Nando’s with the subject line, “Take PERi-PERi sauce balik kampung this Hari Raya okay!” I clicked…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Chicken Kabsah with Rice

    Ramadan Cooking: Chicken Kabsah with Rice

    Usually during Ramadan I try to cook more often for my family.  Sometimes I make snacks and appetizers, and sometimes I try to make one-pot meals.  This year’s Ramadan, one of the first buka puasa dishes I made was this chicken kabsah.  My family loves Middle Eastern cuisine, but our favourite nasi Arab restaurant, Half Moon, is just…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Mandy Rice with Lamb Shank

    Ramadan Cooking: Chef Ammar’s Mandy Rice with Lamb Shank

    Bought a few really nice lamb shanks (and a bunch of other things) from B.I.G. last Friday! They cost a lot more than from the TTDI wet market, but the quality looks top notch.  This weekend was quite busy for me to cook everything I bought, but at least I managed to make this…

  • Ramadan Cooking: Potato Croquettes

    Ramadan Cooking: Potato Croquettes

    Ever since Ramadan started, I’ve been taking my quick breaks walking through the aisles of Ben’s Independent Grocer (B.I.G.) almost every working day.  Sometimes (very rarely) I leave empty handed, but most of the time I would buy some fruit at half price or bread or some ingredient I could use to make something…