Today I was featured in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest English-language circulation newspaper, on the front page of the Globe Life section. The article was entitled: Cooking As Therapy.
Here is the link to the article below.
Candied Orange Peel Lamb Shanks, Khoresht-e-Portaghal
Sunday, March 28, 2010 By 21 Comments
A Persian-Influenced Easter
Wishing everyone a Happy Easter in advance with a Persian-influenced lamb dish. This is based on Khoresht-e-Portaghal; a Persian meat-based stew made with oranges. [Read more...]
Winner- Food52 Competition-To be Published in ‘Food52′ Cookbook
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 By 16 Comments
Click here for the winning recipe, and here for my interview, (above).
I am pleased and honoured to share with my readers that my recipe for Borani Esfanaaj won the Food52 competition for ‘Your Best Spinach Recipe’ this week and will be published in a crowdsourced cookbook entitled ‘Food52′ by HarperStudio. (Here is my recipe and the story of inspiration behind it, on my blog). [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 By 5 Comments
Wonders of Pakistan Part V: Glass bangle shopping in Chooriyon wali gali; the Alley of Bangles, Lahore, December 2009.
Dal- Lentils in the Pakistani / Afghan Manner
Sunday, March 21, 2010 By 50 Comments
La vita è bella
“It’s your last night here, what would you like to eat, Baba?,” I ask my father.
I know he likes the straccetti alla rughetta at Da Francesco in Piazza del Fico.
“A home-cooked meal. Dal and chawal,” he answers. [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 By 23 Comments
Wonders of Pakistan IV: my husband. It’s his birthday today, on St. Patty’s Day.
My own recipe for a chocolate cake with fleur de sel chocolate ganache, for his birthday dinner tonight.
Borani Esfanaaj-Yoghurt and Spinach Dip in the Persian Manner
Sunday, March 14, 2010 By 37 Comments
This recipe won the competition on Food 52 for “Your Best Spinach Recipe”. It will be published in the Food 52 book by HarperStudio. Here is the link.
In Memoriam- for Mader and the innocent victims who died on Friday, March 12th in Lahore…
Asked what one thing he wanted from the outside world before being hanged, a prisoner once said, “Bring me a bottle of Shalimar, to remind me of the best things in life.”
Feeling a little flat all day, after hearing about the 10 suicide bombings which took place in my hometown of Lahore, I took a little walk after work to our local department store. I went to the Chanel counter to apply Chanel No. 19 to my wrists. Bergamot and sweet cut grass, the scents of my grandmother, Mader, who left us 20 years ago this March. [Read more...]
Date Cake
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 By 52 Comments
Yassi’s As-Moist-As-a-Pudding Date Cake
Yassi sits on her stool in the kitchen kneading the glossy détrempe for la pâte feuilletée; puff pastry. There is no beurre sec, but Lurpak will do. Her silver and black hair is in short waves and immaculate as always; her pastel kurta is starched. Yassi’s slender, milky fingers are bare as they push the dough back and forth, like a potter with her clay. Her mother’s vintage ring bearing three overlapping leaves in rose, yellow and white gold removed and placed in the porcelain Wedgewood jewelry jar given to her by her daughter-in-law. She looks at the granite counter, “It would be lovely to have a cup of champagne resting there for small sips while the dough rests,” she thinks. But she is no longer in her Paris kitchen, she is in Karachi. [Read more...]
Interview-Qype London
Thursday, March 4, 2010 By 8 Comments
I am most honoured to have been interviewed by Qype, London, a Hamburg-based web 2.0 company centred around social networking and local reviews. In it, I talk about ladyfingers, Raoul’s in London and how I came to start this blog. Thank you for your readership, as always, Shayma
You can read it by clicking on this link.
Wordless Wednesday
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 By 6 Comments
Wonders of Pakistan Part III: A midnight run to the fruit-wallah, with my Uncle, Lahore, December 2009.
