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Summer is the time of the year, when I prefer to spend little time in the kitchen near a hot oven. When choosing this summers’ favorites I realized that my preferred meals haveRead More

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– Reason: “This is not a healthy dessert!” – Health-conscious foodie: “But is has no refined sugar in it!” – Reason: ” But a ton of dates.” – Health-conscious foodie: “But at leastRead More

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 You eat with your eyes first?  I also love to eat with my hands: I am happy with raw fruit, veggie sticks and dips, granola bars, handy pieces of cake, and messy BBQs.Read More

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Are friendships worth to put at stake for a piece of cake? Well, this is what I did. After I made this raw lemon cheesecake for the first time, I was so blownRead More

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It’s mango season here in the region. The groceries are full of the most delicious mangoes: big, ripe, heavenly-sweet, melt-in-your-mouth mangoes! My kids happily take them as alternative to chocolate or sweets thatRead More

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 Do you have dishes that you don’t like because you had too many bad versions of it during your childhood? In my case,  pasta salads fall into this category. Pasta overcooked, drowned inRead More

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Yet another recipe with chickpea flour. I am crazy about this stuff. I posted a similar chickpea cracker recipe before, but this one deserves an extra post. Do you know hummus? Its mainRead More

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When I was 8 years old, my family and I lived in China (near Shanghai) for two years due to my dad’s work. Truly one of the craziest experiences of my life tilRead More

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Last weekend, I got final confirmation that I am getting completely detached from the realities of healthy food. It seems I am going overboard with my “healthified” alternatives. I attended Dubai’s 2nd communityRead More

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Will you believe me that these strawberry tartlets are a complete by-product from a therapeutic kitchen session that I allowed myself? After a week where I spend several hours each day in theRead More

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I have been trying to keep my diet gluten free for some time now. Not rigorously, but as a general rule I tried to avoid it to see what it does to myRead More

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With summer approaching fast (at least here in Dubai), my appetite for no-bake and no-cook dishes, bits and bites increases proportionally to the growing heat.  We already had around 45C/113F the other day.Read More

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Do you know the TV show Come Dine With Me? Well, our (actually not so) little Dubai Food Blogger community came up with the idea to do a Come Dine With Me amongstRead More

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Does anyone know who invented the chewy cookie and when? I am asking, because in my childhood, all cookies were crispy. Anything soft or chewy was cake. Period.  It must have happened inRead More

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Here is a long overdue recipe of mine: the recipe that saves me at 10pm at night when my baking experiments result in disaster, or when I feel like something sweet, but notRead More

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I can’t believe it’s May already. Only two more months and I will leave Dubai for our annual  one- month summer holiday and escape from the heat. I wonder what have I doneRead More

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Finally! That’s what I need to say first when writing this post for my Pasta Puttanesca recipe. It’s been on my list from the moment I discovered this amazing pasta sauce, but forRead More

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After a series of kitchen disasters, during which several new dishes went straight into the bin, I tend to cook and bake things that are well known to me and disaster-proof. Like granola.Read More

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Chickpea flour is still new in my kitchen, but the fact that it is gluten free, grain free and has a higher protein content than regular grain flour makes me want to exploreRead More

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If I had to appoint one fruit or vegetable to each season of the year, my spring fruit would definitely be lemon. Each year in the spring months, I find myself buying lemonsRead More