[2017 edit: This venue is now closed] Tea. There’s something magical, almost like a spell, when you boil water and throw the infusion of cured leaves into it … *POOF* and it’s a swirling mixture that explodes into a sensory delight. You can smell it, you can see it, you can almost feel its aroma…
Dessert Dedication
When you’re in a bad mood, or you just need to celebrate… When you’re frustrated with where you are in life, or you’ve achieved something outstanding… When you’re mourning the absence of someone from your life, or ecstatic because of someone’s presence… …there’s always dessert. Gallery 1: Ice cream from Baskin Robbins Gallery 2:…
The Yasmin Mebar effect
What happens when you visit a fellow foodie’s house for a girl’s night in? Sausage rolls. Zaatar and sweet chilli fatayers. Cheese puffs. Empanadas. Chicken quesadillas with guacamole and sour cream. Spinach puffs. Chocolate tarts. Vanilla tarts with cherries. Alfajores. All home-made. I call it the Yasmin Mebar effect – the feeling when eat so much…
Famished in Arabia birthday cakes
Looks like everyone has beat me to it, with mushy things to say to everyone else, and awesome blogs with super friendships being formed between people. I just have the cakes. Out of which I only ate three.
A chocolate addict’s heaven: Chocopologie
[2017 EDIT: This venue is now closed] I had to scope out Chocopologie for a piece I was writing for Jazeera magazine and decided I might as well make a meal out of it. Yasmin, of Red Panda Bakes fame (you can find her on Twitter here) was giving me company; perhaps the best person…
The last bow of BB’s
These words probably sum up most of my times in Sheffield: All the crazy shit I did tonight* Those would be the best memories I just wanna let it go for the night That would be the best therapy for me I’ve blogged about BB’s Italian restaurant before: here and here. It’s one of those small…
Love me, then leave me
Promise me the world. You look perfect. Tell me you’ll stay with me, every step of the way. Entice me with your lusciousness, your sweet taste and your pretty looks. I bite, I freeze and let the juices flow. I fall in love, I delve deep into your mind, your soul and understand what makes…
Don’t slip on the shrimp*
The food blogger crew strikes again! A group of us decided to go to Xiao Wei Yang in Deira for some Chinese hot pot. Essentially, we get the boiling broth and we throw all the ingredients we want in…and eat! After foraging for parking (yes, it felt like foraging), I finally stuck Guido (yes, my…
The Italian Pizza (Atlantis food blogger safari Part 4)
Catch up on the first three parts! – Part 1: I Woman. I Eat Meat. – Part 2: Cow, cow cow! Mushroom, mushroom! Oh it’s a chicken! – Part 3: Cheese Trek I like how Ronda Locatelli looks. It has this earthy, warm atmosphere, with the dimmed lighting, the woody interiors and the use of…
Cheese Trek (Atlantis Food Blogger Safari Part 3)
<William Shatner/James Kirk voice> France: the final frontier. This is the voyage of FooDee. Her never-ending mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new cheese and new cheesecake, to boldly go where no foodie has gone before. </William Shatner/James Kirk voice> After some beef, and yet more beef, we’re off to a completely different…
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