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The Spice Spoon
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Cooking without borders: cuisine from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and beyond.
- Author: shayma
- Listed in: Food & Drink World Cuisine
- Tags: recipes pakistani afghani irani
Recent Posts
Afghan Aubergine with Savoury Mince: Bonjon Keema
As promised, this is recipe part II, from the menu at the Nairobi Reunion dinner I hosted at mine for my childhood friends. The velvety, smoky aubergine rests lazily atop a slathering of tomato jamminess; blanketed by a layer of mint-fragr...
Ami’s Vermicelli Pudding (Sawayan or Shir Khurma)
This is the recipe for the vermicelli pudding my mother, Ami, prepares every Eid, which I wrote about in my post about her on Motherhood: The Final Frontier. This year we were not able to celebrate Eid together, so I tried my hand at it for my husba...
My Guest Post on Motherhood: The Final Frontier (Plus Preview of My Mum’s Vermicelli Pudding)
It’s been an absolute honour for me to have had the opportunity to write a guest post on Motherhood: The Final Frontier, for one of my favourite bloggers/friends, a British girl who blogs anonymously from California about her life as a mum. She...
Afghani Fresh Dill-Spiced Rice: Chelo Shibit
This is a recipe, as promised, from the menu at the Nairobi Reunion dinner I hosted. Dill is used widely in Persian and Afghani cooking. It lends a lovely fragrant, herbal quality to the rice- which can be paired with an aubergine and savoury mince...
A Pudding-less Nairobi Reunion: Poached Pears in Crème Anglaise
Nairobi is where we learned to love safari parks and dislike zoos. We would take trips to the Nairobi National Park on most weekends, bobbing up and down on the inner roads in a Land Rover. As we peered out to look at the statuesque white- and caram...
A Pudding-less Nairobi Reunion
Nairobi is where we learned to love safari parks and dislike zoos. We would take trips to the Nairobi National Park on most weekends, bobbing up and down on the inner roads in a Land Rover. As we peered out to look at the statuesque white- and caram...
