Life Through My Eyes
To serve alongside my Cajun shrimp, I made these Cajun roasted [red] potatoes. I cut my red potatoes into small pieces [first I halved them, then quartered each half]. I transferred all of the potatoes onto a foil-lined baking sheet, Next, I sprayed the potatoes with non-stick cooking spray before I seasoned the potatoes with …
I seasoned my shrimp with black pepper, garlic powder, paprika, Cajun seasoning and lemon juice. In a preheated 400 degree oven, I baked my shrimp for about 12 minutes. I served these alongside my Cajun roasted [red] potatoes. Like my recipes? Click the below link to purchase my cookbook “What’s for Dinner”: P.S. …
This past Sunday, I attended a janaza prayer [AKA salat-ul-janaza] for the father of one of our family doctor’s. Janaza prayers are the Islamic funeral prayers. Now I’ve attended quite a few funeral prayers. My first memory of attending one, unfortunately, [for a close family member] is back in 2001 for my 15 month old baby girl …
For my parents’ 30th anniversary last night, for the dessert, I made this individual sized chocolate chip cookie [mini pie sort of things] that I served with french vanilla ice cream. A la mode means to be served with a scoop of ice cream. Click here for my homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe. I baked …
Today marks my parents 30th wedding anniversary! I’ve been out of the kitchen for the most part post-surgery, but tonight I made these chicken kababs. Tawook is pretty much cubed chicken that is marinated, skewered and then grilled. I marinated the boneless chicken cubes with salt, black pepper, chili powder, paprika, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, ginger powder, …
When my brother Ayaz emailed me a link to a tweet by our local newspaper asking for our favorite pizza pie recipes, I let it sit in my email box for a few days before going, “what the heck, I’ll share my Bubble-up Pizza and my favorite pizza recipe. I figured that would be it, …
Two weeks ago, on February 21st, I had my first [and God-willing last] surgery. Thyroid surgery to be precise. It’s one of the toughest and scariest things, if not the toughest and scariest thing, I have [physically] faced [as of yet] in my life. It’s been a hard two weeks of recovery thus far but, …
