Life Through My Eyes
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, …
This blog has been my open journal for several years now. Writing has always been an outlet for me. I’ve shared my recipes, my thoughts, my reflections, and what’s going on in my life. Except for one part. It’s something I have not shared here, because quite honestly it’s something I haven’t shared with most …
I was at the event when Bill Clinton came to Rutgers at the height of Barack Obama’s election campaign [when I was still a Rutgers student]. I met/shook hands with Barack Obama when he came to FDU. Not to mention I met Nelson Mandela as an elementary school student in Canada when he visited Toronto, …
It’s a cold and snowy day [again]. We seem to be having a lot of these lately. Another foot of snow, making the total for the winter season thus far unreasonably high. As a mid afternoon snack, I made this braided pizza bread using a refrigerated pizza dough I had handy. I lay the …
Cheesecake and chocolate chip cookies are pretty high on the list of “my favorite desserts”. Here are a few other variations I have done as well: my chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake and chocolate chip cheesecake. What I did today, instead, was use cookie as the base of the cheesecake [crust], and put chocolate chips in the …
