All posts of Shaheen

Marinated Aubergine with Garlic and Herbs

Did you miss me? I hope you did. Let me tell you what I was upto – I was writing a chapter for 55 Knives. Erm, what’s that? That is an upcoming e-book that will feature some really, really awesome food bloggers, including Nicole of Pinch My Salt and Sprouted Kitchen. I was (and still […]
16 years ago

Parmesan Roasted Broccoli

  Does this look like the same old broccoli that we are all used to? I love broccoli. I mean, what’s not to like? It’s healthy, it’s fresh, it’s colourful, it’s crunchy, it’s tasty, it’s great! It stumps me when I read stories about parents have a tough time shoving broccoli down their little ones’ […]
16 years ago

The best Le Creuset-y birthday ever!

So I got the most awesome things for my birthday today (I turn 23!). Celebrations got an early start yesterday morning when I got two packages in the mail. One was the Ottolenghi cookbook that Hilda sent me (for the giveaway I won a few days ago) and the bigger surprise was a pack of […]
16 years ago

Pie Dough 101 + Simple Apple Pie

I think an apple pie is one of the first things I baked when I got an oven. I used a pie dough recipe from a nondescript local book and didn’t pay much attention to baking blind (we will get to this shortly). Back then, this was an unnecessary step that the naïve me thought […]
16 years ago

Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Crystallised Ginger

Doesn’t everyone just love a thick slice of banana bread? And coupled with a glass of cold milk or a dollop of whipped cream, it makes for an offer that is hard to turn down. But what if it has crystallised ginger and a good handful of chocolate chips thrown in? Yes. Just as I […]
16 years ago

Cheesecake Swirled Brownies

The BAKED Brownie recipe + the most delicious cheesecake recipe = outrageous cheesecake swirled brownies. Oh yes, this is for real.  The brownie batter (the baked recipe, nothing less) is topped with a generous dose of cheesecake batter and swirled for the happy marbled effect, and then finally scattered with a good handful of semisweet […]
16 years ago

My Favourite Tomato Basil Sauce

I despise eating food off the shelf – the boxed, canned, frozen, heat-and-eat kind. I always wonder what sorts of preservative must have been used in it to maintain that shelf life. I especially think that something like a tomato sauce should never be bought because it is so easy to make! Let the onion […]
16 years ago

Pear and Ginger Cake with Walnuts

A few days ago my dad brought the most juicy pears home. They were small and so full of flavour that after downing as many as I could fresh, I decided to make a pear cake I’d been meaning to try ever since I saw the recipe in a cute little Marks and Spencer baking […]
16 years ago

2 Years, Gratitude, and Red Velvet Cupcakes

It’s hard to believe that 2 years have gone by since the time I started this blog. Sometimes it feels like I’ve been blogging forever and other times I feel like a newbie. Irrespective, I’ve had an awesome time here; learning new things and meeting new people has been very enriching (at the risk of […]
16 years ago