Food For The Soul
Salt production can be traced back nearly 6,000 years to ancient times usage included seasoning, food preservation and even payment, which is where the word, salary, comes from. Nowadays, surprisingly only 6% of salt is used for culinary purposes, the rest is for industrial, agricultural or road gritting use.
Produced either from salt mines or by evaporation of sea or spring water, edible salt comes refined as table salt or as varied as the multitude of sea and rock salts…
If you want to try meditation and do not know where to begin, Meditation for Beginners by Jack Kornfield is good place to start. The book comprises of 13 chapters, the first introducing background and contextual information, followed by eight chapters each explaining a focus for a meditation, the final two looking at social responsibilities and ongoing practice. The book also comes with a CD of the first six as guided meditations…
Hidden away in a community mall in Al Quoz is little known Dubai eatery with a unique positioning attempting to plug a gap in the city’s healthy eating market.
Balance Café only serves a healthy Ayurvedic menu. That means each dish has been created to nourish the body by delivering vitality through a wide variety of fresh ingredients for optimum nutritional benefits. A balanced Ayurvedic diet aims to include all six Ayurvedic tastes in each meal, these are sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter and astringent…
Investigating energy and its impact on life has been a dominating practice for me over the last few years. I had been suffering adrenal fatigue and insulin resistance, hormonal disorders that contribute to obesity as well as fatigue and foggy-headedness amongst other symptoms. After several unsuccessful courses of medication, a friend recommended an endocrinologist who switched my medication for a diet plan. Within three days, the cloudiness cleared, my vitality increased and the extra pounds started to drop off. Through exploration of the subject of energy, I could better comprehend how my issues had not only been physical but also mental and spiritual…
This recipe is an adaptation of a Sweet Potato and Chilli Soup recipe I used to make several years ago. You can still switch the squash with sweet potato if you prefer, you may need to cook it for a little longer than the squash…
This is a great dinner party starter, not too filling but so full of flavor, it’s sure to get the taste buds tingling ahead of the main course. The individual dishes make guest feel special. They can also be prepared in advance, for convenience, kept in the fridge and placed under the grill once guests arrive…
I remember reading in one of Jamie Oliver’s early cook books that if you keep tomatoes whole when cooking them, the sauce tastes cleaner and sweeter as the seeds don’t add their bitter flavour while it stews. The double cream can be substituted with UHT or Elmlea, if its not available, but they cannot beat the taste and freshness of the real thing. Tomato recipes are perfect for the slow cooker and this is no exception…
Steak cut chips or fast food style French fries, this is a fabulous and healthy accompaniment to steaks and homemade burgers. The rich colour makes the presentation look exciting. I have even known guests to ask for the malt vinegar, they feel and look so much like real chips. Using the sweetness of the vegetable, the seasoning gives a Southern-style flavour that’s rather moreish
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Quick, easy and tastes amazing, Bron makes these as a weekend treat. Originally based on Gordon Ramsey’s Smokey Pork Sliders, Bron has adapted the recipe to use beef mince, veal bacon and makes these as full size burgers. Skip the bread and use iceberg lettuce for a healthier low carb meal…
ALRIWAQ, Qatar Museums Authority, Doha, Qatar
10 October 2013 – 22 January 2014
At the end of October 2013, my day job took me to Doha in Qatar, where I took the opportunity to stay with a good friend and research the culture in greater depth. This was primarily for the purpose of field research in advance of expanding the company’s operations there. As we took a car tour of the city, we drove passed the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) and the sight of the QM Gallery, Al Riwaq in front of MIA Park completely took me aback. I immediately made plans to return to the city that Christmas, for a personal visit, when I would spend a day at the gallery…
