Express: Rice noodles with vegetables

As many of you have requested, I will start posting dishes that can be made in 30 minutes or less, the express section.

Today’s post took less than 10 minutes from start to end: Rice noodles with vegetables.

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a few of my favorite food blogs

I am bored at work and what do I do?

I salivate over delicious looking food blogs…

Cannelle et Vanille

cannelle-vanille
This is one of my favorite food blogs. Delicious recipes and even more delicious food photography! Latest post on baking with persimmons, I think they are called kaka here? Makes me want to go to the co-op or Sultan after work and grab a few to try it!

*Update* Guess what I found in our fridge! Yup! kaka fruits! So I’ll be making this much sooner than I thought! Yay!

foodbeam

foodbeam

Excellent step-by-step recipes and cute animations! Her latest post is a recipe of a pumpkin pie. Now that autumn is here (well not really but let’s pretend) a pumpkin pie sounds mandatory!

smitten kitchen

smittenkitchen

I discovered this wonderful blog today. And I spent hours and hours on it ever since! She makes everything from salads to cakes to bread to roasts… This image of roasted tomatoes and onions reminds that I should definitely post simple recipes for pastas in the near future!

I will feature more food blogs as I discover them.

Berlin

Lovely readers. I am back from the loveliest and my new favorite city, Berlin!

I was there for a program related to my work and loved every second of it. My eyes teared a little when the plane landed in Kuwait. I was in denial. I did not want to leave!

The streets, the museums, the parks, the canals, the lakes, the shops, the bakeries and Oh My! Oh My! the best and most perfect bread I have ever had in my entire life! I overdosed on every kind of bread with every meal!

crumbles and strudels

crumbles and strudels

bread and bread and bread

bread and bread and bread

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Treasures in the basement

My grandparent’s basement storage room was always an adventurous place when we were small (and still is). So when my cousin suggested we scavenge the storage room last Monday, I took my camera in one hand and a hand sanitizer in another and started snapping away!  And since I haven’t been inside for quite a while, it was so much fun looking at all the old furniture, chinaware, my mother’s closet, old books and some friendly creatures…

One upon a time, the storage was at least 3 times bigger than what it is now and had much more interesting items but most of it was either given away or sold.

Also, my apologies in advance for the misaligned images, I couldn’t fix them on wordpress!

knobs for the fan

knobs for the fan

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