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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Experiment 5: Pumpkin ravioli with butter sage sauce
Pumpkin + sage = a true marriage in heaven with the inclusion of butter well then you would just reach nirvana!
My cousin who is on her spring break wanted to make ravioli together. My usual filling for ravioli is ricotta cheese mixed with shredded parmesan and dried oregano and I would serve it with roasted tomato sauce. I love this combination but I wanted to try something new.
My sister as a way of shortcut once made pasta with cubed pumpkin cooked in butter and and sage until very soft and ever since I tried that I had fallen in love with this idea. So I wanted to translate this idea into ravioli…
Well first I had to make the pasta which is honestly the easiest thing. Continue reading
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Celebration cakes and marzipan
My cousin’s birthday was last weekend and I wanted to be the cake person! I already knew that I was going to have a simple chocolate cake with whipped white chocolate ganache filling and white buttercream as frosting. I have done this combination many times, which is inspired from November’s Jude cake, but little did I know that I would find ready-made marzipan at Sultan. And oh the excitement! I was going to make made-from-scratch marzipan for a certain somebody’s birthday later this month so initially I bought the packets for that project. Continue reading
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Cardamon and Lime: Recipes from the Arabian Gulf by Sarah al-Hamad
For the first time in Kuwait, Kuwaiti writer Sarah al-Hamad’s signed recipe book from the Arabian Gulf, Cardamon and Lime: Recipes from the Arabian Gulf, is available at the museum shop at Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah’s al-Maidan Cultural Centre in Maidan Hawalli. Continue reading
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