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About Budour

A food lover

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It is really is inspiring to see young Kuwaitis passionate about something, and even more inspiring that their passion is for organic gardening!

Check out It all grows: The challenges and joys of a Kuwaiti garden and follow her journey to organic gardening. Oh and she also creates her own compost!

Crunchy kanafa with creamy semolina filling

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So I know I haven’t been posting about too many Ramadan-esque recipes but it’s only because I’m experimenting with different fillings and crusts.

Last Friday for my uncle’s futoor gathering, I created a kanafa with a creamy semolina filling.

This is the easiest kanafa with the shortest prep time.

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I want to share this fantastic and very useful article that I found in the New York Times – Dining and Wine Section (which I’m starting to love). It’s for all of you who are confused about kitchen tools and to those who buy more than they need!

The Minimalist – A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks

Guest blogger: Friend’s Mom and her German apple cake

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A few weeks ago, a friend of mine tweeted about her mother’s German apple cake and she described so deliciously. I think the coarse sea salt sprinkled over the cake cake is what sold it for me.

I asked her if her mother would agree to be a guest blogger on The Oven Experiments and she did!

I drafted a couple of questions to send to her mother about the cake. Continue reading →

Maple fig tart

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I have always been the type of person that would give every type of food a chance, except for figs.

I always thought they looked weird and very unappetizing. The first time I tried figs was this summer in the cutest bakery in Toronto. We had a savory fig tart and it was amazing. I fell in love and gave myself such a hard time for not giving them a chance earlier in my life!

When I returned to Kuwait, I grabbed  a container of fresh figs and had no idea what to do with. They stayed in the fridge for two weeks until they rotted and had to be thrown away. I was determined the other day to make something with figs so I bought another container.

And this is what I came up with:

a maple fig tart Continue reading →

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I’m not a make up fanatic, but I fully admit that I’m a beauty products junkie!

Mademoiselle from Ke7el, the go-to local blog for anything beauty related, kindly asked me if I would like to be featured in their “What’s Inside Your Makeup Bag” project and I enthusiastically accepted.

So go ahead, click here to see what’s inside my make-up bag!

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Check this super cool link for food photography that will definitely blow your mind away!

Photographer Caren Alpert used an electron microscope to photograph cake sprinkles (see below), brussels sprouts, table salt and many more.

Taken from: http://www.featureshoot.com/2011/07/caren-alpert-san-francisco/