By Karimah Bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Well Being Writer. I hate to admit it but my memory is not what it used to be. When I got to 40 I said to myself and anyone who would listen” I need a new memory card”. Well, a few more moons have passed since then I…
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HONEY AND DIABETES
by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain and well being writer. I love honey as you all know and advocate taking honey in the mornings with warm water or herbal tea as its sunnah of the beloved Prophet Muhammad , salah ala alahi wa salem. I was recently asked by sistar who was diabetic about honey and it was something I wasn’t not sure of, however since then i found this brilliant article “Honey for diabetes? Yes!” that is worth a read…
I’M STRAW BEET – BEETROOT, STRAWBERRY & CELERY JUICE
By Karimah Bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Well Being Writer Worried about my bad circulation and threatening DVT which turned out to be maybe a trapped nerve, my raw foodie friend from BLISS BITES, arrived outside my door with bundles of beetroots to improve my circulation and good for my heart, she told me. There’s…
JOLOFFE RICE IS VERY VERY NICE
By Karimah Bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Well Being Writer. Serves 6 persons Recipe Origin: AFRICA Praise the Creator for those of us who love to mix. Due to Islam and Arabs begin well and truly ingrained in west African culture, jollofe rice though traditionally African has found its way into Middle Eastern cuisine via the Lebanese…or was it the other way round? I was recently told by a Senegalese imam that Jollofe is a wollofe word has its origins…
HEALTHY FISH RECIPE- THE NEW PERSIAN
TARROGAN SALMON , By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain and well being writer There is no excuse for the majority of muslims to be overweight when there is ample evidence in the Quran and Sunnah warning of this unislamic habit. I know there are a few people whose medication make them put weight. Most of us do not have slow metabolsim, we are just…
SAFFRON & SUNGLASSES
By Karimah Bint Dawoud, Food Writer & Environmentalist Fashionsita. Green is the new black, no not really but following on from this summers freshie green in fashion and interior design, green will still be on the scene for fall and winter inshallah. Hooray because it was one of Prophet Muhammad, peace of Allah be upon…
SWEET AND SOUR TURKISH DELIGHT
By Karimah Bit Dawoud, Muslim Chaplin & Well Being Writer. According today’s blog by Muslim Media Watch “Approx. 60% of Emirati women over 30 unmarried and there are many theories on why this number of single women in the UAE is growing so fast and how to solve this “problem” http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/ One brother on Face…
“HEAVENLY BITES ” – BOOK LAUNCH BOOKS FOR COOKS.
by Karimah Bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain & well being writer. Eric Trueille, proprietor of Books For Cooks , said, ” This is the first book to make the connection between the two worlds,the best I have ever seen, for the Western world this book is amazing, comprehensive, enjoyable and visual.100 years of passion and tradition…
There Are Plenty Of Fish In The Sea – Catch 22
By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer.In the process of getting married again,having explored and experienced being a co wife to stingy misogynist, the wage earning wife of a passport hunter and the temporary wife of an emotionally unavailable serial “halal” marriage fling down brother, I have decided, after too many tears and an almost…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT- RIVERSIDE RADIO INTERVIEW KARIMAH
By Karimah Bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Food Writer. It was a lovely sunny day looking out over river Thames, from the radio recording booth of the long time arty and trendy Riverside Studios in Hammersmith. I had attend many art exhibitions here and one or two theatre performances. Alhamdulillah it was my turn to…