By Karimah Bin Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Well Being Writer Spring summer is really the time for getting your head and tongue around Green Juices. Most of us , except the odd alien, are alright with the conventional bought cartons orange juices, pineapple juice and recently in a supermarket I saw apple, lemongrass and pear…
Author: karimahscuisina
as salaam alaikum, peace and blessings everyone, I am a qualified clinical nutritionist & muslim chaplain, with a passion for islamic medicine and well being :)
ISLAMIC MEDICINE- THE NETTLE
By Karimah Bin Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Well Being Writer The humble nettle, it’s the thing you hate as a child when you grow up in the countryside, the prospect of having to wade through stinging nettle bushes to get somewhere ; through that hedge or across that ditch. The humble nettle mentioned in one…
A SMOOTH BREAKFAST DATE
By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. There are days like today where you have just too much to do, people to see, places to go, that sort of out and about thing, as much as you would love to stay at home you cant .For some people this is an everyday thing…… So as part of your lifestyle changing diet and you don’t have…
Fish& Chips- The Healthy Options
by Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain& well being writer. Salmon and Herbie Tattas. We were driving home after a tiring days grocery shopping and I thought, “I’ll just have one of those small halal chicken burger and chips for tea”. As we drove a little further, the rain and hail stones threatening to downpour again I thought better of it and…
ISLAMIC MEDICINE – WATER
by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Well Being Writer. ISLAMIC MEDCINE – WATER Water is maa’ (ماء) in Arabic. It has been mentioned in the Quran over a hundred times. It comes before all other foods and drinks. After air, water is the most important nutrient for our body; by mass, human cells consist of 65–90% water…
ISLAMIC MEDICINE – JAZR JUICE /CARROT JUICE
By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. To be avoided by single men but good for married men, read….. 120 calories per 235ml serving 0 grammes of fat Carrots are available in the urban world all year round but are really in season in summer and autumn. They are mentioned by As-Suyuti in Medicine Of The Prophet,…
Islamic Medicine – The Herb Sage
ISLAMIC MEDICINE – THE HERB SAGE by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain and well being writer. Sage is the best herbs for sore throats. It’s also good for memory retention. I have not found direct reference in Islamic medicine books to the herb sage. However the herb sage in Arabic is called mariyama and I…
KARIMAH’S WHEAT FREE CHOC BANANA CAKE
By Karimah Bint Dawoud, muslim chaplian & well being writer. I like putting my twist on most things, my signature, except deen…in recipe writing that is a must, there is actually a copyright law that you have to change at least 3 things and change the method if you are going to use someone else recipe. This was originally a Good Food magazine recipe but…
Essex Girl Teaches Born Muslim Man Some Manners
by Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. I was recently speaking with a brother on a supposedly religious marriage site and he told me he was “lowering his standard talking me to me because I was from Essex”………I think he was trying to make a joke,I asked him to explain his off key comment and told him(a born muslim Asian man) that…
Karimah’s Cuisina, My Store Cupboard
by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain and Well Being Writer. MY STORE CUPBOARD . People often ask me what’s in my cupboard or what sort of thing they should always have at home if they want to try my recipes so here’s a little insight to my store cupboard. Fresh onions, I try to buy big bags from my Asian area supermarkets, they work out…
Karimah's Cuisina Quranic Cooking 