I am still fighting with my editor to include these delicious(just joking) bowls of compost in my next book inshallah.Alhmdulilah its grounding from my rasta days to care about the environment or maybe goes back further than that when my dad used to make us go round the garden with a nail tie to the end of a piece of bamboo cane picking up the leaves.in Autumn to put in the compost heap. I remember our pocket money depended on…
Category: ENVIRONMENT
SHARING EDEN BOOK LAUNCH -Royal Geographic Society
SHARING EDEN BOOK LAUNCH -Royal Geographic Society by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain & environmentalist. I was honored to be invited by Lynsey Swan to the launch of this wonderful new book, Sharing Eden, written by a wise elder ECO warrior, Harfiyah Haleem, dynamic Rabbi Natan Levy and suave yet serious Christian, David Shreeve. There…
GREY WATER RECYCLING – WASTE NOT WANT NOT!
By Karimah bint Dawoud, qualified Clinical Nutritionist and Award winning writer, “heavenly Bites, The Best Of Muslim Home Cooking” @Kube Publishers Most of us in the UK take water for granted in this green and pleasant land, but this attitude is far from Islamic and not part of the Sunnah of the prophet Muhammad ,salah la…
GET OUT AND MEET THE NATIVES AT THE FARMER’S MARKET
by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain and well being writer. Pining for the country side, Urbanites don wellies and boots, trolleys and hessian sacks in tow and head off to the farmer markets. There to be had, are fresh British produce; seasonal fruits and veg, currently apples, asparagus, carrots, rhubarb and radish, beetroots and potatoes…
Rhubarb and Rice Flour Pancakes
Rhubarb And Rice Flour Pancakes, By Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer. I love rhubarb not because of its great taste but because it’s good for me. It looks like red celery with its long tubular stems and like celery it is full of calcium, 1 cup provides a tenth of your daily requirements, it’s also high in vitamin…
Spring
Spring by Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain& well being writer Spring I love it, the word itself has my spirit jumping up and down in blue bell woods, bouncing around like Larry the lamb. Spring is a taste of things to come inshallah, sporadic days of sunshine and rain, good days for reflective and sieving our lives inside…
The Farmer Market
The Farmer Market, by Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain& well being writer. I am a country girl at heart that has been urbanized, but praise God, not to the point of no return. I have foodie friends and one such honey, who regularly, come rain or shine, goes to our local farmers market. She has invited me many times and today I…
THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER- Pillow Case Storage
THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER- Pillow Case Storage Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Well Being Writer Before Allah guided me to Islam and to be a Muslim I was a Rasta and one of the favorite saying in rasta is from the great Black Star Liner himself, Marcus Garvey. That saying is ” Centralize and Organize “, without your center being organised nothing really noble and creative can come into being. Every few days I stop engaging with the…
WHOLE FOODS MARKET LONDON
WHOLE FOODS AND THE ENVIRONMENT By Karimah bint Dawoud , Muslim chaplain and well being writer of Amazon Number 1 halal cook book, “Heavenly Bites” . Today was one of those days, a very very let’s be good to the environment day, with my friend Queenie ,we set out to look for fish to compliment some tarragon and samphire grass I bought recently.Samphire is a type if edible plant that grows in costal regions, and a…
WHY DO I NEED TO BOOST MY IMMUNE SYSTEM???
Are you a health victim ??? The only attention you get it when you are sick, which is really sad, then now is the time to do something pro active about it. At this time of year we really need to think about boosting our immune system, especially those of us who teach in schools,…