by Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain& well being writer Sahih Bukhari 47 Book Of Gifts/Hadith 741- Narrated Urwa: Aisha said to me, “O my nephew! We used to see the crescent, and then the crescent and then the crescent in this way we saw three crescents in two months and no fire (for cooking) used to be made in the…
Category: NUTRITION
Facts relevant to food and its nutrtional value from an islamic scientific perspective
Islamic medicine – GREEN JUICES
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…
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,…
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…
GLOBAL VILLAGE – NATURAL REMEDIES- SLIPPERY ELM.
By Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain & well being writer. Slippery Elm Stomach Bug? Diarrhoea? Leaky Gut Syndrome? Don’t Feel Like Eating ? Ulcer? There is a bug going round at the moment in the UK and one of its symptoms is diarrhoea, I have seen it with my own eyes in people I…
SEASONAL SOUP
CARROT, SQUASH & ROASTED TOMATO SOUP by Karimah bint Dawoud, muslim chaplain& well being writer I love homemade soup, free of all those nasty additives and preservesative and evil E numbers. you can really taste the vegetable on homemade soup because its fresh and as its fresh its releases all that fantastic energy from the sun that was trapped inside…
Karimah's Cuisina Quranic Cooking 