By Karimah Bit Dawoud, Qualified Clinical Nutritionist and Award winning Cook Book Writer. What we forget is that the skin is the biggest organ of the body, with a surface area of 1.5- 2 metre squared, woman/man. That’s a lot of surface area that absorbs and detox whatever we put in our bodies and what…
Category: QURANIC FOODS
Water and Honey
as salaam alaikum,good morning,I’m sitting here drinking a pint of water and honey. It is part of my morning routine . it is important to share with you the benefits of this heavenly elixir. Ibn Jawziyyah(ra) says in Medicine of the Prophet(salah la alaihi wa salem) that anyone with astute mind would drink water and…
Hair Food Smoothie The Recipe
Hair Food Smoothie by Karimah Bint Dawoud, qualified Culinary Nutritionist. Often in our attempt to loose weight and look slim, we miss out on essential nutritients. Although we are slim, there is a down side to it that is shown by brittle nails, dull skin and thinning hair. Pregnancy and menopause in women and hormonal…
Ramadan Recipes – Hummus Partly Raw
I have a friend whose is one of the top raw foodies in the UK, Irena Arango and she showed me how to make completely raw hummus but that’s a bit long when iftar / breaking fast is in 15 minutes .This quick style hummus combines the best of both worlds and tastes amazing according…
Ramadhan Recipes, Fataya = Baked Samosa
As salaam alaikum brothers and sistars, Let’s get straight to it…fried food is not doing you any favors during Ramadhan We need to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee and flex and bend and take the best form our treasure chest of cultures In African Arab culture there is a finger food…
Ramadhan Get Ready Iftar Smoothies
BANANA PEACH ORANGE SMOOTHIE as salam alaikum, I saw a recipe and decided to make it more Islamic! How can you make a recipe more Islamic? According to classical hadith scholar and Doctor of the Hearts, Al Qayyim Ibn Jawziyyah(ra), diary and citrus are toxic, something western doctors would be well advised to remember. As…
RAMADHAN GET READY DATES
DATES English: dates Arabic: tamar ripe dates If we only knew the health benefits of dates we would eat them instead of biscuits and bread and jam and cakes. TAKE CARE WHERE YOU BUY YOUR DATES FROM, we usually buy Algerian ,Morroco and and Madinah dates It is significant that dates are mentioned over 22…
QURANIC FOODS – is it a grain? no it’s a seed called Buckwheat
Grains are mention in the Quran is Surat Al Baqara, but buckwheat is not actually a grain but a nutritious seed that you can use like a grain and it gluten free! Alhamdulilah. BUCKWHEAT Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), also known as common buckwheat, Japanese buckwheat and silverhull buckwheat but its not actually wheat, its not a grass or even a grain,…
QURANIC FOODS – HONEY ASAL
English: honey Arabic : asal QURANIC REFERENCE Honey is mentioned at only twice in the Quran but the context is vital, as it is mentioned as a drink of paradise. It’s quality is mystical ,this sacred viscous fluid flows from the bodies of the formidable black and yellow bees. The medicinal property of honey is…
FOODS OF THE QURAN AND SUNNAH
as salaam alaikum, may The Peace of the All Peace be with us all, ameen. Alhamdulilah, I’m blessed that I have a passion for health and well being. Over 40 years ago , I met Carol Caplin and she was running a company called Holistix in the 80’s. Little blue bottles of Neals Yard essential…
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