Butternut Squash and Lemongrass Soup

by Karimah bint Daoud, muslim chaplain & well being writer, Oriental butternut squash soup (quiththah) squash I have just come down with some weird flu thing, headache stomach ache, you know the sort of thing when the weather keeping changing so an Indian revert  sister recommended me ginger and lemon grass tea.  With an abundance…

Live Below The Line – Breakfast Recipe

by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain and well being writer. “If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail” It’s really important before embarking on this LIVE BELOW THE LINE challenge to plan what you are going to eat, rather than rummage around at the last minute clutching at straws, so here goes Karimahs Cuisina’s first recipe to start the day off well.  What starts good ends…

KARIMAH’S CUISINA WINTER VEG & BEAN SOUP

Inspired by my mum who is a queen of good hearty soups in her own right. Root vegetables are on offer right now and are just the thing we need to keep all those nasty viruses at bay, not need for meat just add beans. Ingredients: 1 can white aloubias beans drained.  or soak overnight…

GREEN JUICES….why are they so good?

GREEN JUICES by Karimah Bint Dawoud Green juices are for the adulthood of people who are concerned about their health. They are not sweet and childlike but they are for the mature minded person who cares about their mind , body and soul . You only need a juicer, whatever your price range, even a…

Vegetable Lasagna

By Karimah bint Dawoud, Vegetarian  Lasagne In my process of eating less meat and reviving the following Islamic Sunnah, where the prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of the Creator be upon him, didn’t eat meat for as much as 2-3 months out of choice. I had to return to my Rasta days in which I was pescatarian, vegetarian…

Bengali 5 Spice

By Karimah bint Dawoud. You know sometimes you get fed up with the same ole, same ole, even though it’s nice, well that’s how I feel about dhaal, red lentils. When we do our FEED THE NEED, Feeding The Homeless In Central London, one of our sistars cooks an  amazing dhall and spinach curry. If…

FOOD MEDICINE

By Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain & well being writer. As foreigners , particularly those of us of Asian and African descent,(that’s all of us really)  we don’t eat all this spicy food just for the fun of it, just for the taste. In places where there are no pharmacies, and no doctor, then  food is prevention and…

Vegetarian Muslim Food

Karimah bint Dawoud, author of Heavenly  Bites, the best of Mulsim Home Cooking, winner of Arabic cuisine cook book GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOKS  AWARDS 2012 Well I am not strictly a vegetarian however i am promoting the sunnah that the prophet Muhammad  peace and blessings of Allah didn’t eat very much meat, perhaps only once a a month. Before embracing Islam I was a Rasta and went through dietary stages of being pescatarian, vegetarian and vegan, more…

Chalet Girl, Cauliflower Cheese, no meat 7 days

  By Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain & Ex-Fashion Model.  I live in Zurich on and off for years, modelling for fashion companies, choreographers , exhibitions and in store fashion shows, it was glamour but hectic and then a little bit tiresome having to refresh my make-up 5 times a day for fashion shows, now I clean…