Water is mentioned in the Holy Quran over 100 times, more than any other nutrient, air is the most essential compound for human survival followed by water. you can survive 10-14 days without food but only 3-5 days without water. It forms 83% of the blood. After a trip to Sistahintheraw we were reminded about infused water, a great way to…
NO MEAT FOR 365 – IN TRANSIT
Since last Eid, we started to write about eating less meat, reviving the Prophetic sunnah of eating much less meat. Although we are learning more about raw food, Karimahs Cuisina are a group in transit , praise the Creator, we are in motion towards a healthy away of life, inshallah, God willing. We attended a Love Food Hate Waste…
Raw Food Diary 1
“The grass doesn’t grow under your feet” one of my mentors now tells me.its a bit of a funny saying but it means that someone is always on the move doing things. As a Muslim its not advisable to stay still for long, we are always suppose to be learning, implementing learning,growing and changing just as Allah creation is always in a stage of change, even in winter, because rest is a part of change. when we look at the…
Raw Humous- Pale Green, the new style, the raw style
by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain & well being writer. Traditionally in the middle east, hummus dip is made by using cooked chickpeas, channa dhall or homous as the beans are actually called in Arabic. However we are learning that heating food above 118F, that’s 47.78C , actually decreases the vitality of the food. We recently attended a Middle Eastern raw food workshop delivered by NAMA foods, which was excellent and learnt to make this raw humous , which…
Live Below the Line – Weighing it Up
by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplin & well being writer. For this challenge you are going to need some scales if you are going to live on more than fruit and crackers. To weigh up your flour allowance, rice, etc. Its tedious weighing food but once you get into it and have scales you love, then its actually fun. We are into vintage at…
Live Below the Line – Something Fishy Going On
by Karimah bint Dawoud, Muslim chaplain & well being writer. While brain storming with Teama Cuisina on Live Below the Line challenge , one of the more mature sistars came up with a brilliant idea mashallah, “Why don’t we make soup from salmon heads that are only 50p in the market” So inshallah this weekend we are having a trail run, if we can keep the cat away from the soaking salmon…
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…
LIVING BELOW THE LINE….GET TO KNOW THE BOWL ‘N’ BARA BOYZ, 3ND APRIL 2013
If you are so urbanized that you can only shop in Waitrose, its time to get out and about and live a bit more, those boyz on the corner, in the corner of the shopping center and in the market and aka the bowl ‘n’ bara (barrow) boyz. Their fruit and veg quality is just…
Live Below the Line – Recipe
One of my recipes for the campaign, “carrot, orange and chickpea salad, with foraged leaves from our back yard alhmdulilah” https://www.livebelowtheline.com/uk-made
Karimah's Cuisina Quranic Cooking 