MSG stands for mono sodium glucamate. This is a white powder, its a processed flavor enhancer that can be found in particularly Oriental food, restaurant food, any food to make it more “moorish” meaning you want to eat more of it because the MSG can be additive. It’s in most processed and restaurant foods .its in…
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Karimah’s Cook Book
Some great smoothie, soups and salad recipes in this book, maashallah. Winner of Gourmand best Arab Cook 2013 book, Paris, France . Available From Amazon and lot of other web sites and good books stores internationally. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heavenly-Bites-Best-Muslim-Cooking/dp/1847740316
TOP 10 WORST FAKE FOODS -ARTIFICIAL COLOURS
I don’t know where I got this information from originally so please forgive me who ever wrote it.we are going to take this step by step because there is so much information it would be over whelming as one article so here goes. Do you read the labeling on the food products when you do…
RAMADHAN GET READY – SPIN CHOP FREEZE
I have had salad spinners before and given them away however I come to realize how useful they are for spinning washed herbs as well as salad leaves. Herbs can be washed spun and chop, then placed in sandwich bags and frozen to use later. It’s best to grown your own or buy the freshest…
RAMADHAN GET READY – Freeze Fruits
Ramadhan Get Ready – If you want something useful and therapeutic to do in preparation for Ramadhan, wash peel and chop fruits. Stick them in sandwich bags and put them in the freezer for your breaking fast Ramadhan Fruit Smoothie. Unless you have massive fridge or one of those chest freezers like my mum had,…
RAMADHAN GET READY – ULCER SMOOTHIE
Ulcers can be a pain and off putting for those of us who want to fast. From my own experience of having sensitive stomach this smoothie got me through Ramadhan and beyond. I have a very delicate stomach, not in a bourgeois colonialised way, but in an I’m allergic to wheat kind of way, bit…
RAMADHAN GET READY – COFFEE DOWN AND OUT !
By Karimah bint dawoud, Islamic Nutritionist. Sha’aban is the month before Ramadan that we are in now.its a month of preparation for Ramadan blessing, its a month of sorting out, weeding stuff out mentally , spiritually and physically.It’s a time to look at habits that we have in excess like drinking 10 cups of coffee…
FOOD FACIST
Karimah Bint Dawoud, Muslim Chaplain, Qualified Clinical Nutritionist. Let’s leave behind the Lego Land mentality and take things to a more holistic level in all things, not just food, but it’s food my specialty, so its food I’ll speak with. I notice my metaphors normally are with food or cuisine cooking. Anyways as part of…
Vinegar..Foods of Quran and Sunnah
VINEGAR….please pay attention, Vinegar is something that the prophet Muhammad salah la alaihi wa salem, used to eat and recommend ,Jabir ibn ‘Abdullah reported that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) asked his family for condiment. They (the members of his household) said: We have nothing with us but vinegar. He asked for it,…
KARIMAH COACHING
Some mornings it’s really hard to stick to your routine, mine is water with lemon , then herbal tea and honey, exercise, then fruit or smoothie. We have to understand that it is a struggle between our lower nature connected to gravity that seeks to bring us down(sabotage) and our higher nature that seeks to…
Karimah's Cuisina Quranic Cooking 