Cooking at home
Healthy Living At The Heart Of Safwa
Safwa’s locally grown produce comes from a Qatari family farm. With a vision to propel Qatar to the top in the agriculture industry, Safwa, a local agricultural business that sells home-grown produce which is sustainably farmed. Wahat Al-Shafalahia, a Qatari family farm, was established by the Alfardan Family in 1975. [...]
For a small gathering, here’s a sheet-pan dinner ready in an hour
If you have small group for Thanksgiving and would rather not spend the entire day in the kitchen, you could go the prepared food route. But then you lose a central pleasure of the holiday - a home-cooked harvest meal. Besides, from my experience, takeout turkey dinners tend to be [...]
Bold and colorful, this shrimp sheet pan dinner is ready in 30 minutes
Cooking dinner for my family at the end of a long workday can feel like a chore for me as well, despite my deep passion for homemade food and my ease in the kitchen. But I have found that certain things get me over the hump, resetting my perspective of [...]
Pumpkin Dessert Recipes
It’s that time of year again, it’s time for delicious combinations of the crisp fall leaves and pumpkin spices. However, if you’re residing in Doha, there is not much that we see of fall here so we’re bringing you the next best thing to bring the essence of fall in [...]
A South African shepherd’s pie: Thomasina Miers’ family recipe for bobotie
An intriguing recipe handed down by Tommi’s mischievous nanna Mimi – a sort of South African, spicy version of shepherd’s pie called bobotie. My maternal grandmother was known for being a tiddlywinks demon, having the naughtiest twinkle in her eye and, whenever she went home to South Africa, for disappearing [...]
Zesty, crispy, saucy chilaquiles are the answer to your nachos craving
A sauce-covered dish of enchiladas is like Kryptonite to me. I've also been known to indulge - and indulge and indulge - in a bowl of chips and salsa. Both are very good in their own way. Chilaquiles fall somewhere in the middle: warm and soft like enchiladas, but lighter, [...]