Shrimp Fettuccine ‘n’ smoked paprika

Let’s get right to this divine dish; it is SO easy and delicious!!

Ingredients :Fettuccine pasta, 500 gr. Cooked shrimp – defrosted or fresh – peeled and deveined, 500 gr. Garlic 4 cloves, minced. Fresh parsley, 2 tbsp., chopped. Olive oil, 2 tbsp. Smoked Spanish paprika Powder (key ingredients, found in International section of most super markets), 1 tbsp. Salt and black pepper to taste.


Method: 1. In a large frying pan sauté garlic in 1 tbsp. of olive oil for a couple of minutes. Add shrimp and sauté for 5 minutes over high heat. Turn the heat back to medium and add smoked paprika stir frequently. At the very end, add half the amount of your parsley and set aside.

2. Use a large pot and fill it 3 quarter with water and a pinch of salt. Bring to boil and add pasta. It should cook in 10 minutes approximately, but you are always the judge! Don’t let it go too soft. Drain pasta and serve it in a platter or bowl and top it with 1 tbsp. of olive oil and more parsley. The fried shrimp goes to a separate bowl and sits next to the pasta on the table, looking gorgeous and smelling heavenly!


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I arranged this thinking of you gals and guys:To all my virtual friends


Lentil-rice mix

This is another popular and hearty “mixed polow” usually served with fried or roasted chicken (or ground beef) and considered a casual and convenient dish. Well, I make it in a quite presentable (read fancy) way, without any kind of. Even before I realized how protein rich and nutritious lentil was, I always thought the dish is a perfect vegetarian meal and found it quite hearty on its own. So, my version of “adas polow” is meatless yet simply fancy!

Ingredients (serving 4): Rice, 3 cups. Green lentil” 1 ½ . Onion, 1 big, thinly sliced. Dried seedless raisin ½ cup, washed and dried. Oil: 4-5 tbsp. Turmeric, ¼ tbsp. Ground saffron, 2 teaspoon (1 soaked in 1 tbsp. of hot water for half an hour) salt, pepper and water as needed. Read the rest of this entry »


Red Roses, Black Market

Red Roses, Black Market: Five places that aren’t feeling the love this Valentine’s Day. Foreign Policy. By Alessandra N. Ram. February13, 2012.

Good article except the title could have been more accurately chosen to read : “Five places that are forbidden to feel love this valentine’s day!” They are: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, Uzbekistan , Belgorod (Russia). [Photo:  “An Iranian woman looks at the window display of a gift shop in Tehran on Valentine’s Day February 14, 2008. ATTA KENARE/ AFP/ Getty Images]




Goes straight to the heart

Here is our IGA (a supermarket) initiative over a 10 day period on the occasion of  Valentine’s Day: Pay $2 extra with each purchase to get this sticker, sign and post it on the supermarket’s wall. The collected money goes to the Heart Foundation of Canada – to help advance research on heart disease, and perhaps save the heart of one person you love! The money “goes straight to the heart”, as they have called the imitative. This is what I call a meaningful valentine’s contribution Red heart


Gary Moore, RIP

In Memory of Gary Moore  

Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011)


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Cardinal waiting his turn


7 healthy foods (Told you these foods were good for you!)

I recently came across a very interesting health food article in Hoffington Post entitled “7 of the Healthiest Foods You Should Be Eating But Aren’t” The article made it to Digg’s first page for a complete day.  It focuses on “seven of the healthiest foods — the power-packed foods filled with good-for-you vitamins, minerals and disease-fighting phytochemicals – that [most people] aren’t eating: Kale, Pomegranate, Quinoa, Kefir, lentil, Sardines, and Oatmeal.

What made this article particularly interesting to me was the fact that over the past few months I had highlighted the goodness of these food items (5 out of the 7 of them) and provided at least one recipe for each! Well, proud as I am for my health conscious weblog, I am going to review all those recipes, while quoting some their benefits. Please read the rest of the entry at the end of the Persian text! Read the rest of this entry »


Old Ideas, new album

Old Ideas, new album: A look back at Leonard Cohen’s classic albums

Listen to “Darkness” in Youtube, he is still amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8CL1OI5clA The darkness (old Ideas 2012) Note


What does the future hold for Iran?

A CNN report: What does the future hold for Iran?
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