Tasty Porcupine
Posted: 4 November 2011 Filed under: KITCHEN, for recipes, Tasty Porcupine, Uncategorized | Tags: appetizer, booteh_recipes, food_photography, grapefruit, mazeh, porcupine, snak 3 CommentsThis is my most recent “invention”, see what you think
Ingredients: A large plump grapefruit (or any citrus fruit larger than that). Cubed cheddar cheese (or any hard cheese of your choice). 300 gr. Pitted green and black olives; cherry tomatoes, large, table grapes (red, or green), one cup each. Wooden toothpick (about 40). Read the rest of this entry »
My 100th post
Posted: 31 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Memories & Events, Poetry & Music, Uncategorized 4 Comments
This is my 100th post in four months. and I love commemorations! The experience has been absolutely rewarding and I intend to keep the blog up and running. This is probably a good time to thank all my friends in Friendfeed who have spent so much time helping me design my blog, figure out the WordPress, read and comment on my posts, and promote it in other forums. My family has encouraged me in numerous little and big ways to improve this. And of course it has been an amazing pleasure to receive comments and emails from people I do not even know (I have had only two junk messages out of some 200 – which is quite impressive!). It feels wonderful to watch the “likes” in my facebook page grow: I thank each and every 76 of you and do my very best to keep this blog worth visiting once in a while.
This oldie, out of my magic music box is for you: Let it be, The Beatles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEogJacjLTE
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Barbari Bread
Posted: 30 October 2011 Filed under: Barbari Bread, KITCHEN, for recipes, Uncategorized | Tags: food_photography, naan_barbari, Persian_cuisine 85 CommentsMake me very tenderly, and stretch me very long… bake me to the end of love! Recipe In Persian
I took this recipe from a friend of mine who has in turn taken it from somewhere else but developed it over the years (yes, years!) to the point of perfection. When I first went through his well-organized and gorgeous pictures, I noticed he must be in love with barbari bread or with baking in general, or perhaps just in love! The instructions he gave for treating the dough with tenderness, and forming it with bare hands and fingers, and the evocative descriptions of the bread’s scents and sights were all indications of a very special type of bread and bread making. Well, I tried his recipes a couple of times, before I really came to the conclusion that yes, to bake this barbari in its perfectly original taste and texture, you must absolutely be gentle, caring and patient- you must be truly in love with it! Try it and you will know what I mean.
Moment photography15
Posted: 27 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: moment_photography, Montreal_summer, Old port Leave a comment
Lonely Flutter
Yogurt soup
Posted: 26 October 2011 Filed under: KITCHEN, for recipes, Uncategorized, Yogurt soup | Tags: aash_maast, booteh_recipes, food_photography, Persian_cuisine, shiraz, sidedish Leave a commentThis is yet another Shiraz speciality, although in other Iranian cities we have “aash maast” (yogurt soup) which follow completely different ingredients and cooking methods.
Ingredients (serving 4) Read the rest of this entry »
Ceumar, Dindinha
Posted: 26 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Poetry & Music, Uncategorized | Tags: music 2 Comments
Ceumar, Dindinha, from her >debut album. 1999. (she released four more the latest one being on 2010). Ceumar’s voice and music is so captivating one does not really need to know what she is saying in order to enjoy it! The translation below does not sound very accurate to me, but it is the only one I was able to find on the net, which gives some sense of the lyric nonetheless. “Divinhe”, by the way, apparently means ‘godmother’ in Portuguese.
Divinha o que primeiro/Vem amor ou vem dindim/Dindinha, dê dinheiro/Carinho e calor pra mim/Minha casa não tem porta /Minha horta não tem fruta /Quem me trata é moura torta Lingua morta quem te escuta/Meu tesouro é uma viola /Que a felicidade oculta/Se a vida não dá receita/Eu não vou pagar a consulta/Sob o céu azul me deito/Me deleito, me desnudo/Coração dentro do peito/Não foi feito pra ter tudo/A mentira é uma princesa Cuja beleza não gasta/E a verdade vive presa/No espelho da madrasta/Eu nasci remediado Criado solto no mundo/Se viver fosse reisado/Se eu me chamasse raimundo/Andorinha no inverno/beijo terno alma boa/Escrevi no meu caderno/não passei a vida à-toa
The culture of ellipsis
Posted: 19 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Inspired Writing, Uncategorized Leave a commentThe culture of ellipsis means you don’t finish what you want to say, it means instead of putting a verb in your sentence, you leave the reader up in the air.
The culture of ellipsis means you don’t speak your mind, that you don’t deliver your words, and that you assume yourself to be shrewd for doing so.
The culture of ellipsis is to quit; to surrender the space you are expected to fill, and to fail to shoulder the responsibility for your own ideas. Read the rest of this entry »
Shrimp-Onion dish
Posted: 18 October 2011 Filed under: KITCHEN, for recipes, Shrimp-Onion dish, Uncategorized | Tags: booteh_recipes, food_photography, main_dish, Persian_cuisine, shrimp, Southern_Iran Leave a commentThis is another exciting southern Iran speciality, provoking a lot of “home” memories. It is eaten with bread, which means it is usually prepared for supper, but no written rule about it. It is nutritious, delicious, gorgeous and very easy and fast to prepare.
- Ingredients (for 2-3): Read the rest of this entry »
Kebab koobideh
Posted: 15 October 2011 Filed under: Kebab koobideh, KITCHEN, for recipes, Uncategorized | Tags: booteh_recipes, food_photography, kebab_koobideh, main_dish, Persian_cuisine 6 CommentsKebab Koobideh is probably the most renowned Iranian dish and certainly one of the most popular ones both on tables and in Persian cooking sites. Like kebab barg, koobideh is a restaurant dish; however it is more commonly made at home. Why? I really don’t know because to me barg is less tricky and more difficult to spoil. Ok, let’s get started and I’ll explain what I mean:
- Ingredients: (serving 2-3): Read the rest of this entry »
Beyond the sea
Posted: 13 October 2011 Filed under: COZY CORNER, Poetry & Music, Uncategorized 2 Comments
“Oonvar e darya“, (beyond Sea) Beautiful music from Kiosk, and a few lines of the lyric
After each cry, there is a silence/Within each silence, there is a poem/Within each poem, each pain, there is a smile.
Heart of each smile is with the tears/And each tear holds another tale/Within each weep, each pain, there is a smile.
At the other side of sea, there is yet another shore, and behind this hill, another hill.
After each tomorrow, behind each redundancy, there is another ….
My Caldron 