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Learning To Cook Risotto The Italian Way And A Creamy Brothy Recipe of Risotto Alla Milanese
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant? ∼ Martin Scorsese But for the rest of us who don’t have Italian mothers, we have to learn! The Italians had been in town recently. Not one, not two, but more than 40 Italian Master Chefs from Italy and around the world, 25 of them associated with Michelin starred restaurants. The 6th Italian Cuisine World Summit is back to Dubai for the second year in a row, after the overwhelming success of the summit’s debut in the city last year. Masterclasses on a varied topic from Italian cuisine, special dinners at the city’s finest Italian restaurants (like my…
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Ananta in Oberoi Dubai | The royal recipe of Galouti Kababs
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore Every one who knows me, knows my love (my family’s love actually) for Galouti Kababs. Galouti Kababs melt me down, always… as the melt-in-the-mouth minced kebabs melt in my mouth! The Galouti always deserved a special post in my blog. With a hands-on experience in a masterclass on how to make real Galoutis and the Dum Pakht style of cooking, I feel that I can finally belt out a melting post full of aroma, while the taste of the kababs still linger on. Chef Dirham, a Galouti expert, took us through this…
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Gingerbread House and Gingerbread Macarons | Merry Christmas Everyone!
Merry Christmas everyone! While a festive wine is being mulled for the next post with Prague captured during Christmas, this one captures our experience with the gingerbread houses and the gingerbread Macarons that filled up our dining table – for a while! One Materclass down and basking in the glory of having decorated two gingerbread houses – one in my Masterclass with Chef Alannah Doe of Address Marina and the other in a gingerbread house decoration competition where the Z-Sisters had been my mighty assistants, I am still fumbling. I am an accidental, experimental cook – a creative person of the abstract genre. I am filled with envy when I…
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Ginger Lotus Sea Bass | Recipe From Blue Jade, Ritz Carlton
Ginger Lotus Sea Bass Category – Fish/Main Course; Cuisine type – Vietnamese Courtesy: BLUE JADE, Ritz Carlton, Jumeirah Ginger Lotus Sea Bass – where the Sea bass is cooked in Vietnamese Ginger Lemon Sauce, all the way wrapped in Lotus Leaf! Chef Ta Van takes us through a journey through the East, by picking up this dish, the recipe of which is passed on to him by his grandmother. So here’s a heritage dish, as I have experienced in my Masterclass in Blue Jade! For the printable recipes → Ingredients Sea bass fillet – 200g, cut into half Lemon grass – 20g, finely chopped Onion shallot – 20g, finely chopped…
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Asha Bhosle | Cooking With Her & Sharing Her Chicken Keema Recipe!
Asha Bhosle is more than a legend to me. But at this hour, all I can say is that the legend cooked. She cooked for us. I tasted her cooking. I learnt some of her precious recipes. I cooked for her, or am I imagining things in my head? I did hear her sing. I sat with her. I talked to her. And the picture below belongs exclusively to me! I did have the honour to spend almost a day with Asha Bhosle, the legendary singer of Bollywood whose career has spanned over the last six decades. Entering the Guinness World Records for the most single studio recordings, recording up…
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Desert Islands Resorts By Anantara | Cooking Spicy Prawn Harra By The Beach
Desert Island Resorts & Spa by Anantara is situated on Sir Ban Yas island, a protected natural reserve. The island itself is pretty alluring and is the largest natural island in the UAE and one of the collection of eight islands that comprise Abu Dhabi's Desert Islands.
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Zatar Lamb and Crushed Lemon Potato with Chef Ron Pietruszka
I was invited to attend a Blogger Masterclass in Burjuman recently to learn the various nuances of cooking the exotic dish – Zatar Lamb and Crushed Lemon Potato, from Chef Ron Pietruszka, the Executive Chef of The Ritz Carlton, DIFC. We had the most sophisticated kitchen appliances in a very ‘open’ kitchen at Treat, The BurJuman World Food Fest 2012 where ‘aspiring chefs, families and foodies can look forward to 12 days of free interactive masterclasses, cooking demos, dining etiquette workshops, competitions, food sampling and more’. Not many of us get an opportunity like this – watching chef demos where exotic dishes are not only being cooked in-front of your eyes…
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