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Assalamualaikom everybody and I hope you're all having a great day/evening/night! This is a new series I decided to start as I am getting used to cooking now - or so I like to believe - and therefore I can share with you some yummy recipes I am cooking at home.

For this blogpost, i'll share with you the simplest and easiest salad you can make, as well as the delicious 'Greek' chicken platter I made yesterday ~


(づ。◕‿‿◕。)づ Green Salad :


This salad is the easiest to make - seriously. All you need is your favorite vegetables, chooped and tossed with lemon juice, olive oil and salt! The portion and dressing depends on how much you eat and how you like it.. My husband and I usually have one tomato, one cucumber, and about five leaves of lettuce, with the juice of half a lemon.



(づ。◕‿‿◕。)づ Greek Chicken Platter:


I found this dish online and instantly wanted to make it as it looked so delicious! All you need is:
❃ Chicken - I had 7 skinless chicken drumsticks.
❀ Potatoes - I cut two big potatoes into quarters and smaller pieces.
✿ Garlic - for the seasoning, I used about 6 cloves which I cut very small
❁ Olive Oil - for the seasoning, just to mix everything well.
✾ Lemon juice - for the seasoning, I squeezed half a cup of lemon juice which was about two and a half lemons.
❃ Dried Oregano - for the seasoning. 
❀ Salt - for the seasoning.

These are the basic ingredients you'll need, and now for the steps:
✿ Season the chickens and diced potatoes with the garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, oregano, and salt.
❁ Lay the drumsticks and potatoes on the oven tray and pour some water around them so that they won't stick to the tray.
✾ Pour the seasoning over the pieces and around them.
❃ Put the tray in the oven over a heat of 180 degrees celc. for about 40 minutes or until the chicken in cooked. After about 20 minutes pull the tray out a bit and toss what is in it just so it won't burn.
❀ After the chickens are cooked, take them out of the tray and put them into a bowl, leaving by that the potatoes in the tray.
✿ Put the potatoes back in the oven on higher heat until they are cooked - they shouldn't be hard to cut into and they will get golden edges.
❁ Once everything is cooked, put the chickens back in the tray and heat everything for about 5 minutes to serve directly from the tray, or put the chickens and potatoes on the serving plate and add some more water to the seasoning in the oven tray, mix, then drizzle it over the plate..

Unfortunately, this is the only image I took of this dish, but I can't tell you how delicious it was! It was so easy to make as well, and my husband loved it..




ღ Bonne appetite! ღ



December 23, 2015 No comments
Salam peeps! I'm back with another blogpost and today imma tell you guys about something I have been doing lately: decorating cakes and cookies!! I have actually taken a 'course' with my friend Dana where we decorated these yummy foods and it was so exciting! :3 As I 'learnt' the basics of decorating cakes, cupcakes, and cookies, I decided to share with you guys a few cake and cookie recipes along with their icing sugar, royal icing, and even sugar paste tips...

SO for this blogpost, imma share with you a cookie recipe and icing I have used, and share with you some pictures of what I have baked! :D

For the cookies, I used this video, which I found very simple and helpful:



One note though, is that I didn't have baking soda at home so I didn't add it to the dough, but still, it turned out to be fine and delicious :3

For the icing, I have two recipes, one for only drawing and marking the edges, and the other is for both drawing and filling in the drawn lines.

For the drawing icing, you need to add and mix by hand: one egg yolk, and two cups of sifted icing sugar added gradually (you can add more if you found the mixture to be soft and liquid-y :P), you can also add the color you like! It is important to note that this mixture dries rather quickly.

As for the filling icing, you will need: 4 tablespoons of icing sugar, 3 tablespoons of meringue powder, and 6 tablespoons of warm water (not hot, neither cold.. in between).
Sift the icing sugar and add the meringue powder then add the water.. Start by adding the water gradually for once it becomes loose, it's hard to thicken it back. Until here, you can use the mixture for drawing, so if you want a looser mixture to fill in the surface, add a little more water to the mixture!.. You can add the colors to any stage ^.^

Now that you've been given the recipes, it's time for you to show me what you've done! Tweet me pictures of your cookies and decorations to my account @AyaKholoki :D

As for me, this is what I have done with Dana, and alone:

These decorations were pretty basic as we were playing around, experimenting different design techniques and colors :3








Hope you like the recipes and my designs! Can't wait to see yours ;) Take care xx
Salam! x


February 12, 2015 No comments
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