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Check out what I had for suḥūr (sehri) this morning.
Stuffed French Toast. The homemade kind!
The pic shown here was taken on a camera phone before dawn in a low lit kitchen so it may look a bit blurry, but seriously, this stuff is awesome. It’s sweet, it’s gooey, it’s creamy, it’s everything you want in an indulgence breakfast item. And it’s actually really easy to make. Read more »
Check out this cake I made for the AlMaghrib Institute seminar, The Rays of Faith.
Read about how it all came together here.
Saturday night we attended YM’s event Unleashed: Shaytan’s Vendetta with my brother in law and his wife. It was a nice program, though just a little unorganized! Afterward, we went to Hot ‘N Spicy (former known as Amina’s).
While taking home leftovers from an order of gyros (like any dhabīḥa place that serves gyros in Chicagoland, the amount of gyros my wife got with her order were enough for two sandwiches), my wife mentioned making homemade pizza on Monday night with the extra meat. Great idea, I thought, but Monday night my parents wanted to BBQ. Did this get in the way of pizza? Not at all; she just pushed pizza plans to Tuesday night while I made one extra steak, wrapped it up in aluminum foil, and stuck it in the fridge.
My wife got refrigerated pizza dough from Trader Joe’s, some pizza sauce and mushrooms from Jewel, and busted out the stored away bell peppers, onions, and ginormous Kirkland bag of mozzarella cheese from Costco.
If there’s one thing I loved about celebrating Eid in Michigan with my uncles (and recently my in-laws), it was the open houses on Eid. The Canton community is much smaller and thus closely knit than our Chicagoland masajid, so the people “house hop” around after Eid salah until they eventually settle back at their own homes. While this was great for fostering a community, it also gave house hoppers the chance to sample a huge variety of “finger foods” throughout the day. A piece of lasagna and a puff pastry samosa/patty at one aunty’s house, a bit or biryani at another, a slice of cake at a friend’s etc.
In Chicagoland, at least where I grew up in IFS area, that doesn’t happen as systematically as in Canton. So with my wife being from Canton and this being her first Eid in Chicago, she decided to have open house at our place. It was nice to have friends come over, and in open house tradition, we had ourselves a wide variety of food.
First, we highlight the biryani that my mom made. Read more »
After a long hiatus, Khana Korner is BACK! To make things fun, here’s something my wife made a few weeks ago. I know this edition is coming out during Ramadan, so if you can’t handle this during fasting, well, come back in a few weeks. But if you go ahead, don’t say I didn’t warn you. 
During our trip to the Smoky Mountains, we had something called grilled cream cheese pound cake. It was quite delish. What they did was take a piece of very premium cream cheese based pound cake, literally grilled it, and voila, instant amazingness. There’s something about grilling up a piece of pound cake that truly transforms the soft and fluffy cake into a more packed and moist one with a nice crunchy caramelized shell. That something made me want her to make it herself.
So she did. All it took was some simple ingredients and a little improvising. She didn’t exactly have quick access to cream cheese based pound cake or a grill at the time, so check out what she did.
First some pound cake. Read more »