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Abu Hafsa tweeted an interesting link from The Oatmeal, a “internets” humor type website, called “15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee.” The comics says a lot about coffee in what Abu Hafsa described an, “interesting way to present facts and information.”
Check it out.
Coffee Chronicles is be a series of posts about, well, coffee. Here’s part 1.
The first time I willingly tried a cup of coffee was on a sleepy morning in the early days of my college internship. The area between HR and the main entrance had a widely used coffee machine where I had been trying hot cocoa and tea to give me a kick. But the hot cocoa wasn’t doing it and the Desi in me didn’t click with tea that wasn’t boiled in milk. It was time to consider another elixir.
Admittedly, I wasn’t too eager to drink the dark brown-black liquid. The smell isn’t very kid-friendly so I never grew up too fond of the idea. But the drowsiness was getting to be too much. I needed something. So I dared to ingest what a hundred million Americans (nearly one third the population) drink everyday in one way, shape, or form: a cup of coffee.
Success, the hot liquid worked! I was wide awake and ready to audit payroll processes.
But the taste was hard to swallow, all puns intended. It was everything I feared it to be: bold, brute, and bitter. It needed some help. Read more »
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 »
In 2007, there was an organized street cleaning and Da’wah event from the brothers and sisters of Islamic Oasis in Chicago, IL. A bunch of Qabeelat Wasat students went to go help out, and Wasat Studios was there to make a mini documentary out of it.
This was actually my first attempt at a documentary. It seemed simple enough, and in post-production, turned out to be simple, indeed. Film some all of the action (B-Roll Footage), and at the end of the event ask a bunch of people to comment on what happened, to use as means of interview in the documentary (A-Roll Footage). Put it all together and voila: instant documentary! Just add water.
I was even able to slightly do a Three Act Structure based on our experiences while volunteering. Stage one, setup of the street cleaning and the Da’wah that was done. Stage two, confrontation from the Christian groups out of church on Sunday. Stage three, resolution as to how we dealt with it and how the event went altogether.
I had two minor issues in all of this. Read more »
White Chocolate Caramel Macadamia Nut Cheesecake
White Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake Swirled with
Macadamia Nuts and Caramel on a Blond Brownie Crust.
I was browsing through some of my pictures from last summer, and came across pics from a night when I discovered this amazing cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory , and thought I’d share how I came across it. Read more »