pumpkin

Fresh homemade pasta that combines fresh coriander with creamy pumpkin, cottage cheese and roasted garlic filling. Simple and stunning!
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Really simple & original creation using pumpkin and spices, from Nina's kitchen!
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In the summers when the pumpkin patch would bloom, my grandmother would watch with hawk eyes, expertly pointing out the male and female blossoms. The swollen female blossoms were tended to very lovingly, they would after all be the providers of sweet, juicy and delicious pumpkins. By mid summer fully grown pumpkins will be...
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Here’s a dish that’s no fuss and therefore no surprise that I love it. My grandmom used to make this ocassionally – every time our kitchen garden had more pumpkins than we could handle. Anyways do try it… its cute! Ingredients: Ripe Pumpkin – 1/2 kilo Grated Coconut – 1 cup Yoghurt – 1/2...
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Garden fresh vegetables in UAE, well the truth is, it is a rarity. There is a vegetable market in a place called Al Aweer but no one I know goes all the way to Aweer to the fruit and vegetable market. I had been to Aweer awhile ago to do a story on the...
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The paanch phoron is one unusual gathering of some common kitchen condiments. Left on its own who’d pass more than a single glance at the mustard, or take for example cumin and fenugreek – so staple to Indian cooking that they are the eternal doormats in the kitchen. They don’t enjoy the elevated position...
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Well one of the particular joys of cooking is that – where there’s no connection, you can create one. How do you think cordon bleu chefs work their magic? Maybe like me they stare hard at the veggie compartment of their refrigerator and think “now what can I make with a beetroot, some pumpkin and...
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