January 2008

Happy Islamic New Year!

January 11, 2008

Hurray, I get Scotch to myself for 3 whole days! He normally gets Fridays and Saturdays off but due to the Islamic New Year the private sector received Thursday off as well. Some tidbits about Al-Hijra: Al-Hijra, the Islamic New Year, is celebrated on the first day of Muharram, the month in which Muhammad emigrated from [...]

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Taking Down the Xmas Tree…

January 9, 2008

Scotch has been nagging me the last few days about taking down the christmas tree so that’s what I’m doing right now. We only have 7 ornaments so shouldn’t take too long. Of course, I thought the same thing when I put it up. Silly thing took me 2 whole hours to put up due [...]

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Two Months in Dubai

January 8, 2008

Back in day, when I first heard people joke about English or Scottish weather, I thought I could never live in a place that was overcast so often. But then I started to notice that many winter days in NYC are actually quite overcast. For long periods too. Maybe that’s what makes the winter so [...]

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Easy-Peasy Recipe: Fish in a Bag!

January 3, 2008
fish in a bag

One of my favorite easy-peasy meals is Fish-in-a-Bag. I fell in love with this method from the first time I saw Jamie Oliver prepare it on his TV show, The Naked Chef. And just as Jamie suggested, if I couldn’t be home to prepare dinner, I would prepare a fish-in-a-bag ahead of time for Scotch [...]

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