September 2008

Eid Mubarak!

September 29, 2008

My company announced yesterday that we would get Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday off. WOO-HOO! Since weekends here are Friday and Saturday, that makes it a 5-day weekend for Scotch and me!! We looked into going to Petra, Istanbul, Eqypt, Muscat, Salalah, even Fujeirah. But in the end, we decided to stay in Dubai and hang out [...]

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Emirati Recipe: Meat fried with spices (La-ham nashif)

September 28, 2008
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I haven’t forgotten about Arabic Sundays but they will most likely be few and far in between since I don’t cook as often anymore. This work things just gets in the way of everything! This is a dish I cooked up months ago but just got around to posting. La-ham nashif or meat fried with [...]

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Bahrain – Part II

September 27, 2008
crested crane

Besides Manama, my friends and I were also able to see other parts of Bahrain. We hired a driver with a black Ford Expedition and visited the following sites in under 4 hours: This is King Fahd Causeway linking Bahrain with Saudi Arabia. It was completed in November 1986 at a cost of US$1.2 billion [...]

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Bahrain

September 25, 2008
Bahrain World Trade Center

Sorry for being absent in the blogosphere the last month. I’ve been so caught up with work that I have been neglecting practically everything in my life. Thanks for all the comments that have been left on this site – still no luck on the bubble tea search but the tip about the new Korean [...]

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