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Sushi Night

By on July 22, 2009 in Food, Kuwait

Tonight was sushi at Sakura. Here’s the appetiser, miso soup. Just playing with my camera phone then a few tweaks in Adobe Lightroom

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Shopping day today at the Sultan Centre

By on July 18, 2009 in Food, Kuwait

They don’t have the cheapest or the widest selection of produce in the Al Kout one but I didn’t want to take more time to go anywhere else. To convert the currency at today’s rates 1 Kuwait Dinar = 2.1314 GBP or 3.9131 CAD or 2.4808 EUR or 3.4982 USD I got the rates from [...]

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We are eating too much salt

By on June 20, 2009 in Food, Health

Check here and try out the salt-o-meter on the Globe and Mail. Watch out for the french fries!

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Overeating is about fat, sugar and salt

By on June 6, 2009 in Food, Health, psychology

Overeating, It’s not about willpower, it’s about our conditioned behavior. Which is played with by the food industry, fat, sugar and salt. We need to cool down the stimulus. So says David Kessler, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration Listen to this CBC podcast on The Current for May 26 where I [...]

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Eat Red Meat and Die Young

By on March 24, 2009 in Food, Health

A recent major study says that Over a 10-year period, people who ate the most red meat every day (about 62.5 grams per 1,000 calories per day, equivalent to a quarter-pound burger or small steak per day) had about a 30 percent greater risk of dying compared with those who consumed the least amount of [...]

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What do the Chinese eat for breakfast?

By on March 7, 2009 in Food

I know they eat some strange stuff. When I was working with the Chinese on a project I tried almost everything but some things particularly the condiments were too weird. Ben’s Blog.

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Sushi Tutorial

By on February 16, 2009 in Food

Velly interesting… From Boing Boing And more at A Years Worth Of Japanese Food And here is a link to Gongfu Girl’s tea related videos on YouTube Here’s one on a simplified Japanese Tea Ceremony.

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Sakura

By on October 3, 2008 in Food

  We have not dined out much since returning to Kuwait from vacation. Generally it is too expensive and the quality is OK but not super. Prices keep going up and up of course. Here is tonight’s dinner for four at Sakura. 1 Shitake Mushroom 2.950 2 Sushi & Sashimi Platter 1/2 12.950 1 Rainbow [...]

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Dinner at Heritage Souk Revisited

Dinner at Heritage Souk Revisited

By on September 28, 2008 in Food, Kuwait

This is what the dinner looked like Here’s the view from the outside of the shop And here’s the menu, which we didn’t use. We ordered simply, kebobs chicken and beef, hummous and salad plus Diet Pepsi. The bread was very tasty. Full set of photos here.

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How to boil an egg

By on September 6, 2008 in Food

In case you are wondering via Kottke: French cookery scientist Hervé This says that the 10-minute boiled egg is the wrong way to go about cooking your eggs. Temperature and not time is the governing factor to gloriously boiled eggs. Recall that when an egg cooks, its proteins first unwind and then link to form [...]

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