Curries scare the be-geezus out of me. The curry is the backbone of Indian cooking. Ladle a spoonful into your mouth and a Bollywood musical number verily opens up before your eyes, rickshaw gas fumes flood your nostrils and the soliciting calls of street-hucksters (“hey madam! take, for 20 rupees only!”) ripple through your memory’s [...]
I envy those of you buried under a foot of snow; I doubt you feel like you’re in an enviable position but, there’s something unnatural about the weather here: 80 degrees in January. Even in Dubai, it wasn’t that hot at the beginning of the year. Out of solidarity with you or stubborn rebellion against [...]
HIIII-YAH! I’m back! Happy New Year everybody. We just got back from our very relaxing holiday in Orlando and Andrews, NC last week, and it’s taken about a week to get fully back into the system of things: the gym, the emailing and yes, the blog. Bren, overachieving blighter that he is, still managed to [...]
I have so much to say about this recipe that I don’t even know where to start! First off, this one is for all the people who have told me that they are intimidated by the recipes I post. This one is wicked easy. Really. You cannot screw this up. And it’s really cheap to [...]
Y’all know how much the McSequeira household worships the burger and beer Shangri-La that is Fathers Office. We have our friends Andrew and Meta to thank for our obsession. A few years ago, they told us about the burger (a glorious creation topped with a bacon-onion compote, light blue cheese and arugula), and shortly thereafter, [...]
In these recessionary times, (or as my friend Mikael likes to call it, GD2, ie. Great Depression 2), it’s nice to have some cheap meals in your arsenal. This recipe is one of my cheapest, and funnily enough, one of the most delicious. And yes, of course, there’s a story. This recipe came about as [...]
There are a lot of great things about Wednesdays. You’re halfway through the week. The horror of Monday morning is a distant memory, whilst the joy of Friday evening beckons like the smell of salt in the air as you get closer and closer to the beach. (Tangent alert: Did you know that “Wednesday” comes [...]