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Eating Local- What it Means and How To Do It
Local food products are quite the buzz lately. Any time you shop at the supermarket and see products like local honey or local jams, they’re typically strategically placed where fresh produce is to...
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Contemplating the Many Meanings of Sacrifice This ‘Eid ul Adha {PLUS a...
by Raana Smith My Eid-al-Adha 2012 checklist: Decorations: check Gifts: check New clothes: check Eid menu: check Pre-prayer snack: not needed Prepare refrigerator and freezer for meat: by October 27...
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Kids of the Ummah Book Giveaway and Free Fun Pack Download!
I’ve been admiring the work of popular Australian graphic designer, Peter Gould, for a long time now. Actually, there are so many companies whose design work I’ve been admiring and didn’t even realize...
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Pin It to Win It with Crescent Chicken and My Halal Kitchen Recipes!
I’m thrilled to announce the first Pinterest contest that My Halal Kitchen has ever participated in! Crescent Foods (producers of top quality truly halal poultry products) is giving away a $50 gift...
View ArticleTwo New Quick & Easy Recipes to Delight Your Guests + a Giveaway!
I love to entertain guests in the late fall and winter seasons. Everyone is indoors, gathered around the table or hovering in the kitchen instead of dispersed outdoors like in the summer. It’s a great...
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Amara Halal Cosmetics: A Glossy Giveaway!
A few years ago I got rid of all my makeup that had any sort of dangerous or questionable ingredients (i.e. chemicals like parabens and petrochemicals that are allegedly linked to cancers, ones I...
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Four Great Products to Try This Year + a Giveaway
One of the best things about my job and what most chefs would probably agree on is that we get to try an amazing array of foods and products as part of our work. I’ve been fortunate enough to come...
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A Conversation with Monica Bhide + a Giveaway of Her Modern Spice Cookbook
If you don’t know who Monica Bhide is, perhaps you’re not reading enough books, magazines or essays about food because this woman is everywhere. She’s a Virginia-based food writer who writes...
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A Whole Box of Eco-Friendly Cleaning Supplies Giveaway!
Photo courtesy of Ingrid Ascencio – Amway Independent Business Owner Recently I found a new set of green cleaning products I thought you all should know about. At first I was skeptical about how green...
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My Chicago Cookbook Tour for Ramadan Cooking
I am so incredibly excited to announce that I’ll be touring the Chicagoland area to talk about the recipes in my cookbook, Summer Ramadan Cooking! I’ll be making stops at various locations to do...
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Silver Envelope + My Halal Kitchen = Sweet Dawah Kits for Ramadan, Eid and Islam
One of the most incredibly satisfying parts of my work this year has been a collaboration with the wonderfully creative founder of Silver Envelope, Raana Smith. She’s brilliant, has an eye for design...
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Patchi’s Tassali Box Giveaway to Kickoff Ramadan 2013
Take a look at this chocolate. Wouldn’t it make a nice hostess gift? Or a gift to yourself? Patch is giving away one Tassali Variety Box (560grams, 19.75 ounces), a once-a-year-only treat, to a...
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Midamar Halal’s Boneless Beef Short Ribs Giveaway
If you’re like me, you love to discover new, quality halal products that are popping up on the market to serve us and our halal taste buds. It’s so interesting to me to find different types of halal...
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Nahda Designs Jersey Cotton Scarf Giveaway
I don’t know about the next person, but I love jersey scarves. They are so soft and comfortable to wear that I even sometimes swap them as a wrap instead of a hijab (head covering). Nowadays, they’re...
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Modern Muslim Home: An Artful, Beautiful Giveaway
I stumbled upon Modern Muslim Home online a while ago and instantly realized how beautiful their work was–and that it should be sold in stores like Home Goods, Kohl’s and Target- you know, those stores...
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Patchi’s Chocolate Eid Giveaway
Okay, so by now you all know that Patchi has to be one of my most favorite chocolates in the whole wide world. Truly, it was love at first bite for me. Which is why I convince them to give away these...
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Win $35 of Midamar Halal Products- Perfect for an Eid Party & Beyond!
Our very last giveaway of Ramadan that takes us into thinking about Eid parties and gathering comes to us from Midamar Halal. They serve up some really tasty halal products like chicken, beef, and...
View ArticleCooking On the Farm with Saffron Road’s New Halal Lamb Broth + a Giveaway
If you follow me on Instagram, you probably saw some of my snapshots last month where I traveled to an Elkhort, Wisconsin farm to conduct a cooking demo for the Chicago-based halal meat supplier Whole...
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Sweet Giveaway: Amal’s Baklava
Recently I’ve had the pleasure of trying a baklava that is new to me- it’s homemade by a woman named Amal out of her Los Angeles kitchen and it’s delicious in the way that only a homemade baklava can...
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The Olive Tree Soap Company Giveaway
When I first saw Sobia Hussain’s collection of products, I instinctively felt they were natural and that there must be passion for artisanal soap making behind the collection at The Olive Tree Soap...
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