Gassia Anoushig,
I have prepared a video for you. It features Sheena making Cinnamon Rolls! I can imagine you laughing while watching it, and I know you will want to make Cinnamon Rolls once you've seen it (which is actually the whole point of me making this video in the first place :P).
Enjoy it (with high volume)
Love,
Iman
Later Entry: after I posted it, I played it and it had really bad resolution :( I dunno why, it has good resolution locally on my laptop.
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Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Monday, 23 February 2009
Sunday, 22 February 2009
George's Birthday
George's birthday was on Wednesday Feb 18th. He turned 31! We had agreed without his knowledge to make him dinner to celebrate it. We told him one day before but he decided to go to Brighton to celebrate it with his friends there.
So, we agreed to celebrate it with him on Friday. Each of Sheena, Fleur, and I would make something for the occasion.
Sheena made Cinnamon Rolls (Gassia, I will create a special post for you about that). I made Manakish with Cheese and with Zaatar. The cheese ones were really good but the zaatar ones were OK. The dough rose in the oven :S and when I asked my cousin Ghada she told me that I had put a lot of yeast :$. Also, I almost triggered the fire alarm because I accidentally spilled oil in the grill so it heated and started producing a lot of smoke. We directly controlled the situation by turning off the grill, opening all windows, and covering the smoke sensor! That really makes me wonder what people who always trigger fire alarms would be doing and how they do it. I mean there was a LOT of smoke in our kitchen but we directly acted to prevent the alarm being set off. Why can't other people be a bit mature about how they handle cooking/illegal-smooking-indoors instead of constantly setting the fire alarm off?
Fleur made Banoffee pie. It was really good and we got to keep it in our fridge - George and I just split the last piece.
Becky, Hardy, Peter, and Verena also came along. We played cards and had some "fun conversation" until it got a little late and Peter and Verena excused themselves. Later, Fleur and Lotte also called it a night and left. I had emailed Bassam earlier to come as well because I made manakeesh and he might want to have some. He was out watching some play and came along but there were only Hardy, Becky, and Sheena left. We chatted for a while and he had manakeesh and thought the cheese ones were really good - even though he did remark to Sheena the usual "If you liked Iman's manakeesh (?) then you can imagine how really good actual Lebanese manakeesh in Lebanon are"; sadly though he did have a point :P.
Finally we all decided to call it a night and Becky slept over at Sheena's.
So, we agreed to celebrate it with him on Friday. Each of Sheena, Fleur, and I would make something for the occasion.
Sheena made Cinnamon Rolls (Gassia, I will create a special post for you about that). I made Manakish with Cheese and with Zaatar. The cheese ones were really good but the zaatar ones were OK. The dough rose in the oven :S and when I asked my cousin Ghada she told me that I had put a lot of yeast :$. Also, I almost triggered the fire alarm because I accidentally spilled oil in the grill so it heated and started producing a lot of smoke. We directly controlled the situation by turning off the grill, opening all windows, and covering the smoke sensor! That really makes me wonder what people who always trigger fire alarms would be doing and how they do it. I mean there was a LOT of smoke in our kitchen but we directly acted to prevent the alarm being set off. Why can't other people be a bit mature about how they handle cooking/illegal-smooking-indoors instead of constantly setting the fire alarm off?
Fleur made Banoffee pie. It was really good and we got to keep it in our fridge - George and I just split the last piece.
Becky, Hardy, Peter, and Verena also came along. We played cards and had some "fun conversation" until it got a little late and Peter and Verena excused themselves. Later, Fleur and Lotte also called it a night and left. I had emailed Bassam earlier to come as well because I made manakeesh and he might want to have some. He was out watching some play and came along but there were only Hardy, Becky, and Sheena left. We chatted for a while and he had manakeesh and thought the cheese ones were really good - even though he did remark to Sheena the usual "If you liked Iman's manakeesh (?) then you can imagine how really good actual Lebanese manakeesh in Lebanon are"; sadly though he did have a point :P.
Finally we all decided to call it a night and Becky slept over at Sheena's.
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Cinnamon-Bread House - the Pictures
I uploaded the pictures of the Cinnamon Bread House on my Picasa Web Album, they are on this URL: http://picasaweb.google.com/i.z.naja/CinnamonBreadHouse#
Also, another special addition to Gassia:
How to make Cinnamon Rolls: (courtesy Sheena & Lindley)
go to this website: http://www.gordonfamily.com/Recipes/cinnabon.htm
and also to find the unit conversion guidelines http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Cup-to-Gram-Conversions/Detail.aspx
They are not as difficult as they seem. And they don't have to be as perfect as the ones described; the ones Sheena and Lindley made were really really good and I don't think they were that picky on details. Just know that you should divide the work into 1. preparing the dough 2. preparing the filling and 3. preparing the icing
I want to see pictures of you Gassia making AND enjoying Cinnamon Rolls :)
Later entry: Gassia Anoshig, Sheena has uploaded the pictures of the Cinnamon Rolls and Cinnamon Bread that she and Lindley made :) She named the album "Cinnamon Rolls and Cinnamon bread for Cinnamon Girl !". They are on this link: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5528777&id=286103961#/album.php?aid=167690&id=286103961.
Have I told you that Sheena also loves Cinnamon rolls and Cinnamon bread - and in fact she is nicknamed Cinnamon Rolls :) And I have of course told her about you and she likes you because you are THE Cinnamon girl! :D
Also, another special addition to Gassia:
How to make Cinnamon Rolls: (courtesy Sheena & Lindley)
go to this website: http://www.gordonfamily.com/Recipes/cinnabon.htm
and also to find the unit conversion guidelines http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Cup-to-Gram-Conversions/Detail.aspx
They are not as difficult as they seem. And they don't have to be as perfect as the ones described; the ones Sheena and Lindley made were really really good and I don't think they were that picky on details. Just know that you should divide the work into 1. preparing the dough 2. preparing the filling and 3. preparing the icing
I want to see pictures of you Gassia making AND enjoying Cinnamon Rolls :)
Later entry: Gassia Anoshig, Sheena has uploaded the pictures of the Cinnamon Rolls and Cinnamon Bread that she and Lindley made :) She named the album "Cinnamon Rolls and Cinnamon bread for Cinnamon Girl !". They are on this link: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5528777&id=286103961#/album.php?aid=167690&id=286103961.
Have I told you that Sheena also loves Cinnamon rolls and Cinnamon bread - and in fact she is nicknamed Cinnamon Rolls :) And I have of course told her about you and she likes you because you are THE Cinnamon girl! :D
Friday, 26 December 2008
Cinnamon-Bread House
Thursday Dec 25th: Sheena had been looking forward for Christmas Dinner for a long time now. She had decided that she wants to bake a Cinnamon-Bread House for Christmas for a while as well. I was also very excited about the idea because I have never seen anyone make a cake-house before. Sheena and Lindley cooked their Christmas Dinner and I cooked mine (oven-cooked chicken breasts and potatoes and if you must know I think I added some un-needed extra lemon juice :P lol). We all had dinner together with Arabic music playing from my laptop. Sheena loves listening to Arabic music but Lindley wasn't as impressed. Then it was finally time to put the dough in the oven and prepare the icing. The dough was baked in no time but the icing took at least half an hour of mixing (electric mixer) before it was ready to act as the glue of the house.
Lindley held the pieces together and Sheena applied icing between the 'walls' of the house to stick it together - and I was the designated camera-person. You could tell I had never seen anyone attempt to build a cake-house before - possibly because I took a little more than seventy pictures LOL. The house wouldn't stand still even though Sheena was very generous with icing - a bit too generous as she also iced Lindley's hand, the dining table, and the kitchen floor hehehe. It did stand short enough for us to take more pictures. We also decorated its surrounding, we made a garden using sugar candy and the fence using finger chocolate. Soon enough the house collapsed so we started eating it and it was GOOD! I think Sheena is a talented baker- so does she ;) she even joked that she wants to name her children Cinnamon Roll and Moldy Bread - or maybe it wasn't a joke :D
Lindley held the pieces together and Sheena applied icing between the 'walls' of the house to stick it together - and I was the designated camera-person. You could tell I had never seen anyone attempt to build a cake-house before - possibly because I took a little more than seventy pictures LOL. The house wouldn't stand still even though Sheena was very generous with icing - a bit too generous as she also iced Lindley's hand, the dining table, and the kitchen floor hehehe. It did stand short enough for us to take more pictures. We also decorated its surrounding, we made a garden using sugar candy and the fence using finger chocolate. Soon enough the house collapsed so we started eating it and it was GOOD! I think Sheena is a talented baker- so does she ;) she even joked that she wants to name her children Cinnamon Roll and Moldy Bread - or maybe it wasn't a joke :D
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