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Articles of the author Sarah Khanna
Buttered Up: A blueberry cake and flashes of color
I grew up wearing shades of watermelon, tangerine and aqua; colors I was taught by my mother. In our home, there was never use of the unadorned word blue, only baby blue, navy blue, royal blue and petrol. This is how she saw the world and what drove (...)

20 - 04 - 2012
Buttered Up: Hasselback potatoes and the cloudberry girl
When I was in the 6th grade, a beautiful girl, blond and bright-eyed, walked into class midday to unknowingly capture the hearts of boys that we had marked as our own for the future. There was not a girl in class that did not feel the sting, an (...)

13 - 04 - 2012
Buttered Up: Salmon and zucchini in the rush of the city
For years, my phone would not ring. It would rest beside me, disturbing nothing, a simple prop in the room. To Cairo, Kuala Lumpur was at the farthest corner of our Earth and needed no attention paid except for the dreamy package deal honeymoon of a (...)

06 - 04 - 2012
Buttered Up: A slow-roasted duck pasta for the sensible
I pressed a thin veil of tissue against my wounded knuckle, watching it absorb the red seeping out. “Stupid grater,” I mumbled as my husband laughed, reasoning with me that it was in reality a simple gadget, incapable of stupidity and that I was (...)

30 - 03 - 2012
Buttered Up: Branching out with a makeshift dal makhni
I never thought I would miss Malaysia but I find myself regressing, filling myself with nostalgic desires, hoping to smell the salty stench of tandoori chicken as I lower my window to Cairo's smog. For close to four years, I stalked the streets of (...)

23 - 03 - 2012
Buttered Up: Fears, regrets and crust-less quiches
I stretched, laying flat, fingers flopping around my side table in search of something to pull my hair up and away from my pillow-creased face. Happy to see some sun moving stealthily into the farthest corner, my corner of our room, I turned to find (...)

16 - 03 - 2012
Buttered Up: The content producer who loves aubergines
I am so uninterested in shopping with friends that I cannot hide my indifference. A lone shopper, I saunter through the passages of ladies' fashion inattentive to the new styles emerging in place of past fads; I buy what sits comfortably on my hips, (...)

02 - 03 - 2012
Buttered Up: Unboxing fluffy vanilla bean pancakes
There's a calming medicament in our home for the common cold; it paints in tinges of pink the cheeks of the runny-nosed, enlivens the spirits of the feverishly faint, and layers the room with the luxurious scent of true vanilla: pancakes. Taking (...)

24 - 02 - 2012
Buttered Up: Breaded fish tikka for the picky eater
I've been on a bad food binge. Throughout years of conscientious Asian-influenced eating in Kuala Lumpur, I missed the grease that many Egyptian dishes brought to the many mouths I've shared meals with. “Bring it on, Cairo!” I squealed as my big (...)

17 - 02 - 2012
Buttered Up: A roasted tomato macaroni for the unpresent
I know a boy with a golden smile that outshines his speckled eyes and curly locks woven with tones of clear honey and pale lager. A deliberately early riser, he gets high on dancing in front of the television and playing air guitar while the rest of (...)

10 - 02 - 2012
Buttered Up: A cooking crisis makes a bright lemon curd
I stepped into a friend's cramped kitchen, cluttered with crusty teaspoons taking a mud bath in coffee-stained mugs, working to sustain the whims of a bachelor who would order out more often than not. Despite my friend's phony cries for help, (...)

03 - 02 - 2012
Buttered Up: Celebrating failure with bread rolls
How do you celebrate failure? Do you examine your inner self, well hidden under a poised smile? Do you shatter like tempered glass crumbling into dull-edged pieces? Do you try, try again? A year has passed since the events of last January and I'm (...)

27 - 01 - 2012
Buttered Up: A sweeter smell to a basterma pasta bake
A particular smell connects me to both my home countries. It is a scent that I do not care for much but will not cower away from when it is presented to me — sweetly creeping up on me, playfully tickling my nose, at times coming a step too close for (...)

20 - 01 - 2012
Buttered Up: Three-cheese baked eggs in tomato cups
I will never run after donuts, long for frosting or fantasize about a smooth square of chocolate coating my tongue with its melted magic. Shiny black olives, bubbling cheese, crunchy pickled carrots and crusty bread smeared with salted butter — this (...)

13 - 01 - 2012
Buttered Up: Food myths and a roasted aubergine salad
We sit in the sticky tropical heat, a lone cat observing us from afar, wondering with a tilt of its head, why we have occupied her bench with our derrieres. In reality, it is not the cat's fault. We rarely sit on my friend's bench in her garden (...)

05 - 01 - 2012
Buttered Up: Chasing the scent of Suji Halwa
Pressing play, my sister begins showing the first few minutes of a home video — our trip to France and Italy in 1995. We throw our heads back in laughter, discuss our bizarre choice of clothing and animatedly point out funny moments to our husbands, (...)

30 - 12 - 2011
Buttered Up: Sugar Cookies for cookie-cutter Women
On the 10th day of the 10th month of 2010, I broke my finger and made an unexpected friend. Irrespective of the pressing need to operate, it was not until a week later, after the kids were cured of their cold, that I would have to submit to (...)

23 - 12 - 2011
Buttered Up: On voting and sausages
There is no greater way to describe how I feel after voting other than that I feel like an idiot. Did I know any of these people I voted for? No. Had I even heard of them before? No. Could I find any decent reading material about what these (...)

16 - 12 - 2011
Buttered Up: Predatory instincts and a Spinach Chicken Roulade
I put my new clothes on, tugged on my pretty jacket and straightened my back with my head held high, trying to preen in front of the mirror. Watching my mother from the sidelines applying a sleek stroke of liquid eyeliner, I wondered when I too (...)

09 - 12 - 2011
Buttered Up: Half-browned rice - a family tradition
When my mother is in the kitchen, she likes to talk about my grandmother; I don't think she realizes that it has become a pattern. As she stirs, today a creamy mushroom soup, tomorrow some strawberry jam thickening on the stove, she remembers her (...)

02 - 12 - 2011
Buttered Up: Occupie - a movement beginning with pizza
I have placed my fingers on the keys, waiting for an idea to take control of my hands, to lead the way to thoughts that might hold some significance in light of our recent events. What can I say in a column based on food experiences, based on (...)

25 - 11 - 2011
Buttered Up: Microcupcakes because Egypt loves gimmicks
When you visit a restaurant, what do you look for? The things that have me coming back are simple. Welcoming service and an attentive staff, palate-pleasing food and no conspicuous hygienic horrors – these are the only things I require. Pleasant (...)

18 - 11 - 2011
Buttered Up: A cherry and oat crumble on a cold morning
Some people prefer to turn their ovens on in the colder months. Come autumn, they start devoting hours, curled up in their most comfortable spot at home, researching recipes that require the warmth of a preheated oven. Food bloggers worldwide type (...)

11 - 11 - 2011
Buttered Up: Zucchini fritter cakes for the simple gardener
I recently met the gardener taking care of our quaint patch of grass. Wanting to get into gardening for a year now and taking it upon myself to research what needed to be done, I could not wait to finally speak with him about what we could do to (...)

03 - 11 - 2011
Buttered Up: Candy-like crusted cocoa brownies
Despite readily agreeing that it is ideal to end a meal with a chocolate-based dessert — especially when hosting a dinner party — on regular days I find myself picking a non-chocolate option. A pavlova, crème brulee or a neat slice of lemon meringue (...)

28 - 10 - 2011
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