My company announced yesterday that we would get Tuesday, Wednesday, AND Thursday off. WOO-HOO! Since weekends here are Friday and Saturday, that makes it a 5-day weekend for DB and me!!
We looked into going to Petra, Istanbul, Eqypt, Muscat, Salalah, even Fujeirah. But in the end, we decided to stay in Dubai [...]

I haven’t forgotten about Arabic Sundays but they will most likely be few and far in between since I don’t cook as often anymore. This work things just gets in the way of everything!
This is a dish I cooked up months ago but just got around to posting. La-ham nashif or meat fried with [...]

Besides Manama, my friends and I were also able to see other parts of Bahrain. We hired a driver with a black Ford Expedition and visited the following sites in under 4 hours:
 
This is King Fahd Causeway linking Bahrain with Saudi Arabia. It was completed in November 1986 at a cost of US$1.2 [...]

Sorry for being absent in the blogosphere the last month. I’ve been so caught up with work that I have been neglecting practically everything in my life.
Thanks for all the comments that have been left on this site – still no luck on the bubble tea search but the tip about the [...]