I’m going to start this post by saying THANK YOU! I realised yesterday that I’ve reached 100 followers on my blog and while that may not seem like a huge number I am grateful to those who have decided to follow this little blog of mine and are sharing in this journey with me. So once again THANK YOU for following
and I’ll do my best to continue sharing my food journey (and beyond) with you 🙂

Ok enough with the sentimentalities 😉 Yesterday marked a new beginning for me… a new beginning without coffee! Yes I’ve been on this roller coaster ride with coffee for a while now. I’ll stop for a while and then jump right back on and each time I jump on I know I need to get off but I don’t. So yesterday, after already having had my morning cup of coffee I decided enough was enough and I went shopping and bought myself a whole bunch of greens. Things like spinach, kale and mixed baby greens so that from now on each morning in place of my morning coffee I can make a green smoothie instead.

Since we’re on the topic of food (aren’t we always over here) I made a Persian inspired dinner last night. Well actually it was more inspired by my dad and his amazing skills at making kebabs Iranian style! Kebabs or kababs come in many different forms in Persian cooking and according to Wikipedia there are 29 different kebab variations in Iran (there’s probably more!) Some of which I have never tried myself. [Read more…]