My family's fantastic cooking

[Midnight_Sun]

Lemme guess, your mom cooked all of this?

Mom, and two of my aunts cooking is also featured. They are all masters.

[Midnight_Sun]

You people had a party or somthing? how many guests were there?
It is too much of a food for a small family :D

Its from different events:

Nephew's 1st Birthday
Sister's Baby Shower
Naway Kaal
Thanksgiving
1st day of Ramazan (last picture)
Winter and Summer break get togethers
The very first picture was food from 2 nights ago

[Dukemina]

OMG. That food looks so good...

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Hey this is amazing. Could you put together a cook book of sorts here at PF for all of this stuff? It looks perfectly made and a new generation would benefit greatly because you guys have cooked what looks to the eye like a pristine meal.

We would understand if it all couldnt be done at once, but maybe day by day or week by week releasing the detailed recipes for each of these pictured dishes.

It truly looks like art and the artists should be recognized!

[faye]

i would like the recipe for the yellow rice with raisins and grated carrot. if and what spices are added etc.

[Toramana]

Hey this is amazing. Could you put together a cook book of sorts here at PF for all of this stuff? It looks perfectly made and a new generation would benefit greatly because you guys have cooked what looks to the eye like a pristine meal.

We would understand if it all couldnt be done at once, but maybe day by day or week by week releasing the detailed recipes for each of these pictured dishes.

It truly looks like art and the artists should be recognized!

Barakzai, why are you interested in these worldly things ---you are a person of the other world aspiring martyrdom.

[Midnight_Sun]

Hey this is amazing. Could you put together a cook book of sorts here at PF for all of this stuff? It looks perfectly made and a new generation would benefit greatly because you guys have cooked what looks to the eye like a pristine meal.

We would understand if it all couldnt be done at once, but maybe day by day or week by week releasing the detailed recipes for each of these pictured dishes.

It truly looks like art and the artists should be recognized!

On Pashto.org, I used to post recipes to some of these dishes.

The beauty I think you are seeing is 100 years of cooking experience from my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. I try my best to portray that in some of my photos. These are recipes she (my mother) has worked tirelessly to create. I'm sure you will see a cook book, website, (and if I have the opportunity, a business) come from me one of these days.

[faye]

midnight_sun, if you are serious about that, this is the best laid out recipe book i have aver seen. i bought it years ago and the old cover is much better, but the layout of it and the photos are very inspiring.
the use of traditional implements used in the cooking and serving and the natural colour range of the backdrops is beautiful.
actually, the recipes turn out better than the food i actually had, when in south india, lol.
Amazon.com: Dakshin: Vegetarian Cuisine from South India (9789625935270): Chandra Padmanabhan: Books

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Barakzai, why are you interested in these worldly things ---you are a person of the other world aspiring martyrdom.

Only in your atheist Marxist brain. Never used those words myself. I assume you also fantasize about being a martyr against the boys in black turbans and then you awake to find your Canadian bed nice and warm. You then Proceed to grin and clap malevolently when you realize a Canadian 18 year old boy died in your place fighting your enemies for you looooool.

[Midnight_Sun]

midnight_sun, if you are serious about that, this is the best laid out recipe book i have aver seen. i bought it years ago and the old cover is much better, but the layout of it and the photos are very inspiring.
the use of traditional implements used in the cooking and serving and the natural colour range of the backdrops is beautiful.
actually, the recipes turn out better than the food i actually had, when in south india, lol.
Amazon.com: Dakshin: Vegetarian Cuisine from South India (9789625935270): Chandra Padmanabhan: Books

Wow, thanks. I don't have that kind of beautiful setup, but it does give me some ideas how to present them. Now to get busy writing and observing

[faye]

i got mine about 15 years ago and the cover is much better. it doesn't have those white boxed wording just dakshin written in gold across the top and small unintrusive authors name and a line of words about south indian etc. i will get a photo of it to you in the future.

[Midnight_Sun]

Faye, are you Indian yourself? Or Pashtun? I'm confused.

Here is a new photo to add to this album thread.

Shole Ghorbandi (similar to Kichri Qurot)

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some extra notes: Qurot was made fresh, no dried, store bought, or grocery store yogurt or sour cream added.

[faye]

no. i am just an australian born, non-muslim, gypsy. i spent 2 years in india after going via turkey, iran, afghanistan and pakistan from europe, in 1977.
it was only on my last 2 visits to india, 06 and 08, that i got to eat south indian cooking and i did NOT like it, there.

[Midnight_Sun]

Surprising. Most Indian food I have tried has tasted pretty good. I think the most similar to Afghan food is far from the south, but north...probably Kashmiri, since Afghan influence is still present there.

[Toramana]

Only in your atheist Marxist brain. Never used those words myself. I assume you also fantasize about being a martyr against the boys in black turbans and then you awake to find your Canadian bed nice and warm. You then Proceed to grin and clap malevolently when you realize a Canadian 18 year old boy died in your place fighting your enemies for you looooool.

manana Barakzai brother/akhi (should speak your favourite language)---hope you enjoy it---also take a few heavy dozes of halwa as a desert afterwards---