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SHRIMP FRIED RICE
虾油煎的米

huma's special fried rice.

The Chinese cooking class was a success, we made shrimp fried rice and sweet and sour shrimp.
We also learned how to clean the shrimp.

Newyork!

Browsing through the Union Square farmer's Market.

Honey

Garlic scapes

Chelsea market home of the food network

Arthur market in Bronx, Little Italy

olives

Italian pastries

antipasto, olives and artichokes

huge seikh kebabs we made at my friends house.

Cooking Class

I taught these girls how to make traditional Pakistani dishes, biryani ( traditonal dish of rice and chicken) and gulab jamun ( a sweet dish savored a lot in India and Pakistan).

Gulab Jamun

Briyani

summer desserts

water melon soup with summer fruit.
when watermelon begin to arrive in the markets, its officially the start of summer!
the soup is served cold with mixed berries and melons. I serve this at the restaurant with a scoop of coconut lime sorbet.

In the summer when Peaches are in season, I make this desert, peaches with an amaretti and cheese filling, served with vanilla bean ice cream.
its simple and delicious.

pakistani fish market!

Fish market in Karachi, Pakistan

My cousin got me and my husband into this wholesale fish market. I was amazed of the variety of fish there, unfortunately most of the fish is exported, so most of the locals don't know about them.

I think I was the only woman there.

( above me and the fish )

Baltimore

I went to this farmers market in Baltimore, it had some really good looking stuff.

last year I helped open a restaurant in the Chesapeake bay area. I came across this awesome farmers market, that had a variety of fresh organic produce. My favorite thing to do when traveling is browsing through local farmer markets, I drag my family through so many .