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One Bowl Banana Bread

One Bowl Banana Bread

Day 118 of lockdown and my love for banana bread is still going strong. I haven’t baked or blogged in a while, due to moving apartments and being really bogged down with working from home. I’ve really missed my creative outlet of practical classes with 

Easy Apple Cake

Easy Apple Cake

I found this recipe on Pinterest, while looking for recipes that used apples. I had so many apples from my Samu Chef Box delivery that I wanted to use up. It turned out to be really easy and so delicious. I put less sugar than 

Best of My Hungry Husband Ramadan Recipes 2020 – Free PDF Download

Best of My Hungry Husband Ramadan Recipes 2020 – Free PDF Download

My Hungry Husband started as a platform to share easy recipes that anyone can cook using minimal and common household ingredients. Ilhaam Banoobhai-Anwar & Syed Kashif Anwar are a husband and wife team who are passionate about creating useful content for South Africans and the global audience. The first 

Smartie & Oat Cookies

Smartie & Oat Cookies

Just like Neo, this cookie is The One. It’s a variation of my Choc Chip Cookies which would be great with oats too. There is less sugar to accommodate the sweetness of the smarties. Ingredients: makes 24 cookies 125g butter (1 cup), melted 1 egg 1/4 

Homemade Fig Jam

Homemade Fig Jam

Ingredients: 2 punnets of figs (approx. 250g) 1/3 cup sugar 1 Tb lemon juice 2 Tb water star anise/cardamom Method: Wash your figs, then chop them up. Blend figs (if you want a smooth jam) with water, lemon juice. Then add to a pot with 

Everything But The Kitchen Sink Cookies

Everything But The Kitchen Sink Cookies

Inspired by my favourite cookies from Woolworths, I love that you can just throw anything that you have into this mixture, making it a different cookie every time. It’s great if you want to use up small bits of leftover things like cranberries, coconut, seeds, 

Eid ul-Fitr Breakfast Menu

Eid ul-Fitr Breakfast Menu


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Every year, we host my family for Eid Breakfast. It is a new tradition that we started when Kashif and I got married and we really enjoy having people over and entertaining. The main aim of our breakfasts are to make new dishes and surprise 

Jeweled Saffron Rice

Jeweled Saffron Rice

This fragrant rice is the ultimate accompaniment to prawn curry, crayfish curry, roast leg of lamb and Saffron & Yoghurt Kebab. I love that it is studded with a variety of textures and flavours and its so colourful! This “side” dish will brighten up any 

Apple Pies

Apple Pies

I recently shared this recipe on a segment of Ramadan Whisk with Radio 786. If you would like to listen, click play here:   INGREDIENTS: 1 x roll puff pastry (I use Today Puff) 2 Apples Cinnamon for sprinkling Brown sugar Lemon Juice Egg or 

Apple & Fig Crumble

Apple & Fig Crumble

It’s fig season and what better way to eat this incredibly pretty fruit (other than Fig Toast) than in an Apple Crumble!  Stay with me here, as the fig bakes it cooks down and becomes juicy making the most delicious pink syrupy sauce that goes