2067. Seared Dates Rice Pudding Custard

Yes, I just posted a seared date rice pudding, and yes, this is another seared date rice pudding, but give it a chance. This version is studied to feed your soul and body. How? I'll tell you.

2066. Seared Dates and Tahini Rice Pudding

If you're sensing a seared date theme, you're not wrong.

2065. Seared Dates and Yogurt

You know those super-simple recipes that you don't even consider recipes and make them without a thought that someone else might be interested in them? These are often the most the culturally engrained, ones, like the cucumber and salt my father would have as an evening snack. Yogurt and dates is another one.

2041. Date Caramel Frappuccino

Quarantine coffee, or Dalgona coffee, has become a classic that promises to never ever leave us.

1987. Arabic Coffee Date Bark

Chocolate date bark became is trend a few short years ago and is now found commonly in stores and homes.

1912. Raw Date Cinnamon Roll

I'm the kind who heel-pivots 180 degrees at the mention of trendy diet food, but sometimes I am intrigued. This recipe for raw date cinnamon rolls is apparently sold in an expensive New York cafe and was supposed to taste exactly like a glazed cinnamon roll.

1892. Pistachio Mascarpone Dates

One of these decadent and delightful mascarpone-stuffed, pistachio spread-coated dates is enough to satisfy any sweet tooth. 

1758. Date Chocolate Bark

Another day, another trend, but I promise I'm only sharing the good ones!

Chocolate covered dates have been a treat since I can remember, and "snickers" dates really took off a while ago (dates stuffed with peanut butter and coated individually in chocolate).

1707. Dates in Olive Oil

There is a surah in the holy Qura'an that is titled "Figs and Olives", and is the inspiration for many a health remedy. For those who don't know, we have an entire school dedicated to natural remedies and health recommendations derived from the Qura'an and the Sunna. Just search "Medicine of the Prophet" and you will find no shortage of books.

1670. Date Custard Toast (Air Fryer)

Not too long ago, I made a berry custard toast. This is one of those "internet recipes" which trend and blow up on social media. It was very successful, and surprisingly wholesome. Today, we reuse the recipe but swap the raspberries for dates, generating an entirely new flavor profile. 

1659. Palestinian Date Stuffed Kaak

The Arab and Muslim nation has so much to offer in terms of traditional Eid and holy days treats. I have shared plenty of Iraqi and other cultural pastries, and this Palestinian kaak is a keeper. 

1656. Date Walnut Cookies

Ripe soft dates and walnuts work their magic once more in this soft cookie recipe, yielding great results in record time. We usually get a surplus of dates for Ramadan, especially with the holy month coinciding with date season.

1650. Simple Date Tart

I am tagging this date tart as 5 ingredients or less, because without the spices, it is merely five ingredients to make. A sprinkle of cinnamon and cardamom barely count as individual ingredients, and the final dusting of pistachio powder is optional. 

1578. Rutab Date Smoothie

As mentioned in the last post during our visit to the Heenat Salma farm for their date harvest festival event, we requested the recipe for the delicious date smoothies presented during the afternoon tea and Chef Mark kindly gave us a private cooking demonstration. 

1572. Dates and Cream

Strawberries and cream are an English treat gone global. These dates and cream deserve as much attention as their strawberry counterparts. Our fresh cream here is a thick, scoopable variety, not too different from the British clotted cream. 

1536. Dry Date Rangina

Rangina is toasted flour mixed with a hefty amount of ghee or butter to be rendered into a molten lave that is then poured over dates. For such a simple dish or humble origins, it is certainly more than the sum of its parts. So much so that I cannot resist making it every blessed Ramadan.

1457. Date Bread

This "bread" is the depiction of Arabian hospitality and generosity. Laden with saffron, dates, and rosewater, it blows the flour-and-water type of bread out of the park. The surprise doesn't have to end there.

1452. Iraqi Scrambled Eggs and Dates

I have heard for years and years how this Iraqi date-egg scramble was a revered part of many Iraqis' childhood, but strangely enough it was never a part of mine. I decided to give it a go and give little humans a taste of Iraqi culture that was foreign even to me. The result?

1419. Superfood Breakfast Donuts

This superfood breakfast donut recipe consists of a date-saturated dough smothered in a deep jewel-tone blueberry and greek yogurt sauce. The amazing mother I got the recipe from adapted it from a Jamie Oliver recipe to make for her equally amazing daughter as a fun but totally nutritious breakfast. She adds a myriad of additional seeds and stuff to the dough which does not compromise on flavor and still shoots the nutritional value through the roof.

1395. Palestinian Date Kaak Rings

There is a special something about tradition and the traditional food that accompanies an occasion. The sheer variety of date-filled cookies in the Arabian region has exponentially multiplied into the unknown due to creativity of recipe developers, and modernizing ancient recipes.