Worm on the salad

Once again I found a worm on the mix green salad that I am cleaning. It's normal, this is why i keep on cleaning nicely whenever  I prepare theses greens.

As we all know there are no fruits, plants and vegetables farm here in the middle east. Most of theses vegetables are came from europe and asia. Basically from the farm then transport to the middle east by plane or ship. These vegetables are coming fresh and never been washed that is why pest and soil are still present. Washed or wet vegetables are easy to spoil.

When it reach to the Hotel this is the first time it gets clean. and the second time is before plating and serving it to the guest.

What is this for?

Eggplant parmegiana

Mediterranean Buffet

These are some of the food that we have on the buffet, we have 5 cycle of food that we are serving so that hotel guest can try not the same food everyday.

The greatest Spices

Salt and Pepper are the greatest spices.
the rest are just drama.

Another fruit platter.

This fruit platter was made by my colleague for ala carte order. I was amazed with his instinct of doing this fruit platter because it was his first day in the kitchen. I mean he was working as a kitchen steward the day before. Its look simple but elegant.

Now this colleague of mine is now demi Chef de partie and he won in one of  Dubai Mall recipe submission. And now he is going to Spain to attend a 3 days cooking seminar as a prize.

Weird potato

I was peeling this potato when I notice this hard thing on its skin. I forced to remove it by the peeler but I did not able to remove it. I leave it on the table because I need to check the food I am cooking. When I came back my chef already peeled it and this is what I saw. There is a stem of a plants that go through the potato. And that is weird.

Is this Arabic rice?

No. This is just another ordinary flavored rice, this is the same like fried rice of Asia, nasigoring of Indonesia, bit like paella of Spain.

Very easy to cook. We just need the following:

Oil, bay leaves, chop garlic, chop onion, diced carrots and potato, salt and pepper, and tomato paste for flavor and coloring, rice of course.

1. In a pot sauté the carrots and potato with garlic and onion.
2. Add the rice, roasted it a little bit.
3. Add some water, The same quantity like the rice.
4. Put salt, pepper and tomato paste according to your taste.
5. Let it cook for about 20 minutes.


There are different way of cooking of this rice. You can cook it in the rice cooker, in the oven, or even in the traditional wood fire.

With the rice cooker you just need to sauté the vegetables in the pan or wok and then transfer it to the rice cooker, add the rice, water, tomato paste and seasoning and cook it like normal rice cooker procedure.
We need to sauté it first to get the maximum flavor from the vegetables.