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Imitating Pret a Manger’s Superfood Salad

My London nostalgia comes back to attack me in different ways. Sometimes I long to smell the London air, other times I desperately want to shop in Selfridges. Last week I could swear I’m was smelling Pret a manger’s distinctive aroma of croissants baking mixed with freshly brewed coffee. When I couldn’t shake the memory off, one thought led to another and I found myself looking longingly a recent picture of Pret’s superfood salad, the one below to be specific.

From what I could put together from my memory -and picture-, I recall it had quinoa, some brown seeds, sesame, beetroots, the fancy lettuce you could get at Sultan Center, cucumbers, hummus, cherry tomatoes, and some dressing on the side. Then I thought to myself since most of the ingredients are available in Kuwait already, why don’t I try and imitate it at home? How hard can it be?

Therefore I went online to Pret’s website, navigated to the superfood salad ingredients and nutritional information page, and jack pot! All the ingredients where indeed there. Following the ingredient’s list and trying to guess how everything went together, here is my imitation Pret’s superfood salad. What do you think?

Now how did I prepare it? Fancy lettuce on the side, quinoa chargrilled red peppers parsley and lemon juice mixture in the middle, surrounded by cucumber slices, beetroot strips, and cherry tomatoes. For the hummus I used the ready to eat one from Sultan center and sprinkled it with sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, and some black seeds I had with me. Sadly I had no toasted seed omega sprinkles or black barley on me to complete the salad the way it is sold at Pret.

Pret’s salad uses French dressing and since I had a bottle of Nature Land’s French dressing I used a dollop on top of my salad after I was done taking pictures.

Did it taste the same? Of course it didn’t! The hummus was much smoother than Pret’s chunky hummus and the cucumbers weren’t the huge ones used in London but I have to say the taste was very similar but my plan backfired, I wanted to go to London more than ever. Pret’s food must be eaten in London or else it won’t make sense :’(

If you are in the UK please have a superfood’s salad on my behalf

Movie Review: Malavita

When Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer star in a movie, you expect it to be one worth watching and their latest movie, Malavita a.k.a. The Family, was one good movie I watched recently. The movie is about the family of an ex-mafia boss who ratted out on his friends therefore the FBI had to change his identity and hide him and his family all they way in Normandy, France where they should be able to live in peace, but their old violent habits happen to sneak back on them and eventually, their old mafia friends discover their whereabouts and come back for revenge.

The movie is simply hilarious and even though the trailer did give a few too many scenes away -don’t watch the trailer so you’ll laugh more-. I loved the movie and I’d definitely watch it again, especially since there wasn’t much to censor except the F word which was muted. You hear a lot of silence pauses between sentences in the movie which is ridiculous. However, by the end of the movie the comedy is all used up and it turns into a mafia drama with lots of bullets being fired and dead bodies piling up. My favourite scene was when Robert De Niro goes to a special movie screening for a debate but I won’t give away anymore…

If you are a fan of dark comedy and want to spend an hour of laughter, I’d recommend you watch it. I’m definitely going to add the DVD to my movie shelves.

Quinoa Bread and Pizza Base from J’s Bakery

Lately I’ve been doing nothing but trying to concentrate on making my diet work and trying to stick to a healthy life style, therefore you will be seeing a few more diet food related posts every now and then on my blog. Earlier this week, I’ve seen Ansam cooking a dish on instagram using quinoa bread she got from J’s Bakery.

I love everything about J’s Bakery, from their gorgeous guilt-free gift baskets I’ve received once to the maddening aromas of their freshly baked goodies in their little shop, all healthy and diet-friendly. However, I never noticed they had quinoa bread until I saw them being used by Ansam on instagram so I got into my car and headed immediately to J’s bakery to place my own order for the quinoa bread.

 

The minimum order of each kind of bread is one dozen and there are three different types: original, multigrain, and za’atar (thyme with sesame) quinoa bread. You have to order 24 hours in advance which I did. I’m not sure if the quinoa bread is gluten free but it has quinoa and the lid of the box was foggy with steam from the hot bread loaves which smelled amazing. I ordered the multigrain and the za’atar ones.

When I got home I immediately took a bite of the multigrain bread, I couldn’t take it anymore and it tasted good, soft, and fresh. Of course it wouldn’t be as soft as a pita bread or a piece of toast but it was soft enough to satisfy me. I decided to use those thin quinoa bread discs as pizza basis and made myself some pizza tomato sauce from my old and trusted recipe.

All you have to do is pre-heat the over to 180 C. Place a spoonful of tomato sauce on top of each piece of bread, and spread it evenly with the back of the spoon.

Place whatever topping you like on top, I personally like mine with bell peppers and sliced green olives.

Sprinkle your cheese, in my case I used a mixture of cheddar for the sharp taste and mozzarella for the stringy effect. Add a leaf of basil and some oregano on top and you’re done! Can it be any easier?

 

Into the over it goes, preheated at 180 C and for five to six minutes. Keep an eye on it so it doesn’t burn out. You’ll know it’s done when you can smell the cheese & tomato sauce mixture.

Five minutes later and I had lunch on the table with a green salad on the side. Bubbling hot tomato sauce, juicy olive slices, and melted sharp stringy cheese waiting to be devoured.

A dash of tabasco on top would seal the deal and complete the circle of good pizza taste.

I cannot even begin to describe how delicious was that pizza to eat or how good it smelled. There is nothing on earth that rival a hot bubbling pizza, perhaps only a bowl of spaghetti pomodoro but pizza is always a winner in my book.

You can of course cut corners and use bottled tomato sauce, but it won’t taste as good. Using quality ingredients like your own homemade tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella cheese, and fresh basil leaves makes all the difference in taste.

The star ingredient in this dish is of course the multigrain quinoa bread. It held the tomato sauce well and didn’t get soggy or break apart during or after the baking. The za’atar bread would make a lovely open faced labna sandwich or a baked cheese fatayer in the oven and it’s quite tasty also. Who says diet food is boring or not tasty? I can have this pizza for lunch everyday for a year. I actually had it for two days in a row and am contemplating having it again for a third day going. Thank you dear Ansam for posting about them and making me all hungry :*

J’s bakery is located in Mubarak Center in Surra, block 6 street 11. To place an order for your quinoa bread or for more information you can call them at +(965)-25350640, check their website (link), or follow them on twitter (@Js_Bakery) or instagram (@Js_bakery).

The Long Drive Home

She got in her little silver car after a long exhausting day at the office. Already late for her lunch and nap time because of work, she sluggishly pulled out of the parking and onto the traffic light. This traffic light in particular is the worst one she ever stood for, for it takes almost five minutes until it lights up again. Eye-lids drooping dangerously, she feared she might fall asleep on the ride back home so she forced herself to listen to the noisy radio station, cranking up the volume as high as she could.

The traffic light turned green quickly. Too quickly, in fact, she was convinced she had a little snooze in her car while waiting. Turning into the long and fast highway, she always took the middle lane, and pressed her foot on the gas pedestal until she was driving at 120 Km/h… she let her mind wander as she drove, the radio blaring away and the setting evening sun sending its last rays of the days into her eyes, blinding her in the process.

Then everything turned into one crazy dangerous race! All around her, cars were swerving into her lane, speeding ahead of her, turning on and off their flushers behind her. Stupid drivers acting like maniacs, why are they everywhere these days? How on earth were they issued a license and allowed to drive? Everyday feels like she’s gambling with her own life just to get to and from work. Everyday she encounters those lunatics thinking they own the road and that all other cars around them do not exist.

She honked once at a swerving car, another at a car who was driving too slow but decided to drive right in front of her. She changed lanes twice, making the road was clear, and yet again she almost collided with a speeding little red number passing on as a sports car. Throughout her fifteen minutes drive through the highway, she honked, swore, screamed, and almost tore her hair out in despair. By the time she made it to her own driveway, she was no longer sleepy but was quite stressed in exhausted. She knew she wouldn’t able to sleep and cursed at the stupid people out there who knew not how to drive and made her own life an unbearable hell.

Meanwhile…

The middle-aged couple driving quietly on the first lane of the highway breathed a sign of relief when they saw the little silver car exit the highway. The sleepy looking girl inside looked flustered and didn’t really know how to drive, jerking erratically from one lane to the next and honking at everyone within a one kilometre radius. A couple of times she honked at no one given that everyone was avoiding her in the street. Who gave that girl a driving license, the wife said in frustration, fed up with the way that little silver car was driving and annoying everyone on the highway. ‘Now now, dear’ her patient husband replied ‘She must be late for something extremely urgent and desperate to get there. No one in their right mind could drive that way, all the time. There is always another side to every story and you might be in the wrong, even if you thought you were right.’

Recipe: Quinoa & Grilled Bell Peppers Salad

Since I’ve been having quinoa, almost on daily basis, for the past few weeks I always am on the look for new ways of eating it. My favourite quinoa dishes are almost always salads and this one, with grilled bell peppers a.k.a. capsicums. On the day I took these pictures I only had some yellow bell peppers in the fridge but my absolute favourites are grilled red bell peppers.

Obviously the star ingredient in this dish is the quinoa which I have prepared and kept in the fridge in advance, all I had to do is take it out of the fridge and fluff it with a fork and it was ready.

Ingredients – serves 2:

1 bell pepper or capsicum, halved – 1.5 cups of COOKED quinoa (about 240g cooked quinoa) – half a can of red kidney beans, preferably organic – half a can of sweet corn, I use the one without added sugar- a cucumber, quartered, a bunch of mint leaves, chopped – a bunch parsley, chopped – a dollop of mustard- a splash of olive oil – a splash of lemon juice, salt & pepper – a dash of smoked paprika – 50g goat’s cheese (optional)

How to?

Start with the quinoa. If you don’t have ready-to-eat quinoa in the fridge you can prepare it easily as I’ve written before in my quinoa with broad beans & dill recipe. Basically for every measure of quinoa you use double the amount water with a sprinkle of salt, put them together in a pan and bring to a boil on high heat then reduce the heat to medium-low and let simmer for 15 minutes until all the water is gone and the quinoa is double in size. Here is a video I found on Gcalories blog that explains it better (link).

Starring next in this delicious recipe dish is the bell peppers, yellow only in this recipe and whatever colour you feel like if you decide to make it. I washed the bell peppers, cut them in half, and placed them on a grill until their skin was scorched.

Once the peppers are all grilled and nicely browned and softened, take them off the grill and place them in a plastic bag. This helps separate the blackened flesh from the peppers.

Cut and slice the grilled peppers thinly, set aside and prepare the dressing. Nothing much to it, just a dollop of mustard with lemon juice, a dash of olive oil, freshly crushed peppers, salt, and smoked paprika. Whisk together and keep aside.

Now all you have to do is mix quinoa, the grilled bell peppers, the chopped herbs, the kidney beans, the sweet corn, and the dressing together and you are done.

Fast, quick, takes less than 20 minutes to prepare and is indeed low fat and healthy. Goat’s cheese and grilled bell peppers make an excellent culinary marriage and if you had some on you do sprinkle it into the mix and voila, you’re done!

Easy, no? It cannot get any easier and if you have all the ingredients within arms reach and your quinoa ready you can prepare any salad combination in no time at all. The sweetness of the corn and grilled peppers, the crunch from the cucumbers, the kick you get from the herbs and smoked paprika, this is one good way to eat quinoa indeed.

What do you think? Would you try quinoa in this salad? How do you eat your quinoa?

Trying Kuwait’s First Ramen Burger at Diner Restaurant

Last week was the opening diner, a new burger place in Kuwait City and the newest addition to the thriving and already saturated burger scene in town. Why would I go to another burger place? Because they are the first in Kuwait to serve the Ramen Burger, the latest burger craze that took NYC by a storm, replacing the bun with Ramen noodles.

Diner is located at the basement of Tijariya Tower and when I got there it didn’t look much like a diner. No vinyl booths or juke boxes in sight. It did, however, have a very sleek modern design that’s more Japanese noodle bar than a diner. Very clean and to the point, no mess and no fuss.

You order at the counter, manned by our Fahad Al-Ibrahim & Amer Al-Najdi, our fellow bloggers from Elderwaza blog who had proven they could cook from the Project-X bloggers cooking competition last year and it makes very much sense that a year later they had opened up their own restaurant. The menu is displayed on an iPad, with several different burgers to choose from. Once you place your order you pay and pick a seat to wait on as your food is getting prepared.

Once we paid and sat on our table we got our drinks right away.

Next Fries… there were two kinds of cheesy fries and we tried both of them. This is the Andalouse fries with mozzarella cheese, bacon bits, and Andalouse sauce. We ordered it bacon-less though.

The Andalouse fries were OK. The fries were good but the mozzarella was a tad tasteless. I suppose the bacon would make all the difference in the flavour.

My fries were the monster fries, with cheddar cheese, monster sauce, and caramelized onions. Now those were awesome. The onions were caramelized perfectly so they were sweet and not oniony at all. The cheddar cheese was sharp and the sauce, which somehow reminded me of McDonald’s Big Mac’s secret sauce joined all the ingredients together like one big happy delicious family.

Adding ketchup would enhance the dish. I’d eat those monster fries any day and I’m not even a fan of caramelized onions!

Next came the burger, the first to arrive was the Havana burger. A beef patty with cheddar cheese, shoestring fries, and havana sauce in a potato bun.

According to my husband the burger was really tasty, the patty tasted delicious and well seasoned, and the shoestring fries added a lovely crunchy texture while the soft potato bun melted away with every bite. The Havana was recommended by the guys and they said it was a big hit with diners.

Next to arrive was the reason why we were at diner’s out of all the new burger places in Kuwait: the one & only Ramen burger!

The real Ramen burger is all the way in NYC and when it was introduced by Keizo Shimamoto in May 2013, it started a big craze were people lined up for hours just to get their hands on one. Of course Diner’s wouldn’t taste the same as the real thing, perhaps better who knows, but at least you can have an idea of what it is like to eat a burger with Ramen noodles posing as a bun plus you don’t have to stand in line for hours waiting for it.

The Ramen burger is a beef patty with cheddar cheese, roca leaves, scallions, and spicy sriracha-mayo sauce all nestled inside a Ramen noodle bun. The Ramen burger is modeled after the original NYC Ramen Burger which has a beef patty, arugula, a secret Shoyu sauce, and scallions, no cheese though. How the Diner guys got the noodles to stay together and not slither all over the place is beyond me, it looks like instant dry noodles when taken out of their pack but it’s not dry of course and is grilled on both sides.

Digging in, it was gone very quickly and my husband loved it. I have to say that I’ve tried a chunk of the “bun” and it was, to my surprise, very soft. Like eating a bowl of indomi or noodles or whatever. It’s also worth noting that the bun didn’t disintegrate at all! When I posted pictures of the Ramen burger on Instagram people had mixed reactions towards it. Some where incredelous, others wanted to try it immediately. Some thought it was disgusting, others called it Indomi burger, Indomi being a popular dry noodles brand in Kuwait, others called it “balaleet” burger, balaleet being a sweet  Kuwaiti noodles breakfast dish served with eggs for breakfast in Kuwait.

If you are wondering what Vegetarian me had for dinner, it’d be the Parmesan Truffle Burger with no beef patty and one egg instead. Frankly, I wanted to order my speciality: cheeseburger without burger but the guys wouldn’t let me and asked me to choose whatever burger and they’d make it with an egg for me.

My “burger” had an egg, omelette style, with a disc of crispy parmesan cheese, roasted tomatoes, sautéed mushrooms, and truffle-mayo sauce inside a soft potato bun. My egg burger was lip-smacking! It was so good and the eggs in the soft bun with all that mushroom and truffles were beyond delicious. I could have that burger for every meal! They should offer breakfast and have that on the menu for sure.

After we finished our food and we were about to leave, the guys asked us to stay for a few more minutes because cookies were baking away in the oven and they wanted us to try them. Who can say no to freshly baked cookies? Not me for sure!

A few minutes later a plate laden with different kinds of cookies plus chocolates balls was placed in front of us along with a very delicious hazelnut espresso that tasted like the local French coffee we drink in Kuwait -it’s actually flavoured Turkish coffee that for some reason we call it French, I don’t know why!-

The three kinds of cookies were with white chocolate, Cadbury dairy milk chocolate, and harda or tahini paste, a local favourite dessert in Kuwait. We weren’t allowed to pay for the cookies or the coffee because the guys wanted us to give them our honest feedback plus other diners in the restaurant were treated to a complimentary plate of cookies and chocolate balls as well.

My feedback? The cookies tasted very similar to Farley’s biscuits, which I like a lot, but aren’t your usual chewy chocolate chip cookies. They needed a tad bigger chocolate chunks so they’d melt away when you break them in two. I don’t like harda so I didn’t try it but my husband did and he said it was the best cookies of the three and very delicious indeed. I loved the chocolate balls more than the cookies though.

Hungry already? The people of NYC line up at 7:30 A.M. to get their Ramen burgers but you don’t have to. Diner offers takeaways and delivery by the way and will soon be on 6alabat.com

I’d also like to add that I was very impressed with how smooth the restaurant operation was going. Usually the service of newly opened restaurants tend to be clunky and everything is “coming soon” or “will come up next” but Diner had excellent service and are already operating like they’ve been for months on end Masha2 Allah and deliveries are made from the first week. That’s a good business sense I guess especially since no one is chalking up any mistakes to “we’ve just opened” excuse.

Congratulations Fahad and Amer on Diner’s opening. Thank you for the delicious dinner and the warm hospitality. Perhaps one day you’ll be able to start a craze that people of NYC would want to try themselves. Wishing you the best of luck and insah2 Allah one day you’ll open up branches all over Kuwait and GCC.

Diner Kuwait is located in the basement floor of Tijariya tower, Kuwait City and are open from 1:30 P.M. until 10:30 P.M. For more information and to order takeaway or delivery you can contact them +(965)-90091147, check their website (link), or follow them on instagram (@DinerKw).

Would you Board a No-Return Trip to Mars?

A while back I read a news report about a new NASA project which plans to send human beings to Mars and have them settle there by the year 2036. I remember shuddering when I read that, not imagining in a million years that I’d willingly board a spaceship -it has to be, a rocket just wouldn’t do now would it?- and stay cooped inside for months on end until it reaches nothing but a bare red land with man-made colonies to live in, in another planet, forever!

I’m still shuddering at the thought, therefore you can imagine my surprise when I read in Alqabas newspaper this morning quoting a post on Arabian business website about a similar project where 1,259 Gulf residents already applied to go and live all the way in Mars, 142 of which are Kuwaitis!

When did this happen exactly? Where did they apply and sign up, and what did they sign up for? What kind of life would they expect to live in Mars? What would they do all day long? Would they work? Of course they would, but do what? Can they drive somewhere? Take vacations? Contact their loved ones home? Surf the internet or even have a Martian internet of their own we could surf? What about food? Would they grow it or depend on supplies from Earth once every 9 months? What if they began craving something unavailable in Mars? What would that mean to us? Having people we might know -or not know- living in another planet all together? Would we want to visit? Or gloat that my friend who now lives in planet Mars sent me this plant that can only be grown in Mars and tastes like chocolate mousse?

What if they wake up one day and find out other planet inhabitants visiting? Or not happy about them living in Mars and started a war? What if they wanted to live next to the human colonies? Could creatures from other planets be neighbours with our human ones and live in peace?

The prospect is very big and perhaps one day someone from the future would read this and laugh at my speculations, dismissing them as ignorance of the stone-internet age where people were limited to one planet and their idea of travel involved getting on an air plane and visiting another content. But I’ve grown up watching Star Trek every Friday and I for one promised myself, a very long time ago, to never set foot inside a space ship or a rocket or whatever they call them. There is no guarantee I’m coming back and there is nothing out there but darkness and millions of stars. If anything should go wrong, Apollo 13 or Challenger style, then that’s it. I’m not that adventurous, thank you very much, and I don’t expect a ticket to Mars is within my financial capabilities, and the no-return clause would just seal my no-way deal. I love Earth too much.

So, what do you think? Would you sign up to go on a no-return trip to planet Mars, if you could afford it that is? Maybe you are one of the 142 Kuwaitis who did already, and why?

The Playground’s Ordeal

Dreading the moment the coach calls out to them to spilt into teams, she fidgeted in her wake, not exactly sure what to do with her hands. What was she doing with her hands a moment ago? When she wasn’t so aware of the fact that the time has come for the ultimate popularity battle?

They were on the playground with the coach. They were forming teams, again. She hated nothing more than the team forming. She was first at everything yet she was always last to be remembered, or chosen, or invited to join something. In a playground where people chose their peers for how well they mesh together, she was always overlooked like she was made of vapour and couldn’t possibly exist, or feel. She never really belonged anywhere, never entirely fit in, and as time goes by and allegiances were formed and broken, she got nothing to offer in exchange to be included.

She knew, without doubt, that the moment that coach’s whistle blows she would be the only one standing there on her own. Looking longingly at each tightly knit team, bearing the weight of those lucky ones who never had to worry about being chosen for a team. Some looked on, smirking. Others had a hint of pity in their eyes, pity usually being the most humiliating vibe she could feel beneath her skin. What would she give, to be remembered, to be chosen? Was it a curse, to be so different to the point of being unrecognisable, or was it a gift in disguise? A gift she wasn’t willing to give up, and a an ordeal on days like this dry hot morning in the wretched playground.

The coach’s whistle blowed, she took a deep breath, and ran away from the field…

Visiting Dubai’s Ramadan Night Market

I’ve always heard that the exhibitions that are held in the UAE were spectacular and amount of effort that goes into those expos was unparalleled. I’ve never had the chance to go to an expo in Dubai before but while I was visiting this past Eid holiday I learned from the instagram account of fellow blogger Karamillah from the Abu Dhabi, that her cookie business, K’s Cookies, will be participating in a Ramadan Night Market expo in Dubai and I knew I had to pass by and check it out.

The Ramadan Night Market was held in Dubai’s World Trade Center, halls 7 & 8 during the last days of Ramadan and the first days of Eid. Having never been there before, I liked how there is plenty of parking and one central building hosting all the exhibition halls so you don’t have to suffer to park or walk from hall to hall in the summer heat if you compare it to our exhibition grounds in Mishref.

My first stop was of course K’s cookies!

There were plenty of mouthwatering flavours on display and I wanted to try them all but since we were on the go I took the packages of the mini sized ones to become my snack during my visit to Dubai.

As for the rest of the expo, it was the usual things you’d find in every other expo like our gifts expo for example but I have to say the selections available in the Kuwaiti market are different and much varied. One corner that caught my eye was Empire Home’s booth coming from Turkey and selling gorgeous tea and coffee sets in amazingly reasonable prices.

I wanted to buy every single set! So beautiful.

The sets below I’ve seen in different stores in Kuwait but they were sold for double the price that I saw in the Ramadan expo. Of course I couldn’t let go and bought myself a set. Sadly that was all I could carry in my hand luggage back home with me or I would have bought more.

Here is my lovely new Turkish coffee set from Emprie home. By the way they have an instagram account and they deliver to Kuwait, check them out (@EmprieHome).

A lovely Turkish coffee turquoise blue set with gold detailing for two. With a little gold pot with a lid to place a sweet treat inside. Perfect for having a friend over and chatting over coffee.

And of course I had plenty of K’s cookies left to accompany my Turkish coffee and my coffee time for a while.

My favourite were the brownie cookies by the way.

The cookies were lovely and I’m glad I passed by the Ramadan night market expo to get them. Wishing you all the best of luck dear Karamillah with your K’s cookies bakery! Insah2 Allah next time I’m in UAE I plan to visit Abu Dhabi and have a milk shake with a brownie cookie at your little bakery.

How to Blog in Two Languages at Once?

When I first started writing in my blog, almost five years ago, choosing the language to write it wasn’t an issue. Most of the blogs out there were in English, expressing yourself in Arabish wasn’t frowned upon or considered annoying, plus the language of the internet whether you like it or not is English and so are all your settings and blogs you read. Personally, I chose my laptops without an Arabic keyboard just because I find Arabic and technology a bit exhausting.

As time moved on and the social media evolved, the platforms and audience alike, writing and expressing yourself in Arabic aren’t as exhausting anymore. As a matter of fact, some things can only make sense in Arabic and readers seem to have outgrown the Arabish. I still write in my blog in English, I can express myself in both languages equally fine but I think my blog should also be a window to the world regarding my life in Kuwait rather than just writing about Kuwait for people living in Kuwait. Hence, I will never give up writing in English in my blog, but I do admit that writing in Arabic will give you more audience plus open up a new collection of topics you wouldn’t usually address in English.

The question is, how to do it? Looking at my fellow bloggers, some write the same post twice in two languages and post them one after the other. Some write in both English and Arabic in the same post, switching between sentences. Only Mark seems to have an entirely separate Arabic version of his blog which won’t confuse the readers but I don’t suppose its easy to operate two different blogs in two different languages. There are some solutions for bilingual blogs with wordpress plugins and I’ve tried a couple of them but they messed up my entire blog and I gave up.

So I’m asking you, my dear reader since you are the one who read blogs, what do you think is the best bilingual solution for Arabic and English to coexist in one blog? Especially given that not all posts can be written in both languages? Dear fellow bloggers/developers, do you know of any bilingual solutions for your website blog? I am thinking something either like a tab per post or a different copy of the blog that will load after recognising your preferred browser language but I’m not sure either. What do you think?