Yasmin Farms, Kuwait
“But this is just as good, madame.” the produce manager was telling me, but I’ve tried this spinach, and it’s NOT!
“The spinach from Yasmin Farms, which I bought here, has the BEST taste,” I told him again, “please, please, tell me when the Yasmin Farms spinach will be delivered and I will make a special trip to buy it. It isn’t like the others, it’s better.”
This is some of the best tasting spinach I have ever tasted:
I wonder what else Yasmin Farms grows?
Grown in Kuwait!
“Madame,” he shook his head sadly, “I think there is no more spinach from Yasmin Farms this year.”
I love fresh spinach. I love it in salads. I love to cook it just a little, with garlic. I love to cook it just a little, with soy sauce and tahini. I love to cook it and serve it with a little bacon. I love to use it in dips. I love to use it in vegetarian lasagne. I love to use it in cassaroles. I even use it raw in sandwiches.
Spinach is one of the joys in my life, and the spinach from Yasmin Farms is back in the Sultan Center, for only a short time. I bought so much – we will be eating spinach and more spinach! 🙂
I also found Kuwaiti artichokes! We cooked them up last night, and they were nutty, and delicious.
Back in October, something happened that changed my life unexpectedly. I was visiting Fonzation and he had a post on How Old Are You Really? You take this test. It is a long test. Then, a couple hours later, they send you your results, how old your body is, given your health history, your family health history, and your habits.
OK, here is a truth I am ashamed to tell you. I felt pretty confident I am younger than my real age.
So I took the test, and came out two years older than my real age because I don’t get enough exercise. It really hurt my feelings. And then, because you have to give them an e-mail where they can send the results, they started sending me a little newsletter telling me little hints that would help me lower my real age, and they were mostly hints I could incorporate into my life easily. Things like telling me that artichokes – which I love anyway – have a huge amount of fibre. So last night we had delicious, fibre-filled KUWAITI-grown artichokes. What a treat!
Both AdventureMan and I are really trying harder to live healthier lives. We ate breakfast this morning (neither of us likes breakfast) and he had oatmeal, a very special oatmeal that my best friend sent from Seattle, and I had a healthy oat-y granola, and we both had blueberries in our cereal. Blueberries are amazingly good for you – I have learned from this health newsletter. (Breakfast is a lot easier when you are jet lagging, wide awake at three and have some time to kill before going to work.) Skipping breakfast is another thing that is bad for your “real” age, as it turns out.
This test is not like “what kind of flower are you,” which is fun, and frivolous and gone from your mind two days later. Two months later it is still having an impact on us. Visit his site and take this test. And then RUN to the Sultan Center and buy some Yasmin farms spinach!
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hehe i turned up 8 years older than my real age 😛 did i do anything bout it??? Nope 😛 I guess i cant be bothered… but good for u for actually doing something about it.
PS: I hate spinach 😛
Holy Smokes! This must be an extraordinary day! Fonzy making two comments on the same day on the same blog??? Has it ever happened before? ? ?
loool and here is the third 😛
LLLOOOOLLLLLLLLL! You must be having a quiet day at work!
Ok Fonzy, I will not take that test! I am 20 (.) :p – Intlxpatr, you always make me crave healthy fresh food
actually, yeah it was a quiet day 😛
You said you love spinach cooked in soy sauce and tahini. Here in China, that is how I always prepare my spinach. I was so happy to find a Chinese version of tahini widely available. Yummy! I am also reminded of the produce I loved in Kuwait the most – a variety of small cucumber. They were so fresh and so delicious. I don’t know if they were grown in Kuwait or imported from another country, but I have never tasted another cucumber that good!
I love fresh spinach too! try a spinach salad using baby spinach, browned pine nuts, a light shave of Parmesan, olive oil and balsamic vinager….yum!
Chiki – LLLLOOOOLLLLLLLL! I should have done what you did! I would be 25!
Fonzy – I think you’ve just set a record for comments that will never be broken!
Global Gal – I learned that way in Seattle – with the tahini – do you think it might be Japanese? YES! They still have those wonderful cucumbers, and they sell them by the box. They are still reasonably priced. You need to come back to Kuwait; you would be shocked senseless by how changed it is.
Ohhhh, Harmonie, it is only seven in the morning and I am so hungry after reading your spinach salad description!
You make me grave fresh and healthy too 😀
I try to make something healthy every day, I just sometimes run out of energy.
I make breakfast for hubby and me in the morning.
I most of the time eat some Oatflakes and hubby gets a Burrito with some fresh fruit as well.
He takes Lunch made by me to work and at dinner he gets something small.
I eat Lunch sometime during the day and a Snack before he comes home. I don’t like to eat at 8 p.m. no more. Those days are over 😉
Now,…..*goes for that test*
🙂
LLLOOLLL – Nicole, I bet with all the dog-walking you do, and with your healthy habits, you are going to have a nice surprise!
Healthy habits?
Me?
OK, I’m 2.5 years older than in Reality.
Need to eat more Vitamins & all that stuff, need to get rid of my husband, or his smoking habit and well, dunno, more exercise I bet 🙂
But I can live with all that, that’s ok 😉
Maybe they tell all of us we are older so they can send us their newsletter and maybe so they can sell us vitamins? I DO like their newsletters!
i’ll be sure to tell yasmin you love her spinach 🙂
Noura – please! It is the best spinach I have ever tasted, and also clean and pretty.
wait for http://www.yasminfarms.com where they will deliver these packaged veges to ur house … may be triple the price