Author Archives: Niyaz
Maybe it’s just me, but there’s something sexy about slightly-bloody grilled beef covered in gooey, golden egg yolk. I’d describe it to you, but why waste words when the picture above says everything I would have and more. Without further ado, here’s the next meal in our series of dishes with aphrodisiacs: Week 14, Meal [...]
Wifey Nadia and I have always made a habit of celebrating Valentines Day out. If it was a time when we had some extra cash, we’d splurge, if not … we’ll, we’d still splurge, just with the credit card, lol. For the first year in our five years together, we decided to stay in. She [...]
Wifey Nadia wanted to celebrate Valentine’s Day all week, so she asked Chef Brian to put together a menu with such a theme. “Most of the time, Valentine’s Day is all about decadence and how much money you can spend,” Chef Brian said, while pondering the dishes that would eventually make up the menu. Going [...]
I said I would gain weight last week, and I’m perfectly fine with the extra 1.3 lbs. After three months of attack, attack, attack, I found myself behind by a few days in the cooking, not really getting enough rest to wake up in the morning to walk and just generally exhausted from the work [...]
If there’s one thing I can trust Chef Brian with wholeheartedly, it’s putting together a badass marinade for some chicken. He set the bar high with a garlicky, herbaceous marinade for Week 1: Chicken and apples, and then he managed to blow my taste buds away with the spice mix on for the tandoori chicken [...]
I knew my clothes were getting smaller and my body was getting thinner, but I didn’t realize how much has changed in these first three months until I compared close-ups from November to February. I started this blog on Nov. 8 at 258 lbs. Today, I weighed in at 234.3, a total loss of 23.7 [...]
Chef Brian’s dishes usually have three or four components, so I was really confused by Week 13, Meal 2: Marinated lamb kabobs with a pomegranate, pistachio, citrus and mint relish. I saw lamb and I saw relish, but was confused at how such a seemingly simple recipe would satisfy. One bite of the smoky, lemon-softened [...]
I tried to make this meal look as beautiful as I could to show my appreciation for my wife’s family, which hails from Jordan. I often joke that the best part of marrying her was the food. Before, I only had an appreciation for the flavors, but now I have respect for anyone who has [...]
We’re always searching for ways to make our blog better, so if you have any suggestions, feel free to pass ‘em our way. That being said, we recently made a few improvements around these parts that I wanted to tell you about. The first is our tag cloud. Chef Brian and I want Fat Dude [...]
My lovely Wifey Nadia is half Jordanian, so she grew up eating hummus, baba ganoush, kibbeh, sfiha and a host of other Middle Eastern delights. She introduced me to so many great dishes, and I’m happy to be able to return the favor. For Week 13, Chef Brian is taking influences from different Arab countries [...]
