Bagason Editorial Team Plant-Based Dinners With V-Min Soy Milk and Desi Treat Soya Chaap A carton of soy milk in the fridge door. A bag of frozen soya chaap in the freezer. Between the two, that's most of what you need for plant based dinner recipes UAE households can put together without... Sep 27, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team High-Protein Snacks and Smoothies for Busy Days in the UAE Six-thirty in the morning at a Dubai Marina gym, or a quick session at a JLT fitness club after work: either way, the question that follows is the same one. What do you actually eat afterward, when yo... Sep 21, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team Onam Sadhya Made Simple in the UAE Every August, somewhere between the school run and the weekend grocery list, Malayali households across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah start asking the same question: who is doing Sadhya this year, and ... Sep 18, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team Back-to-School Lunchboxes That Survive the UAE Heat The school gates open again in late August, and within a week most parents rediscover the same problem: a lunchbox that looked perfectly packed at 7am comes home at 2pm with a soggy sandwich, a puddle... Sep 15, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team Filipino Favourites at Home in the UAE Ask anyone from a Filipino household in Dubai or Abu Dhabi what they miss most about home cooking, and the answer rarely changes: adobo simmering on a Sunday, a pot of sour sinigang broth, rice steami... Sep 12, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team One-Pan and 15-Minute Dinners From the UAE Pantry By seven in the evening, most UAE kitchens are dealing with the same problem: school pickup ran late, the commute from JLT or Al Nahda ate the last hour of daylight, and dinner is still an open questi... Sep 9, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team No-Cook Summer Recipes UAE: Easy No-Stove Meals By July, most UAE kitchens turn into places you visit for coffee and a quick snack, not somewhere you stand over a hot stove at three in the afternoon. The thermometer outside reads 45°C. The extracto... Sep 3, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team Stocking a GCC Kitchen for Summer Entertaining: Pantry, Drinks and Crowd-Pleasers By eleven in the morning in late June, the air over Dubai Marina shimmers like the surface of a hot pan, and the sensible thing is to stay indoors until the sun loses its temper. Yet the doorbell stil... Jul 6, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team World Foods in the UAE: Cook Across Cultures From One Pantry Walk into any Lulu or Carrefour in Dubai on a Friday afternoon and the trolleys tell the whole story. One shopper reaches for a kilo of basmati and a bag of toor dal. Beside them, someone weighs out c... Jul 4, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team Emirati Comfort Foods and the Pantry Behind Machboos, Harees, Balaleet and Threed By half past four on a Friday afternoon in Sharjah, a particular smell starts to drift between the villas: onions going soft and golden in ghee, the sharp citrus-and-smoke note of a black lime crackin... Jul 1, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team Cooking With Middle Eastern Spice Blends: Baharat, Zaatar, Bzar and Dukkah Walk past any baqala in Karama just before Maghrib and the air does the talking. Someone is browning onions in ghee, a fistful of yellow spice goes in, and the whole street suddenly smells of cardamom... Jun 29, 2026
Bagason Editorial Team GCC Summer Coolers: Laban, Jallab and Hydrating Drink Recipes By two in the afternoon in late June, the air conditioning in a Sharjah flat is working overtime, the marble floor is still warm underfoot, and the walk from the car park to the lift has left a film o... Jun 28, 2026