Happy New Year

I want to wish a happy new year to all my Persian Peeps (there are many) who are celebrating New Years today (usually on March 20 or 21st). It's a pre-Islamic custom that clerics frown on, but who cares, it's the start of the vernal equinox! And, it's full of great "rituals" that we do anyways: spring cleaning, buying new clothes and setting the table. Only this table is decorated with seven symbols of life, health and beauty using stuff like hyacinth plants, rosewater, coins, candles. There should also be a gold fish in a bowl, a mirror for cleanness and honesty, decorated eggs for fertility.  It's not green beer or anything, but you might want to get down with a little Persian cuisine which only be found at Rice House of Kabob in Miami Beach. It's not quite as good as Moby Dick in DC, which I'm sure it was inspired by, but it's pretty darn good for a basmati rice fix. Enjoy!

Jujeh and Kubideh combo with sumac sprinkled on top