Gorgeous Nowruz settings – the sofreh haft seen. You didn’t tell folks the name of the herald for Nowruz is Haji Firooz. I thought, from ancient images, that he played a Tombak or a Daf drum, rather than a tambourine. I suppose the tambourine is more widely available in our modern era. 😃

We just celebrated Nowruz in our household too. When my son was little, we would make Haji Firooz cut-out cookies. Now we prefer pistachio baklava nests. This year, we made salmon with Persian fish spice and the rice/limas/cinnamon/dill dish (I don’t know how to spell the dish name, but it sounds like pelow bakh-lay).