I have been trying to figure out what dishes to make for valentines day as I have started getting requests and I have to say it hasn’t been easy as most things have been done. When I thought of this dish, I remembered a story I read as a child called The lady and the
Last Year, I was trying to make zobo drink here in San Francisco so I went to the Middle Eastern Grocery Store to buy zobo leaves otherwise known as sorrel leaves. I bought it without really doing much with it. I brewed it occasionally as a detoxifying tea and trust me it definitely cleanses the system.
I was pondering on recipes to post on the blog in preparation for valentines day and chocolate cake came to mind. Then I thought well what if the chocolate element in this cake was our everyday beverage and I decided to use some of the Milo I had at home and voila Milo chocolate cake
Over the holidays, I was privileged to volunteer with an amazing group of people that work at the NGO Food Clique. In 2012, I was looking to start a similar program in my home country Nigeria and I decided to research to see if any other organization was doing something similar and perhaps I could
I had a craving for grilled plantain otherwise known as bole or boli in Nigerian pidgin english and I decided to make some over the weekend. I do not have an outside grill unfortunately so I have to rely on my oven most of the time. This dish was very simple to make and took
When I posted a collage of the dishes that didn’t make it to the blog last year, the first requested recipe was the coconut cookies one. To be honest, I was a little surprised as that was the last one i thought people would ask for. Not sure why i thought that. I really did
Ayamase stew was one of my many archived recipes I didn’t realize I hadn’t published. School got in my way and I could not get to blogging about this recipe and many others. Ah well, we are here now so let’s discuss Ayamase stew. This is a recipe that a lot of people asked me
There are many recipes in my archives that never made it to the blog last year and Ekuru is one of them also known as Ofuloju. There are really many things to do with Nigerian beans (black eyed peas), we have akara, moin-moin, beans pottage and a host of other things. Ata Din din is
Fruit infused water is always the rave when people are looking to reset their systems when they have over done it. I am certain a lot of us ate some things we should and shouldn’t have eaten over the holidays. What are the holidays for if we do not indulge a little bit. No matter
