Everyone loves a well cooked dinner, and every time we want to eat something fancy we pick a restaurant But the thing about a restaurant is that is cannot always be intimate, so what is more intimate than a nicely cooked meal for that special someone. I know I would love it if I walked in through the door and saw this
Plantain is a staple ingredient in the Nigerian menu and it definitely had to feature in our valentines series. The sweet flavours of the plantain and coconut infused with the savoury taste of shrimps ought to get your significant other inspired and loving you. I recommend that the men make this dish by the way.
Did you know that the history of red velvet desserts is really about the colour more than anything. I read this blog post and was shocked. Which means I can pretty much add any colour to a dessert recipe and make it really cool. Either way, I started thinking of what was somewhat easy to
Have you ever thought about precolonial love? If we had never been exposed to pasta Alfredo or even Jollof rice what would we consider “romantic food”. Well in my opinion, nothing says ‘I love you’ more than Vegetable soup in this case Afang soup with an assortment of meat, snails, tripe and fish. For that
The Afrolems banner went up about our valentines recipes and immediately we got a few requests to from different bloggers to feature their recipes in our series. Here is one of our guest chefs of the day. Hope you enjoy his recipe. XoXo #Nubicooks: This is a simple meal, but allows for creativity and team
“Rice is good. Rice is life. If you want to get a life, just eat rice!” How is that for rhymes? I saw that quote somewhere and thought it was funny. Anywhoo, on this 2nd day of the valentine month, I bring to you familiar dishes on a nigerian menu. Showing your significant other you love
If someone asked me what my most romantic scene was, I’m not certain I could pick just one. Anything from the upside down rain kiss in spiderman to Beauty and the Beast (yes the entire movie counts as one big romantic scene.) In my top three however, I would definitely say waking up to breakfast
I was blog trolling one saturday afternoon and came across Kitchen butterfly’s ogbono soup pictures and holy moly I could not stop thinking about Ogbono soup that day. The next day I ran to the african store and started stocking up on things I needed for this amazing dish. I was literally singing all the way
For some reason ever since i got back from Nigeria, I have had a weird craving for coconut so most of my recent dishes have been inspired by that craving. I mean this was intended to be a banana muffin but somehow coconut found its way in here. I loved the crunchiness of the outer
