The search for nutritious dishes is very real and that gave birth to this vegetable rice dish. I look for new creative ways to infuse vegetables into my everyday meals because of their high vitamin and mineral content daily. The older you get, the more vitamins you need to function and even look healthy. Rice is
If you follow Afrolems on social media, you would have seen that I posted a video asking people to guess what dish I was making. If you guessed fried rice, you guessed right. I made this shrimp fried rice slightly differently. Not in the Nigerian yellow fried rice way but in the asian almost thai
Last week Friday, Afrolems was featured on CNN’s article on food bloggers to follow. I was in bed when the article was published and I saw a few notifications on my blog from CNN. You can imagine I jumped out of bed, rubbed my eyes a few times, screamed, pranced and jumped then settled to
Someone recently pointed out in a comment on the blog that I do not have Pork recipes. I combed through my recipe list and truly didn’t find any. I promise it was not intentional. I eat pork once in a very red moon not because it is not tasty but just because my metabolism in
My weekend has been a very busy one and I decided to make something for the road that was spicy and small enough to carry around. Yes, honey barbecue wings were my solution to my snacking problems. Believe me it came in very handy today as I was roaming and stopped to snack a little.
I am not certain why the name tasty fiesta was chosen to name this potato casserole dish in Nigeria? Anyone care to venture an explanation? At first when I used to see fiesta come up in my search terms, I thought it was the Jamaican dessert called fiesta. Alas, I realized being that the searches
This week I have really been trying to reduce my carb portions as last week I definitely over did it. Once I get into my high protein diet, I notice a few things after my meals. I feel lighter, I have the same amount of energy as I do if I have carbs. Being that
This recipe has been on my mind since last year but the perfect time to execute never came. Today I finally felt ready. It is very simple but the creative direction needed to make sense to me. I needed to evaluate if it would be well received and all that jazz. I can’t say for
After all the Easter celebrations, it is time to return to a low carb Nigerian diet. I have seen a few searches come through the blog for low carb nigerian meal suggestions and I have been seriously considering doing a series on it. If there is a higher demand for it, I just might. This
