As an 8 year old, I was so excited when my sister was born. The house was always filled with many options of the same dish in puree or mashed form. Mashed potatoes were my sister’s favorite and my mum used to make it differently each time for her but my sister’s favorite was with
The second christmas offering we have is out sweet and sour chicken balls recipe. This is a relatively simple recipe to make. If you feel you have to practice before hand, you can do so now which is why i have decided to post some of my recipes earlier. My friend Nefy (CEO of Luxurykaftans)
I never understood the logic of feeding children yam and egg on a school morning. Yam makes me super sleepy and less productive. If i settle down to eat yam regardless of the time of the day, you can guarantee I won’t be doing anything useful the rest of the day. Somehow this was the
Boarding house in Queens College Yaba Lagos was the hub of all kinds of illegal food experimentations. Some came out just fine while others well let’s just say our stomach would frown at us for indulging in such atrocities lol. A very popular combination however was Indomie and suya and that granted me the inspiration
The first time I heard about Danwake was from one of my hausa friends and she admitted that it was one of her favourite dishes especially served with a very spicy sauce and I use the term sauce loosely. The sauce comprising of oil, pepper, salt. She also said sometimes it is served with lemon
Ever since my friend Sara baked a Coffee cake for our friend Bea’s birthday, I have been craving it badly. It just seems like the perfect indulgent breakfast with a cup of tea or even another cup of coffee. I was nervous about making it because I wasn’t sure how much coffee to put in the
Growing up, my grandma always made unripe plantain pottage and I wasn’t so sure it was my favourite thing to eat. Then came my mum with semi-ripe plantain mixed with unripe plantain in the pottage and it was always fun to find out which plantain was slightly ripe when eating it. Well today, I decided
Do you spell it plantain moi moi or plantain moin moin? I have always wondered what the correct spelling. If you know what it is, please leave it in the comments. So I have been staring at the over-ripe plantain in my kitchen and I really didn’t want to go the fried route of Mosa so
In this post, I have no interesting story as to why I decided to make Dambu Nama. I just had a craving for it and went into my kitchen and whipped this up. Did not take as much time as I thought it would which was good but I lacked a somewhat important tool in
