• Category Archives: General Afrolems Posts

    Planning Your Nigerian Wedding Menu

      Wedding Catering is the part that stresses most Nigerian brides out especially if your wedding is going to be a huge one. Even if your wedding is small, there are still a lot of details to consider when planning your menu, finding the right caterer and satisfying your guests. Have you ever heard people

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    How to Clean Shrimps and Prawns

    Recently, I have started monitoring how people arrive at my blog through their Google Searches and that has been really helpful in crafting a few of my posts. This post is one of such post. Someone recently searched how to clean shrimps so this post is for you whoever you are. Steps to Cleaning Shrimps

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    Brunch at Southern Sun Ikoyi Lagos

    Sunday Morning brunch after church wasn’t exactly something I grew up with. It was more a case of church is over, head on to Mr Biggs or Tastee fried chicken to pick up something quick or my mum was going to cook up a storm. That was what I was used to. Fast forward a

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    Why Eating Okro is good for you?

    Okro soup is a soup I feel only a few people get right. If you miss the taste mark, you are stuck with this slimy soup that no one wants to eat. It is very important to cook it well and make it really tasty. Apart from the taste benefit, Okro also known as Okra or

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    Spring Rolls and Sweet Chilli Sauce

    I have been seeing that people are searching for the Nigerian Spring Rolls recipe on my blog. Unfortunately, I have not yet mastered pastry so even if I wanted to help, making rice paper to roll the veggies for the spring rolls is still not my forte. However, in some chinese stores abroad, you would

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    Tiger nuts and its Benefits

    Everyone in Nigeria grew up eating Tiger nuts. Ok that is an assumption but for most people we grew up eating it and we even called it “ofio” I think that’s the spelling. The mallams or abokis as people like to call them always hawked these yellow nuts in a wheelbarrow around the streets of

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    Easter in Calabar

    For those that are following the Afrolems account on Facebook and Twitter, I promised you guys a video of my Easter trip. It is not solely related to food but hey what’s a general video going to do once in a while 🙂 Enjoy

    Table Manners: 7 Tips to Dining Out

    There are many rules when it comes to dining out and for people that may not have gone to finishing school, these rules sort of never come up in any curriculum. Luckily, Afrolems is here to the rescue to give you seven quick tips to dining out. Just in case you have a work function,

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