• Category Archives: Yam Recipes

    Chocolate Yam Cookies

    African yams have so much diversity. One minute, they are chocolate yam cookies, the next minute, they are pounded yam. Whatever the case is, I find this delicious ingredient is a serious sleep inducer. It must be the high carbohydrate content that sends little sleep fairies to your eyes. As much as you try, you

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    Loaded Yam Fries

    I was on set a few weeks ago with a brand I work with often. Sympli Foods and we were shooting loaded yam fries. Here I was thinking I had already blogged about it. Alas, I was wrong. i have made this for a few friends and I keep getting requests to make it again.

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    Cheesy Yam Balls

    Cheesy Yam Balls are little balls of heaven. The recipe combines some of my guilty pleasures with cheese being a major culprit. My friends and I used to sit and bond over wine, cheese, almonds and raisins. You can tell I love the good life. Well I decided to bring my love for all things

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    Shakara Yamarita

    Shakara Yamarita was as a result of serious cravings I had for yam, egg and smoked beef. I decided to indulge myself for breakfast yesterday before work. I know, I know, who makes such decadent breakfast before work? Well in my defense, I had chopped all the vegetables and smoked beef the night before. The

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    Yam Pottage – Iwuk Abia

    Yam Pottage is also known as Iwuk Abia in efik and is enjoyed with an array of seafood. The more seafood you have in it, the better. You can add snails, smoked fish, stockfish etc. I must warn you however that this meal is very filling so if you decide to have it for dinner,

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    Catfish PepperSoup and Yam

    Growing up I was never a fan of catfish. The experiences at Tejuoso market watching my mum negotiate on the price of the fish while the fish thrashed violently in the bowl was enough to scar me. My mum also made the watery fishy stew called imoyo with Catfish and we had that with Okro

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    Spicy Croaker Fish and Mashed Yam

    Being a lover of seafood, i think the most appropriate gift to give to my mom this Mother’s day is to dedicate this post to her. I love you mama. She also shares a very strong passion for food but luckily for her, it doesn’t show on her as much as it does me lol.

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    Nigerian Yam and Egg

    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

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