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    Easter Special : Chicken and Mango Skewer

    I have been procrastinating on making this particular dish and I even tweeted about the usefulness of procrastination and people loved the tweet. “I am not a procrastinator. I wait the last second to do my work because I will be older and therefore wiser.” In this case, it is safe to say i was

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    Easter Special: Hollandaise Sauce with Poached Eggs and English Muffin

    Easter is just around the corner and I always wanted to try out the recipe for Hollandaise sauce and I thought this would serve as a good dish for Easter brunch with some freshly squeezed orange juice or lemonade…YUMMY!! Hollandaise sauce is really creamy and has a lemony tangy taste and can also be served with asparagus.

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    Croaker Fish Kè Cream

    If you are following Afrolems on Facebook or Instagram which you should be *straight face* you would have seen the picture of this dish. I also tweeted about how difficult it is to season croaker and many people agreed with me. Have you ever had to cook croaker in the regular Nigerian stew? It always

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    Puzzle time Blessing time

    So i was trying out a few things for this food account I am handling and promoting and came up with the idea of puzzles. It should be fun to watch everybody guess what words they can find in my puzzle. They are obviously all food related so shouldn’t be rocket science. Enjoy. Leave a

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    Why Carrots?

    I have heard tons of great things about carrots in the past and I have really enjoyed cooking with them. It gives my meals some bulk and its own unique flavour but most importantly I am very aware of the benefits of carrots and i thought i’d share them with you today. If you have

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    Garden Egg and Peanut Butter

    St Patrick’s day was an interesting day for me. I sat in the kitchen with my mum from the time I woke up at noon till 9pm when I was ready to go to bed. We did everything in the kitchen that day. Cooked, listened to music, skyped with the rest of the family etc.

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    Goat Meat Pepper Soup with Boiled Plantain

    On a sunday evening, my mum suggested we visit my cousin’s house and take some ingredients to make pepper soup. I peeled and washed my unripe plantain, picked a few scent leaves from her garden and washed the goat meat. I seasoned everything, placed in a pot and we were on our merry way. We

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    Salted or Unsalted Dodo? Which do you Prefer?

    The Nigerian love of plantains has always amazed me. If you ask the typical Nigerian how they like their plantains, many would say fried (dodo), boiled or roasted (bole). It was not until I stepped out of the Nigerian cuisine space that I found many other cultures also like plantain. i have noticed Jamaicans fry

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    Dodo Snails – Lent Inspired Recipe

    During Lent, a lot of people give up a whole lot of things as a fast during the period and the very popular  food item that people give up is beef. I have heard many people give up chicken as well. I started looking online for some lent inspired recipes and all I saw was

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