One of my very good friends is so in love with this dish and is always raving about it so I had to make some. Isn’t it funny where inspiration for dishes comes sometimes? I had been planning to do this dish for a while but I didn’t have any pretty plates to go with
How come Nigerians don’t have this as a street food? I guess we have bole so it makes up for it somehow. I decided to merge my love for bole and groundnut with this popular ghanian street food called Kelewele. It is basically spicy fried plantain and you can use any spice you wish. I
When I was a lot younger, this was a dish I slightly dreaded eating because it smelled so much. I was also terrified of eating it the night before because the waste produced may have been deadly the next day in school. However, as I grew up, my taste buds acclimatized to the taste and
Pinterest is a miracle website because it has definitely opened my eyes and mind to different ways to play around with food. Today one of my tweaked experiments was the 90 second microwave cookie in a bowl. Most people I had previously seen had a cookie in a mug and microwaved it for 60 seconds
I have been craving fried yam since January and hounding the African store in Oakland about their next batch of supplies. They finally got some last week and i raced to their store on saturday to get some. I have thought of a few things I could make with yam and trust me a few
Valentines day is fast approaching, have you drawn up your menu? Do you need any last minute recipes that we haven’t featured on the blog? We may be able to help you if you let us know early. Another recipe you could try is our shrimp tomato pepper-soup. You can use any protein, but just
I have been trying to figure out what dishes to make for valentines day as I have started getting requests and I have to say it hasn’t been easy as most things have been done. When I thought of this dish, I remembered a story I read as a child called The lady and the
Last Year, I was trying to make zobo drink here in San Francisco so I went to the Middle Eastern Grocery Store to buy zobo leaves otherwise known as sorrel leaves. I bought it without really doing much with it. I brewed it occasionally as a detoxifying tea and trust me it definitely cleanses the system.
I was pondering on recipes to post on the blog in preparation for valentines day and chocolate cake came to mind. Then I thought well what if the chocolate element in this cake was our everyday beverage and I decided to use some of the Milo I had at home and voila Milo chocolate cake
