• Yearly Archives: 2014

    Food Clique – Fighting Hunger

    Over the holidays, I was privileged to volunteer with an amazing group of people that work at the NGO Food Clique. In 2012, I was looking to start a similar program in my home country Nigeria and I decided to research to see if any other organization was doing something similar and perhaps I could

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    Grilled Chicken, Bole and Vegetables

    I had a craving for grilled plantain otherwise known as bole or boli in Nigerian pidgin english and I decided to make some over the weekend. I do not have an outside grill unfortunately so I have to rely on my oven most of the time. This dish was very simple to make and took

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    Coconut Cookies

    When I posted a collage of the dishes that didn’t make it to the blog last year, the first requested recipe was the coconut cookies one. To be honest, I was a little surprised as that was the last one i thought people would ask for. Not sure why i thought that. I really did

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    ayamase stew

    Ayamase Stew

    Ayamase stew was one of my many archived recipes I didn’t realize I hadn’t published. School got in my way and I could not get to blogging about this recipe and many others. Ah well, we are here now so let’s discuss Ayamase stew. This is a recipe that a lot of people asked me

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    Ekuru and Ata Din Din

    There are many recipes in my archives that never made it to the blog last year and Ekuru is one of them also known as Ofuloju. There are really many things to do with Nigerian beans (black eyed peas), we have akara, moin-moin, beans pottage and a host of other things. Ata Din din is

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    Fruit Infused Water

    Fruit infused water is always the rave when people are looking to reset their systems when they have over done it. I am certain a lot of us ate some things we should and shouldn’t have eaten over the holidays. What are the holidays for if we do not indulge a little bit. No matter

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