Ever since my friend Sara baked a Coffee cake for our friend Bea’s birthday, I have been craving it badly. It just seems like the perfect indulgent breakfast with a cup of tea or even another cup of coffee. I was nervous about making it because I wasn’t sure how much coffee to put in the
Growing up, my grandma always made unripe plantain pottage and I wasn’t so sure it was my favourite thing to eat. Then came my mum with semi-ripe plantain mixed with unripe plantain in the pottage and it was always fun to find out which plantain was slightly ripe when eating it. Well today, I decided
Bread and egg is a not only a popular Nigerian breakfast recipe, it is also very global. However, the amount of spices Nigerians put in their omelette is comparable to none. Last year, my mum introduced me to bread and beans rolls for breakfast. I started making them to take around with me. It’s very
Suya is a popular street snack in Nigeria and apparently other West African countries. I was talking to a few of my friends from Ivory Coast and Cameroon and I was trying to find out what people eat during soccer matches as the World Cup is coming up. The common item was suya. Chicken suya
Do you spell it plantain moi moi or plantain moin moin? I have always wondered what the correct spelling. If you know what it is, please leave it in the comments. So I have been staring at the over-ripe plantain in my kitchen and I really didn’t want to go the fried route of Mosa so
In this post, I have no interesting story as to why I decided to make Dambu Nama. I just had a craving for it and went into my kitchen and whipped this up. Did not take as much time as I thought it would which was good but I lacked a somewhat important tool in
Remember growing up in Nigeria when visitors came to your house and you were asked to pour some peanuts into a plate to serve them. These visitors somehow always wanted peanuts with Fanta or Malt drinks. Oh the memories! My mum however used to take it a step further and serve the nuts as pre-appetizers
Some of our fans requested this peppered fish dish and I stalled a bit because my nearby grocery store did not have any whole tilapia. They simply had the fillet of different types of fish so I went into china town and got some fresh fish. One of my mum’s cousins specializes in barbecued chicken,
This Cameroonian dish Poulet DG reminds me a lot of Dodo Gizzard except gizzard is used in the latter. The methods are similar but Poulet DG somehow just feels healthier. It may seem that way because of all the vegetables you can incorporate into the dish. I mean you can still do same with dodo gizzard
