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    Herbed Lamb with Strawberry Sauce 7th Shade of Valentine

    Everyone loves a well cooked dinner, and every time we want to eat something fancy we pick a restaurant  But the thing about a restaurant is that is cannot always be intimate, so what is more intimate than a nicely cooked meal for that special someone. I know I would love it if I walked in through the door and saw this

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    Coconut Plantain Shrimp Infusion 6th Shade of Valentines Cooking

    Plantain is a staple ingredient in the Nigerian menu and it definitely had to feature in our valentines series. The sweet flavours of the plantain and coconut infused with the savoury taste of shrimps ought to get your significant other inspired and loving you. I recommend that the men make this dish by the way.

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    Ogbono Soup

    I was blog trolling one saturday afternoon and came across Kitchen butterfly’s ogbono soup pictures and holy moly I could not stop thinking about Ogbono soup that day. The next day I ran to the african store and started stocking up on things I needed for this amazing dish. I was literally singing all the way

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    Coconut Banana Chocolate Chip Muffin

    For some reason ever since i got back from Nigeria, I have had a weird craving for coconut so most of my recent dishes have been inspired by that craving. I mean this was intended to be a banana muffin but somehow coconut found its way in here. I loved the crunchiness of the outer

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    Join the Food Game

    So ever since I started Afrolems, everything related to food somehow gets sent to me. People send me jokes about food and articles about cooking and other interesting things. Today, my uncle sent this to me and I thought this was interesting. If you have anything to add to the list please feel free. I

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    Puff Puff – Nigerian Doughnut Snack

    Every Nigerian party has featured these adorable balls of puff puff. If you go to a Nigerian party and they do not serve you puff puff, it’s not legit. Take my word for it. Personally every time I think of puff puff, I can almost hear the owambe (party) music and smell that party rice.

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    Nigerian Beef Pepper soup and Macaroni.

    I realize that this combo might be slightly intriguing but stay with me 🙂 I promise this is a good one. As a whole bunch of my friends have caught the sniffles recently I thought I’d do something to clear those airways and cheer them up. However as I choose route of the avant garde

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    Omelette Du Toh Bad

    Bonjour Afrolems lovers. Ca va? Ok ok i’d stop now as my french isn’t that great. I was up really early this wonderful saturday morning and I decided to watch Dexter’s Laboratory on YouTube and for those that watch cartoons a lot like me, you would know the episode on Dexter’s lab that all he

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    Happy New Year from Afrolems

    Happy New Year to all my beloved Afrolems Fans. I bet you all had an amazing holiday filled with yummy dishes and recipes. I did as well. I was in Nigeria for the Holidays and threw down with my mum on a number of occasions. I also saw some interesting cooking scenarios and also met

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