• Always Learning

    There is nothing better than looking back and learning from your mistakes and making the best of the second chance that you have been blessed with. This post is an improvement of one of my first posts here: Fried Rice Ingredients: 1½ cups of brown basmati rice 1 cup of Mexican mixed veg 1 cup… Continue Reading

  • When Grown Men Cry

    Ma Kaduna is gone, may her soul rest in peace. Before Bey, there was Ma Kaduna, the first true independent woman. A true definition of a feminist that taught me to demand what was rightfully mine. She taught me what it means to be a hustler. A very bold and audacious lady who rode her… Continue Reading

  • Plantain Chronicles II

    Educating ones self is a continuous process. Today’s recipe is a modification of the recipe in the first Plantain Chronicles. The difference is using panko crumbs to coat the plantain balls. Panko crumbs is something I always felt was posh and never found in my local grocer here in Doha. Today I decided it was… Continue Reading

  • Peppered Meat

    Ingredients: 500g of beef, cut into cubes ½ red bell pepper ½ green bell pepper ½ medium onion, thinly slice half of this 1 Knorr cube 1 tsp of thyme ½ tsp of curry powder ½ tsp of coriander powder 1 tbs of crushed chili 3 tbs of oil salt to taste Method: Preheat the… Continue Reading

  • The Plantain Chronicles!

    I have always loved plantains but the current love I have for them has taken me by surprise. The past few days, I have found myself in the kitchen in the middle of the night creating recipes using plantains as the main ingredients. I blame 9jafoodie! I have been trying recreate her plantain chips recipe… Continue Reading

  • A Hungry Man…

    What is it they say about hungry people again? A meal in my home is never a simple thing. Simple rice and stew could take longer than usual because once I enter the kitchen my brain starts to wonder what else I could do to make this simple dish extraordinary. This afternoon though was the… Continue Reading

  • Making the Undesirable Desirable

    Have you guys seen the movie Between Us? It is a really good insightful movie (don’t mind the critics). You should watch it, there are many lessons to be learnt from the movie. After watching the movie last night, AF and I started to discuss aspects of the movie and called on our past experiences… Continue Reading

  • All Gone!

    Can I just put it out there that kuli kuli and kankuwa originated from Nupe land? thank you! My great Aunt is the king, yes king of kulikuli and dankuwa in Lafiagi. I once took some to work and everyone was going crazy over them. I am sure there is some secret ingredients she adds… Continue Reading

  • How Do You Like It?

    Life is funny sha! Funny how we take things for granted. Masa is one of those Nigerian foods I was never crazy about. I like it, I am or was never crazy about it.  I grew up around it so it was always available. In the eighteen months I spent in Nigeria I don’t remember… Continue Reading