Storing Your Favourite Soup – What Does And Does Not Work
I have liked Egusi soup for as long as I remember. Edikang ikong on the other hand didn’t become a favourite until I was a teenager. According to my mum, I would pick out all the vegetable and fish...
View ArticleHow to Preserve Your Fresh Produce
Stocking up on fresh food can be discouraging with the hot Naija weather and unreliable power supply. We recently wrote about local soups that keep well and those that do not. The reason is that no one...
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Bring Back Our Favourite Local Dishes
I remember, as a little girl, growing up and watching my Mum and Aunties cook local Nigerian dishes. The time and care they took, never in a hurry, fully enjoying the process as well as the outcome....
View ArticleThe Lazy Girl’s Guide to House Chores
House chores are never really at the top of our ‘excited-to-do-this-lists’ but they are a necessary evil. Unless you want to live in a pigsty. Most of us have a ‘clean the whole house day’ and...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Horror Cooking Story?
Some people are born with a cookbook in one hand and a spatula in another. Unfortunately, I am not some people, but I absolutely love food – every spicy morsel of a home-cooked meal felt like a slice...
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Did Your Jollof Go to Harvard? Lol
I know that the whole world is still trying to decide whose Jollof is better, Ghana and Nigeria. Haa. But no one is comparing fried rice and jollof rice o. I wonder why. If you ask me though, I’d...
View ArticleHave You Had The Mother-in-law Cooking Test?
Before I got married, I lived alone in my own apartment for 9 years and yes, I did not cook a thing. Well, I did. Things like scrambled eggs, noodles and efo riro because those are the things I enjoy...
View ArticleAre You Down For Some Mocktails? Here Are A Few Recipes
I recently dabbled into making Mocktails in my spare time because edibles are always my happy place and cool refreshing drinks make the top of that list. When out in restaurants, it is one drink that I...
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Kitchen Hacks For Those Who Don’t Like Cooking
See ehn, I’m not one of those women who sing with joy when in the kitchen. I don’t have elaborate lists and recipes, and I certainly do not think culinary expertise adds any virtue to me as a woman....
View ArticleThe Snack Lover’s Guide to Munching in Moderation
What is life without snacks? Seriously, think about it. Imagine what our days would be if we could not stop occasionally to munch a cookie here, a fruit there. Ah, you are doing one serious work,...
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