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This Christmas

This Christmas

The air feels differently as we approach Christmas. I get filled with loving nostalgia as my heart muses over past Christmases albeit this time,  som…

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Banana - Quick Oats Pancakes

Banana - Quick Oats Pancakes

We all love a good breakfast but sometimes the stress of making one keeps us away from having this very essential meal of the day.  This banana-quick …

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Restraint

Restraint

Quiz : What’s better than a scrumptious carrot cake?  Easy : A carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Seriously, who can say no to a delicate, delectabl…

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Palm Oil Rice

Palm Oil Rice

As Nigerians, we should somehow be thankful that despite how expensive things have become and with food prices reaching the roof, rice is still being…

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Food

Food

My appetite for food is not as great as my eagerness to cook. Naturally, I enjoy tasting my creations and I am often hypnotized by the aroma of the f…

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Self Confidence

Self Confidence

Cooking is a lot like creating. An individual thinks of a meal, gathers a couple of random edible items, goes ahead to combine them and zap! Somethin…

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Comfort

Comfort

Grief gets to me deeply. It beats my understanding why the good times we share with those we love, gets truncated by death. A lot of times I've f…

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Green Sauce

Green Sauce

At one point in every child's life, eating vegetables must have been a nightmare. I remember my tiny self preferring hunger to a plate of vegetab…

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Substitution

Substitution

I  miss the year 2013. It was the year I turned 19 and more significantly the year my relationship with food took a new turn. I was brought more clos…

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Leftovers

Leftovers

Cleaning my fridge out is always a memorable adventure. I start out with the intent of clearing every compartment of things I would like to trash and…

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Banana Bread

Banana Bread

There is always this bit of confusion whenever I send someone a piece of snack calling it bread yet it taste and looks to them like cake. Banana brea…

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The Marinade

The Marinade

A marinade is a seasoned, often acidic mixture in which food is steeped or soaked, usually to flavor and prepare it for cooking. This can be done by …

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Rice Gospel

Rice Gospel

Rice, in many cultures and cuisines is regarded as an essential food and versatile to work into a menu whether as an appetizer, main course or desser…

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Today's Motivation

Today's Motivation

The first cheesecake I ever made was a flop. It was over baked because I wasn't sure of my oven's temperature and the exact texture of what a…

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Bushmeat

Bushmeat

Bushmeats are generally meat of game from wildlife species and due to a lot of factors including increased hunting, many of the animal species used a…

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Passion

Passion

It has not been many generations since cooking became a form of leisure. Before now, cooking was not a typical go to when in need of entertainment, e…

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Intentional 2

Intentional 2

Welcome to another intentional cooking trip, this time Ekpang is still a culprit but this particular Ekpang is popularly known as "Ekpang Nkukwo…

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Intentional 1

Intentional 1

Over the years, I've heard it being said repeatedly that some meals are very demanding to make. Someone from my part of Nigeria will quickly agre…

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Sharing

Sharing

With our world becoming more individualistic than ever before, we have trained our reasoning to believe that we are okay on our own, doing the sort o…

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Calabar Rain

Calabar Rain

Calabar rain, Mtchwee!!! That was the frequent sigh on the lips of many persons whenever it started to rain in the beautiful land of my birth. The dis…

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