Fresh fish pepper soup.

INGREDIENTS

1)Fresh pepper-roughly blended.

2)Scent leave sliced

3)Onions(sliced tiny)

4)Knor cubes

5)fresh fish

6)A tablespoonful of vegetable oil

7)Peppersoup spice(most market women thet sell stockfish have it. Its a blended mixture of several spices and the aroma is great)

PROCESS

Wash your fresh fish very well with lime till all the slimy liquid have cleared.

Combine all the ingredients with the fish in the ziplock bag. This is to allow the ingredient soak into the fish really well and refrigerate for 2-3 hours or over night preferably

 When you are ready to eat, pour the fish into the pot with 2cups of water and cook. Cook for 20minutes.

 Remove and serve.

Bon apetit

Moi moi cooked wrapped in leaves.

Moimoi wrapped in leaves have this unique taste and aroma. I prefer it above all other types( cooked in nylon and tin) . You can't compare.

Here is how I make mine.

INGREDIENTS

1)Beans(soaked ,shelled and blended)

2)Pepper(fresh)blended with the beans or pounded

4)Onions diced tiny

5)Eggs. Boiled

6)Moi moi leaves

7)Liver. Cooked and diced

8)Crayfish(blended)

9)Knor chicken

10)Palm oil or vegetable oil as prefered

PROCESS

 Mix the blended beans with oil,crayfish,onions,knor cubes,palm or vegetable oil, salt and pepper if you didn't blend with the beans thoroughly.

  Add in water to have a certain consistency-not too thick or to watery.

  I've outlined how to wrap it in the leaves in certain stages. Before u seal each wraps, put egg and pieces of the diced liver then seal and place in the pot with some of the leaves at the base.

 When through, add water and cook for 30-40min. And your moimoi is ready.

Bon apetit!

PRINGLES-cancer in a can.

  Saw this article and it was a big bummer! It was because my kids are so in love with it and I get the mini cans for them like 3 times a week.

  There are so many informations being passed around about the dangers and risks associated with so many foods that one doesn't know what's true and what's not true

 This is the article that I came across (please read)-

Cancer in a Can: The Shocking True Story of how Pringles are Made
Join us: Wake up call

To understand the nature of Pringles and other stackable chips, forget the notion that they come from actual potatoes in any recognizable way.

The Pringles Company (in an effort to avoid taxes levied against “luxury foods” like chips in the UK) once even argued that the potato content of their chips was so low that they are technically not even potato chips.

So if they’re not made of potatoes, what are they exactly?
The process begins with a slurry of rice, wheat, corn, and potato flakes that are pressed into shape.

This dough-like substance is then rolled out into an ultra-thin sheet cut into chip-cookies by a machine.

According to io9:

“The chips move forward on a conveyor belt until they’re pressed onto molds, which give them the curve that makes them fit into one another.

Those molds move through boiling oil … Then they’re blown dry, sprayed with powdered flavors, and at last, flipped onto a slower-moving conveyor belt in a way that allows them to stack.

From then on, it’s into the cans … and off towards the innocent mouths of the consumers.”

I suspect nearly everyone reading this likely enjoys the taste of potato chips. However, they are clearly one of the most toxic processed foods you can eat—whether they’re made from actual potato shavings or not.

Potato Chips are Loaded with Cancer-Causing Chemical

One of the most hazardous ingredients in potato chips is not intentionally added, but rather is a byproduct of the processing.
Acrylamide, a cancer-causing and potentially neurotoxic chemical, is created when carbohydrate-rich foods are cooked at high temperatures, whether baked, fried, roasted or toasted.

Some of the worst offenders include potato chips and French fries, but many foods cooked or processed at temperatures above 212°F (100°C) may contain acrylamide. As a general rule, the chemical is formed when food is heated enough to produce a fairly dry and brown/yellow surface. Hence, it can be found in:

Potatoes: chips, French fries and other roasted or fried potato foods

Grains: bread crust, toast, crisp bread, roasted breakfast cereals and various processed snacks

Coffee; roasted coffee beans and ground coffee powder.

Surprisingly, coffee substitutes based on chicory actually contains 2-3 times MORE acrylamide than real coffee

Acrylamide is Not the Only Danger

Acrylamide is not the only dangerous genotoxic compound formed when food is heated to high temperatures.

A three-year long EU project, known as Heat-Generated Food Toxicants (HEATOX), whose findings were published at the end of 2007, found there are more than 800 heat-induced compounds, of which 52 are potential carcinogens. In addition to their finding that acrylamide does pose a public health threat, the HEATOX scientists also discovered that you’re far less likely to ingest dangerous levels of the toxin when you eat home-cooked foods compared to industrially or restaurant-prepared foods.

Additionally, the HEATOX findings also suggest that although there are ways to decrease exposure to acrylamide, it cannot be eliminated completely.

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Beans and spaghetti with dodo.

Ingredients

1) sweet brown beans
2) dangote spaghetti
3)  ripe plantain
4) pepper
5) salt
6) knor chicken
7) curry
8) palm oil
9)  vegetable oil

PROCESS

Pick, wash and cook beans til slightly tender.

In a separate pot parboil your spaghetti and drain.

Keep the water level in the beans pot to the level of the beans in the pot.

Add in the pepper, salt, knor chicken, spaghetti, palm oil, and stir together.

Allow to  cook till tender.

In a pan, and in your vegetable oil and fry your sliced plantain.

Serve with the beans.

PEPPER-The ingredient that has to be heard in any dish

We have a variety of pepper and my favorite is the yellow pepper. I can't begin to explain the role it plays in my cooking. From when it's blended or sliced you can already perceive the aroma which it comes with. When added to your cooking the aroma that emanates from it fills up your kitchen and every mouth will surely water.

I always make it a necessity to have food spicy whether mildly or severely because I feel that spiciness in itself is a flavor that gives your dish taste.

I'm sure a lot if us have had taste issues with food with too minimal pepper where we add all the spices in our cupboards just to give the dish some sweetness but we still lack that taste we are aiming  for. I've had to confront this severally.

I highly recommend the yellow pepper in your dishes. Once you try it, you can't do without it. I usually add it almost at the end of the cooking and I don't blend till I'm about to add it to preserve all that good scent stored up in it.

Cooking fried rice and chicken under a budget of 1000naira

INGREDIENTS

1)Rice  150
2)Chicken  330(half a kilo)
3)Carrot  50
4)Green beans  50
5)Green pepper  50
6)Cooking butter  90(sima butter)
7)Sweet corn  150
8)Spring onions  50
9)red pepper 50

PROCESS

Spice and cook your chicken till tender.
Boil the rice half way , drain and rinse with clean water.
Use the chicken stock with a little bit extra water, salt, curry and knor chicken cube to cook the rice through.
In a pan, use a little oil to fry your chicken till brown.
Pour out the oil and put in half the cooking butter.
Allow to melt and pour in already sliced veggies with some sliced red onions.
Stir fry for 3minutes. Spice with curry, knor chicken and salt.
Pour in the sweet corn drained.
Divide sauce into 2 portions. And the rice ans mix leaving each to cook for atleast 3minutes after mixing. Serve.

Spaghetti and moimoi

Ingredients

1) Beans soaked and skinned
2)Fresh pepper
3)Onions
4)Dangote spaghetti
5)Corned beef
6)Knor chicken cubes
7)Gino tomatoes paste
8)Salt
9)Vegetable oil
10)Blended crayfish
11)Meat stock

Process

Blend the soaked and skinned beans with pepper and quater of the onions till smooth. Dice the other quater and pour into the beans. Add in salt,crayfish,knor cube,vegetable oil and mix thoroughly. Add in some of the corned beef and stare gently.

I blended my beans with to the consistency I wanted so I didn't need to add water. But if you blend yours thick, add water before adding in the corned beef.

Portion into sections in small nylon bags. I doubled mine to prevent it opening and spilling in the pot.I put on fire and covered to cook for 1hour.

I boiled water and poured the spaghetti in. Covered and cooked for 3minutes and drained the water. In a pan I heated 3tablespoons of oil and added my onions pepper(blended) and gino tomatoes. I stirred on the heat for 5min and spiced with. Curry,chicken season,salt and freied for 4minutes more.

Then I added poured the sauce out,poured in my drained spaghetti and poured my sauce over it with the remaining corned beef. I mixed it evenly and added a little meat stock I had in the fridge. Cover to cook till the water dries out. Serve with the moimoi. Bon apetit!

cooking Vegetable soup without slicing the water leaf.

The ingredients are same as that in my previous post cooking vegetable soup under a budget of 1500. In this case however I don't slice the water leaf. I heat the palm oil in my pot and porridge in the leaf after picking out the thick branches and washing it thoroughly. I fry in the pan stirring occasionally till I notice the  leaves have shrunk down considerably the  I add in my other ingredients and cover to cook.

Baby names

Baby names are usually tricky and in selecting them one has to consider the factor of people either mistakenly calling it wrongly or peers purposely calling it wrongly for solely spite purposes.

   I recently mistakenly called a neighbors baby judas instead of judah. I honestly went over that name in my head before I voiced it and I thought I was on track till I mentioned it. I still cringe cos no one wants their baby being called judas. another name people are likely to mis-pronounce to upset the name bearer is the #Igbo name Amara being called Amala.
 
     Some Parents even give their babies horrible names that carry really horrible meanings . I've heard of kids being called -#trouble of the world, #rejected one, #male pig etc. This kids have a future and even if you don't believe it will affect them, just give them the chance of not having the name tarnish their future and give them something beautiful. You owe it to them. They didn't ask to be born.

Baby names

Baby names are usually tricky and in selecting them one has to consider the factor of people either mistakenly calling it wrongly or peers purposely calling it wrongly for solely spite purposes.

   I recently mistakenly called a neighbors baby judas instead of judah. I honestly went over that name in my head before I voiced it and I thought I was on track till I mentioned it. I still cringe cos no one wants their baby being called judas. another name people are likely to mis-pronounce to upset the name bearer is the #Igbo name Amara being called Amala.
 
     Some Parents even give their babies horrible names that carry really horrible meanings . I've heard of kids being called -#trouble of the world, #rejected one, #male pig etc. This kids have a future and even if you don't believe it will affect them, just give them the chance of not having the name tarnish their future and give them something beautiful. You owe it to them. They didn't ask to be born.