pancakes

I think I'd like to gravitate more towards pastry. I've always wanted to enroll to learn about it anywhere but I've not made time for that. But whatever I learn and try I will post on that.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons white vinegar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
              2tablespoons of butter (melted).     
  Process
• 1. Combine milk with vinegar in a medium bowl and set aside for 5 minutes to "sour".
  2. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Whisk egg and butter into "soured" milk. Pour the flour mixture into the wet ingredients and whisk until lumps are gone.
  3. Heat a large pan over medium heat, and coat with melted butter  Pour 1/4 cupfuls of batter onto the skillet, and cook until bubbles appear on the surface. Flip with a spatula, and cook until browned on the other side

white rice with carrots and vegetable sauce

INGREDIENTS
1)pumpkin leave(ugwu)
2)pepper and onions pounded together
3)fish
4)kpomo
5)carrot
6)red oil
7)soy sauce
8)crayfish

PROCESS

SAUCE
Cook the kpomo soft.
Season the fish with pepper, soysauce and salt and fry.
Heat the oil in a pot and pour in pepper and onion together.
Fry for a few minutes and add in blended crayfish, season with salt, knor chicken seasoning cube, a teaspoon of soy sauce,nutmeg and stir.
Add in half cup of water after 3minutes.
Pour in the vegetable and mix. Allow to cook for 2 minutes on medium hear and remove. We don't want the vegetables to be too soggy.
For the rice,when it's almost cooked pour in the carrot and mix.
Serve with the vegetable sauce.
It can also be served with boiled unripe plantain.

RAISING KIDS

Raising #kids comes with different challenges. We learn to cope with their constant prescence,attention,needs and so on. As a #parent one of the most necessary qualities is 'patience '. You just gotta have it. In fact if u don't, learn it.
 While they can be as adorable as possible,it can be the most exhausting job ever.
 They can be complete opposites; example jo-paul loves bread and hates eggs and tea. Lily loves tea and eggs but hates bread.
Lily hardly eats,infact I have to bribe or threaten her before she eats most meals but jo-paul eats well.

 Sometimes we create this perfect picture of their future in our heads and we try to mould then to become what we've created and it becomes exasperating if things aren't happening like we hope. This can make us frustrated with them but I've learnt to put all my trust in God concerning their future cos it's not by my might or power but by the Spirit of God.
  I will play my part as a parent and trust in the fact that God will do the rest.

veggee sauce without shredded meat.

So I've been trying to lose weight of late and I'm trying to eat healthy ad well as doing aerobic exercises. In that effort, I decided to make this. Hope you like
Ingredients
1) cabbage
2) lettuce
3)carrot
4) green beans
5) green peas
6) green pepper
8) crayfish ( blended)
9) red pepper
10) onions
11)vegetable oil

PROCESS

Chop all vegees roughly and mix together in exception of the lettuce cos it softens easily.
Add the blended crayfish,salt,royco seasoning cubes,.curry,chicken season,mixed spices and thyme. Its important to season well since I'm not using meat or meat stock. Mix well.

Drizzle with oil and put over medium heat. We don't want the vegees to be overly soft. Cook for 6-10 minutes. Use tour hands to shred the lettuce and mix in as well. Leave for 2minutes and serve with cooked white rice or over jellof rice as u prefer. 

I added meat from my stew and served with it. Bon apetit!

kunu

INGREDIENTS 

1) Guinea corn

2)sweet potatoes peeled 

3)germinated maize,guinea corn,unshelled rice (to germinate the grains, wet them and place in a basket. Cover the top with a polythene bag and leave for 2days to germinate )

4)‎ginger 

5) pepper (optional‎)

PROCEEDURE

Soak the guinea corn in water for 4hours or more.

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Pound roughly together the germinated grains and the peeled potatoes( the more the potatoes, the more the sweetness. Though some people add sugar in theirs for extra sweetness) , ginger and 4-5 dried pepper.

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Take it to a grinding engine and grind the guinea corn and the pounded mixture  ‎separately. 

Put enough water to boil. Just like when you're making pap/akamu/ogi mix the guinea corn in water to form a slightly thick paste. Pour in the boiling water till its thick and stir well‎.

Mix the germinated mixture in water as well. Not necessarily thick. And pour into the thick guinea corn mixture. Stir together. You will notice some cracks in the mixture as it starts to cool. My mom says it's a sign it will be sweet.

Leave to cool. I usually ‎make mine in the evening and leave overnight to cool. 

Filter with a sieve. You will see the chaff in the sieve.

And refrigerate. I prefer the taste if it's a day old though.‎‎