Chronicles of Food Therapies
Category: Snacks
It's funny how I file all my baking therapies in the "Not Really A Baker" category. Well I love to cook and sometimes it involves baking and I'm game, but so that people won't start asking me questions I have no real answer I have to make the a disclaimer. I spent 3 days dreaming … Continue reading Coconut Milk Biscuits
Scotch Egg is hard-boiled egg enclosed in sausage meat, rolled in breadcrumbs, and fried. It is a very tasty snack and it's easy to make. Recipe • 6 Peeled Hard Boiled Eggs • 300 grams Beef Sausage Meat (You can make your own Sausage Meat, find the recipe HERE • 2 cups Bread Crumbs • … Continue reading Scotch Eggs
Remember how I told you the boys wanted rainbow cookies and a rainbow cake? After our successful outing with our Rainbow Cake, they were quite excited to get on with the cookies. I was very busy the next day and got home rather late but they were not relenting. This time, the boys came with … Continue reading Baking with the boys (Part 2); Rainbow Cookies
Mango is in season and I think I'm a little obsessed with mangoes. Mango is my favourite fruit and I play with my mango a lot. I make jam with it, juice, smoothies, ice cream, salads, popsicle, cake, frozen mango cubes.... Well this is my Mango Cake. Please note, I lay no claims to being … Continue reading Mango Cake
I was tempted to tag this, "Meat Pie; Nigerian Style," but I won't. However when you say Pie to a Nigerian, the pastry we are about to discuss is what would come to mind. I don't know of any eatery in Nigeria (not talking of the new franchises that just started operating in Nigeria) that … Continue reading Meat Pies
Shortcrust pastry is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche or pie, more popularly used in meat pies and sausage roll in Nigeria. Short crust pastry does not puff up during baking because it usually contains no leavening agent, however most Nigerian short crust recipes call for Baking Powder. Shortcrust … Continue reading How to make Short Crust Pastry
I was just minding my business this evening, -surfing around the internet, waiting for my pounded yam to digest, and monitoring the election results on Channels TV.- when my friend Tolu Adegbite buzzed me to ask for Buns recipe. I had no prior plans to make buns but I found myself heading for the kitchen … Continue reading Buns (Nigerian Style)
I have a confession! Puff puff is my number one weakness! When I started dating my husband, we went together to Lagos Island to do some shopping, I saw a puff puff vendor by the roadside and bought 200 naira's worth of puff puff. The puff puff was sold at 5 naira each and so … Continue reading Puff – Puff
It's elections day in Nigeria today and as such most people are indoors. I am because I could not get my PVC (Permanent Voters Card), it got lost somehow in the custody of INEC. I know however that whoever it is Nigeria elects, the road ahead would not be smooth. So while others defy the … Continue reading Bite sized Sausage Rolls (Nigerian Style)
Roasted Peanut or Groundnut as it is called in Nigeria is a very popular snack. I remember hawkers carrying roasted groundnut, Donkwa and pop-corn in glass cases on their heads, they would use a fork to tap the case and make a rhythmic noise to attract people in the area to come and buy. Roasted … Continue reading Homemade Nigerian Roasted Peanuts/Groundnuts
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