Chronicles of Food Therapies
Category: Soups, Stews and Sauces
There is a song by Sunny Ade I play in my head every time I say Imoyo stew. Anyone familiar with King Sunny Ade's music will know the song I'm talking about. ... Oya ka ma jo lo, loni mukulumuke, Oya ka ma se lo, loni melo melo Ka se imoyo alata suesue (×2) Adun … Continue reading Imoyo Alatasuesue (Spicy Imoyo Stew)
Nkwobi is a happy hour meal. Busy as Lagos is, it has an interesting night life. After the stress of the hustle and bustle of the day, people seem to find a way to unwind after. Hence you’d find a lot of out door cool/happy hour spots and night bars scattered across the metropolis of … Continue reading Nkwobi
SEAFOOD OGBONO I'm in love with seafood and that is no secret. Making this was inspired by making Seafood Okra. Recipe 1. Ogbono Seeds (a 170g milk tin size) 2. Uziza leaves (a handful of thinly sliced leaves) 3. Assorted Fresh Seafood (shrimps/crabs/prawns/fish) 4. Smoked catfish and stockfish 5. 1/8 cup dried crayfish 6. 1/2 … Continue reading Seafood Ogbono
Filing this under food therapies. I've called this soup Ofe Assorted because that is what it is, I've used the basic principle for cooking soups like Oha, Onugbu, Ofe owerri to make this soup, using 3 of my favourite vegetables together. I have also resisted the temptation of calling this soup Ofe Owerri as I … Continue reading Ofe Assorted! (An Exotic Soup)
On the streets of Lagos, Ewa Aganyin and Agege bread is known as the breakfast of champions. Ewa Aganyin has Beninoise/Togolese roots, it's a beans pottage meal whose star really is the Aganyin Sauce! The beans usually cooked to a very soft mush, sometimes mashed to a grainy paste. I prefer Honey beans (Ewa Oloyin) … Continue reading Aganyin Sauce (Ewa Aganyin Sauce)
Black Soup is a rich herby soup with a delicate balance of aromatic flavours if well cooked. Recipe 1 1/2 cup blended Bitterleaf (before blending it must have been washed till it is no longer bitter, it would have a little bitter sweet taste Efinrin leaves Utazi Leaves *combine in this propositions 1 part Efinrin … Continue reading Black Soup
An Ijebu pottage delicacy made with grated Wateryam. Typically it is eaten with Eba (cold eba preferrably) I've been craving Ikokore for weeks but I've been unable to cook because I've been convalescent. Now that I'm back on my feet, I cooked the first thing I've been craving. Ikokore Ijebu. I have a staff who … Continue reading Ikokore / Ifokore
Christmas Eve lunch. The initial plan was to make a simple gravvy using the stock I had from cooking all the chickens my husband brought from the farm yesterday. Then I remembered I had some vegetables that would waste if I don't cook them today. I'd be spending Christmas with my parents and they would … Continue reading Fried Chicken in Vegetable Gravy
I love my meatballs to be succulent and not tough and dry. This is my trusted go to recipe for meatballs. I could wake up in the middle of the night to make this. I'm off carbs for a while so I could only relish the plate you see below with my eyes. This is … Continue reading Spaghetti and Meatballs
My sister came into the kitchen this morning as I was preparing to make garden egg sauce and she said, "Sis, isn't this that sauce we hated as kids". I told her, "Believe me, I now eat many of the things I hated as a child, so why not this one too". Today probably is the … Continue reading Garden Egg Sauce
