Nice, Marie, Digestives, Shortcake … which were your favourite biscuits? Mine were House of Manji’s Shortcake biscuits, and number two were Digestives. Of course, everyone loved Chocolate Biscuits, but they were so expensive. Then Kenyan shelves began to stock “Eet sum mor.” Now this could purely be a coincidence but many who liked shortcake biscuits…
Month: May 2017
Passion Fruit Curd
Sometimes you can eat something unfamiliar and your taste buds sing. It could be the flavour — the taste and smell. Or the texture — that unbelievable way food feels in your mouth. Most likely it’s a combination of both. Melt-in-your-mouth chocolate. A crisp apple or lettuce. Crunchy cookies. Light pancakes. Dry arrowroot/nduma/taro root. Slimy…
Pilipili
Pilipili. Peri peri. Berbere. Chiles. Chillies. Peppers. We love it, the health benefits are plenty, and so I share in this post the different kinds I have in my kitchen. First off, the Ethiopian berbere. It is a blend of paprika, fenugreek, garlic and ginger among other spices. Berbere is so flavourful and makes cooking…