Sunday Vegetarian pilau or Mujaddara (don’t skip the onions, they are what add flavour) Kachumbari Monday Pasta and chickpeas Tuesday Ugali Sukuma cooked in coconut or peanut butter or Fermented vegetables Eggs Wednesday Rice Lentils or Coconut beans Avocado Steamed broccoli or a cucumber salad Thursday Butternut soup Grilled cheese sandwiches Friday Arrowroot (nduma) fries…
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Menu – Week 2
SundayFlour tortillas for tacosKachumbari or pico de galloGuacamoleGrated cheeseSlow cooked beef or pork MondayRiceCook a sauce for the leftover beef or porkSteamed French/green beans or salad TuesdayGitheri/Nyoyo (vegetarian chili)Avocados and fresh ginger black tea WednesdayPasta with carrots and courgettes While the pasta boils, fry onions and sliced carrots, and courgettes in butter. Add herbs of…
Menu – Week 1
Hey there. How goes the second year of this corona life? Are you getting the vaccine? I decided to do a 8 week menu series. It’s simply to get the “what to cook” ideas flowing. Hope you enjoy. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Buttermilk roast chicken Chicken soup Chili con carne Chili con…
Rum and Raisin Cake
What book are you currently reading? My immediate family and my in-laws are all book lovers. My sister-in-law read 37 books last year. Everyone has their preferred genres. My husband’s is non-fiction and he has several going at the same time. My mother loves autobiographies but specifically of African women—lives that she can relate to…
Gluten-free Banana Oat Mug Cake
Living at a time when food is relatively abundant (for some in the world) the French seem to have an admirable, balanced relationship with food. Their diet includes breads, butter, cream, rich pastries—which they do not deny themselves—and yet they are not obese (for the most part). There are many books trying to unravel why…
Chocolate Ganache
The easiest icing for cake (though pricey) is gently melting good chocolate, and then mixing in room temperature butter (not margarine). For ages, I thought this was ganache until one day Rita asked me how to make ganache. Because I frequently second-guess myself, I did a quick search on YouTube. I am glad I did….
Confessions of a cookaholic – October
Ethiopian Potatoes Ethiopian Shiro (Ground Chickpea) Ethiopian Beef Stew Greek Chicken Gyro Pita Bread Fish Tacos
Confessions of a cookaholic – September
Someone special got engaged and her fiancé requested a Chinese dinner after the proposal. So in preparation I tried a few favourite Chinese recipes. Since we were going to have spring rolls for starters, we needed some dipping sauces. Manchurian Chicken Sweet and Sour Pork Chinese Cashew Chicken Honestly, I watched this and Kung Pao…
Supper in 15 minutes or less
We all have those days when we wish for dinner to be ready quickly and with minimal effort. Two constants seemed to come up when asking friends what their quick meal options are: spaghetti/pasta in various forms and eggs with everything. The easiest salad in the world is a tomato salad, or a tomato and…
Confessions of a cookaholic – August
For some there’s therapy, for the rest of us there’s cooking. Here are some recipes that I made in August. Spanish Omelette When cooking this dish, I did not know what I was expecting. However, once it was ready, I realized that it is almost the same idea as “chips mayai”. The other realization was…