Happiness is creating Happiness is sharing the creation Happiness is eating the creation Waffles can be breakfast, served with syrup, butter, yoghurt, and/or fruits. It can be a snack like mandazi. It can be dessert, served with ice cream, chocolate syrup or berries. It can be savoury: waffles and fried chicken. Waffles are a happy…
Category: Breakfast
Mahamris, Coconut Cardamom Doughnuts
History of mahamri This pastry has its origins along the East African Coast and is part of Swahili cuisine. It is believed that Swahili has been spoken along the East African Coast for a thousand years. Swahili culture is a mix of African and Arabic cultures, but also has influences from the Turkish Ottoman, Portuguese,…
Homemade Muesli and Granola Recipes
Typical Kenyan breakfast What was your daily breakfast? Tea and bread were a constant. Eggs if you had the time. And if we got fancy on the weekend, sausages, pancakes, mandazis (beignets) or mahamris, cornflakes or weetabix. Muesli and Granola I began to eat muesli and granola as an adult, but I prefer muesli. Both are healthy,…
Gluten-free Fluffy Pancakes
A moment on the lips … And the hips won’t lie. You have been warned … Peeking into Rita’s cupboards She has a variety of flours, all neatly labelled. There are containers with rice flour, cassava flour, coconut flour, arrow-root (taro) flour, buckwheat etc. She happily experiments and mixes them up—usually eyeballing it (anapima na…
Lemon Cloud Pancakes
The husband is trying to get me to climb Mount Kenya. Again. It was a bucket-list item that I was quite happy I managed to accomplish and cross off. However, he loves that mountain and has climbed it twice already and is quite happy to go at it again. So we have been walking twice…
Lemon Pancakes
The husband is trying to get me to climb Mount Kenya. Again. It was a bucket-list item that I was quite happy I managed to accomplish and cross off. However, he loves that mountain and has climbed it twice already and is quite happy to go at it again. So we have been walking twice…