My Guide to Food – Exploring and Mapping intersections between Nigerian Cuisine and Foods of the World
For a while now, I’ve been considering making a millefeuille – a kind of stacked tower of ingredients. I guess I’d put it off because of my fear of all things complicated with french names – bain marie, tarte tatin….and all the rest. However, I was feeling very confident that success was close by and feeling the need […]
Making oven-roasted tomatoes is amongst the easiest things to do. All you need is an oven, some herbs and spices and you’re set to go. Especially when you can get tomatoes by the box. Roasted tomatoes are delightful and can be used in a variety of ways – from salads, to snacks, to pastes and sauces, […]
Surely, any drink that has a double-barelled reference to men in one word is worth a closer look. Enter Chapman. def. Chapman – an archaic term for an itinerant peddler
Show me a man who doesn’t like sizzling steak, and I’ll tell him who he is….he may be vegetarian and not know it. No offense. I like the idea of steak – a smoking hunk of beef on a warm plate – tasty, rested – heaven! I wasn’t raised on steak, a natural born steak […]
Cupboard love – you have to have it. Those days when nothing will do but something simple. Guaranteed, full-proof. We all have some of those – the sandwich that quenches all hunger, the drinks that cool all thirsts and the chicken….. that satisfies the desire for creamy, succulent, fragrant and all with something straight from […]
Leiden is 12 minutes on the bus, from where I live. It is a quaint town with a thriving centre, canals, cute little bridges and windmills. Scattered around the city are a 101 wall poems, in different languages. Illustrated below…one poem in dutch. Its ‘logo’ is that of ‘2 crossing keys’ – said to be the keys to the gates of […]
We saw | We ate | What I brought home | All the rest We saw The first time I went to Paris (1999), I rejoiced in the fact that the French fries at MacDonald’s were truly French – better than I’d ever had, but then I was a single girl. The second time we […]
Introduction | Rice pockets| Herby Potatoes| Pasta Salad Introduction Leftover cooking can be fun. It is one of the areas where you can get creative. Take rice for instance. Plain old boiled rice. It has a life after its first meal. Assuming there’s some left over – it can be converted into a quick rice pudding, […]
This post is about Mustard. Paris and Mustard. What’s the link? Paris.