I love making hash – great for combining starches, meat, vegetables and sauce, all in one pan. I employed my cassava chunks in this recipes, along with suya of tripe – shaki to Nigerians. I got the ‘book’ shaki, known as Bible. Manifold. Onigbawe, in Yoruba. For the ‘pages’ it has. I love how expressive...
I’ve eaten cassava products all my life but I’d never tasted the cooked/ boiled tuber till last weekend. It is an interesting combination of starchy and chewy and a taste that isn’t as distinctive as I expected. What it looks like Think long tubers, about 20 – 30cm with tough brown skins bearing some resemblance...
You learn everyday. This technique uses a cup/ glass to separate mango cheek from flesh. You begin by slicing off the mango cheeks. I aim for as close to the stone/seed as possible so I leave very little behind. Once you’ve sliced off as many mango cheeks as you want, get a cup or glass...
Coconut and its water, the liquid sloshing around its belly. If you ever buy a coconut and hear no water when you shake, put it down my friend, that mother is no good. I remember when I was young and I wanted to get the water out of the brown, mature coconut. I would find...
I love making (more than drinking) liqueurs 🙂 for the tons of flavour they bring to cocktails – sweet cocktails for a sweet tooth. Since I first made vanilla extract, the idea of going further, not only with seeds has taken root. There are a few principles to this: Read before you make – the internet is full of knowledge. If...
I discovered #foodgradients on instagram last year and I fell in love. What a delightful excuse to play with food without really messing about with flavours and textures. Seattle-based food photographer Brittany Wright, 23, runs one of the most appetizing accounts on Instagram (@wrightkitchen), arranging foods by color for gorgeous gradient photos. Here, she shares...
In which I use groundnuts and peanuts interchangeably. Because I can. Anyways, Bake plantains with cheese? Hard to imagine? Well, I can tell you that this was one of the most delightful things I’ve had in a bit and a half. See when it comes to Latin Americans and plantains, I have to give them...
I love the taste and flavours of this sauce, perfect for dunking southern fried chicken tenders in. That’s what we did the first time I made it. Chunky vegetables go into a sauce that’s rich with mangoes. Secret sauce? Angostura Bitters. Perfect for Chapman, soup and pie. [wpurp-searchable-recipe]Caribbean Mango Sauce – – – [/wpurp-searchable-recipe]
Periwinkle. Of a colour, flower, herb and mollusk. Blue of the sea, these are. And a pain to clean if you don’t know what and how. I often wonder if the colour is blue because it is copper-rich, like some species of crabs but…I dunno. They sport a rubbery flat disc of a tongue that...