So the Harmattan winds should be here. My mornings should be chilly, foggy and with dust to boot. Its the season when nights should be cool and lips parched. The season of northern trade winds blowing from the Sahara. But ’tis only some of that here. Where I am at the moment. Some tropical thunderstorms and warmish weather and only a few cool mornings! The Harmattan is late. Uncharacteristic. Still we prepare for Christmas and its festivities. Which is why I’m on the hunt for a Christmas challenge. The kids want to make another gingerbread house….but I’m not sure I want to....
Vietnamese Ga Nuong Lu: Chicken, Dry Steamed in Rock Salt and Fresh Sugar Cane
The expedition continues. Sugarcane and spice. I’m determined to cook with all my fruit. Not purely reserve them for out-of-hand eating, so when I had left-over sugarcane from my juice bar, I decided it would be absolute perfection to use up my rock salt- legally obtained from a salt factory in Port Harcourt many moons ago. To enjoy my Romertopf, the claypot cooker that has lain fallow on a shelf for too long. To revel in the deep hues of annatto oil, the seeds long mine but never touched. *Sigh*. And of course cook with sugarcane. Enter Luke Nguyen. And Ga...
Weekend Wonders: Whisks Allsorts
Or Whisk Away. I love whisks. Of every kind. I have a collection too. I love to collect. Ideas, thoughts, beautiful things. Functional things too. Things with form and beauty. I bookmark a thousand things a day. Write a thousand collections in my notebook. Make a million plans. I’m happy. My current collections are varied. Everything from eggcups to fabric, jam jars with gingham lids. Bottles, plates. Travels. Discoveries. Friendships. Rolling pins. Bowls, Paper, stories. And whisks. My whisks and I are extremely friendly. I use one almost every day, from whipping up pancake and waffle batters, to sauces, and...
Two Recipes from Thanksgiving
We feasted and we drank plenty. My back ached but I was thankful in spite of it.
The Days After Thanksgiving
…Have found me in bed. Prostrate. Terrible back ache that has kept me not quite sitting, standing or lying down with any measure of comfort. I’m much better now. Back at work and checking with the doctors to make sure everything is fine. But still I have reasons to be thankful. I’m alive, right? Thankful for failure. And for friendships.
Beste Sinterklaas Wensen
To my dearest Dutch friends, best wishes for Sinterklaas. I hope you have terrific feestjes . Enjoy the kruidnoten, peppernoten and snopjes. Lots of love X X X [wpurp-searchable-recipe]Beste Sinterklaas Wensen – – – [/wpurp-searchable-recipe]
The Day Before Thanksgiving
Yes, we celebrate ‘Turkey Day’ as D put it. But not with Turkey. With Chicken. Tomorrow we’ll sit together and we’ll feast. We are thankful for life. We have reason to be thankful. Reason to be thankful for so many things. Like Failure. Like learning ‘How not to do it’. Embracing the foolhardiness of choices….and moving on. There’s many a thing failure can teach, of which I’ll share two (2). Like: 1. How to plan better aka how to plan ahead for success. Like preparing for Thanksgiving dinner which is NOT celebrated in Nigeria. And is a school/work night.
Kumquats in Lagos
From this…. …to this in 24.
Its Official – I LOVE RADIO
Oh Gosh, I LOVE Radio. I just might have found myself a new calling. Sure, I’ll have to have proper media training so I don’t stammer and stutter so much :-), but I think I’ll make it alright. Discover Food Internet Radio with Chow and Chatter on BlogTalkRadio