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My Favourite Things: Travel Treasures
Its past noon and the skies are pounding Pounding hard with rain Yet it was just this morning that I Welcomed the Harmattan Crisp, dry, foggy too The promise of warmth…. …..only underneath thick blankets and cardigans Best had with books and tea Our Nigerian winter But it never rains Never rains in Harmattan season Never So the time is not yet come —–00000—– My mind is cast to times and places and memories of warmth. Brought by travel and wander and wonder. Matcha Whisk I remember when I first discovered Matcha in Paris. Fascinated by its green colour, I salted,...
Juice: Romancing Nigerian Sugarcane
Romance – budding or not A glass of crushed ice (must be beaten. To ‘crushes’ with a rolling pin) Must Fragrant lime cheeks, off the slant. Squeezed for juice (Held and inhaled. Transported to green hill far, far, away. Romance again) Yellow ginger. Fresh. Peeled with a spoon then sliced thin. Juiced too. The heat warmth of a tropical afternoon Caressing my fine brown skin And sweet, sweet sugar cane juice Pressed between barrels of steel With tools meant for another Dug from dark and humid places Marked with rust Juice Gently poured on ice, fragrant with lime Glasses...
Weekend Wonders: Cardamom – Green, White and Black
This Weekend Wonder is dedicated to Cardamom and Deception. Sweet. Deeply aromatic. Mentholated. Cooling spice. Beguiling. Exotic. Heady scents. Complex, Intensely aromatic, sweet, complex, spicy, beguiling, heady. Intoxicating. Complex, of citrus, peppers, flora and herbs. Bringing intrigue. Delivering depth. Resinous. Deception. That feeling of being let down. Lied to. Treated with malicious intent.
Juice: The Truth about Passion Fruit
This is for you @Naijawife. It all began on twitter.
Thank You For Your Help
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Dear friends – thank you for taking the time to respond to my survey on a Nigerian food & drink magazine. I promised to share some results of the 10-minute survey I conducted in early October on a Nigerian/African food & drink magazine. In Brief: 73 people from all over the world responded to this survey, majority of who are aged between 35 – 44 years. About half of the respondents are home-cooks (like me) and are of Caucasian and Nigerian heritage. Roughly half of the responding population is female.
Nigeria’s Rainy Season Produce: October
Seasons come and seasons go, and fruits remain the same. They appear, fruits with multiple harvest seasons.
Weekend Wonders: Bushels, Baskets & Flats of Tomatoes
When I first wrote about tomatoes, before the Marketplace/ Tomato post, I confess I’d never seen tomatoes sold anywhere else in the world in the same way. Until I woke up on a Saturday morning and came across a photo – of baskets of tomatoes in an Italian Piazza while flicking through ‘Waitrose Kitchen’, the in-house magazine of the British store. The September 2013 issue of the magazine features tomatoes on page 57. The writer, Rebecca Seal shares the beauty of tinned tomatoes -a store cupboard hero, and the provenance of Waitrose’s tinned tomatoes from sunny Italy. Nestled in a corner...
Things to do with Garden Eggs
The long-promised round up of garden egg posts. Delayed by a serious bout of the ‘flu which kept me off work, off play and unable to present the compilation when I planned. I’m still a bit weak. Only a few more additions to the pickles, and chutneys and sauces. I ‘made’ a new chutney from sweet, ripe plantains, boiled and combined with the green eggplant chutney, and spiced with rings of red hot chili peppers. I liked the result with many flavours: sweet, soft, spicy.