This is a review post Food Trolley who sponsored my cooking ingredients at the collaboration supper club for Jollof with Eat.Drink.Lagos a few weeks ago, already! World Jollof Weekend 2017 came and went! Thank you everyone who attended, contributed, supported to the three-day even which kicked off with a Supper club. My mother always says ‘You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy comfort’. And by extension, I add ‘convenience’. One of the major keys I’ve gotten in adulthood is ‘buying time’, freeing up my time so I am free/ have more time to do the things I love – sleep,...
Friday Cocktail: Passion Fruit Caipirinha – Twists On The Classic
So, here are the recipes Casesario promised – Passion Fruit Caipirinha and twists on the regular – I can tell you it is delicious – fragrant with the citrus and the rich tropical fragrance of the passion fruit. So I made a single serve cocktail using cubes of sugar and I love the way it was sweet and the sugar dissolved – excellent muddling from me, I dare say. Anyhow, thank you Caesario, I’m so excited to try the others too! My proposal is based on the Caipirinha – a Brazilian favourite – it wont improve your samba skills but 2 or 3...
Nigerian Seasonal Produce: Passion Fruit #9
‘Nigerian Seasonal Produce’ is a monthly column published on the last Saturday of each month (except when your host decides to mess up and you’re forced to find your own solutions and make it happen – bluehost, our relationship shall come to an end – soon! A huge thanks to Sanusi – super hero extraordinaire for helping me sort it out. Anyway, in this column, a writer explores a specific seasonal fruit, vegetable or leafy green assigned by the editors of Kitchen Butterfly and based on the Nigerian Seasonal Produce Calendar. This month (August :)), we’re celebrating passion fruit. Our author Caesario – maestro of...
How To Write About Jollof Rice
I am distraught to see Jollof spelled with j. So I’ve decided to tell you people how to write about Jollof. Jollof Rice. I am also ready to campaign for a bill, a law, to dictate these things. Don’t push me. Capital J First of all, write about it with the respect it deserves. Spell it with a capital J, whether it’s at the start of a sentence or smack in the middle. For example, Jollof rules and I I ate Jollof today. Two sentences, one treatment – capital J. None of that j nonsense. You hear me? Jollof is a proper noun!...
The SBM Index & The Economics of Jollof Rice
Did you know that there was a Jollof Index? The work SBM Intel is doing is FANTASTIC and I was thrilled to discover this article and the associated report mapping changes in the essential ingredients for Jollof and using them to check inflation and other trends in consumer behaviour. ‘The SBM Jollof index is a composite index that tracks the prices of the main ingredients used to prepare a pot one of Nigeria’s primary delicacies – Jollof rice.’ The SBM Jollof Index tracks inflationary and other economic trends across Nigeria because Jollof is bae :), actually no, because Jollof is...
How I Missed My Flight Because of Jollof
True story, and there’s no bro at the end *side eye*. This is a true story from Yejide who is known locally for his elaborate parties hosted at a few San Francisco party venues , of Naija Nomads who missed her Banjul – Lagos connection because of Benachin, Gambian Jollof. The events leading up to and ending this story are hilarious. Thank you so much to Kachi of KacheeTee for prompting Yejide to share her experiences, to Yejide for so graciously obliging and to you for reading. Enjoy. My one year at the Nigerian Law School, Bwari Campus {Abuja, Nigeria], was...
An Infographic: A Brief History of Jollof Rice
Because why not? Thanks to Simi of Eat.Tech.Travel who worked on the design.
Opinion: I Do Not Like Jollof Rice
So, it shocks me – I’m not sure why – to see people completely immune to the wonders of Jollof Rice. First there was Amanda proclaiming Rice and Stew as King and now, Munachim. Any sort of exploration brings you face to face with alignment and misalignment and when I find thought leaders in this space, people who can go against the rising tide of mass opinion, I beg them to write. And when they beautifully oblige, I have no option but to share. FYI – I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE this piece, lover of Jollof as I am. It brings up and...
East Meets West: If Jollof Rice Were Kenyan
In our familiarity with and adoration of it, we translate its importance to others. We recoil in shock when we find that the significance we attach to it this side of the Atlantic is not the same in other parts of the world, like the area in and around the Indian Ocean. And no this photo has nothing to do with the subject at hand – well, kind of…but it’s me in my element and I rather like it so I thought I’d share it with you = kind and considerate me :). And yes, that’s a ‘knowing’ smile. I...