Puff Puff

500g plain flour
1 teaspoon yeast
10g sugar
warm water


pour flour into a clean bowl.
Mix together with yeast and sugar then add water
Using your hand mix together gradually drawing in the surrounding flour.
mix well into a dropping consistency
Cover with a black bin bag for 30min to rise
Scoop a little at a time in the hollow of your fingers
Heat oil for 5min then fry
Serve hot or cold.

Meatpie

Meat Pie

250g mince meat
Mashed potato (powder)
1 carrot
1 knorr
500g plain flour
Salt to taste
pinch Baking soda
1egg
Thyme
Vegetable oil

How to Make

Put the beef and spices in a pan, cover with water, bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer, cover and cook for about 20 minutes, or until the meat is tender. Add the vegetables at this stage and add a little more water if needed. Bring to a boil, reduce to a simmer, cover and cook for about 20 minutes or until the vegetables are tender. Remove the lid and allow the mixture to boil until almost dry. Take off the heat and set aside to cool a little.

Mix together the flour and baking soda into a bowl. Add the oil and rub into the flour with your fingers until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add just enough water to bring the mixture together as a dough then roll out to about 3mm thick. Use a pastry cutter to cut in circles.

Add about a tablespoon of the meat mixture in the center of each pastry circle,  then fold the pastry over into a half-circle and use a fork to press down and seal the sides. 

Brush the top of the pie with the eggwash then place in an oven pre-heated to 180°C. Bake for about 35 minutes, or until the pie has begun to colour and the filling is hot. Serve hot or cold. 

Sponge Cake Recipe

This is a beautiful, nice fluffy sponge cake recipe worth trying, also the simplest.

380g self-raising flour
30g melted butter
150ml water
1tsp vanilla extract
5tps caster sugar
2 eggs

Pre-heat oven to 180⁰C.
Grease the cake pan with butter.
Place all ingredients in a mixing bowl.
Whisk for 3mins straight.
Place in the pan and bake for 20-30min or till golden, poke with fork to see if its dry inside.

chicken and sausage rice - Jambalaya

This is a must try recipe, it taste so wonderful, full of flavour and its very simple. Jambalaya was originated in the Caribbean Islands


2 Chicken breast chopped
1 knorr
4 frankfuter's sausage chopped
2 tomatoe chopped
4tbs olive oil
1 green bell pepper chopped
2 medium celery chopped
5 cooked ham chopped
2tsp salt1tsp VC pepper500g white rice1 bay leaf1 cup spring onion chopped2 cup water

season the chicken with a pinch of salt and fry on each side for 2min.

heat oil on in a pot, transfer the chopped onion, pepper, celery and tomatoe into the oil with knorr, salt, pepper, bay leaf and stir fry for 3min

add the rest of the chopped ingredients, fry for another 3min

add the rice, mix well on low heat then add the water.

cook for 30minutes or until rice is well cooked.

I will take a better picture next time

Ogbono - Mango seed soup - make it draw

I can't really recall this famous Ogbono soup from Nigeria. The first time I did try it, it was in the UK. And when I had it, it had a soapy kinda taste so I was put off entirely. However, I had an aunty who loved it very much and every time she had it, she would say 'this is the best soup ever, try it and your life will never be the same'. LOL.

So how did I get over my repulsion for the soup? This is how... On one fateful day, my friend Yemisi, made it and she made it with a lot of pepper which sort of gave the soup a different kind of kick. This is how I got drawn to try the soup again and this time, I liked it.

Though the soup, is not my favourite, it's still nice. Enjoyyy. :)




P/S:
My readers have grilled me so much about how to make ogbono draw, and here is how;
First, have your boiled hot water ready. Then place your ogbono powder in a bowl and gradually add small quantities of the boiled water. Mix until smooth then pour inside the boiling meat on fire.

Souffle - how to make

This is served as a desert and the taste is just beautiful 

2eggs separated
2tsp plain flour
2tbs butter
2tsp double cream
1tsp vanila extract
1/2cup Warm milk
Pinch of Salt
2tsp White Sugar
4tbs Brown
1tsp icing sugar

Grease 4ramekins first with butter then brown sugar, set aside.

Heat the butter on medium heat, add the flour, stir for 1min then add the warm milk bit by bit, stir constantly until it becomes a thick sauce, once done take off stove.

This is called white sauce

Now add the egg yolk, vanila, cream and stir, set aside in a bowl.

in another bowl place the egg whites to whisk for about 7min or until it becomes together that you can't see any watery thing there any more while doing this add the white sugar bit by bit.

Mix the sauce and egg white together now with a spoon.
Once mixed well, pour into your ramekins not to full and use your finger tip to clean the edges to rise well.

place in the oven at 180oc for 12min or until risen

dust with the icing sugar and serve immediately

Merry Christmas: Meat stuffed Turkey!

Oh this is Christmas and Happy Birthday to Our Saviour Jesus Christ.
What did you do for Christmas? hope your turkey taste as great as mine.................

 and after 3hrs.....whew!

It was just three of us and i still can't believe that this is what is left of the turkey, everyone should try this.

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