Author: Gatuiri

Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

My Ratatouille

I had some leftover rice (as usual O-o) and I needed to cook something quick and easy that would accompany it. For some reason that evening we arrived home pretty full, so I just cooked so that I could have something to carry for lunch the following day. Initially I had wanted to stew some […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Online inspiration

Soy Sauce Chicken with Lemon Sauce

Finally bought some boneless chicken breasts and I was very eager to try out a new recipe. I frantically searched for simple recipes that required stuff that I already had on hand. I found this one. Funny enough mine didn’t quite look like the ones on site. Perhaps it’s cause I used one tablespoon of […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Online inspiration, Quick meals

Pan Seared Tilapia

Last week I went on a shopping spree, surprising to stock my fridge and not my wardrobe, priorities do change ti hi hi 🙂 I managed to buy some filleted tilapia. I  simply coated the fish with some condiments then pan fried it. I also made some garlic sauce to go with it. Ingredients: 4 […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Egg Curry

Sorry Dee yet again I put up a recipe with eggs. Forgive me . This is a recipe I learnt from my mother, we used to prepare this mostly to serve as an accompaniment for rice though one can also serve it with ugali or pasta. I prepared this dish sometime last week. Being the […]

 
Breakfast, Quick meals, Snacks/Desserts

French toast

Bread being one of the simplest things to prepare for breakfast, I am always in search of new ways of serving it. Don’t let the name fool you french toast has to be one of the easiest and fastest things to make for breakfast. No elaborate culinary skills needed. Nothing like the egg in a […]

 
Baking, Cakes/Cupcakes/Cookies

Pineapple upside down flop :-(

This was the second time I was making this cake and since the first time was a huge success I didn’t think this time would be any different. Boy was I wrong. Honestly, I had debated on whether I should post this seeing that it didn’t come out as expected. All in all I decided […]

 
Breakfast

Sunday Breakfast

Just a peak on what we had for breakfast, some Sundays ago. This meal can be classified as brunch since it’s pretty heavy, filled with all the food groups. For the protein fix: 1 fried egg 1 rasher of bacon fried 1 sausage For the carbs: Roasted herb potatoes – you can find the recipe […]

 
Dinner/Lunch

Cauliflower

Some evening two weeks ago as we alighted the bus on our way home it hit me that I had nothing to prepare. I was in the search of some broccoli but our local grocer only had cauliflower. I have never prepared cauliflower but I guessed it just the same as cooking broccoli, after all they are […]