Author: Gatuiri

Dinner/Lunch

Fried liver

Quick and flavourful dish to serve over some rice or with ugali. Fry some chopped onions, garlic and ginger Once golden and sizzling add in the liver. Once the liver is almost cooked, add the tomatoes. Let the tomatoes cook down, then serve 🙂 We had ours with some turmeric rice.  

 
Quick meals, Sauces, Salads and Dips

Guest Post: Chicken salad

A guest post from my pal Rachael on what to do with leftover chicken. Ingredients: 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper 1/4 teaspoon of chicken masala Dressing In a bowl, shred your lettuce. I used  my hands Add the carrots,onions and cucumber Get your leftover chicken then shred it.  In a small pan, re fry the chicken […]

 
Baking, Cakes/Cupcakes/Cookies, Snacks/Desserts

Choc-nut cookies

I’d missed eating cookies and since I had some chocolate chips and roasted groundnuts on hand I thought why not? Plus hubby being the cheer leader that he is encouraged me 🙂 Ingredients 2 cups baking flour 6 teaspoons of cocoa powder 1 tablespoon of baking powder 1/2 teaspoon of instant coffee powder 1/4 teaspoon […]

 
Dinner/Lunch

Turmeric Rice

Days when I don’t feel like eating plain-looking rice, I just add some turmeric and some herbs and voila some sumptuous bowl of steamed rice 🙂 Ingredients: 1 cup of rice – the non clinging type, we aren’t making ugali 2 cups water salt to taste 1 teaspoon of turmeric 2 teaspoons of dried parsley Remove any […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Tomato and Eggplant Sauce

Did you know? Eggplants are actually fruits and are classified in the berry family. At times when I don’t feel like making something fancy to go with leftovers, I rush to this recipe. My friend Dee will love this. It’s simple and you can pretty much add any other vegetable you have on hand for […]

 
Breakfast, Online inspiration, Quick meals

Egg in a basket

I saw this recipe on Laura in the Kitchen and I just had to try it. She made it look very simple and true it was simple well except the turning I’m not good at that 🙁 You just need some slices of bread, eggs and butter/ margarine. I used margarine. First to make a […]

 
Dinner/Lunch

Terrific Tuesdays

I’ll be speaking for most people in saying that we normally love these offers. This mainly applies to fast food, especially pizzas and burgers. Anyway on Tuesday, I had a brilliant idea of making pizza for dinner. The last time I made pizza I was still leaving with my parents and I have to say for […]

 
Breakfast, Quick meals

Fruit Pancakes

My love for pancakes always drives me to try out new ways to make them even sweeter. Some weeks back on a weekday, I prepared these pancakes, I have to say that was pretty ambitious of me since it was a work day #superwoman (as if). The recipe is just like for the cinnamon pancakes, […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Vegetable Stir Fry

When you are a working wife, you really need to come up with recipes that can be whipped up in under 30 minutes :-). So I normally stock my fridge with veggies that can be cooked really fast and don’t need a lot of preparation. So what I usually do is, if I have french […]