the joys and woes of placing a meal on the table
Hasselback potatoes are a Swedish creation. They were invented by the chefs at the Hasselbacken Restaurant in Sweden, that pretty much explains the name. They are basic baked potatoes but with a twist. I happened to buy some pretty huge potatoes not so long ago and their size inspired me to make them.
Goodness, this post was supposed to go live at 3pm today, yikes!! My internet was acting up plus I had to run to town in the afternoon. Anyway now that I’ve finally gotten the time, here goes. My fellow foodies and bloggers Cici, Wendy and I have started this cooking challenge where one of us […]
I open my freezer to see what I can prepare for dinner and I find the last pack of butter beans, I am dismayed since I don’t want to prepare them as I usually do. Normally I’d make a curry with coconut milk and serve with chapatis but this time round I wanted to push […]
Last week I got inspired to make burgers and not just any burgers but veggie burgers, imagine! I was determined to make everything from scratch, the buns and the patties. For the buns, I turned to my friend Dr. Google for some easy recipes and as always she didn’t disappoint. I didn’t edit the recipe […]
Finally the last of the pizza series, we can now make the dough and the tomato sauce for the base so today we assemble the pizza. According to me, this is the easiest part. Essentially you can use just about anything for the toppings from meats like chicken, beef , bacon , sausages even seafood […]
I believe I have said this on several occasions, I love chicken. Some weeks back, I was craving chicken as usual :p and I just had to make some. After googling for simple recipes I landed on this you tube video and I decided to try it out with some few variations of course.
According to Wikipedia a frittata is an egg based Italian dish with additional ingredients such as meats, and vegetables. Well, if you ask me a frittata is an omelette on steroids. The first time I heard of this dish, I was busy watching one of my fave you tube cooking channel by Laura Vitale. This […]
In case you haven’t guessed by now, we love white meat hence the reason the blog is filled with chicken and fish recipes. Some time last I was craving some chicken and I thought of preparing this to serve with ugali and sukuma wiki. Sadly the supermarket was out of chicken legs so I decided to […]
Hey foodies? This is a pretty easy recipe. In Kenya, sweet potatoes are majorly served as an accompaniment for tea. There are easy to prepare seeing that you only have to boil them and voila breakfast. I am not a big fan of sweet potatoes but after seeing many diverse ways of preparing them I […]
Since my successful try at making pilau I have been more confident thus made different variations of it. I’ve tried with chicken and toady I share my vegetable pilau recipe. The recipe is more or less the same as the one I had posted earlier, the only major variation being I have used veggies instead […]