I’m always in search of a challenge when it comes to cooking. A while back I bought wooden skewers just for the sake of having them in my kitchen. I normally use them for checking the readiness of my baked goodies but this time round I decided to put them into good use. I have […]
Snacks/Desserts
Hubby: My Nutty experience
I love fruit salad, I have made this a few times. My highlight was the cashews, they are yum yum. Ingredients: 2 ripe bananas sliced A handful of red seedless grapes 2 slices of pineapples diced (I used canned) 1 red apple diced A handful of fried cashew nuts Juice In a salad bowl mix […]
Homemade Chocolate
Who doesn’t love chocolate? You there, put your hand down. Anyway, this is a recipe I found on you tube and I thought it would come in handy especially for guys who love baking with chocolate. You can also eat the chocolate. The recipe is pretty easy and takes a short while to do well […]
Burnt Matoke Crisps
My dear mother calls me up to ask if I’d like some matoke (plantain/green bananas) and I’m like why not. She sends my brother to drop them off. Fast forward three days later, on that Thursday I manage to get home early and instead of just making the bananas in a stew I decide to […]
Chocolate and Vanilla Muffins
I just felt like baking, plus I had some leftover yoghurt and I decided I’ll use it instead of milk. Ingredients: 3/4 cup margarine 3/4 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 tablespoons vanilla essence 3/4 cup plain yoghurt 1/4 cup water 2 cups all purpose flour 3 tablespoons cocoa powder 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder 1/8 […]
Anything goes
You basically put all the fruits you have on hand and make a smoothie. Ingredients: 2 ripe bananas sliced A handful of strawberries, hauled and sliced 3-4 grapes (i had the ones with seeds) 2 tree tomatoes 1/2 mango diced 1 cup vanilla yoghurt Smoothies are best for quick lunches and breakfasts. They are pretty […]
Mango and Tree Tomato Smoothie
A while back my loving mother in law sent my husband with some tree tomatoes/ tamarillos (matunda ya damu) . I had a mango that didn’t seem sweet and since I had some vanilla yoghurt in the fridge I decided to make a smoothie. Well with my excitement of inventing a smoothie I forgot to take […]
Lunch: Sandwich and Fruit Yoghurt
Didn’t have leftover food from yesterday night because we had take out. Since I’m trying to keep off fries this is what I made for lunch, while at work. I carried the fruits from home. Plus I carried some slices of bread, beef brawn slices, a tomato, cucumber and some mozzarella chunks for the sandwich. […]
Tomato, Cucumber and Mozzarella Sandwich
I guess by now you guys have noticed the way I love making sandwiches. I think they are pretty easy to do plus you can basically use anything you have on hand as long as you have bread :-D. I prepared to for breakfast yesterday. I still had some buns from earlier this week. Ingredients: […]
Avocado and Brawn Sandwich
I received an SMS from my mother on Sunday informing me that she had some ripe avocados and she wanted me to go for some. Since I got married, I usually get such texts from her, telling me to go for various goodies of which I’m very grateful.Since my hubby loves avocados so he was […]