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Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Fried Chicken Strips

 

 Easy as … fried chicken strips 🙂 At times I’m never too sure of what to cook so I normally settle on the star of the meal then I just go with the flow and during those moments I end up ‘creating’ my own recipes. This being one of them. The first time I made […]

Dinner/Lunch

Coconut Butter Beans Curry

 

 A simple and quick meal. After hearing that one can put coconut milk in beans , I decided to try it out. Result: Delicious. Ingredients: 2 cups boiled butter beans 3 sprigs spring onions, sliced 2 tomatoes wedged/sliced 3 medium sized carrots, peeled and cubed 1 cup coconut milk Handful of coriander chopped Salt and […]

Dinner/Lunch

Brown Cinnamon Chapatis

 

 I try to cook chapatis often mainly because hubby loves them. When it comes to chapatis, I’m never a fan of brown ones, I always find the taste a bit off. That changed when my friend Yvie invited us for lunch and she’d made them. Needless to say, hubby and I ate those chapatis like […]

Breakfast, Quick meals

Oregano and Red Bell Pepper Eggs

 

 Eggs must be some of those things that are a staple in the leo tunapika kitchen. seeing that I love baking and making pancakes I am always using eggs. Most of the times, I can finish a whole tray even without having fried or boiled one, imagine. When I remember I to fry them up. […]

Breakfast

Fluffy Banana Pancakes

 

 Hey foodies, I’ve missed you. I know, I’ve been gone for long but great thing is I’m back and with new recipes to boot. I have been meaning to share this recipe for a while now but I kept on postponing. I have made banana pancakes before but I used to blend the ingredients together […]

Snacks/Desserts

Chicken Mshikaki

 

 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 […]

Quick meals

Brrr! Butternut Soup

 

 It’s getting pretty cold in Nairobi and soup is one of those things to help keep the cold away. It’s funny that I hardly make soup despite the recipe being pretty simple. So the other day my friend Rachael chats me up on gtalk asking for a recipe for butternut squash and a few days […]