the joys and woes of placing a meal on the table
So much for continuous posting for 30 days! Anyway I’m back and with a homemade ice cream recipe. You buy a bunch of bananas and as the days go by you realise they are ripening faster than you can eat them. What to do? Make some Chocolate chip banana ice cream.
A quick dip for your fish fingers. Ingredients: 3 tablespoons plain yoghurt Handful of dhania finely chopped Salt and black pepper to taste In a bowl pour in the yoghurt and add the dhania. Mix well then season with salt and pepper. Taste for seasoning and adjust accordingly. Enjoy. The combination of the fish fingers […]
By now some of you might have noticed that I really love ripe bananas and I like using them in my cooking. I think there are very versatile fruits, you can eat them as is, blend them with milk or yoghurt to make smoothies, bake them in cakes or muffins or even mix them in […]
Yippee!!! This is my 60th post!! Wa!! Imagine. Thank you all for reading my cooking journal, commenting, liking and even trying out these recipes. I’m humbled. This meal I prepared a while back when we had a friend over for dinner. This dish closely resembles this one , however I used boneless chicken breasts and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Yep!!! One can apparently put yoghurt in pancakes or so I ‘invented’. I had some leftover plain yoghurt from a previous recipe so I decided to add it into the pancake batter. Have I mentioned that it was to expire in 2 days, yeah, hence the reason I had to use it and I had […]
Since I discovered, the chicken curry recipe, I have modified it to suit different meats. I had some filleted tilapia and I decided to try it out. Ingredients: 1 1/2 fillets of fish – I used tilapia (cut into chunks) 1 cup plain yoghurt 3/4 cup coconut milk 1 onion chopped 2 cloves of garlic […]
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 […]