How To Remove The Burnt Taste From Your Food
At one point in time or the other, you’ve dozed off, lost yourself in a movie, book or phone call while cooking. The unfortunate result was the burning smell that had you running towards the kitchen in panic and frustration. On some of those occasions, you were able to salvage that cooking and on […]
All You Need To Know About Food Spices & Herbs + Spices Every Cook Should Have!
The quality of your spices determines how well food tastes. If you take pride in the meals you prepare, you may be dissatisfied with the quality of spices you have at your disposal or itching to experiment with new ones. You can overcome this problem by learning about spices and the right ones […]
Did You Know? 7 Things A Food Processor Can Do
My people, I dey greet oh! Hope you had a restful weekend. Mine was busy; I spent most of it in the kitchen. I made three different soups on Saturday. On Sunday, I made stew for the week and then I made fried rice and salad for lunch. Anyways, the koko of my gist […]
Tip Of The Day: How To Blanch Vegetables
Blanching is a heat and cool process that plunges a fruit or vegetable into boiling water for a short amount of time before transferring it to cold water which quickly stops the cooking. Read more about Food Blanching which is also known as parboiling is a quick and easy process. It improves the texture […]
Did you Know? 5 Advantages of Meal Planning
Most Nigerians are familiar with the expression, man must wack. Yet, majority of them plan everything else but their meals. In fact, most of them don’t give a thought to their next meal until it’s almost time to have it and then, the worry and the running around trying to decide, purchase and make food […]
How to Determine if your Cooking Pan is Oven Safe
Baking is cooking food with dry heat. This art, which allows bakers the chance to create unique but familiar dishes, has been in existence for centuries. Baking is both an interesting and fulfilling craft. Bread, cakes, pastries and cookies are some of the staple baked goods. In recent times, however, the ongoing campaign that links […]
How to Clean and Marinate Catfish
I’m a full-blooded Ada Omabala so it’s only natural for me to love fresh fish. It features prominently in some of our local delicacies like ofe nsala, ove arigbi, ji mmili oku, and pepper soup. Our river, the Omabala River, provides us with different varieties of fresh fish like alila, asa, okpo, egbili, and ekwum. […]
Recipe For Chicken Gravy Sauce
I’m in love with chicken gravy. It’s easy to prepare and a refreshingly different alternative to the regular tomato stew. Besides, just looking at the colourful vegetables used in its preparation makes me happy too. Ngwa, let’s go and make it. Read more about Food Recipes Ingredients Chicken Carrot Green pepper Red bell pepper Green […]
Nigerian Cooking 101: Cooking Terms You Should Know (Part Two)
Hi. I hope you found last week’s edition of cooking terms useful. Today’s article is a continuation of that piece. The first segment is still available in the blog. Both articles are by no means exhaustive; they merely highlight those cooking terms that are used more often in the Nigerian kitchen. I hope you study […]
How To Wash Bitter Leaves With A Food Processor
If you’ve ever washed bitter leaves, you’d know that it’s one of the worst chores on earth. I did this chore a couple of times at my maternal grandmother’s; God rest her beautiful soul. I remember the annoyance of washing the darned vegetable for what seemed like years only for Gran to taste it and […]
Nigerian Cooking 101: Cooking Terms You Should Know (I)
The culinary art, like most disciplines, has terms associated with it. Beginners who want to learn the art of cooking must first familiarize themselves with these terms. I have compiled about thirty common cooking terms and their meanings. While you can easily tell the foods associated with some of these terms from their definition, you […]
Tip of the Day: How to Use a Pressure Cooker
Pressure cookers are special pots that are designed to speed up the cooking of slow cook dishes. If you ask me, I’d say that the best thing about this pot is that it not only shortens cooking time by up to fifty percent but it also retains the nutrients in the food that it’s cooking. […]
15 Kitchen Tricks Peculiar to Nigerian Cooking
I welcome you to today’s edition of kitchen tips. As I made clear in these kitchen tips that would save your day, mistakes are normal in cooking. In fact, from time to time, you may experience short lived bad cooking seasons when you are either burning, over salting or adding too much pepper to food. If these […]
10 Kitchen Tips That Would Save Your Day
As an undergraduate in the university, you do a number of introductory courses. These courses are a guide that gradually ease you into your course of study. In cooking, it is no different. You learn and keep learning until you become a master. Mistakes are normal and even after you’ve learnt the art, you’ll still […]
How to Choose and Use Healthy Cooking Oil
We live in a time when people are obsessed with eating healthy. Little wonder, for if one must cultivate a healthy lifestyle, one must first learn how to eat right. Eating healthy involves choosing the right ingredients and cooking nutritionally balanced meals. In the long run, these would help in healthy weight maintenance and reduce […]
Kitchen Tips: 6 Ways to be a Better Cook
A great meal is always a memorable experience. You can’t get enough of it; it even tempts you to prolong the experience. If you’re the creator of such a fantastic meal, you can’t help but lap up the compliments; the feeling of satisfaction is orgasmic. A bad meal on the other hand is an experience […]