DIVINEEVIDENCE:


Are you KARMA?

Enyi go get a job.
Karma ain't looking for no volunteers.

pocohantas:



I really had to add that. I remember asking my aunt how she gets the number of plates for occasions. She said 1cup is for 1 person. Lord knows I can’t finish 1 cup at once and I know people that can eat two. I wonder how my aunt caters for such “abnormal“ people.

I will be waiting for your feedback.

Nickymezor:
Why didn't you use the bay leaf? Saw it in ur list.

pocohantas:


I used it. It is right there in the rice.

Nickymezor:
Really? At what step?

pocohantas:


I used majority of those spices in my chicken. The stock was good and I didn’t see the need to overwhelm the rice with extra.

ceeceeuwa:

Which one is "liquid smoke" again? Please can you post a pics?

pocohantas:


Please share your recipe. I no wan dey hear firewood firewood biko. I no get firewood and I wan chop rice.

pocohantas:
So, NIGERIAN JOLLOF RICE OR GHANAIAN JOLLOF RICE?

Let’s not go into that one. A good cook would make a good jollof rice. You can take it with salad, fried plantain...gizdodo, etc.

Feel free to replicate this. You can ask questions too.

sassysure:

Something like this.

pocohantas:

Why?
I don’t know what your gravy is, but stock is absolutely correct.

pocohantas:
So, NIGERIAN JOLLOF RICE OR GHANAIAN JOLLOF RICE?

Let’s not go into that one. A good cook would make a good jollof rice. You can take it with salad, fried plantain...gizdodo, etc.

Feel free to replicate this. You can ask questions too.

Akposy:

Well done madam Poco. I have learnt 2 new tricks.

I wish to create a thread like this soon but....

pocohantas:


Please do create a thread, especially pastries. Tag me, because I struggle with that.

Meanwhile, thanks for all the contributions here.
@Elvispresley, Eulalia and all. I just cooked a fairly large rice. Maintained every other basic ingredient, reintroduced the butter and deleted parboiling. Came out really nice! I wonder what I missed in the butter before. Maybe brand or quantity?

pocohantas:


Please do create a thread, especially pastries. Tag me, because I struggle with that.

Meanwhile, thanks for all the contributions here.
@Elvispresley, Eulalia and all. I just cooked a fairly large rice. Maintained every other basic ingredient, reintroduced the butter and deleted parboiling. Came out really nice! I wonder what I missed in the butter before. Maybe brand or quantity?

ElvisPresley:


You're welcome dear... I guess it's the brand concerning the butter ish... What typa food are you posting next please?.. And hope you haven't forgotten about the Jollof rice 'orgy'...Lol

Eulalia:


Wow.. Good to know .
I tot as much about the butter. Maybe brand quality.

You rock girlie

pocohantas:


Maybe it is the brand. I used Summerfield County, which happens to be my favourite brand. I only tried president because it was mentioned here.

Nahhhh. I don’t forget anything that has to do with food o. Thanks a lot.

I don’t know yet, I am trying not to cook, so that I won’t eat too much. Lol.

pocohantas:


Thanks sis. Nairaland saving lives. Since I took expo from here, I say make I report back.

pocohantas:


Please do create a thread, especially pastries. Tag me, because I struggle with that

pocohantas:


Posted earlier...

Make I repost for you and Ishilove.

dexla:
This list of ingredients is too complete.
As for me I cook with pressure pot on low heat when I run out of foil paper and i get better results. I never get to open the pot until im ready to turn the rice. I also use nutmeg, gives it that unique taste but too much of it can ruin it all. The consistency of the paste is the foundation of doing it right, once its watery your party jollof cease to exist.

Nutmeg! That thing ruined my food the very first and only time I used it to cook and ever since then (more than 6 years now) I don't meddle in its affairs no more. The heartbreaking part was that twas in the night, finished cooking food and could not eat it and there was nothing else in the house except garri. That's how I drank garri that night without milk or sugar looking at pot of rice I couldn't eat. Last year December, my younger sister wanted to bake cake for the house and needed assistance with funds. I collected her list and saw nutmeg, I gave her bk and told her to remove the nutmeg or she's on her own. Babe went to get the things she needed and I searched her at the gate and still kept her company till she closed the oven. i later got to know excess of it can cause hallucinations, very weird stuff.

Tapout:


Nutmeg! That thing ruined my food the very first and only time I used it to cook and ever since then (more than 6 years now) I don't meddle in its affairs no more. The heartbreaking part was that twas in the night, finished cooking food and could not eat it and there was nothing else in the house except garri. That's how I drank garri that night without milk or sugar looking at pot of rice I couldn't eat. Last year December, my younger sister wanted to bake cake for the house and needed assistance with funds. I collected her list and saw nutmeg, I gave her bk and told her to remove the nutmeg or she's on her own. Babe went to get the things she needed and I searched her at the gate and still kept her company till she closed the oven. i later got to know excess of it can cause hallucinations, very weird stuff.

ElvisPresley:


And by the way, do you think most of these top class canteens use firewood for their Jollof rice? There's a woman at Ikeja...Oh damn, her Jollof rice is 'heavenly'..Imagine driving from the island to Ikeja cos of her rice... Lol... Funny thing is she uses a Gas cooker.

BoncoBoy:

Please chairman where in ikeja? Would love to have a taste of that jollof rice.

Tapout:


Nutmeg! That thing ruined my food the very first and only time I used it to cook and ever since then (more than 6 years now) I don't meddle in its affairs no more. The heartbreaking part was that twas in the night, finished cooking food and could not eat it and there was nothing else in the house except garri. That's how I drank garri that night without milk or sugar looking at pot of rice I couldn't eat. Last year December, my younger sister wanted to bake cake for the house and needed assistance with funds. I collected her list and saw nutmeg, I gave her bk and told her to remove the nutmeg or she's on her own. Babe went to get the things she needed and I searched her at the gate and still kept her company till she closed the oven. i later got to know excess of it can cause hallucinations, very weird stuff.

pocohantas:


Excess of every seasoning would end badly. That is why I always buy my seasonings in containers that have sprinklers. If the sprinkler is too big, I will open it and use sellotape to close some holes.

The problem wasn’t the nutmeg, the problem was the quantity you used.

Yeah..I remember I used it like regular seasoning. But I'm not doing again Biko, inukwa ije mu na nutmeg (my experience with nutmeg) I'll rather grind kola nut and put in my food instead.

Mariangeles:


Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

it wasn't funny when I threw the food away in the morning

ElvisPresley:


Allen roundabout.... Just ask of Iya Mayowa canteen...

ufondunenye:
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