First experience with cooking was beans-After boiling for a long time,i added palm oil.I noticed that what i was cooking didn,t turn red immediately and since all the beans i had seen cooked with oil were bright red i thought the palm oil wasn,t enough.So decided to add more palm oil and continued pouring from the keg until the beans started giving sizzling sounds.It was getting fried.

omoge, hmm u know say if i was a man, i for don snatch u up since. girl, u just have it going on o. lucky say u sabi cook. i go eventually buy all those things sha. when one is a student and moves around a lot, person no get time to dey buy all those things. but ima definitely follow my mama's advice and stock up on them pretty soon. she will be proud! so make una let me rest o

@debojyde.  yeeeeparipa! u want to kill urself with palm oil calories?

or clog up his arteries with cholesterol
palm oil is evil o.

a healthy way to cook nowadays is to use tomato to redden the food and a few spoons of olive oil.
nobody should go the pearly gates before their time.

My first time cooking turned out to be my last for over 4 years. I recently started cooking again. Well this was in boarding school(command secondary school ibadan), i had sneaked some rice and decided to cook it with electric stove i also sneaked into school. While boiling it, i decided to go fetch water since there was finally water coming out of the freaking tap, by the time i got back there where seniors and people pouring water on the locker(thank God i used someone else's locker, i would have burned my provisions lol). Cut long story short, the electric cooker cooked the rice, burnt it and the locker i put the electric cooker on top. Anyho when asked if i knew who did that, i am sad to say i denied knowing who cooked there to avoid punishment.

@ Seunpatrol

yeeeeparipa! u want to kill yourself with palm oil calories

You don chop Ghania Palm oil before? nne, na only Nigerian palm oil calories and cholesterol dey, try and see that Ghanian Palm Oil with Pounded Plantain is good lol!

@babyosisi

To cook Jollof Rice in the oven is easy and even better. The rice will almost always come out crisp.

Use your regular big pot (Preferably - Agbari Ojukwu)

When the rice is half way done and you've added all the condiments,
Preheat your oven to 350 - 375
let it boil a little longer until you can just peep the top of the rice like its about done soaking up the water
(For best result use low heat to cook the rice)
Take it off and put it in the oven
For extra garnish, put in a couple of bay leaves.

Check it at regular intervals, say every 20 mins until its done.


I think that should help you get started. If you messed up the first time, try again. adjusting as necessary (which is the true Nigeria way)

Allta:

@ Seunpatrol

You don chop Ghania Palm oil before? nne, na only Nigerian palm oil calories and cholesterol dey, try and see that Ghanian Palm Oil with Pounded Plantain is good lol!

Now you gonna make me start salivating for "Banku" and the delicious "groundnut soap" garnished with peppered snails and rooasted bush meat.
oh laa la

santony2k:

@babyosisi

To cook Jollof Rice in the oven is easy and even better. The rice will almost always come out crisp.

Use your regular big pot (Preferably - Agbari Ojukwu)

When the rice is half way done and you've added all the condiments,
Preheat your oven to 350 - 375
let it boil a little longer until you can just peep the top of the rice like its about done soaking up the water
(For best result use low heat to cook the rice)
Take it off and put it in the oven
For extra garnish, put in a couple of bay leaves.

Check it at regular intervals, say every 20 mins until its done.


I think that should help you get started. If you messed up the first time, try again. adjusting as necessary (which is the true Nigeria way)

Jesus is Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!
all this recipe coming from a guy?
where were you last year before I said "I do"
_{just kidding}

I'll surely try this recipe for my Sunday special this Sunday and come back and report on this thread.

oh i see, sorry i got  you wrong before @ Babyosisi 

oven for Jrice?  well when i no longer have stove i will try the oven style. for now, it's stove for Jollof rice. i make Jollof rice once in a while (special events or when i have 2 hours for it).

am good with rice and stew, and the usual boil rice, put oil, pepper and onion, salt and tomatoes.

Soul muah muah sister  . I'm lucky i don't move because i like my place and got classmates as roomies .

Hey God!
yu guyz are worse than me, i actually thot my case was pathetic, has anyone burnt kpomo before? pot turned pretty black and i had to scoop and find good ones, washed them and cooked them in a fresh pot.
of course i finished one canister of air freshner, soaked and hid the pot before my mom came home and yep she's not a nairaland member

burning pomo once used to be a regular past time.

Jollof rice is best when its slightly burnt, my brother accidentally "discovered" that the day he forgot the jollof rice on the fire.

I had too many
One time was when our housemaid ran off before we got back from school and there was nobody at home, so we didn't have any choice but to cook by ourselves, so my cousins and I made decided to perpare some eba OMG it was so hard and its was looking undone, too much hard nut inside hmmmmm I think we were btw 6&7

Am so bad with salt becos I over use it when cooking. Lol still now my mum doesn't allow me to cook for her , scared I might have too much salt inside the food.

I couldn't even boil simple water damn its dried up and the kettle turned black.

1st time i cooked. . . . a culinary disaster!

it was supposed to be stew but it ended being more like bar beach water!

@PTH. word!  so true. me i be the queen of burning food. i've come to acquire the taste for burnt food now. is that normal?

@Omo Eko. hmm, koko galore. who never make eba with koko? if i make eba for u, u fit take am stone person to death. walai.

lol
it wasn't really my first but i remember vividly what happened.
i was really eager to please my mum and to at least show i could cook, that i told her not to bother but allow me cook jollof rice.
i had put the whole ingrdients in left for the salt, i felt the salt can and it was empty, so i poured what i thought was salt into it not knowing it was sugar.
having tasted the food and not feeling the salt in it i kept adding, not being very satisfied i left it with the thought dat whoever needed more salt would just add.
and a most unfortunate thing then was my dad was adviced by a doctor not to take sugar at all.
men was it bad, that's an understatement.
so u can imagine wat happened for urself

Hilarious! Mummy couldn't do it alone, she needed somebody to assist her attend to some unexpected guests. I had to bail her out with garri (eba), just imagine the kind of olumo rock we presented to the guests as Eba, ha ha ha,

i can't even count the number of times i've had to throw away a pot of burnt food or food that didn't come out well. gosh, i always felt so stupid and prayed forgiveness from God for wasting food. and of course, nobody had to know about it. heh heh!

soulpatrol:

@PTH. word! so true. me i be the queen of burning food. i've come to acquire the taste for burnt food now. is that normal?

@Omo Eko. hmm, koko galore. who never make eba with koko? if i make eba for u, u fit take am stone person to death. walai.

Lmfao well my eba is good now beco i make it on the stove with the fire still on

soulpatrol:

i can't even count the number of times i've had to throw away a pot of burnt food or food that didn't come out well. gosh, i always felt so stupid and prayed forgiveness from God for wasting food. and of course, nobody had to know about it. heh heh!

lol,that's funny, guess you're an Expert Burner too.

mine wasnt too disastrous i only added too much salt to the rice.since then i learnt neva to use spoon in measuring the salt i put in food.my hand measures better.solids took me tru hell while i learnt to make them.god,several i made were full of lumps.thanks to my patient folks.they ate my mess each time i made them but bet u am now a pro

Burners beware i used to have a neighbor they are nigerians and newly married with a kid. the oga argue and figh him wife cuz she burn food all the time. she go put food for fire and go siddon with nigeria movie or laptop and then sleep don carry am go. oga go come in hmmmm na hell. i will be hearing different thing.

so professional burners beware

ok ma, we don hear u o. advice taken. psych!

yes ma, nice to know you've taken it ma, 

omoge:

Burners beware i used to have a neighbor they are nigerians and newly married with a kid. the oga argue and figh him wife because she burn food all the time. she go put food for fire and go siddon with nigeria movie or laptop and then sleep don carry am go. oga go come in hmmmm na hell. i will be hearing different thing.

so professional burners beware

don't blame the man.
One can only eat so much burnt offering

lol

omoge what is this fatal attraction between you and paw paw?
he needs some hot grits and a wok to get him off you

i wonder oo i wonder my sister. i don't know, it baffles me. he won't let me be. see me oooo.

i need to give him my ofe osen

the experience the first day i cooked kind of funny.any way it was actually beans,and you know sometimes mothers add garri to soupe as tickner,my mum dose it,so i did in the beans when i have added so much water to it and it refuses get tick.every body at home where confuse most expecially when the whole beans was covered with garri.at the end it was thrown away.

haha @ dumi

eba and bean

I nearly killed everybody. People that ate the food were just running to-and fro to the rest room for like 2 hours, fighting to take turns in the rest room. It was hilarious but crazy for them, i was thus banned from the kitchen