you are more than welcome my dear. Any other suggestions u need please feel free to ask.

@uzoo , you also have a breadmaker?

I bought a Breadman Junior Bread Bakery thingymajiggy a few months ago.

I've only used it once cause the bread came out like Olumo Rock!
Actuially Olumo rock is better because it's a tourist attraction.
I think the garbage guys cursed me when they had to load that loaf into the garbage truck the next morning sha

I used the same bread quantities I usually use in a normal oven, but they clearly did not work.

do you have a bread recipe that works with a breadmaker? please?

lol@ comments on this topic

MrCrackles:

i have said it before, bloody liars on this thread, chei!

honesty pays, let us be more honest!!

as for me, i am going to drink garri and groundnut!!

Go soak your garri Mr. Brash. Don't mind the posers.

I'm having cream crackers, cheese and flavoured water. too tired to even think of coking

JazzyJ:

hi amaka

juz wondering
can i find these ikang ubong n Water Leaves hia in malaysia or izzit onli in naija?
secondly.
errr what is ogbono?
plz do reply.
thnx

oh n great recipes
now my hubby keeps cmg bak early to eat dinner

@ Jazzy
Sorry, I meant to Answer you earlier,

I'm glad your hubby is enjoying the food. If he's anything like Brash (MrCrackles) then his tummy is definitely the way to his heart , with a good sense of humour of course 



I have no idea what they sell in Malaysia. Never been there.

Ogbono is made from the seed of Wild Mango, it makes soup drawy, kind of like okro , but with a different taste.
It's also called bush mango, African bush mango, wild mango, oba
If you can't find any in your local store s you can get it online at Asiamex.com
I think they sell in Malaysia

Ikang ubong are pumpkin leaves ( Ugwu in igbo), I'm sure you can find a friend or neighbour with squash or pumpkin plants in their garden that you can steal a few laves from abi?

Water leaf is also called Ceylon Spinach? in your part of the world maybe Chan Cai, Remayong or Gendola. You may well be able to get it at the local veggie market as it's a common tropical plant.

this is what the plant looks like.

MrCrackles:

your dowry no be wahala even if it cost an arm and a leg!!

Na u sabi
oya make u pay am osiso !

Temitope10:

Goodness, Amaka, you're a Godsend! I just happened upon this thread trying to find menu ideas, and I can't believe it's been going for 2 years!

So I saw your Nigerian menu/time-table posted on 10/8 (I think), and I have to agree with one of the responders that it would be difficult to find the time to do all that in one week (especially for a pregnant working mum with a toddler!). I wondered if you could suggest some alternatives for quick <naija> meals (is there even such a thing?!). Some way to have variety and still maintain my sanity while nourishing my family with healthy food!

Feel free to tell me that I'm crazy and that's an impossible goal

Thanks much in advance!

LOL I know what having little kids around the house can do to your sanity. I was babysitting my brother skids a few weeks ago, i think they may well have put me off having kids of my own sha.

This may be a bit more helpful?
this is just breakast and dinner. I assume you don't cook lunch ?
Monday
Breakfast: Toast/Oatmeal
Dinner: White rice w/beans , vegetable stew and dodo

Tuesday
Breakfast: French Toast; Syrup; Orange Juice; Milk; Hot Tea
Dinner: Vegetable Yam porridge with fish

Wednesday
Breakfast: Oatmeal; Toast, Margarine & Jam; Orange Juice; Milk; Hot Tea
Dinner: Fried rice with chicken and vegetables

Thursday
Breakfast: Cereal with eggs & toast
Dinner: Ewa Agoyin with fish

Friday
Breakfast: Plantain & Eggs
Dinner: Spaghetti Bolognese

Saturday
Breakfast: Akara w/Ogi or Pancakes/French Toast
Lunch: Ofe Nsala (fresh fish soup) w/pounded yam
Dinner: Jollof rice w/moimoi and assorted meat
Snack: African Salad/Ugba

Sunday
Breakfast: Yam & Eggs
Lunch: Okro Soup w/pounded yam
Dinner: Peppered gizzard w/dodo
Snack: Pepper soup

Most of the recipes for these foods are here on the board so that should make things much easier.

Hope this helps?

hisolution:

Someone said you are in uk. OOOoohhh my God so you don't av any other food to in there for xmas?My friend,common Eat the best foods over there and enjoy or are you tierd of those foods over there?Then come to Nigeria and enjoy our new recipes

lol @ hisolution

I am in the UK, but Xmas dinner on your own in front of the telly is not really all that exciting.

Food dey plenty for hia o! Even microwave Jollof and bottled egusi sef.

My family is all over the place, and most of my friends are all going home for the holidays.

One bros in the US, one in Canada, my folks and two bros in Owerri and my other bros in Germany.

Getting 2gether for Xmas could prove to be a bit expensive. I can't go home now, I'm saving up for my move to the US early next year.

Abeg fedex some of those exciting Naija dishes to me for Xmas now. Shebi Xmas na the time for sharing?

Omar Epps looks like one nollywood actor, I forget his name

Aloy.Emeka:

I am not asking for internet sites that promote that but a data that verifies your claim. How did they come about this claim when they didn't poll nursing mothers overtime?. We are not in 17th C. It could be accurate though.

This is from one of the links I posted earlier.

Firm population figures do not exist and no census has been conducted in Nigeria for 10 years.

But population experts agree Nigeria, overall, has one of the world's highest rates of multiple births, with the southwest being particularly prone.
A study conducted between 1972 and 1982 by researcher P.S. Nylander recorded an average of 45 to 50 sets of twins per 1 000 live births in the southwest, four times higher than in Europe or the United States.

Reading is a fundamental skill and it pays for us to master it if we are going to function well in the 21st century my dear. Try to keep that in mind next time.

MrCrackles:


Amaka watch ya self ooo

i no go marry you again if you yap me oo

See me see wahala O!

U don finish collecting all the dowry items so?

MrCrackles:

since when did agbalumo become food?!

Na yah head abi? 

lunch

@ Post

1. Egusi soup

2. Efo riro

3. Jollof Rice

4. Agbalumo

5. Moi moi

It's that time of the year again
Chei

I wish I could go home

I'm open for Xmas dinner invites y'all.

@ Sammy107_d

Use Lime or lemon juice.

I'm sure there's plenty of that in barbados right?

MrCrackles:

straight-up!

this happens a lot everywhere

am sure you have been caught up in this too right?!

lol I see u came back to look 4 my trouble abi?

read my earlier post.

My mom taught me very early (albeit with a few whacks to my agbalumo head) that lickin spoons while cooking is a NO! NO!  no matter what.
Health and hygeine has been drilled into myhead o! ( literally) 

LadyT:

Using the same soapy sponge you use to wash plates to clean the inside of the stew pot  (the pot contains fresh stew) just because you want the inside of the pot to look clean  

OOH!! don't even get me started on the kitchen cloths and sponges

A study carried out 10 years ago by Dean Cliver, a professor of food safety at the University of California found that 10 per cent of kitchen sponges contained salmonella.

Internationally, 90 per cent of kitchen cloths, 46 per cent of kitchen sinks, 38 per cent of bathroom sinks and 14 per cent of children's toys failed the test, meaning they had a total bacteria count of more than 100,000 per square centimetre.

They can cause diarrhea or infections with flu-like symptoms that are especially dangerous to small children, the elderly and pregnant women.

Food spills and juice should be wiped up with a paper towel and dumped. That avoids contact with a bacteria-infected sponge or dish cloth where the bacteria will feed on the food and drink supplied.

on the up side


Dishcloths and sponges are known to breed microbes such as E. coli and salmonella, that can cause potentially lethal food poisoning.
Researchers in the U.S. have found that the microwave is an effective weapon against them. Two minutes in the microwave can kill 99 per cent of the germs harboured by kitchen sponges, scientists have found.

Credible source links for all u doubting Thomases.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-431023/Microwaves-turn-kitchen-cloths-germ-killers.html

Zap those kitchen sponges B4 you poison your family and friends o jare!!
http://www.virtualcancercentre.com/news.asp?artid=9113

LOl talk true now ladies,

how many of youturn your Amala on the floor like this?

Now for all the gross details (scientific explanation is minimal with sarcasm, comedy, and cold hard truth). The human mouth contains a minimum of between 8 and 10 different types of bacteria. The tongue is a particularly good breeding ground for little bugs.

Just below the gum line, especially between the (a back) tooth and the gum live the really nasty bacteria, in a warm, moist and DARK incubator; and if you don't floss regularly, the odor from the bacteria in this area of your mouth will just about knock you over. As they live and grow, they manufacture chemicals known as oligosaccharides, a molecule that is BOTH a FAT and a SUGAR. These molecules make the bacteria VERY STICKY, so they adhere very well to the tooth. This is PLAQUE. After is has grown over the surface of the tooth at and below the gum line, it starts growning INTO your gum tissue, killing at it grows (RECEDING GUMS). This is one of the causes of GINGIVITIS, the other being the chemical assault launched upon it by the bacteria and the bodies response to fighting infection. For pictures, look on the web (Google), or visit your local library and search for books on "Dental Hygiene"  or the work of a "Dental Hygenist".

I've read parts of a book written for dental hygenists and saw the diagrams. It's enough to making FLOSSING EVERYDAY a top priority in your life.

So next time you see someone lick a spoon that they are cooking food for you with just do what my momsie would do and GBOSA!!  * *   * *smack them upside the head.
I mean how much  more disgusting can you get?

MrCrackles:

cutting all sorts of vegetables and meat and other items without washing it!!

one way ticket to salmonella poisoning

uugh!!

I see u guys are catching on to the canned/ bottled food bandwagon abi.
So what's the plan?

Canned Egusi, Ogbono, Efo riro, Banga?

hm, o dikwa risky o!

@omoge,
na u sabi betta thing o. Nothing beats stew made with original rodo 

@KarmaMod, don't mind am, I wonder what they are teaching in Naija schools these days.
he clearly has not heard the adage  "reading is fundamental if you plan to gain knowledge"

aomom:

@ j soul well itz nat about the company. i caught an aunty of mine doing this and i tend to observe every ladies, do u know the what they do it unconsciously. what about using their dirty clothes to clean a wet cuttlery in fact name it

@aomom
hmmm o dikwa risky o!

Which kin "ladies" do you have cooking for you?
what happened to health & hygiene? Don't they teach that in Naija schools any more?
using clothes to wipe cutlery?

"Nigeria holds the World Record in Multiple Births: http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/twins.htm

http://www.twinsworld.com/stats.html

"In fact, if access to state-of-the-art medicine were a deciding factor, then why does the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria have the highest twinning incidence in the entire world? These Nigerian people attribute it to their population's consumption of a specific type of yam. Yams? That's right, scientists have discovered that these colorful vegetables that are grown only in Africa contain a high level of a substance that is similar to the hormone estrogen -- which could bring on multiple ovulation.": http://www.pregnancy-place.com/WHY_ARE_TWI, YROCKETING.html

and someone trying to cash in on it on Amazon.com:
2 TUBERS OF AFRICAN YAMS--FERTILITY ENHANCER!!!
"This auction is for african yam,not to be mistaken for America sweet potatoes.Yams consist of lot antioxidants such as beta carotene,which prevents heart disease,Cancer,strokes and cataracts. Yams have also been found to promote fertility in women.In a study on Yoruba women of Nigeria west africa,it was suggested that their high rate of giving birth to twins(which is among the highest in the world) could be linked to their high consumption of the African yam. If you are buying this yam for fertility purposes ,please also buy the book ,The infertility Diet by Fern Reiss.You will find the Menus and the quantity to consume from the book.A lot of our customer swear by this book.According to this book Yam acts like the drug Clomid often prescribed for women who are not ovulating.Yams can help stimulate the ovaries to release egg. The yams weigh between 3-5 pounds and we ship it Priority mail so that you get it within 2-3 days (within USA)of your payment.Yams are not only for people who wants o conceive,it is a delicous food that can be prepared in many different ways.Thank you"
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchan, 2800068-7819463

Aloy.Emeka:


You are not only a tribalist but an uneducated mugu. You better delete the statement above because it makes no scientific sense. How did you come with the statistical data on number of twins among different ethnic groups in Nigeria?. Who gave you visa to whereever you live because you sound like a frustrated bush yoruba woman?. Just get any biology textbook and educate yourself instead of exposing your ignorance here.

tsk tsk, who's the mugu here?

MrCrackles:



how u doing?!

I'm good, but I see u don old sha

See as you went from MrCrackles to Mr Creakles.

don't creak too loud abeg
welcome back

Kai Brash don come!

coolu temper o!

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Naija people sef and false marketing
There are laws against this sort of thing you know?

@poster
I agree with you it's a very bad habit.

My mum taught me to always have a clean saucer and teasppoon out that u use for checking the seasoning in the food.
you scoop a little out of the pot onto the saucer and use the teaspoon to taste.

No licking food with your fingers while you cook in my momsys kitchen o! otherwise na one backhand you will feel on the back of your head"Na that same hand u go use chop vegetable you dey lick so ??"  Gbosa!! 

Sichuan Crispy Skin Duck with shrimp fried rice
chicken chow mein
Shredded beef with Peking Sauce and rice

adeboy5:

whenever I take tea or any food containing milk, my stomach makes some kind of funny and embarassing noise.What is the cause.

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lactose intolerance.

your body cannot synthesize the lactose in cow milk.
try soya milk

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lol@ Gamine
My bad