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@Post
Fried with hot tea and bread. Yum

I have to ask,

Why do we call Milo, Bournvita, Ovaltine etc. Tea?

What of Lipton and all those actual "teas"?

Not food related.

moved to jobs

Ever heard  of " What you reap is what you sow?"

Invite her home for dinner with the wife and kids next time she's in town

hisses!!

Ex Inferis:

some people just dont have anything to do. i always say that seun should start charging 10 naira per post, perhaps then people would post only meaningful stuff. like:

how do you like the air you breathe

should the sky be less bluer

if grass isnt green, what color should it be

water is tasteless; true or false

my sh1t is brown, what color is yours

do you like yourself? if not, why?

and your point sir is, ?

Absolutely lovely when ice cold

Plantain Fritters ar also a novel way to cook green plantain


Ingredients

    * Vegetable oil, for frying
    * 4 garlic cloves
    * Pinch kosher salt, plus more for seasoning
    * 3 green plantains, peeled and grated on the large holes of a box grater
    * Freshly ground black pepper
    * 1/4 cup freshly chopped cilantro leaves

Directions

*Heat 2-inches of oil to 350 degrees  in a  deep pot over medium-high heat.
*Line a plate with paper towels and set aside.

*While the oil warms, place the garlic cloves on a cutting board.
*Slice the cloves in half lengthwise and then smash with the side of a chef's knife.
*Sprinkle a pinch of salt over the garlic and chop and smear the garlic against the cutting board until it makes a paste.

*Place the grated plantains, garlic paste, and pepper in a large bowl and mix until combined.
*Using 2 tablespoons scoop out some of the mixture and press it flat with the back of the other spoon.
*Gently slide it in the hot oil, adding enough balls to fill the pan without overcrowding it.
*Fry until golden, for 4 to 5 minutes on each side (if the fritters get dark too quickly, lower the temperature of the oil).
*Using a slotted spoon or frying spider, transfer the fritters to the paper towel-lined plate to drain.
*Sprinkle with some more salt and the cilantro and serve warm.

Toyinrayo's post on fried plantain got me thinking on how many different ways there areto cook and enjoy plantain other than just fried plantain and boli.


Plantain pottage for example is as god as yam pottage if well prepared:

      Main Ingredients
           1) Unripe Plantains -- 4 (About 4lbs)
           2) Beef -- 500g or 1.1 lb
            3) Dried Fish -- (About 1/2 lb or 250g)
            4) Cray Fish (Ground) -- 1/4 cup
            5) Palm Oil -- 1/4 cup
            6) Onion -- 1 bulb (large)
             7) Dry Chili peppers (Ground) -- 1 tsp
             Nchanwu / efinrin  -- 6 leaves
            9) beef stock -- 2 cubes
            10) Salt to taste

  The Preparation:
* Peel and dice Plantains into 1/2 inch cubes and place in a large bowl.
*Add cold water until all the diced plantain are just under water. (The cold water prevents discoloring of the plantains while you get other things ready.)
* Soak the dry fish in scalding hot water, rinse and de-bone it and set aside in a dry container. (The fish may fall apart but that's ok. )
*Discard the fish water.
* Cut the beef into one inch cubes. Wash the meat and set aside
* Peel and dice onions. Set aside.

* The Cooking:
*In a large cooking pot with 1/4 cup of water, add beef and salt to taste, cover and bring to a boil.
* Add onions and ground pepper. Cover and allow meat to cook in its own juices for 3 minutes at high heat.
* Add beef stock and 1/2 cup of water and let cook for another 3 munites.
* Add the fish; add the crayfish and stir. Cover and cook for 2 minutes.
* Drain and add the diced plantains to the cooking pot;
*add the Nchanwu and the palm oil.
*Stir some more.
* Add enough water to just cover the plantains (about 2- 3 cups).
*Stir and cover and allow to boil for about ten minutes stirring occationally until pottage thickens.
* After pottage thickens, allow to simmer under low heat for 5 minutes.
Remove from heat and serve.

Outstrip:

I like mine very ripe and I like it fried until very golden brown. I never understand how people say they have fried plantain and it is the same color it was before it entered the fryer

Then you must like yours like this?
Goes very well with extra peppery Asaro

Yummy

The totally green ones are better cooked and made into fufu.

The yellow one, not too ripe is better for frying.

Igbo enwe eze (the Igbo have no king).

This is an important aspect of our culture that makes us unique in the world.
The Igbo is one of the few human societies that democracy and leadership instead of monarchy/feudalism and rulership is ingrained.
Today, the world is moving towards democracy and freedom while this Igbo efulefu is trying to take us to monarchy/feudalism where the people are subjects of the King instead of free citizens.

hissssses!!!

Akwukwo juru n'ohia, ma a baa a choba okazi.
There are various leaves in the bush, but people go in to look for okazi leaves.

i.e. Many are called but few are chosen.

ifyalways:

Echelon,Botanical name Utazi might be Basil

Utazi - Gongronema ratifolia

uzwu:

@ AMAKAONE, In the absence of an oven, what can one use to bake cakes etc?

Just about any dessert can be baked on the grill in the same amount of time it would take in a conventional oven.

Just follow these simple tips:

To duplicate an oven-like atomsphere in your grill, prepare the grill for indirect heating .

To maintain an even and constant air flow, place two bricks at least 4" apart on top of the grill rack before heating.

Once the grill has reached the desired temperature, rest cake pan on top of the bricks.

Keep the grill cover down to prevent releasing most of the hot air, or allowing cool air to rush in.

If you don't, your cake won't rise as high as it should.

Do a check for doneness only during the last 15 minutes of the baking time.

Häagen-Dazs five. Mint and passion fruit

It's lower in fat ( Big plus) and the taste is so clean, almost but not quite like sorbet

AGBALUMO!!!
_{Maybe because i havent had it in a while, I can almost taste it}


otherwise Avo, Strawberry, Pineapple, Orange, Apple and blueberry

Lax75:

@Sister AmakaOne

My sister, no vex ooo. Didnt mean it that way, its just the old saying. But what I mean na say make these brothers no assume say going to naija to go find wife na sure banker to get an angel.

One of my friends even told me that she knows a few marriages that have scattered the moment the naija couple moves from diaspora back to naija because there are a bunch of home wreckers there. Not saying that these men are not at fault, just goes to show you the "expense" of assuming you are guaranteed to find a good girl in naija.

I can attest to that.

When my bro moved back to Naija with his family ehn,  you should have seen the girls flocking to his surgery under all pretexts.

In a small town like Owerri who will not know that Dr. so ad so is a married man?
but did they care?

Ahn ahn,

Naija based girls are not all good and not all bad.

Neither are girls in the Diaspora.

Lax75:

Personally. I wouldn't go to Naija and marry under the "assumptions" that I will find a "good girl." It amazes me when guys do this. How do you possibly get to know a woman when you don't spend that much time with her and she is across the ocean. I would rather deal with the devil I know (the ones over here) than the one I don't.

From what I hear and see, the ones in Naija are VERY ruthless.

Touche. xcept the bolded part.

Na when we don turn to devil abeg?

amebo22:

You forgot to mention Agriculture, lol, gurl its in good faith

food and tech

LOL una no well at all!!

hadexman:

Thanks for the information. I live in Durban and have not been chanced to visit other province since have been busy with my studies. I intend to see all other province before leaving here.

Thanks once again.

Hadex

You at UKZN?

Cool
I was there for a week way back in the day.

I loved the weather in Durban. Kinda reminded me of home, including the mosquitos.

hadexman:

Please don't mind him. Not only Nigerians live in SA. Lots of people all around the world come there for visit, business and study. If you don't do shit, you won't be treated like shit.

How is it like in Cape Town AMAKAONE? I wanna visit first week of May.

@hadexman

I lefty CT almost 2 years ago. I am now in the UK.

I was a student when I was there so I spent a lot of time around campus and there were a plethora of different nationalities studying there.

None of us were treated any differently. I have to say though it is a beautiful city.

very cosmooplitamn and from my experience waaay better than Johannesburg.

I am truly sorry for your loss.

But that been said, I lived in Cape town as a student for 4 years and I ws not treated badly at all.

Perhaps your friend was in the wrong place at the wrong time?

MHSRIP

MrCrackles:

Topic

If a nigerian dude wants to go home and get married, then kosher!

It is what he his happy with at the end of the day innit?!

Sharaway jor,

We know say Jenifa dey wait you in Ayetoro.
Carry go nah, this na discussion for serious peeps!

Suliat kan. Ayetoro kan

ijleke:

@ poster very interesting topic i have lived abroad over ten years now,,,, am 24 now most guys here wen they are ready to marry they go home. i have tried asking why the reason are so lame that it makes me laugh sometimes.
- because i want the person that can understand my language
- there is always a differnce
- these girls here are wild  ( they dont know there right from left)
- you can find a decent gal and so on and on and on
My findings have also made me to understand that those guys that go home and marry some chick that they hardly know,  there marriages are always on the LEAP is either they are not happy or they still flirt and the compitition here between wives brought from nigeria is so high.( Cars, etc) so its a very serious issue.
 

That's too messed up.

I think  it just smacks of self esteem issues and a lack of self knowledge and succumbing to family and peer pressure.

In a nutshell,  A man who does not know himself well enough and in my opinion should not be marrying in the first place.

I can't imagine what makes an educated, ( mind I said educated nt certificated) man who has grown and matured and lived over 12 -15 years outside of Naija think going to Naija to marry a woman he barely knows could possibly be in his best interests?

It truly boggles the mind.

I still ask, 

Naija girls no dey wey una live?

School, grocery store, library and work nko?

even church sef.

He loves her, she treats him well, they are both happy,

What exactly is the problem again?

eyeshadow:

iice, only met her before we got engage but she somewhat reclusive and can stay in her room for 24 hours; only coming out to eat and use the bathroom. The relationship between them, he likes to feel close to her but she always seems so bitter about everything and doesn't like to associate with anyone. 

There is absolutely nothing wrong with seeking professional help.

A person who locks themselves in the room 24/7 is in desperate need of some kind of help.

WTH!!!

Speak to your fiance about getting her to your nearest Social Services Centre ASAP (I assume she has no private medicare) so she can deal with her issues.

That is unless you want her moving in with you guys when you finally get married

chai!!

see NL guys doing self promotion.

na wah for una o!!
girls no dey wey una live?
School, grocery store, library and work nko?

even church sef.
Na 4 NL una dey look 4 wifey?


***smh**

You can actually grow your own strawberries in a pot or container.

If you're unsure about what a strawberry pot is, they are those urn-shaped pots with a series of small pockets running along the sides. They are generally terracotta, though I've seen them made of glazed pottery as well. You can also find them in a variety of sizes, from very small four-pocket varieties to pots that stand nearly two feet tall and have a plethora of pockets.

Choose a size that matches up with the number of berries you'd like to grow. Keep in mind that a smaller pot will need to be watered much more often than a large one.

Choosing Plants

There are three types of strawberry plants: June-bearing, ever-bearing, and day-neutral. For a strawberry pot, the best types are the ever-bearing and day-neutral varieties. They will provide you with a regular harvest from late spring until early fall. You'll get higher overall yields from day-neutral varieties.
Planting

Planting a strawberry pot is a fairly simple process.

1. Get the pot adequately moist. Terracotta pots will wick all of the water out of your soil unless you moisten them before planting. To do this, simply lay your pot in a tub of water for about an hour. It will soak up water so it won't suck it out of the soil later.
2. Place a piece of window screening or broken flower pot over the drainage hole so the soil doesn't leak out.
3. Fill with soil until you reach the lowest level of pockets. Insert your strawberry plants in these pockets, filling around them with soil. Make sure the crown of the plants is just above soil level.
4. Insert either a one-inch PVC pipe drilled with holes along its length or a cardboard tube from wrapping paper near the center of the pot, but not directly over the drainage hole. You will be using this as a watering pipe to ensure that all of the pockets get adequate moisture.
5. Continue filling to each level of pockets and inserting plants.
6. Stop adding soil when you get to two inches below the rim of the pot. You can add three to four plants in the top of the container, and fill in with soil around them.
7. Water everything in well. Pour water down the tube, on the soil at the top of the pot, and into each pocket (do this slowly so the water doesn't make the soil slosh out.)
8. Place your pot in a spot that gets at least six hours of sun per day.

The type of soil you choose for your strawberry pot should be one that is high in organic matter. Any good, organic potting soil will work. Adding compost, peat, or leaf mold to the mix will make your plants even happier. Also, it's a good idea to mix some blood meal and bone meal into your mix before you plant. These will feed the plant and help them get off to a good start.
Ongoing Care

Basically, you'll be keeping your plants watered and fed for the remainder of the growing season. Test for moisture by sticking your finger into the potting soil up to your first knuckle. If it is dry, you'll need to water. Strawberries are shallow-rooted plants, and start to slow in fruit production if they are allowed to dry out. Fertilize your plants every other week with a diluted seaweed fertilizer to keep your plants producing. Harvest berries as soon as they are ripe, and remove any rotted fruit or yellowing leaves as you see them.
Overwintering Potted Strawberries

Strawberries are perennials, and will produce happily for years. If you want to overwinter them in the pot, you'll need to place the entire pot in a sheltered location such as an unheated garage. If you have some ground available to overwinter in, you can dig the plants out of the pot, place them in plastic pots, and bury these pots into the ground with their rims at soil level. Your plants will overwinter beautifully and you can revive them by potting them up with plenty of rich, fresh soil in the spring.

Growing strawberries in a pot is simple and rewarding, and you can do it even if you don't have any yard to speak of.

I think the softness of the plantain deternines how well it comes out if cut in different shapes.

The riper the plantain, the bigger the pieces have to be so that it doesn't absorb too much oil.

in Igbo Efinrin is called nchanwu

esewon (Edo)
nchanwu ( Igbo)
ufuo-Igbo (Urhobo)
efinruin-wewe, efinrin-ajase, efirinpo, efirin-gidi and efiri-ajija (Yoruba),
sweet basil; hairy basil; tea bush; scent eaf (English)

Samosas

Beef Samosa Filling

500g minced beef
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
Chilli to taste
1 tspn ground Tumeric
1 tspn ground Corriander
2 tspn fresh Ginger
50 ml chopped mint
Juice of 1 lemon
2tblspn vegetable oil
Salt, pepper to taste

Heat the oil in a frying pan, add the onion and garlic mix in the spices and seasoning and fry until soft. Add the mince, stirring until cooked. Remove from heat and stir in the mint and lemon juice.

Making the Samosa Pastry



You don't have to make your own pastry. You can simply buy some ready-made pastry from the shop. For samosas you want to fry, use Filo Pastry and for samosas you want to cook in the oven use Puff Pastry.

This recipe will make enough pastry for 24 samosas and you will need:

225gm. plain flour
2 tspn. salt
2tblspb. vegetable oil
80 ml warm water.

Mix flour and salt into a bowl.
Make a well into the centre and add the oil and enough water to make a firm dough.
Knead the dough on a floured surface until smooth and roll into a ball.
Cover in plastic wrap and set aside at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Divide the pastry into 12 equal pieces.
Roll each piece into a ball and roll out into a circle of 15 cm.
Divide this circle into two equal pieces with a knife.

Brush each edge with a little water and form a cone shape around your fingers, sealing the dampened edge.

Fill the cases with a tbs of your chosen mixture and press the two dampened edges together to seal the top of the cone.
Deep fry the samosas in hot oil until crisp and brown take out and drain on a paper towel.