meat 🍖 fish 🐟 chicken 🍗

featuring: 

seagull, people, and chicken biryani (the Quick Style)

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Travel Tales from the heart of China

"Tasting the lifestyle of Chongqing"

A beautiful travelogue by CGTN.  

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Fura OR kunu?

Kunu is a refreshing drink.

'Fura da nono' is delightful too.

Now you can tell the difference:

All about Kunu - kunun zaki, kunun gyada, or kunu aya, ... (got mostly from crushing and straining the "milk" from your favourite starch or nut food, to make a cooool drink.

All about fura da nono - the nono (milk, yogurt) is the main actor here.  Fresh from the mama cow, and sold with fura (the starchy millet balls) and sugar.  In the hottest days, you'll neeeeed it.
This is the Hausa name.
In Fulani, it's called kindirimu (or kindirmo?)

Also, resist the urge to pronounce/spell it nunu, as in fura da nunu, which I've heard means something else ;)

Fulani milkmaids.  Click for a funny poem about this...

Which of these drinks is your favourite?

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See your mouth like jollof!

If you like cooking, this is for you: 

How to make Naija party jollof rice!

How I really feel about women cooking stew // and a path to freedom

I am so happy and proud about the industrial solutions being created now, by Nigerians, to take the arduousness out of fixing food with the ubiquitous red 'obe ata' sauce.

1. 
Have you tried Obe by Easy Sauces? 
I found this product in a neighbourhood shop and was so delighted I grabbed one of each type.  Tried to gift one to my mother so I could try it out but she wouldn't touch it.  Loool, she obviously doesn't want this kind of change from the original method.  I'll try it eventually ... or find someone who cooks enough to use up the contents. 

Plenty pepper

Medium pepper

2. 
There's also a company called OmoAlata that makes pre-mixed stew / pepper mixes for sale in stores and online:

Buy online (we deliver!): OmoAlata Original peppermix https://t.co/VM77Hy4Ouv pic.twitter.com/R1bRsvW2pG

— OmoAlata (@OmoAlata) May 15, 2017

3. 
And another called Kaptain Foods with the same idea:

#Kaptain is live at #GTBankFoodDrink Stop by our exhibition booth for free tastings and to see all the delicious dishes you can make with our Ready Stews.

A post shared by Kaptain (@kaptainfoods) on Apr 30, 2017 at 7:23am PDT

Grab a pack of Kaptain Ready Stews! Available in stores across Lagos in packs of 250g and 1kg (Mild or Hotpot)#kaptain #buynigerian #madeinnigeria

A post shared by Kaptain (@kaptainfoods) on May 12, 2017 at 4:37am PDT

I bought two mini-packs of the Kaptain stew at that GTBank Food Fair and I've used them now.  The mild sauce was alright, it even included oil.  The hotpot had too much pepper for my taste but I had some tomatoes in a can so it was alright.  The food I made was yummy hehehe, going to finish the leftovers for lunch/dinner today.

I suggest a third Kaptain stew...with less pepper than the so-called mild but who knows maybe everybody loves pepper so much around here but many foreigners don't! 



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Look ahead! Have a wonderful week friends 😀 #omoalata pic.twitter.com/UhSNN4cFD0

— OmoAlata (@OmoAlata) May 22, 2017

Food debate: Jollof or Fried

Rice, we love you!

Brown and White rice are good and nice
but let's get serious:

Paradise
won't be paradise
without the red and yellah. 

Which would you write a poem for? 
Fried rice

or Jollof? 

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Barbecue DEBATE: Boli or Roast Corn

roasted/grilled corn-on-the-cob

yum yum yum 

grilled / roasted plantains

How do you eat yours?

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