Hello dearests,
Before I go into details, I would like you to know that cooking is not what I enjoy doing and I only do it for survival. If you are wondering what I love doing then that will be shopping and spending the money I didn't work for. durrrr. 😑😑😑
I was born to be a baby girl, I mean being a first child with siblings that should work for you makes me qualify as a baby girl but life has other plans so I learnt how to cook by force or choose hunger to nourish my head.
Apart from helping my mum boil rice, beans and turn swallow, those are the only things I learnt from home before I discovered YouTube in 2018 that helped me learn how to cooked plus I had a boyfriend that loved experimenting in the kitchen so he would send me recipes to try and from there I started whipping a lot of dishes in the kitchen.
I cant beat my chest but I assure you, you can eat my food as long as you don't compare me to Hilda, my food no bad but it wont take you to cloud 9, meet your partners for that. 😎😎😎. I also compensate myself by going out to eat from people that enjoys cooking because the level of attention they give to food would be different from mine and It is evident in their meals.
Of course, after few years of cooking, I know what works for me in the kitchen, I mean spices and cooking method that elevates the taste of my meals. Let me give you few cooking tips incase you need it.
1. Add black pepper and sesame oil in your noodles, you won't have noodles another way.
2. Boil or roast your pepper mix before blending, but let it cool a bit if you are using plastic blender to save it from breaking.
3. Green ball peppers are expensive but when fried with any veggies/food, everyone will want to have a taste.
4. You don't have bread toaster and you don't want to eat ordinary bread, get your non stick frying pan, put a little butter and toast your bread. You would not want to eat bread in another way.
5. Tiger food spices are not your friend in the kitchen, the more you use it, the more you doubt your cooking skills. Try other spices and compare the results.
6. If you really want your rice to soak up the tomato base while cooking Jollof rice, you MUST cook on very low heat. You are cheating yourself by using foil/nylon to cover your pot if you are not cooking on low heat. Jollof rice needs at least 40mins to cooking if you are cooking for more than 3 servings.
7. The only palm oil that hasn't given me problems with cooking and its readily available in the market is Banga Oil. It doesn't feel heavy in meal, It doesn't foam while cooking, it doesn't stain the teeth nor plastic plate and I believe it's healthy.
8. Except you are making egusi balls, mix your grinded egusi with enough water and watch how it will fill up the pot. I use to believe the egusi has to be much because it has been grinded and it turns out the werey use to swell and at the end of the day, the ingredients won't go round.
9. Fish stew requires a lot of water because fishes will leave ocean to come and suck up your stew. But the good thing is if the stew is sweet, the fish will definitely be sweeter. So use good spices and stop using chicken spices for a better experience.
10. I use ginger and garlic in my meals but the powdered form, I only use the ginger roots when I am making Zobo or sometimes add in my pepper mix during cold season or when it looks like I am coming down with a flu. Last weekend, I wanted to make native rice and I saw Garlic when I was buying raw pepper. I took it home and sliced it while slicing the veggies. The elevation garlic gave my food? It tasted like I was eating in a Chinese restaurant. It tasted good that I over ate and had no leftovers.
Buy Garlic today and cook with it, You don't have to use a lot at first trial, introduce it gradually and come back to give your testimony.
Anyways, do you have any tip you use in the kitchen? I would like to learn from you.
Song for today is Flakky by SeyiVibes.
See you soon
Toodles.
