Back-to-South = Roasted Bole, roasted fish and a fine spicy sauce.

If you grew up in Port Harcourt, or anywhere around Rivers State, then you would totally relate to this one of a kind meal. Sold at almost every nook cranium of the city. Bole and fish popularly called would keep you craving for it just by the aroma whilst been prepared along the roadside.

This whole joy of food can be easily homemade, all you'll need is a mini food grill or even a multi purpose oven, the effects might differ but the results will be the same if done rightly.

For real people if you've never been to PH all your life, now this is a reason to visit, we may not have all the necessary attraction to wow you but this right here will do all the wowing. 

I like to try new things, but not roasted plantain and groundnut. Coming to Lagos and seeing how people enjoy eating roasted plantain and groundnuts(still can't wrap my head around it), maybe it's PH style bole that's telling my brain it can't be nicer than what it's already used to.

Will walk you through a process you can take to make these while at home in another article about Bole and Fish. 

My sister and I would usually make this as dinner for the whole family, it's always a happy dinner.

Coconut milk Rice pudding and Pepper sauce. FYI, not everytime big piece of protein, eggs are good substitute.

Back in school during my food and nutrition days, my friends always made rice pudding and me being the girl that i was never saw it fascinating until now, but this time the milk is replaced with coconut milk

This meal was inspired from a lady i met who told me coconut rice is not meant to be colorful, in other words, plain white. so i thought why not get the color and spiciness from a sauce to go with the rice for atariro(pepper) lovers.
This combination definitely is a hit so i'm giving mself a +1 for this.

For the full recipe and method of preparation go to recipe index page on the blog home page.

Let's Get Cooking!

Trying out new meals is quite a task, i'm going to be needing some lab rats to try these meals. Starting tomorrow i will be coming up with new recipes, all new ideas, with my cooking expertise i'm sure they will taste nice and more so look delicious. 

People say cooking is an Art, I'd say cooking is both Art and Science. 

Drop your constructive comments on these upcoming meals, let's know what you think about it.

What you should do if you over salt a dish

It is always advisable to taste a meal before adding salt, actually salt should be added after your stock and other seasonings are added, this will give room for adjusting the salt level and to know if salt is actually required.  

However, if you still happen to over salt a meal you can throw in some potato into the pot, it will help retain some excess salt.

Growing up, this was a major issue for me, salting a meal, it's mostly in excess and my mom will always say ''salt is not good o'', after much hearing of that, my fingers automatically adjusted itself and now can put just the right amount of salt just by looking at the food, how magic can a finger get. It's important we stay away from excessive salt as it poses some life threatening ailment, always eat healthy and mind your salt intake.

Let's face it, "Everybody loves Puff Puffs"

Puffs are gradually becoming a regular chops in parties and homes. Puffs are one of the easiest yet loved fried pastry there is. It can be made in various ways adding some little twist to give it that different effect from the regular Puffs.
I like to think, because it comprises of just flour, water sugar and salt, it can go with basically anything else.
Ever tried adding some scoop of crunchy peanut butter to the batter just before frying, some fruity jam (as in doughnuts) or even some desiccated coconut, some crushed nut, dried fruits. I can go on and on.
However, we should try to have these golden babies (puffs) occasionally, otherwise you turn out looking like one *biggrin

Steps I took in making the last puffs I had.
Diced some peppers to add a little spike to the risen batter.
                                                        

Using medium heat so as to allow to cook properly and avoid soaking in oil and fast burning.

Sprinkled desiccated coconut whilst still hot.
Nothing like a freshly fried puff puffs, hope you all can relate to this.