Food Profile

Food Profile - Waterleaf

Waterleaf (known in the Yoruba dialect as " gbure " " yakowa " in Hausa) has a signific…

Food Profile - Red Cabbage

As a foodie, every day is a day of discovery for me....! This is simply true. When I was growing up, cer…

Food Profile - Guava

Guava is one of my absolute favourable fruits....its very unusual in its physical shape and its taste is a…

Key Lime (Osan Wewe) - Super Fruit

I was raised on all of my mother's home remedies....and there were quite a few. Whatever the ailment, …

Red Spinach - Super Food

In Nigeria, we are all aware of the amaranth greens, locally called tete . Green tete is the most common o…

Nigerian Home Made Meatballs

Sincerely, its worth making meatballs at home, for so many reasons. Foremost, making your meatballs give…

Food Profile - Tomatoes

Sometimes, what we have gone all the way to find in a place called Sokoto, is right there in our Sokoto (t…

Food Profile - African Walnuts

African walnuts (botanical name - tetracarpidium conophorum ) are fruits of a woody perennial climber pl…

Wara - Milk Curds

I used to hate Wara and would not even go near it, because I did not have a full understanding of this f…

Food Profile - Tete (Amaranth Greens)

Tete , (amaranth greens), is one of the most commonly found green leafy vegetables in Nigeria. Usually eat…

Food Profile - Quail Eggs

Sometime ago my mum called me up and asked, what is the truth about quail eggs......and I asked her why sh…

Nigeria's Priced Sea Food - Eja Osan

Cleaned Eja Osan I posted a recipe with one of Nigeria's highly priced seafood item, the fish known…

Cow Skin (Pomo) - To Eat or Not To Eat

Cow Skin (aka ponmo ) I imagine every cuisine of the world has one food item or another, that causes so …

Fruits! Fruits!! Fruits!!!

Funke Koleosho's Nigerian Fruits Platter "Fruits are nature's sweets".... Marge Simpso…

Food Profile - Garden Eggs

Garden Egg / African Eggplant pic courtesy ethono.botanik.org The world knows about the large oval shap…

Food Profile - Cashew Apples

Cashew Fruit ( pic courtesy: google images ) After so many years of seeing and eating cashew apples, I …

Mushrooms, Natural Meat Substitute

Funke Koleosho's Meat Substitute Mushroom Soup I occasionally crave mushrooms, so I am starting off…

Understanding Nigerian Spices - Ehuru

Shelled  Ehuru  - African Nutmeg Ehuru , also known as African nutmeg, Calabash nutmeg or Jamaican nutm…

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