Food and Cooking

Food and Cooking, Food Writing

Plant-Based Diet?

The term plant-based first appeared in my vocabulary repertoire two years back and, to me, it became more ubiquitous on social media in 2019. I sincerely wondered what it meant.  Now don’t get me wrong. The meaning “plant-based diet” can be easily deciphered from the conjoined word: food made from plants. However, I had never […]

Food and Cooking, Food Writing

Onion Eater or Hater?

“I won’t be able to eat the noodles,” she said. Her friend tried to convince her that the aboki made the best noodles for his customers all the time. “He puts onions in his food, right? I can’t stand the taste of onions in my food!” I had overheard two ladies talking, and wasn’t surprised […]

Food Writing

Grow a Garden, My Friend!

As a young girl, one of the things I found myself loving about food is; you can be a part of the whole process. From planting to nurturing to harvesting and to cooking, I find it intriguing that one can plant peppers, vegetables and fruits somewhere in the house and tend until it becomes what […]

Food Planning

Sedentary worker and eating wrongly?

After a long time of trying to get to know me, I finally found what makes me happy. It’s food, people! Food makes me happy. Eating food, good food, locally made food. Never stale food, hot food, happy food. Well, with this expensive lifestyle of loving food, while some of us are even struggling to […]

Food Reviews

Mo’s Crispy Plantain Chips Review

The year would soon be over and I almost cannot believe it! Wow! A lot has happened in the year –Good, Joyful, bad, disappointing, but we’re getting stronger daily because it’s all working out! It might be in slow progressions, but you know that the most important is that you’re moving, right? Remember how I […]

Food and Cooking, Food Writing

Loving Sugar?

“Akara was served again. It was a sunny Saturday morning in secondary school. Saturdays came with a lot of ecstasy. It was not just about the “weekend euphoria”. Our breakfast – round and crispy Akara balls fried with Palm oil usually held our feelings high and brought so much joy to the weekend. The weekend […]