Tiramisu the Italian or Kenyan way?

Eating home made tiramisu in Nairobi is just unbelievable. Anyway, you know its possible next time you are in Kenya and you really need to eat some good home made food let me know.
For tiramisu recipe check my tiramisu older posting here!

Kenyan Cooking: a daily dose of Good healthy food

Good food is good
Good food for thought
Good food for my son
Good food for family
Brings joy to my family
...everytime we sit at dinner table

Mediterranean Diet: Fish, chicken, lots of vegetables, olive oil and fruits

Chicken ham rolls with Zucchini

Chicken ham rolls with Mary's home made herbs

Smell the flowers

Home Cooking in 2014 the New family Golden Rule

Home cooking can be simple and enjoyable if you put your mind into it. It takes just a little of planning. For example these are home made Ravioli I have made in my kitchen right here in Nairobi. As long as I can find some parmesan and some locally made cottage or ricotta cheese Im good to go. I make my dough (eggs+flour) mix the cheeses and spinach into a puree and there you go, roll your dough thinly cut the individual pieces, fill in close throw into boiling water and serve with butter and sage plus sprinkle of grated parmesan. A friend visiting was almost in tears to eat home made ravioli in Kenya. It gives more satisfaction than sitting in a hotel and having a ravioli dinner there! Try it

Fruit salad filled Pan Cake

250g of flour
400 ml of milk
4 eggs
pinch of salt
2 spoonfuls of icing sugar
butter

filling:
pineapple
mango
pawpal
spoonful og lemon juice
or any fruit you have in the house


Mix in a container the flour and milk, then the eggs, salt and icing sugar. Leave to rest.

In the meantime wash and cut into small cubes the fruit, put in a container and marinate with the lemon juice.

Prepare the pancakes
on the pan melt butter, add a serving spoon of the pancake mixture, spread it evenly, cook on both sides. Cook all the pancakes like this way.

Ready, fill the pancakes with the fruit salad and decorate with icing sugar.

And here you go!!!!

Italian pastry cream

Simple easy Italian dessert: Transform pancakes into a delicious love story of food

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Pastry cream + pancakes
Ingredients: 100g sugar, 50g flour, 1/2 litre milk and 4 egg yorks

Steps: Put in egg yorks in a heavy based cooking pot, then add the sugar and flour. Beat the mixture until no crumbs form.
Put milk in a flow while continuing to mix.
Cook under small flame until it boils.
Leave it to cook for a while.
Put in another container and continue stirring to cool
Use as a filling for cakes and other pastries.

Kenyan Cooking: Bones or Meat

This is what happens in Kenya when you choose to buy your meat from the butchers shop in a small market than in an upmarket supermarket. Anyway I love buying from them because we need to keep everyone eating .... otherwise these people tomorrow will be out of job.
But now Im really mad with this guy because I bought 2 kilos of meat and 431 grams was bones. The thing is Im going back to him today to buy more meat but will present my argument to him that he messed up last time so today for the same price I need a small bone or no bone atall...what do you think his reaction is going to be?
Keep cooking and keep visiting this blog for your healthy recipes which are easy to make and yummy!

Cooking in Kenya: Oven grilled fish, potatoes and vegetables

This is a great idea for a Thursday night football dinner


Eating simple healthy food in Kenya

Tilapia is in abudance in Kenya. A kilo of Tilapia here in Nairobi is going for 4.50 euros. And considering the abundance of vegetables and Meru potatoes I can have my healthy simple favourite oven grilled vegetables. Oh, forgot to mention Rosemary in Meru people use it as fencing so Im thinking of doing a small production of dried herbs which are plenty everywhere. Incase you have interest in this we can team and work out this project.

The recipe is the same old one weekend VIP treats for your family.
Explore this blog for hundrends of simple easy recipes to enjoy
Whether you are watching the atlanta falcons, nfl,baltimore ravens or the falcons this and more simple easy recipes in this blog will definitely top up your Thursday night football 2010.
Enjoy!

Aubergines preserved in Oil

Ingredients:
2 kg aubergines
garlic
Origano
1 l of white wine vinegar
Olive oil
Salt
red pepper

Wash the aubergines and peel if you like (optional)
cut into 1/2 cm pieces, spread salt and leave to seep out the water.

After few hours ,(put vinegar to boil with same amount of water) rinse and put them for 2 minutes in boiling vinegar-water mixture.

remove them and leave to drip all the water in an inclined surface.
Then put into vases alternating with Origano, garlic and red pepper. Fill with olive oil making sure you don't leave bubbles of air and that the oil covers the vegetables well.
Close tightly and sterelize for 30 minutes.

Ps. In the image above instead of boiling them I grilled them.

Mediterranean Diet: Fish, chicken, lots of vegetables, olive oil and fruits

Healthy Eating in Kenya: Kenyan Cooking

Dear Readers,
as you know I am now in Kenya and happy to bring you some recipes from Kenya, while abroad I missed a lot polenta or what is called Ugali in Kenya.
So for the last month I have been eating a lot of Ugali and Im now sharing this with you here. Be sure to receive lots of hints, ideas and secrets of making a Kenyan typical dish wherever you are.

In this picture from the other night dinner we have Ugali, oven grilled fish(tilapia) widely available here at unbeatable prices and kales of course this is eaten in great quantities here. Sure in the country everyday people eat tonnes of them.



For how to make yummy Kenyan Kales see the Ugali recipe in this older post

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Cooking from Kenya

Pizza Veggie!



Cooking Pizza from Kenya

First Pizza is out of the oven in my Kenyan kitchen!

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Vintage 1978 Avon Cookbook: " CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN COOKING "

Vintage cook - A Celebration of American Cooking

I recently bought a "A Celebration of American Cooking" a cook book exclusively for Avon Team Leaders July 4, 1978
It is also signed by Group Vice - President, Field Operations
This Vintage cook book is now on Sale, will ship from Nairobi where I am currently and Im selling to the highest bidder starting price is 111 US dollars the highest bidder will get this exclusive book.
Hurry today before it is gone.