PORRIDGE BEANS RECIPE

My family people enjoy calling me 'Dorky Elewa' I have on countless occasions tried refusing that tag but the harder I try, the more they keep calling me "Dorky Elewa"  so these days, I just un-look. I shall not be stressed anymore. 

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UPDATED PUFF-PUFF RECIPE!!!

 

I do have weird cravings and most of the time I satisfy these cravings because You Only Live Once and anything can happen any time.

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JOLLOF PASTA RECIPE!!!

Hey Guys! Happy New Year. *smacks lips* You don't have to tell me to cover my face, I know. Can you imagine that this is my first  recipe post this year??? Please forgive me. Work has really been demanding and I am still struggling with this balance thingy.


 How body?! This is not a rhetorical question oh! How una dey true true?? I am just here feeling myself cos my last post has over a few hundred clicks and I am pretty excited that my blog is going international! *wiggles waist*

 Did you see my recent post on IG (missy_abimbola) where I posted a cake my mom made for a wedding? If not, you need to follow me so you can keep tabs on me and we can become best friends!!!

Pasta is like my go to food anytime I am feeling lazy, I mean it is so easy to cook and most importantly, it does not take forever to get ready. Another reason why I enjoy pasta is because of its versatile nature, it can fit in as breakfast, lunch or dinner.

So, let us get started, to the main KOKO of this post:

INGREDIENTS

1. One spaghetti pack - 700g

2. Vegetable oil - 2 cooking spoons

3. Onions - 1 medium sized.

4. Pepper mix- blended red bell peppers, tomatoes and ata rodo.

5. Ginger

6. Garlic

7. Seasoning cubes

8. Salt to taste.

9. Tomato puree

DIRECTIONS.

1. With medium/ high heat, pour in water, enough quantity to boil your pasta add one tea spoon of vegetable oil and salt to taste, immediately it comes to a rolling boil, add in your pasta.

NOTE- added oil helps to prevent it from being clumpy. Jollof pasta must not stick together, it is in the food constitution. 😉 

2. Cook till it becomes tender and drain it in a colander, pour in some cold water so the cooking process can stop and set aside.

3. With medium heat, pour in 1 cooking spoon of vegetable oil in a pot and add already sliced onion, grated ginger and sliced garlic, stir lightly until it becomes translucent

4. Add in the tomato pure and after 3 minutes, add the blended pepper mix and allow it to fry for about 3 minutes, till the oil floats to the top.

5. Add the already cooked pasta and stir vigorously, this step is a little tricky as you may need to add in water if the need arise. 

6. Allow to simmer for about two minutes and IT IS READY. 

DO NOT FORGET TO TRY OUT THIS RECIPE AND PLEASE LIKE MY FACEBOOK PAGE- FAVOURITE FOODIES. GOD BLESS Y'ALL. 

*KIZZEZ*

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MY MENU PLAN!!!

I used to think I was going to be an Orobo while growing up, I mean I was quite chubby with fat cheeks so I already preconditioned my mind towards being an Orobo.You know this life is full of surprises. I eventually did not turn out to be Orobo. Halleluyah Somebody?!?!

You may begin to ask what I did differently? To be completely honest with you, I do not know. Might be because of my healthy eating habits or God is just good to me. LOL might be the later sha.

Although I have previously shared some of my  healthy feeding tips in my previous posts which I believe you must have checked it out, if you haven't, wyd Fam? So basically, I got a request from my amazing friend- Foyin to share my menu plan. But before I do that, I'd like to share the major reasons why this post is meant for you! 

These are the major reasons why I plan my menu: 

1 A Menu Plan Saves Money

This is the main reason why I started planning my menu. Eating out all the time is not affordable oh and my new year's resolution of saving tarty billion by the end of the year will not actualize. By planning your menu,  you know exactly what to shop for and buy everything in bulk instead of making unending trips to the market. It also helps to reduce impulse shopping to the barest minimum. Because lezz be sincere, nobody can stop impulse shopping 😥

#2   A Menu Plan Saves Time

You've heard of the saying- There's no time to check time. Yeah, No time at all, especially when you have a 9-5 and you're still begging God to increase to your number of hours to 42, because, plenty activities. Meal planning helps me to stay organized and efficient.

#3 A Menu Plan Helps to Avoid Stress.

If you know me very well, like very well, you'll know I have zero tolerance for stress. I avoid stressful situations and people like plague. Like please carry your wahala and go. Me I'm not even joking, so to avoid the stress that comes with racking my brain with what to cook and my intense desire to eat healthy, I plan my meals.

So let's get on to the main Koko

    

Monday: BREAKFAST - BREAD, TEA AND EGGS. 

LUNCH - SPAGHETTI WITH BEEF/CHICKEN

DINNER- BEANS AND PLANTAIN. 

Tuesday: BREAKFAST - BREAD AND BUTTER 

LUNCH: EBA AND GARNISHED OKRA SOUP. 

DINNER- SHARWARMA/CHICKEN AND CHIPS/PIZZA

Wednesday: BREAKFAST - AKARA AND PAP

LUNCH - YAM PEPPER SOUP 

DINNER - NATIVE JOLLOF RICE. 

Thursday: BREAKFAST - YAM AND EGG

LUNCH: STIR FRY NOODLES 

DINNER- BEANS AND POTATO/DODO.

 
Friday: BREAKFAST - PANCAKES/HOME MADE SNACKS

LUNCH: EBA AND EGUSI SOUP

DINNER- JOLLOF PASTA. 

 
Saturday: BREAKFAST - MOINMOIN AND PAP

LUNCH - FRIED RICE/JOLLOF RICE 

DINNER- YAM PORRIDGE 

 
Sunday:BREAKFAST- YAM AND EGG (  I honestly do not eat on Sunday mornings) 

LUNCH - RICE AND STEW.

DINNER-AMALA AND GBEGIRI WITH EWEDU. 

My menu plan is not rigid, I really do not enjoy swallows so you'll rarely find me eating pounded yam, semo or wheat. You'll find a lot of 'ebas' cos that's my favorite swallow. Anyway, you can decide to switch things up and replace accordingly as it suits you!  

There are so many other benefits of menu planning: you'll get to eat healthy, plan ahead, eat variety and over all look healthy.

So why not start a meal plan today?! You'll be glad you did. 🙏

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MY NATURAL HAIR JOURNEY! (ONE YEAR AND COUNTING)

It has been one year since I started my natural hair journey, although I really cant remember the exact date my mom helped me with the big chop, I only know it was in the last week of the month of November, so I am celebrating throughout this week !😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

The journey has not been an easy one to be completely honest with you, I mean I have had my share of good and bad. Days my scalp will keep burning me like pepper or days where I look like a 16 year old because low cut. Let me just give you a little background story of my hair:

*rewinds to 15 years earlier* ISSA NOLLYWOOD 

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10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ME- ABIMBOLA OMOLE.

 

HALLELUYAH! Bimbola is PLUS ONE!  Omode o kin pe dagba oh! I was staring at myself yesterday evening and I realized I don dey old small small LOL, no grey hair of course but I'm turning to an Adult like play like play! I can feel my inner child slowly fading away and I'm not even ready!!

So I feel I need my blog readers should get to know me more that's why I came up with this post, although you guys already know my name cos I mention it a lot, but it's not enough. Take it or leave it, we're family right now! And there's really nothing you can do about it.  I'll forever famz y'all *shines teeth!

It's been two years blogging and I started initially out of boredom and my passion for Good Food and Healthy Feeding in Abakaliki, I didn't even really take it serious then so it was an 'on' and 'off' thing. I had good friends who helped me then, I won't mention names, but you guys are amazing....... And my blog mentors who I run to anytime I experience any hitch, you guys too gbaski!!  *blows kiss

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WATERMELON SMOOTHIE RECIPE.

A smoothie is a combination of two or three different fruits blended together. Lobatan.

Sometimes, all you need in a stressful environment is a very cold fresh juice that will relazz your navs, a natural fresh juice at that, I have a recipe here for Natural healthy drinks here.(ZOBO)

Ever since I moved up north, I have been a huge fan of watermelon, cos water melons here are very sweet and juicy, unlike those ones in the west. I buy it almost everyday and I have become the No 1 customer of the aboki in my street. *shines teeth*

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7 TIPS FOR A FOOD BLOGGER/LOVER TO STAY IN SHAPE!

Been a while FoodieFam!! Just hit me up on any of my social media platforms and let's catch up 😚😙.

I will not be impressed with technology until I can download food, eat without getting fat! I mean I have not even fulfilled one of my bucket list  of traveling around the world and sampling varieties of food of different countries of the world with za Ozban and I'm starting to gain more weight. *stares at feets* Although, I wouldn't want to sound like a feminist but obviously, women are under a great deal more pressure to be slim than men and we are perceived to be overly concerned about our appearance.

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FOOD BUCKET LIST !!!

Hello Foodie Fam!

 Food is super important: it helps us live and we live for it. Just like one toon I watched 'The Croods' said 'Food makes everything easier' I couldn't agree more. We center our social events on food- party Jollof rice is a Nigerian definition of hope. Most of our good memories are based on food, and it makes us feel better. Amirite?

  Bucket list is just list of things you wanna try out before you kpef. *straight face* as humans, we do not know when that time is, but we can try as much as possible to enjoy our stay here on earth and have good food memories. Sharing this post makes me so emotional, maybe it's because of my strong attachment with my food bucket list or it's the hormones. I really can't say *stares at feets*

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FOOD WARS!!!

Hello Darlings!

Sorry I couldn't post last week, heez not my fault oh! *inserts geek mode*  I was experiencing some technical difficulties, one of  my blog reader sent me a mail complaining about not being able to comment, and my boss - VADEX DESIGNS came to my rescue. They are into website customization, in case you need one!

You can see that blog mi ti upgrade! Yay! I'm so excited about this new design, if you have any useful tips or comments about it, don't hesitate to let me know! *wide grin

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STORY TIME!!! ☺☺

It's story time people! So I passed out of NYSC few weeks back and I was just thinking about how God saw me through! This is gonna be a lengthy one so I'd suggest you just grab some popcorn and let's gist. 

I remembered the day I checked my NYSC posting, I was in my school's senate building collecting my certificate with my two friends- Oladamola and Simileoluwa though we had earlier done our convocation around december of the previous year, we were in one chamber waiting for it and one guy just rushed in and said- call up letters has been uploaded, you guys can check your postings. Immediately I started having flashbacks images of me pranking my sister and mom, like I'd just shout and say I've checked it and it's Oyo state. And they'll both be excited, until I burst the bubble and tell them I was joking. But this aint no joke.  

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