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17/04/2024

Hello Moms,
Do you want a Back to school snacks series?

16/04/2024

Let’s cook Moms,

A simple sandwich for the family

You can also pack it as lunch for Daddy

One good thing about sandwiches is how filling it could be.
It is just like having a whole meal on its own.

It is very nutritious, has all the good veggies and a balanced diet.

Check the pictures for step by step guide on how to achieve this.

Kindly comment, like and share.

16/04/2024

Rice is so versatile

That with skill you can turn it into gourmet and give it fancy names.

I name this one the Helena rice, made it for a friend that visited.
She has so much praises for it that I am tempted to add it to my “SPECIALS”

That is why I love love love rice.

14/04/2024

For Mother’s Day

We made three different salads

Potato salad
Hawaiian Macaroni salad
Egg salad

Which of is your favourite?

14/04/2024

Have you ever had this perfect outcome in your head
And you end up cooking nonsense 😀😀
Days like that I simply eat the chicken and thrash the rest

14/04/2024

Just a reminder that I made these beauties from Yoghurt! They are yoghurt candies

I love colourful edibles, I love carrying out researches on how other people eat a certain dish, then I borrow from here, there and present to the world something unique.

I also enjoy taking pictures of them as a reminder of how creative I am and the length I go to satisfy my curiosity

I strongly believe that the mind is a terrible thing to waste, although my waist line suffers but who cares!

14/04/2024

Like I said
Making crock pot beef is one of my favourite once in a while meals to prepare .

I once shared this post and people were questioning the hours spent cooking something that could be consumed in seconds 😀😀😀

But you know, I am determined to amaze my tastebud each day
I am on a mission😀

14/04/2024

Hi Moms,

Let’s talk about this pot right here
Crock pot

It is not common in Nigeria because

1) there is no constant power to use it as it takes hours to cook hence the other name “slow cooker”

2) There are no much common recipes for Nigerian meals floating around to encourage mothers to purchase one.

3) the time it takes to cook would discourage any impatient cook.

But let me tell you a slow cooker is one of the best addition you could have in your kitchen.

Here are cool meals a slow cooker can make for you

✅ shredded chicken
✅rich meat broths
✅roast chicken and meat with veggies
✅bread
✅rice

In a slow cooker you will get nothing but perfection for chicken breasts which you can shred, store in ziploc bags for chicken salads.

Slow cookers can make you meat broths that can replace stocks , all you have to do is start saving your veggies, garlic, ask the butcher for bones they normally discard, boil them all up and get gallons of yummy broths for everyday use.

You can also make jollof rice and any kind of rice on your slow cooker, throw in everything, cook overnight and wake up to a yummy meal.

Slow cookers can turn you to a chef even when you are not and they make the best dump meals ever

You know what else? They are very cheap appliances, people that demand for it for now are cosmetic market , so next time you see one, grab it.

14/04/2024

For the foodlums at home on this wet Sunday Morning

They saw me with chicken earlier, they were happy

I SERVED BEANS

The joy departed briefly but they enjoyed it.

It is always a divided house each time something else apart from rice and swallow is on the menu

When it comes to beans, some like it porridge, some stir fry, others moi moi then there is our smallie than loves it in akara which she affectionately calls “shakara”

The majority does not carry the vote in this house😀
My Kitchen, My Menu.

Happy Sunday Moms.

14/04/2024

Thank you 500 followers
From the bottom of my heart ❤️
I am grateful

14/04/2024

Let’s cook Moms,

Happy Sunday Beauties
Let’s make fries differently

This I call the Ijays special fries, this would take your French fries from zero to million, from regular to food meant for a king.

Ingredients:
✅Irish potatoes
✅eggs
✅ bell peppers (big ones)
✅vegetable oil
✅onions
✅garlic
✅dark soy sauce
✅sesame seeds
✅spring onions
✅knorr cubes
✅salt
✅ corn flour
✅ beef or boneless chicken
✅ Chinese rock sugar (brown sugar or white could do)

Step 1
Cut the potatoes for fries
Boil it for 10-20 mins, set it aside to cool then fry it as fries

Step 2:
Shred the meat or chicken
Cook it, drain the broth and set aside

Step 3:
In a plate mix dissolve the rock sugar add two teaspoons of soy sauce, set aside

Step 4:
Dice the bell peppers and onions into cubes (it must be chunky not tiny) (check the pictures for visuals)

Step 5:
Break the eggs and beat it

Step 6:
Mix the shredded boiled meat inside a bowl that has the beaten eggs
Add three big spoons of cornflour
Mix it
Then add to a hot frying pan, add spring onions

Step 7:
Add your cut bell peppers to the mixed sugar and soy sauce for twenty minutes

Add to the frying meat
Add the fries
Turn them all together
And sprinkle sesame seeds
Don’t forget salt to taste and seasonings

If you would try this recipe kindly like, comment and share
Thank you

13/04/2024

Hello Moms,

Happy weekend, what are you making today for your family?

12/04/2024

Let’s cook Moms,

This weekend something extra nice and five star hotel standard spread for your family

IJAYS SPECIAL Chicken wings Gravy

It is very colourful and it has stages so it depends on how you want it
In this recipe I thickened with tomatoes and onions, so it is like sacrificing a few veggies in the beginning to make a thick gravy at the end where I add the rest of the veggies.

This is a wholesome way to cook for friends, colleague, in-laws, offices and church.

12/04/2024

Thank you 400 followers

12/04/2024

Let’s Cook Moms,

This is an inspiration on what to make for your family this weekend

The Bougie Pineapple rice 🌾

This is a meal on steroids, if you are lucky to get a sweet pineapple, your tastebuds would be forever grateful.

It is very easy to make

Ingredients:
✅Already boiled white rice
✅Dark soy sauce
✅Pineapple
✅carrots
✅eggs
✅garlic
✅bell peppers
✅onions
✅chicken and stock

I have a bowl of Meat balls in stew beside it but it is optional.

Steps to make this

Step 1
With a sharp knife 🔪 slice the pinapple into two starting from the bottom, you have to be very careful to get this shape so it have to be a quick precise cut. Use your knife to cut the pineapples into chunks , keep it aside and scoop out the remaining juice set it aside too, make a deep hole on each side of the pineapple that you can serve the rice on later.

Step2
Prepare your stir fry veggies by cutting and slicing them set aside

Step 3:
If you don’t have rice, boil it

Step 4:
✅ deep fry the chicken
✅Beat the eggs to be very fluffy and white, fry it and do not allow it to get burnt but cream coloured
Set it aside
✅Heat your WOK or non stick frying pan( I used my clay pot )
add oil and allow it to get hot
✅Fry garlic, onions, 🧅, carrots , bell peppers in this order
✅Add your rice, quickly stir, add chicken broth, soy sauce, keep stirring add the eggs, chicken and the pineapple juice, before you set it down
✅Finally add the chunks of pinapple , give it one last stir and serve immediately.

This is the easiest way to get a rich Pineapple rice.

Would you try this at home?

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From the bottom of my heart I appreciate you all.

12/04/2024

Try this and thank me later

I have done it with ugu too

12/04/2024

Let’s cook Moms,

This is how to make KFC standard crunchy chips for your family

After cutting the potatoes into chip sizes

Boil it for 20 minutes

Allow it to cool

Then sprinkle baking soda on top

Mix and fry.

The chips will come out super crunchy!

12/04/2024

Let’s cook Moms,

Yesterday we learned about chicken marinades , today will be on how to prepare tastier beef for your spaghetti, Macaroni, noodles and any other meals you love to add corned beef or minced meat to.

I present to you step by step on how to prepare, cook and store your own marinated minced meat for when you what to include in your meals.

I have never tasted a better meat after this.

I used my double boiler pot for this.

12/04/2024

Let’s cook Moms,
Trust me your kids are going to LOVE this one

Mashed sweet potatoes and Beef Bourguignon

Ingredients for mashed potatoes
✅ sweet potatoes or Irish potatoes
✅ cream milk
✅ butter
✅garlic

Ingredients for Beef Bourguignon
✅beef
✅Carrots
✅onions
✅ Red wine ( I swapped with dark soy sauce)
✅corn starch (optional I didn’t use it )
✅Rosemary or any herbs of your choice
✅mushrooms (optional I didn’t use it)
✅ baby carrots and shallots (I didn’t use them)

Step 1
Prepare all your ingredients

Step 2
Wash, cut your potatoes into pieces then boil

Step 3
Cut the beef into chunks and start cooking
Add the herbs, onions, matured carrots and cook

Step 4:
Add your boiled potatoes into a clean bowl and begin to mash it, add a stick of butter, when it gets mushy and soft, add milk then set it aside ( from experience I realized this part should be the last not the first)

Step 5:
Add soy sauce or wine to your beef that is already tender, stir it to get the brown colour, this is the time to add the corn flour if you don’t like the thickness , I didn’t use corn flour.

By now everything has come together, you can add your mushrooms, baby carrots and shallot then set it down after some minutes

You can make step 4 now, then serve

If you have any questions, kindly ask.

12/04/2024

What did I tell you all?

My household and RICE , Marriage

The way their faces light up when they see their plates, I can’t help it but serve them food and add jara for the smiles, gratitude and praises

It hits harder when children are excited about eating and shower you with praises.

This is BRUNCH

11/04/2024

Marinated and air fried chicken with tomato dip

When it comes to Chicken
Just leave it to me.

You can serve this for any of your events and receive praises non stop for it.

Dm to Order

11/04/2024

Let’s cook Moms,

Don’t cook stew prepare this instead (pt 3)

This is a gravy sauce thickened with tomato juice and fat from beef broth.

Ingredients
✅Carrots (matured)
✅Bell pepper (green,yellow,red)
✅Garlic
✅Onions
✅Tomatoes (8pcs)
✅Scotch bonnet pepper
✅Salt
✅Knorr chicken
✅Beef
✅Vegetable oil
✅Sweet corn

Dice the veggies
Break corn into four parts and boil
Cut beef into bite sizes and cook
Separate the beef from its broth

Put a frying pan on fire, heat your oil, fry the beef till brown , set aside

Set your cooking pot, add vegetable oil, when it gets hot, add garlic and all the diced onions , tomatoes and pepper, then add all carrots
allow to cook
Add your meat , a little broth and another knorr cube

The idea is for the tomatoes and beef fat to thicken the gravy
When the carrot is no longer too strong, and the sauce is getting thick
Add the bell pepper and spring onions ,
Stir and bring it down

Then serve with sweet corn on white rice.

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Thank you

11/04/2024

Sometimes the assistant complains
😀😀😀😀

11/04/2024

Let’s cook Moms,

On this Page you will learn how to make use of what you have at home to prepare meals that will come out fantastic, yummy and healthy.

I am here so that you can stop looking for recipes or what to cook for the kids.
Anyday you lack inspiration just come to me and get inspired.

why rice?

Rice is one of the major dishes we have in Nigeria, there is no day we don’t consume rice, and I started coming up with different ways to eat it because I got tired of the normal rice and stew.

Below are two separate rice dishes and look what I turned them into with the help of beef and eggs!

I freezed raw eggs, cracked it, cut it into circles and fried .
You can also use boiled eggs

The black things there is spaghetti, I fried raw spag until black just because I could 😀😀.

You should try this someday.

11/04/2024

Let’s cook Moms,

Still on Marinades

You have seen a plain marinade,(check previous post)
Let’s try a more serious marinade 😀

We will make a yellow and green marinade, there is also a red one but below I have pictures of green and yellow

Green for the condiments used
✅green pepper
✅spring onions
✅garlic
✅ginger

Yellow for the yellow pepper

It is simple , blend all together then you have your marinade , either use a kitchen brush to apply them on your meats or you pour them over your meats and massage

Points to note: Do not refrigerate your left over marinades, freeze them or boil them to extract salad oils.
If you keep them in your fridge the quality won’t be good on the next day.

Elevate your kitchen game by marinating and thank me later.

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Thank you

11/04/2024

Let’s Cook Moms,

Today we are going to try a plain chicken marinade.

This is so simple and someone might ask why do this instead of cooking the chicken like that? Why go through this pain?

Firstly, I see cooking as a labour of love,

Secondly, cooking is an Art and an expression of yourself

Thirdly the importance of marinating your meat

The acids in a marinade serve not only to flavor, but to soften and tenderize the meat. Thus, marinating proteins like chicken will infuse the meat with flavor and result in a tender, succulent final product after cooking.
It makes the meat more tastier and flavourful.
A good chicken marinade takes 2 to 24 hours.

Now if you are yet to start this trend, this is a call to action and thank me later.

Ingredients for a plain marinade

✅Olive oil or any good oil
✅Onions
✅garlic
✅knorr stock
✅herbs or your choice
✅Chicken

Step by step instructions are on pictures.

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11/04/2024

Thank you 300 Followers

Let’s keep cooking Moms

10/04/2024

Let’s cook Moms,

Did you know that you can turn your left over boiled rice to a gourmet meal if you have the following ingredients at home? From today I want you to start putting your left over rice to a stir fry wonder and watch your family adore you.

✅ bell peppers
✅ spring onions
✅ sesame seeds
✅ carrots
✅onions
✅fresh pepper
✅Marinated beef
✅Sesame oil
✅ dark soy sauce

How to achieve picture 1
Slice all your veggies, soak the marinated beef in soy sauce to get that full umami flavour, in a wok, stir fry the beef until tender, add all the veggies, gently fry , bring to a simmer then sprinkle a tablespoonful of sesame seeds.
Serve immediately with your leftover rice.

Picture 4:
Bring all the veggies to stir fry, set aside, fry the plantain, set aside
Then mix all and add a table spoon of dark soy sauce and sesame seed oil, you get a dirty rice.

Try this and let me make a superstar Mummy out of you. Do remember to share pictures and tag me.

10/04/2024

When it comes to smoky party jollof you can count of SMBI to deliver the yummiest
With my trademark stew soaked eggs, richly marinated chicken and robust friend plantain.

This is the only meal that is made with 100% love and natural ingredients, no artificial spices and Flavour, only rice and a rich tomato sauce.

✅ A pack of jollof is 5k
✅Location is Ikosi Lagos

Dm to order

Thank you

10/04/2024

Don’t make Stew prepare this instead (pt 2)
YOGHURT GRAVY

Let’s cook Moms,

Yoghurt is an unlikely condiment expected to form a base for any gravy but stay with me, I experimented with it and got one of the best, yummy and tastier meals, it was so good I ate it without rice, almost like a pepper soup 😀

This recipe requires minimal effort and ingredients

✅ unsweetened Yoghurt
✅ Goat innards (cut into cubes)
✅salt ( a pinch)
✅ black pepper
✅ one Maggi cube
✅ four matured carrots

This is a very simple and straightforward meal

Step 1: Boil the meat with onions, stock, salt, water to make a flavorful broth

Step 2: When the meat is tender quickly add the carrots, it is important matured carrots are used, they do not get softer with time and also gets sweeter.

Step 3:
When the carrots are no longer hard, add three scoops of unsweetened yoghurt, stir and bring to a thick boil, taste to check when ready, the yoghurt would no longer has a tangy taste but brothy.

Your meal is ready, enjoy.

If ever you try this recipe, do take pictures, share with me and tag me.

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It comes out like this

You can remove the edges and with a sharp knife slice into two

Grease the top and add more ingredients

Add some rings of onions Then sliced tomatoes next At this point you can cover it But I want to add another layer

Next step lettuce

Step 4: Start frying the eggs in batches

Add sardines on top the mayonnaise or butter The grease would trap the sardines so it won’t run

Step 5: Start making the sandwich by taking a slice of bread and adding the first layer of mayonnaise or butter 🧈 This is a single layer There is also a double decker and triple decker sandwich You can use butter, margarine in place of mayonnaise