Signature meals by Ijay

27/11/2024

05/08/2024

This is how I eat just one slice of bread

You will need sliced bread
A tin of Sardine
A tin of sweet corn
Onions
Garlic
A pinch of salt
2 Eggs
Fresh pepper
Spring onions
Toaster

05/08/2024

As we begin this new week, may your love shine upon us, O God. May it be a week of new possibilities, success, and abundant blessings.

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?

Keep liking, commenting and sharing
From the bottom of my heart I appreciate you all.