CHICKEN CHICKEN CHICKEN

Olla peeps, 

Trust y'all are doing fantastic😁. So my mum sent us frozen chicken and quite a bit if it and IKEDC(our electric power supplier) hasn't been nice of recent. I also don't like storing food in the fridge or freezer as I have found I totally prefer fresh food. Thank goodness I love to cook eh😁

Oh and by us I mean my sisters and I. So I started off thinking why don't I just boil the chicken and bag it in portions and stick in the freezer awaiting sisters pick up abi? Hmmmmm then my cooking mode kicked in and I thought naaaa I'll make a broth kinda something sauce😁.

I had about 24 pieces of chicken

2 huge onions

12 cloves of garlic

Just under 2"of fresh ginger 

Sea salt

Black pepper

Dry yellow pepper

1 heaped teaspoon of turmeric 

Juice of 1 orange

Honey 

Spring onions

Parsley 

Light and dark soy sauces

Grated nutmeg just under half a seed

Cornstarch to thicken

In a huge stock pot I placed all the chicken pieces, added the chopped onions, garlic, ginger, salt, peppers, orange juice, nutmeg and left to boil until just done. Note I don't add any water to my meats or chicken when boiling. I allow the juices from produce boil the produce instead. Gives a richer stock and that's how my mama taught me too😁😁😁

At that point I added turmeric, soy sauces and honey and left to boil for about 10 minutes covered.

Mix your cornstarch with cold water in small batches so you see building up the thickness of your sauce little by little.

Add the mixed cornstarch to the boiling stick and stir to achieve your desired consistency.

Turn off you gas or burner add the chopped spring onions and parsley and serve with couscous, rice, quinoa, yam, potatoes, plantain. 

The frozen chicken has quite a lot of fat, I had earlier trimmed off as much as I could before boiling and them also drained out as much as I could after cooking

I had the first taste on it's on and the 2nd with ofada rice. Yum yum yum

Enjoy a fruitful rest of the week😘

HAVE I DINE SMOOTHIES BEFORE? 😁

So lately I've been getting pretty hungry after 7pm and that's not really a great thing in the living healthy lifestyle circles neither is it great for my amazing looking bod right now( agama praising itself here tee hee hee). 

At the risk of falling off the wagon and just stuffing myself with all sorts of things I shouldn't be I have to find creative ways to quench the hunger that won't compromise the level of healthy eating I have managed to attain ekwa?

Tonight I had just under 2 cups of Greek yoghurt, 6 strawberries, a dash of grated nutmeg, a dash of ground cinnamon, a table spoon each of coconut oil and honey, a heaped teaspoon of ground flaxseed and half a handful of 50%less sugar cranberries. 

It hit the spot and I was yummilly pleased.

Most times when I put up a picture I'm asked in surprise where I get my ingredients from. What we are looking for in Sokoto is mostly inside our sokoto pockets😁. There are vegetable and fruit markets springing up everywhere in lagos, most of the big supermarkets have  an array of fruits, vegetables and herbs you wouldn't believe possible. 

Enjoy my smoothie😘

I SOOOOOOO LOVE SALADS😁💃💃💃

Olla peeps,

My body always knows when I need a salad. Truthfully one should eat a salad at least once a day but alas I don't quite achieve that and can go weeks without one. Shameful🙈

So a salad is one way to curb my sweet cravings as I'd ordinarily include raisins or cranberries or honey for a bit of sweetness and it always hits the spot.

My salads aren't necessarily done a certain way, it all depends on what I have at home at that point in time and with this salad I had; lettuce, spring onions, parsley, cheddar cheese, raisins, cranberries, slivered almonds, sesame seeds, apples and for the dressing I used the freshly squeezed lemon and lime juices I used for the thinly apples to stop them going brown, coconut oil, honey, dry yellow pepper and freshly chopped ginger.

I normally store the dressing in a seperate container as I found from experience that the salad becomes limp faster if it's tossed with the dressing and kept in the fridge. 

I make enough for 2 or 3 healthy portion servings 😁. Note I didn't indicate quantities per item as I mentioned earlier I use up what I have at home at that point in time.

Enjoy

WHAT TO DO ABOUT SUGAR SWEET CRAVINGS? HMPH!!!

So I've been having really bad sugar sweet cravings lately, so bad that I broke a 3 day cleanse with some yummy delicious icing laden cake on Saturday which shamefacedly I admit was only day 2 (morning I might add of my cleanse). So cleanse broken I came home to face moin moin and garri with groundnuts(resisted the temptation of adding sugar, yes! Victory dancing up and down for absolute joy😁.

Anywho by evening my craving was back and I was like oh no! You don't! I shall not succumb to this again today so I looked in my trusty fridge and freezer and out came the lovely ICECREAM ingredients. Hold your horses naaaa😁, you need to know what the ingredients are innit?

3 frozen bananas

6 frozen strawberries 

Juice of 2 lemons and 1lime

1 whole avocado 

1 handful of cranberries and almonds together

About a table spoon of honey(which I know I really didn't need)

About a tablespoon of coconut oil

And a splash of pineapple juice(juiced pineapples myself) to get the blender going. Blended until smooth which was about 2minutes.

To show you how good this was I tasted it in the kitchen and before I got to my room it was half gone so I don't have any pretty pictures this time sorry. . . 

It is most definitely worth a try. And it beats Ice cream hands down any day. 

Sugar sweet craving busted! Wooo hoooo. 

Enjoy a blessings filled week y'all😁😉