Kitchen Chronicles during my absence.

Hey guys!! 

 I missed you, and blogging, i sure hope you missed me too. Its been a whole 16 days!, i have never been away for so long, but i'm here to make it up to you ;). What happened? well, I was entertaining members of my family over the past 2 weeks. They also happen to have traveled from far and wide, it was an important time or period in my life (I graduated!)... thank you, thank you :). I hope you all have been great; and to where it applies happy memorial day in arrears :). Regardless of things, we still have to eat right? so here's a toast to my kitchen chronicles during this period of absence. 

so sit back, relax and Enjoy.

Day 1: 3 people dining
Sese Plantains: This is a typical Cameroonian dish, made with unripe or semi ripe plantains. Mine are unripe, made with cow skin and smoked fish. Its a really easy process, but i'd like to blog the recipe when i make the dish on its own.
Fresh garden veggies stir fry with chicken breast: These days, i feel like i cannot make a meal without a side of veggies, that must be a good thing.
Aged chicken: Its almost like a delicacy, its sold in the Asian super market where i live. This plate is steamed in spices and over broiled on a tray to reduce excess fat. Its really tasty and healthy, and the spicier the better. ;)
Tomato pepper sauce: Spicy enough to be a pepper sauce but also not too spicy that it could be used as a sauce to go with the rice. the green leaf is a bay leaf. ;)
The rice: The stock from the steamed chicken was used to boil the rice so it could be eaten as is.

The Desert: A parfait; freshly baked vanilla cake chopped, fresh strawberries chopped and pure vanilla bean ice cream (store bought). I layered it as in the picture, 2 layers per goodies. I then set it to cool in the fridge... The cake ends up being moist with ice cream and the strawberries.. don't even get me started... yum yum yum.

Day 3: 4 people dining- Late night After a busy day

Sauteed Green beans: My sister made these, parboiled and sauteed in onions, soy, garlic, salt and black pepper. just enough crunch left... yummy.

Baked potatoes: Par boiled potatoes, rubbed in table butter and sour cream and then baked, easy and healthier than frying. Also, a little tip, if you want them out of the oven with the crispy crust as though they were fried, skip the sour cream. :)

Aged chicken: Its almost like a delicacy, its sold in the Asian super market where i live. This plate is steamed in spices and over broiled on a tray to reduce excess fat. Its really tasty and healthy, and the spicier the better. ;) Same as above! hehe

Tomato pepper sauce: Spicy enough to be a pepper sauce but also not too spicy that it could be used as a sauce to go with the rice. the green leaf is a bay leaf. ;). Same one as above!

The rice: Plain white rice, my mom has a thing for plain rice :)

 My Plate :)

Day 5: Hosting people over, say 18-30
I can't possibly recipe out every dish here; over time i have covered most of the recipes to these dishes on my blog. I will however list the menu.
-Puff Puff
-Tape Tape Plantains
-Dodo
-Fufu & eru
-Fufu & Okro
-Fufu & Okongobong... i don't know the spelling, i just freelanced
-Grilled chicken thighs
-Steamed Aged chicken

  Other days: Eating out shamelessly :)

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Ripe Plantains & Mushroom Sauce

This meal was actually made from leftovers from my weekend. I had made a cream steak sauce and i was too lazy to take pictures for the blog (my apologies). In a bid to keep the cream spirit going after the weekend, i decided to make some mushroom sauce and ripe plantains. Let me point out here that little changes can make you feel like you're eating something else {ref: i never slice ripe plantains like this, so it felt like i was eating something different}. Meat balls- Leftovers. :)

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Unripe plantains, Green and Meatballs.

*  1 Boiled Unripe plantain.

*  Green, Spinach made like green. Its the same spinach recipe as the one with the short bones dish. {veggies are good for u hehe}

 *  Meatballs made from scratch, i will put up the meat balls recipe soon. Meanwhile, take it all in

 :) :) :) 

GROS BISOUS. DMC luv.

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Ripe Plantains, roasted fish and Salad

Tossed spinach salad with a strawberry dressing, Boiled ripe plantains and Roasted Tilapia. 

These pictures were not taken at the best time.**

There is fish pepper sauce that i made on the fish(that sounds funny.lol). Tasted really good. Enjoy!....the view i mean.
SEE HOW TO MAKE ROASTED TILAPIA HERE:

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Plantains & Cat Fish stew.

I know its been a while, its school guys. This is supposed to be a post from last weekend. I have been crazy busy; but i stay loyal ( :)puts palms together in prayer mode) lol. Well, I boiled the ripe plantains and: -----Does anyone remember Njangsang (LAWD! i know i spelled that wrong.) lol but its a spice that looks like peanut. We crush it and use it to make fish stew; with fresh fish of course. In case anyone forgot i have a picture of it here in my hand :) lol.

NJANGSANG: 

*A few things about it*

-You have to fry it in a pan to dry it before you can crush it, that makes it easy

-I have noo idea where it comes from sorry lol.

*How to apply it to your food*

-When you are frying your tomatoes and onions, add it to the sauce and let it cook with the mixture. :)... crushed of course. 

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Plantain Tapé Tapé et du Poisson(Fish) .

The weekend came again. I love tapé tapé(i believe thats how these plantains are called) I prefer half ripe plantains. LOL; weird but true. I`ll actually post how to make this. The unfortunate thing is i used a particular fish spice which is a mixture of spices from back home(hence the brownish shade of the onions n fish, the good news is: u can replace my spice with ginger and garlic or just njangsang)

CLICK HERE AND SEE HOW TO MAKE THIS 

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Plantains, Fish & Green beans & sausage :)

****Sorry my fillet didn't stay put...psshhh!! :)
Green beans were the best part...dinner for 1!****

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