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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Salmon, Dodo & Asparagus

*It was really hard to get a good picture this day; i think it was too sunny or my Camera was just not in the mood (yup! in case u didn't know; machines and toys have feelings... give them some luv :) {if u doubt me, watch toy story 1 & 3... 2's just meh. lol} I am not in a good mood today hope i am doing a good job of masking it. lol ... 

*Here we have salmon made a little oil, asparagus and dodo. 

Like i said in my previous post. Explicit RECIPE HERE

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CHRI-- Dodo Luv & a picture i like

R    means our Redeemer

I     means Israel

 Dodo is like a lady's little Black dress, it never gets old and it works whenever you don't know what to wear but still want to stop the show. 

I just like this picture.... forget what i said before.lol.. not that it was a lie. :) IDM {I didn't make it}

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Dodo & Ndole.

I KNOW YOU ARE EXCITED :) ---- ENJOY!

Me : I have a question for you
Your mind : Who is she talking to
Me : You, far away from Cameroon, looking forward to going back, starring at my blog and coming up with an idea for your next dish
Your mind : this girls' crazy
Me : Do i make you hungry or awaken your appetite for something you haven't had in a while.... or just make you remember home.
Your mind : In fact i am closing this browser..
Me : My target is to remind you of your roots. Any thing else is a human urge, deal with it :) lol J/K
(Why did i just type that?)

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Slice through : Shrimp & Dodo

Extra ripe Dodo, fried.

Shrimp in tomato sauce

Covered with aluminium foil and put in the oven for bonding ;) {say 3 minutes}

Bon appetite cheri. 

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Dodo and Beans.

Dodo is the Cameroonian Term for fried ripe plantains. Dodo is Kevin's(my brother) fav thing in the whole world. His wife better grow a couple of trees behind her house. This is a real Cameroonian plate. I did not make the beans, my friend did. it tasted great. I have nightmares about beans due to a constant feed in boarding school. (ask any ex students of Baptist schools' ; Saker or BHS) They fed us beans in every way and with everything: in cornchaf, with plantains, with rice..LAWD!. 

BOTTOM LINE : eating Beans with Ripe plantains is eating beans the right way. :) <3 <3

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Ndole, Dodo and Rice

Sooo sorry again, not blog appropriate photos, but it isssss Ndolee! as soon as i get a better picture(that is the next time i cook Ndole, which will be a whileee), i will upload.

There is no substitute for myondo but all the same dodo and Ndole is a priceless combination. Off course i had people over still. i don't eat alone, its no fun! :)

Imagine a drive through in North America where they had Dodo,myondo and ndole as a combo meal with Fanta or top pamplemouse!! (Fly over my errors)

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Dodo, potatoes and chicken breast

Picture still not blog appropriate, sorry. When you are hungry there really isn't time for pictures. As you can see the plate is on my lap, ready to be eaten. lol. So this is a quick meal. What makes it quick is the chicken breast, quickest thing to fix :)(i find)

The only Cameroonian thing here is the dodo and fried potatoes and the tomatoes and onion sauce.!! it was yummy is all i can say. ;)

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