African food recipes, family-friendly meals, African stories.
Give me these twisted doughnuts warm with a glass of milk and I will be in snacking heaven! These twisted doughnuts are life – slightly crunchy on the outside, soft and pillowy on the inside with an irresistible buttery flavor. They are a variation of African doughnuts which are made […]
This is what happens when you grab a cookbook to flip through the pages in the evening. You see a really good cookie photo that causes you to run into the kitchen and make easy chocolate chip cookies! You see, these are not called the easiest chocolate chip cookies for […]
Plantain chips are my weakness! You know what? I always plan to make a big batch and keep at home so we can have a nice snack to grab and enjoy. But that plan never works because once I make plantain chips, it disappears fast… into our bellies! Mr. N, […]
Do you have 30 minutes? Use them to make these beignets souffles that taste like plain cake but are so much better! You only need a few ingredients to make these beignets and they can literally solve your entertaining problems. Guests in your living room but don’t know what to give them? […]
I grew up eating this insanely good Cameroon banana cake. It is the perfect way to use up overripe bananas and the taste is out of this world. I had really ripe bananas sitting idle in my fridge. So what was I supposed to do? I made banana cake! This […]
This shop/post has been compensated by Collective Bias, INC. and The Coca-Cola Company, all opinions are mine alone. #ServeWithACoke #CollectiveBias I am a sucker for good pies! I mean the ones with perfectly flaky crusts and insanely delicious fillings. Like my fish pie and meat pie. Can never have enough […]
When you make something twice in two days and it disappears every single time you make it then you know the recipe is a keeper! This is my story with this coconut sweet aka homemade toasted coconut flakes. My hands forget discipline when this thing is in the house. I […]
On the 9th of August, that’s two weeks ago, Mr. N and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary! After thinking of what to make to celebrate with (because what’s any celebration without food??) I decided to make these EPIC meat pies. I call them Nigerian meat pies, Cameroonian meat pies or […]
Groundnut sweet also know as candied peanuts or sugar-coated peanuts is a popular snack in many countries. They are crunchy, sweet, insanely delicious and simply irresistible! In Cameroon, these are sold as a snack or street food. I remember my uncle warning me sternly years ago that I should never […]
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