Sunday, 30 March 2014
How to prepare Yam with Chicken eggs, Garden egg and Smoked fish sauce
YAM WITH CHICKEN EGGS, GARDEN EGG AND SMOKED FISH
This is a very tasty and delicious experimental dish. It is can be eaten as breakfast, lunch or dinner. The combination of yam, chicken eggs and garden egg has all the food nutrient the need.
For serve of four.
Sunday, 23 March 2014
Moin Moin(beans cake) recipe
Moin Moin(beans cake)recipe
Moin Moin, is a dish made from beans. It's highly nutritious. It is very rich in protein.
Serve of four
Moin Moin, is a dish made from beans. It's highly nutritious. It is very rich in protein.
Serve of four
Ingredients:
- 500g BeansTuesday, 18 March 2014
10 Reasons to smile
Put a smile on your face(feyin eee) hahaha that is from Lagbaja song. whatever the situation maybe please learn to always smile, it takes nothing from you to smile but a lot when you frown or get angry. Life situations might not give rooms for smiling, remember that frowning or getting angry can't solve the problem either but add to it. Note this, health is wealth. Live healthy by making smiling a habit, which is very beneficial to you and others. When you smile to someone it is contagious, definitely you have made someone smile. Once you stop smiling your life becomes less fun. Believe me you have so many reasons to smile, let look at some of the reasons you should smile.
Here are the reasons to smile:
1.Health: When you smile there are changes in your body chemistry which is not just your face but it sends a smile through your whole body. All the cells in your body plump up and become more resilient, because of positive hormones that flow through.
2. Mental Wellness: Smiling is contagious, actually when someone smiles it's transfer to other people around. Sometimes unintentionally when you see someone smile you will realise that you smiles too without knowing it, that is the power of smiling.
3. Smiling can change your mood: When you feel really bad about something or you are not just happy, try to smile before you know it your mood will change. Likewise when someone is very angry with you instead of raging back at the person just put an innocent and understanding smile on your face( note: don't laugh at the person or else you will here ghenghen) for the person, you will see change of mood immediately.
4. Means of attraction: When you smile you attract more people, this enhance the way you interact with people. Even a business person with smiles will eventually attract more customer. If you are smiles a lot, you are like a breath of fresh air that walks into a room.
5. Family unity: Smiling can unite family together when a member cast a smile on other family members often, this warm up and reduces tension among the family members. Every member of the family should smile often to encourage one another.
6. Builds Self Esteem: When you smile it boost your moral level and also take away negative thoughts, by which you are able to do things you can't ordinarily do before. Bringing you closer to your life path.
7. Sign of Forgiveness: Ordinarily when you see someone you are quarrelling with, it is difficult to smile to that person but when you re-consider and just smile to that person, forgiveness has happened. You can even use smile to seek for forgiveness from a person you have offended, if that person should smile back at you that means you are forgiven. Use the power of smile always.
8. Emotion: Smiling can get you out of depression. Consciously practice smiling exercise everyday, gradually you will see reasons to live and be alive.
9. Faith: Smiling is real and genuine. it is gives you sound mind to generate new ideas and believes. It makes you hold on your faith.
10. Lastly smiling is free, it won't cost a thing. Give and take freely, live your life, be happy and make other people happy too by being generous with your smile. Smile enhance your look, makes you look more beautiful/handsome and radiant.
When you refuse to smile you are not only deny yourself happiness but people around you too who could have benefit from your smile. Please start using the power of smile today to grace your life and other people. Keep smiling, stay happy.
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
12 benefits of drinking water.
Water is colourless, transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms. There are three sources of water; rain water, tap water and well water. Drinking healthy water are very good for the body. Dehydration is not good for our body, it causes headaches, fatigue, dark urine, dry skin etc. We need like 6-8 glasses of water in a day. Let look into some benefits of water:
1. It helps in weight reduction: Drinking water helps you lose weight because it flushes down the by-products of fat breakdown. Drinking water reduces hunger, it’s an effective appetite suppressant so you’ll eat less. Plus, water has zero calories.
2. It serves as a natural remedy for headache: Helps to relieve headache and back pains as a result of dehydration. Although many reasons contribute to headache, dehydration is the common one.
3. It moisturize your skin, giving you younger healthier skin: You’ll look younger when your skin is properly hydrated. Water helps to replenish skin tissues, moisturizes skin and increases skin elasticity.
4. It improve your thinking ability hence, enhancing better productivity: Your brain is mostly made up of water, thus drinking water helps you think better, be more alert and more concentrated.
5. It helps during exercise: Drinking water regulates your body temperature. That means you’ll feel more energetic when doing exercises. Water also helps to fuel your muscle.
6. It helps in digestion and constipation: Drinking water raises your metabolism because it helps in digestion. Fiber and water goes hand in hand so that you can
have your daily bowel movement.
7. It reduces cramps and sprains: Proper hydration helps keep your joint and muscles lubricated, so you’ll less likely get cramps and sprains.
8. It reduces the possibility of getting sick, also makes you feel healthy: Drinking plenty of water helps fight against flu and other ailments like kidney stones and heart attack. Water adds with lemon is used for ailments like respiratory disease, intestinal problems, rheumatism and arthritis etc. In another words one of the benefits of drinking water is that it can improve your immune system.
9. It relieves fatigue: Water is used by the body to help flush out toxins and waste products from the body. If your body lacks of water, your heart, for instance, needs to work harder to pump out the oxygenated blood to all cells, so are the rest of the vital organs, your organs will be exhausted and so will you.
10. It put you in good mood: Your body feels very good and that’s why you feel happy.
11. It reduce the risk of cancer: Related to the digestive system, some studies show that drinking a healthy amount of water may reduce the risks of bladder cancer and colon cancer. Water dilutes the concentration of cancer-causing agents in the urine and shortens the time in which they are in contact with bladder lining.
12. It quench your thirst: Most important thing is that, drinking water quench your thirst and makes you feel alive.
Now you can see that drinking healthy water is very important and essential in our body. Keep drinking.....
Sunday, 9 March 2014
Ogbono soup recipe
HOW TO PREPARE OGBONO SOUP
Ogbono soup is a delicious rich draw soup eat by many Nigerians. It can be prepared in two ways; plain or it can be garnish with vegetables.
Ingredients:
3 cups of Stock1kg Meat
1 cup Pumpkin leaves or Bitterleaf, nicely chopped
1 cup Ogbono, ground
Dried fish, Stockfish, ponmo
1 cup Crayfish, ground
8 Chilli Pepper to taste
2 Seasoning cubes
1 cup Palm oil
1 Onions
Salt to taste
Steps in preparation:
1. Wash all the ingredients properly2. Season and boil the meat to obtain the broth
3. When the meat is almost soft, add the stockfish and ponmo
4. Add enough water when the stockfish, meat and ponmo are soft
let it boil
5. Add the ogbono, palm oil and cook for about 5mins
6. Add the chopped pumpkin leaves or bitterleaf, crayfish and seasoning cubes
and boil for another 3 mins and add salt to taste.
Yep! soup is ready, eat with any solid food.
Sunday, 2 March 2014
Live healthy; eat vegetables.(Efo riro with iru)
EFO RIRO WITH IRU
Efo Riro is a very popular Yoruba soup in Nigeria, it's nutrious, rich and very healthy. The name ‘efo’ means vegetables, hence it is a rich vegetable soup/stew and it's very delicious.
INGREDIENTS:
Palm Oil
Ata Rodo
Tomatoes
Onions
Salt
Blended crayfish (small and big)
Cow Leg
Goat Meat
Shaki
Vegetable (Spinach, Ugwu)
Iru
STEPS IN PREPARATION
1. Spice and boil goat meat, Cook cow leg, Shaki, cook until tender.
2. Blend tomato, pepper and 1 ball of Onion: do, it is better if not too smooth.
3. Heat up palm oil, add chopped onion till onion is soft and transparent .
4. Pour the blended tomatoes into the pot of oil, add seasoning cube, cow leg, shaki, goat meat , blended crayfish, iru and allow to cook. Continue to stir the contents often so that it does not burn.
After about 10 minutes, depending on the quantity of the the tomato, it should be dry (frying instead of boiling), continue to stir for 2 minutes.
5. Wash your vegetable properly to avoid tasting sand or stone in the soup, then add your vegetable into the content and allow to cook for 5minutes, taste for salt, and add more if it's not tasty enough but avoid too much salt in your food.
Stir until cooked. woo wow wow ahhhhhh!!! soup is ready.
Serve with Rice, Eba, Semo, Yam, Pounded Yam, Eko, fufu and others.
Enjoy your meal.
Efo Riro is a very popular Yoruba soup in Nigeria, it's nutrious, rich and very healthy. The name ‘efo’ means vegetables, hence it is a rich vegetable soup/stew and it's very delicious.
INGREDIENTS:
Palm Oil
Ata Rodo
Tomatoes
Onions
Salt
Blended crayfish (small and big)
Cow Leg
Goat Meat
Shaki
Vegetable (Spinach, Ugwu)
Iru
STEPS IN PREPARATION
1. Spice and boil goat meat, Cook cow leg, Shaki, cook until tender.
2. Blend tomato, pepper and 1 ball of Onion: do, it is better if not too smooth.
3. Heat up palm oil, add chopped onion till onion is soft and transparent .
4. Pour the blended tomatoes into the pot of oil, add seasoning cube, cow leg, shaki, goat meat , blended crayfish, iru and allow to cook. Continue to stir the contents often so that it does not burn.
After about 10 minutes, depending on the quantity of the the tomato, it should be dry (frying instead of boiling), continue to stir for 2 minutes.
5. Wash your vegetable properly to avoid tasting sand or stone in the soup, then add your vegetable into the content and allow to cook for 5minutes, taste for salt, and add more if it's not tasty enough but avoid too much salt in your food.
Stir until cooked. woo wow wow ahhhhhh!!! soup is ready.
Serve with Rice, Eba, Semo, Yam, Pounded Yam, Eko, fufu and others.
Enjoy your meal.
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