FoodieDame Food recipes, fruits and vegetables

Yesterday, the image of this food was put up on Instagram and everyone that saw it wanted it. Beef Spaghetti vegetale is another twist to my spaghetti vegetale recipe. It is a rich spaghetti recipe loaded with carrots, green peas, spring onions, onions, habaneros and ground beef. I’m giving it four stars because I can imagine how sumptuous the meal …

Merry Christmas! Oh! I thought it was Christmas already. I can’t just wait for that season to be here. I mean the whole papparazi is always fun. Number 1: there’s always chicken somewhere. Chicken is like a sacred part of Christmas which cannot be carried over. Number 2: Santa and carols. I remember the first time I realized Santa doesn’t …

Menstrual period is a serious time in the life of females. It influences different daily life aspects, including physical status, sleep pattern, mood, diet, exercise and mental performance.  Periods are constituted by mood swings, low energy and cramps which can somewhat make those couple of blood staining days frustrating with pain. Whenever I’m menstruating and my mom is around, one …

“Our earliest ancestors built their diets entirely of vegetables, fruits, seeds, grains, legumes, and nuts.”-Encyclopedia of Food In the world today, it is quite easy for us to put fruits and vegetables away because there are many other edible things aside them. There are biscuits, cakes, cookies, chocolates and other food made from flour of different kinds. Although, some of …

The tree has always been at this same position in the mechanic place along the way to school. But, it never fascinated me until few weeks back when I saw the small yellow fruits on that tree with clustered bright green leaves. I walked towards the tree, picked three fruits and asked an old man seated nearby the name of …

The Mountain Apple, known as ‘local apple’  is a pink coloured fruit with white pulp and a seed. It is botanically known as Syzygium malaccense. In different parts of the world, names such as “rose apple”, “water apple” or “plum rose” are sometimes used for this fruit. The fruit is pear-shaped with pink skin color, with some pinkish white and …

There are hundreds of ways to prepare egg. Someone somewhere could be familiar with 5 methods, maybe I know 10 or Google has 100, no one is an island of knowledge. So, I did my research on egg recipes and found loads of them but as food is, some ingredients at arm-reach,  others at distant places thus, not all the …

Soursop which is botanically known as Annona muricata belongs to the family of custard apple tree, Annonaceae. It has various names like showerchop and shawachop in Nigeria, guanabana in Spanish, graviola in Philippines, guyabano in Malay, etc. The fruit is called soursop due to its slightly acidic taste when ripe. It is widely cultivated, even in tropical climates throughout the world and it is …

Watermelon is a fruit of high water content of about 92% and high nutritional content. Water melon contains lycopene which is the pigment responsible for the redness of the inner parts of the fruit as well as the redness of tomatoes, red grapes and guava. Lycopene is an antioxidant that has the ability of protecting cells from damage. It is …

So, I made french macarons or better still, I tried to make them after seing videos and checking blogs for how to make French macarons. I had seen them a couple of times on food blogs and they looked really nice to add to Nigerians’ list of pastries. But I am not so optimistic about that. In my attempt, I …