FoodieDame Food recipes, fruits and vegetables

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 …

Cupcakes are cuties! More especially when topped with frosting. You can’t but fall in love with them. I recently got on the path of cupcakes making and I’m so in love with the art right now. I don’t really know. But, maybe because it’s less tasking as compared to  making a big cake, covering it with frosting, smoothening, blablabla. In …

Minister of information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has got the social media back on the debate of ‘which country makes the best jollof rice’. You can read more about the CNN interview that brought up this matter here. In the light of the situation, I decided to do my research on Nigeria Jollof rice versus Senegal Jollof rice. Here’s …

I was going through my gallery when I found the pictures I took the last time I prepared the Chinese fried rice that I took at a restaurant months back. I’ve posted my Chinese restaurant gist here before so, I won’t bore you with it again. The last time I posted about it, I dropped just the recipe of the …

Most Nigerians know the Nigerian vegetable; ugwu(fluted pumpkin) and the fact that it’s a highly versatile plant but few of us know what it really does, its health benefits. Many also don’t know it’s common name to be ‘pumpkin’. When some people hear pumpkin, they’d probably think of the round orange colored squash plant used for Halloween decorations. The scientific …

Vegetables have been proven to have a whole lot of health benefits and this is the reason why we are urging everyone to increase the consumption. Among the very many vegetables of the world, let’s examine TOMATOES and see its importance. Why must we increase tomatoes consumption? Tomato, a vegetable (and a fruit) forms a considerable part of cuisines. It …