#DateNight: Diamond Plaza
Hi Guys,
HAPPY NEW YEAR! What were you guys up to during the holidays? I traveled quite a bit went to Mombasa which Muthoni loved (my 9 months old) she had so much fan. We then went to Embu, came back to Nairobi for Xmas then to Nanyuki for a wedding.
Eating Berlin
HIYA!! How are you doing? I am doing so good. I am so happy to finally get back my writing mood. So I went to Berlin in September. I got into an entrepreneurship mentorship program with ENPACT. A German based company that mentors entrepreneurs from East Africa, Middle east and North Africa.
I was quite excited to get into this program. For those who have been following me for a while know that it has been a long journey slowly growing my business. I started officially in 2013 when I quite my job but by then my blog had been running for 2 years and my kitchenware business for 1.5 years. It has been lots of tears and battles and also lots of joys and happiness. I will one day talk about my journey but it has been a fulfilling one and getting into this program was affirmation that I am heading in the right direction.
Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed Germany, in terms of food and culture as well as my business learning. What I loved most? The CHEESE and cold meats. MY LAWD I ate cheese daily, and it was super cheap too I actually bought some to bring home.
One my first day in Germany I went on a food tour with Berlin Food tours. The guide was Bastian and it was amazing. Took about 4 hours, we went round the Mitte region to 10 different spots.
The first place we went to makes these sweets. I promise you they were the best sweets I have every had. They also claimed to have the best brownies in Berlin, they were nice but not better than the ones I make 😉
What I loved most about this other than tasting lots of food was that there were historical sites and other things to see.
The breakfast spreads at all the hotels was so amazing. Again what I enjoy most was the cheese varieties. and the butter out there is soo good I even carried some home.
Then you know how Germans are so famous for beer and sausages, well I ate quite a bit of the sausages and I actually enjoyed beer! I had two glasses of the lemon beer
They have this thing all over the town called Curry wurst, So at first I thought it was an Indian franchise but turns out it is just a famous street food. It is sausage, grilled, sliced served with ketchup and curry powder. It is so delish.
I would love to visit another European country just to eat up!
Man Pleasing Coconut Tilapia Fish
Growing up fish was something we had but I did not enjoy. I am not sure exactly when this started but for the longest time I did not have the skin of the fish, then I stopped having whole fish I think for almost 10 years. I just for some reason thought it was grossish.
Then 3 years ago I went to visit my girl Mona in Kampala. On the day I was living we passed Tuskys to get some gonja crisps (plantain). Mona bought some fish and they were all packed together. Well, you can guess what happened, I found my self with fish in Nairobi. I obviously could not throw it out after it traveled all the way now could I?
Hubby was super happy about it, that was the day we started calling it something close to the name above. The actual name we call it is PG LOL but the point is it it pleases men.
Happy Cooking
Ingredients
- 1 large fish, deep fried or baked
- 2 onions
- Oil for frying
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 5 cm ginger, crushed
- 5 tomatoes, diced
- 2 teaspoons fish masala
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- 250 ml coconut milk
- Salt to taste
- small bunch of dhania, chopped
Instructions
Cook the onions till soft, add the ginger and garlic and cook till fragrant. Add the tomatoes and stir then add the salt, stir then reduce the heat mashing the tomatoes with your cooking spoon till its soft and it start removing its own natural oils.
Add the spices, let it cook for 5 mins then add the coconut milk. bring this to a simmer then add the dhania. I would typically then add in my fish till it warmed through then serve
However, Juliet Atieno on foodies club Nairobi on Facebook showed me a new way. Warm your fish then on a plate pour half the sauce place the fish and top with sauce. Serve with Ugali
Happy eating
Costing 1 fish Ksh 500 2 onions Ksh 20 Oil for frying ksh 10 3 cloves garlic, Ksh 5 5 cm ginger, ksh 3 5 tomatoes Ksh 50 2 teaspoons fish masala Ksh 3 1 teaspoon cumin Ksh 3 1/2 teaspoon turmeric ksh 3 250 ml coconut milk Ksh 125 Salt to taste Ksh 2 small bunch of dhania, chopped ksh 5 Total Ksh 729 Per serving Ksh 243
