Weekend Project: Making Pasta from Scratch With No Machine

https://www.themothershipvillage.com/penne-alla-carbonara/

I have mentioned a few times before on the blog that I have never really been a big fun of pasta. Not sure why though because you can make pretty awesome dishes like this penne carbonara I shared a few years back, or even as something simple as pasta with garlic and mushrooms and plus my mum is a pretty awesome cook and she always had such fun ways to make pasta. That is even how I learnt about different pasta shapes from when I was a little tot unlike most Kenyans. I think it is just one of those things, same way I do not like chapati much neither mandazis. Nothing wrong with them just not my fav. Like rice.

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Everythings Better with Bacon: Sweet and Spicy Bacon

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If you do not love bacon, then we aren’t friends. If you do not like bacon and never eat it, then we are outright enemies. In fact you need to sit in a corner, for the rest of your life and think about what on earth could be wrong with you. It surely isn’t normal to not like bacon.

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#ILoveMondays: Ocean Basket Review

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There are very few places, if any,  in Nairobi that are fishier than The Ocean Basket. (hahaha see what I did there?) Located at the Oval at Ring Road Westlands the smell of this place will just take you back to the small cafes in Malindi, at the ocean front that sell prawns for a bargain.

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