French Toast
Who doesn’t remember mayai toast?? (Directly translated to egg toast)
They were such a treat when I was growing up. Its one of those things that mum made when she was happy with us and wanted to make us smile without necessarily labouring in the kitchen for hours.
So the other day I walk up feeling all ******* (insert word for how ever you feel after a night out) and hungry. I really did not feel like cooking but I craved something sweet but who was about to bake while feeling like I they were run over by a Nissan Hardbody? So I decided to do French toast the mzungu way. By this I mean our mother mostly put just eggs and salt. The other way of doing it is to add milk and a bit of sugar. I also added some triple sec to mine for the boozy lemony flavor. I REALLY enjoyed this whether it was the extreme hunger or just the flavor who cares they were great. Hope you will enjoy them too. HAPPY COOKING!!
Ingredients
- 4 slices of bread
- 1 tablespoon flour
- ¼ cup of milk
- 2 eggs
- ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla essence
- 2 tablespoons triple Sec (Optional)
- pinch of salt
- butter or oil for cooking
Instructions
Put flour into a shallow bowl; add sugar, salt and cinnamon mix well.
In a separate bowl whisk the milk, egg, triple sec and vanilla together. Whisk into the flour mixture
Dip each slice of bread into the mixture and allow to soak up the mixture.
Heat butter or oil in a pan and cook each side till golden brown.
Serve with fruit. HAPPY EATING!!
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ROSEMARY ROASTED POTATOES
I LOVE POTATOES…………………
I am sure in one of my earlier posts I probably mentioned that I am in love with them. For me potatoes are what I can not live without. Life would TOTALLY suck if I could not have them. My friends always make fun of me and say that I love potatoes because I’m Kikuyu (a majority tribe in Kenya) well this could be true, seeing as we Kikuyus tend to add potatoes to every dish save for tea 🙂 but Kikuyu or not I love them.
But like any other food they can get monotonous. So I am always looking for new ways to make them and discovering and rediscovering. I was taught the basics of this recipe by my mother. You boil the potatoes to soften them and cook them through. Then you shallow fry them so as to give them a nice crunchiness and beautiful color.
You can try these potatoes by boiling them in your beef or chicken stew then removed them from the stew and shallow fry them. Or you could use a ready made stock of your choice, you can even try and experiment different spices in the water if you’re using water to boil. Try ginger, some onions, masalas etc. You could also use aromat or garlic salt instead of normal salt. Anything could work just depends on your taste. I enjoy them this way, served them for company a couples of times and they are always quite popular so do try them. HAPPY COOKING!!!
Ingredients
- Potatoes
- Garlic powder
- Rosemary sprigs (fresh or dry)
- Oil for frying
Instructions
Peel the potatoes and cut them into quarters. Put them in a pot, fill the pot with water till all the potatoes are fully immersed.
Put about a tablespoon each of garlic powder rosemary to every 1.5 ltrs of water (you could adjust this depending on taste) boil till the potatoes are cooked through but not too soft that they break when pierced.
Drain all the water from the pot; give the potatoes a good shake. This breaks of the edges and makes them even crunchier.
Fill the base of a shallow frying pan with the oil. Heat the oil
Place the potatoes into the oil and cook them till well brown turning them around. Half way through sprinkle a few rosemary sprigs on top.
Once it’s all brown place the potatoes to drain on a kitchen towel.
Serve when still hot. HAPPY EATING!!
https://www.themothershipvillage.com/rosemary-roasted-potatoes/How to: Make (almost) perfect sausages
So my gal liz has a theory about people who make shrivelled sausages for breakfast but unfortunately that reason is a bit too PG for me to explain on here J I have come to notice, during my many visits to peoples’ homes, that many people don’t know how to make good sausages! Many people either cook the outside too quick then the sausage itself is under cooked or they over cook, or they thaw the sausage wrongly or use too much oil etc etc. So today il tell you the how to’s of making good sausages.
So…
- Thaw the sausages for a few hours before you cook them, if this is not possible put them in warm water for a while or use the defrost option in the microwave. DO NOT microwave it as you could easily start cooking them
- Use very little oil
- Do not completely heat the oil before you put the sausages
- Use VERY little heat the lowest you can
- Be VERY PATIENT and you will get (almost) perfect sausages.
Here is how I made my two sausages
I defrosted the sausages completely in water, then patted them dry
Put on the heat and lower the flame completely (use the lowest possible heat)
Put 2-3 tablespoons of oil in the pan and heat the oil for about 1 mins then put in the sausages
Cook until one sides begins to brown then turn the sausage
Keep turning the sausages till it all turns into an even browned colour
HAPPY EATING!!!
