Exclusive Africana Recipes 📕
Smoky Jollof & more sneak peek recipes as we countdown to the launch of my new cookbook!
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A warm welcome to our new readers and members. You have joined us at such an exciting time as we count down to the launch of my new cookbook Africana due to hit the shelves in the UK on 29th September 2022. I’ll be sharing some exclusive recipes, news, and events, so you don’t miss a thing! Thank you for being here to share this extraordinary blessing with me. It has been an incredibly tasking and fulfilling journey, and I am loving every bit of it. Your support has been vital to getting me to this point, and it continues to be so. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart!
Some amazing features have been trickling in and in some of my favourite magazines like Delicious Magazine. One of the best-selling food magazines in the UK which I like to call “the vogue of food”, but even better in that their recipes are always super seasonal, fashionable yet very cook-able, with stunning no-fuss photography which is the same approach we took for my book. I remember telling the team how I longed for a beautiful book that was sexy and lovely to caress. My agent, Tom, looking concerned, kept interjecting saying, “it’s gotta be accessible! Accessible!” He must have wondered, “what kind of book is she expecting?” Well just what I got, an accessible, representational and beautiful book. With custom-designed prints using Ghanaian Adrinka symbols on the cover and inside. I will share an extensive story about this and the meaning of the symbols used in the book.
I was thrilled to hear that Delicious Magazine had optioned four of my recipes for an exclusive feature on Africana in the September edition. To have my debut book celebrated in such a magazine and praised by its very well-respected editor Karen has been a dream come true. Some of our friends here from the US and even South Africa have mentioned buying the magazine, perhaps a month after it comes out in the UK. I am glad you can get your hands on it too. Before the book comes out, wherever you are, you will find recipes such as Poulet Yassa - Grilled Chicken in Caramelised Onion & Lemon Sauce, Suya Roasted Cauliflower, Mango & Lime Piri Piri Chicken and my fool-proof Smoky Jollof Rice, for that deeply reddened absolutely delicious and perfectly -seasoned rice. A recipe I perfected to help you master this famous west African gem that we all cannot get enough of. Now, try this recipe at home, and win some awards, hearts, and approval from your Nigerian (or Ghanaian friends *coughs*) Just kidding. Let's make sweet Jollof and not war! You can watch me cook it here.
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The jollof looks amazing - I really want to try that recipe. I wonder if my teeny tiny smoothie blender (all I have in my camper) will be enough as a food processer. Worth a try! Congrats on being featured in Delicious Magazine - what an honor!