Bebina's kitchen

Welcome to Bebina's kitchen.......

A sweet aroma wafts through the air.

The door creaks open and a young woman welcomes you into the kitchen.

Hello and welcome, I am Bebina and this is my cooking hub, a place I unwind and experiment with the best ingredients.

My mother told me that my first word was not "mama" but "chunya" which in my baby language was bread.

I loved food since time immemorial.

My mother thought I was going to be a chef, because I loved cooking.

Today I am going to share some of the food I just cooked.

These are plantains, (oooh my favorite.)

They are a type of bananas and they are very special.

You can fry them in oil eat them!

I wish I could cook the bananas in my orchard and they would taste like plantains.

I first tasted plantains when I went to Nigeria and I have loved them since.

Its the only food in their diet that they do not put pepe (chillis)

Okra soup woooo

I think Nigerians (and all those that can make this okra soup are blessed)

Here at home, we know you eat okra (derere) with sadza and in the okra there is tomatoes, onion and mhiripiri.

In Nigeria they add dried fish, chicken and fish (no wonder they call it okra soup.)

I decided to experiment a little bit and I was not disappointed at all. I used fresh mackarel (mazitye.)

The starch accompanying this relish is cassava pap.

I decided to fry some sweet potatoes(mbambaira.)\

You just have to taste it to appreciate it.

I just had to put my favouritte salad, coleslaw!

So in the end this is what I had in the main plate, fried sweet potatoes, fried chicken, steamed rice, fried carrots, coleslaw salad and some plantains.

The okra soup and cassava pap are in the other dish.

So I am looking down on my food and dear husband (who by the way

calls me Bebina each time he wants to eat something prepared by these special, blesed hands is salivating) so take your food and RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!