My Husband Is Igbo But I Can't Cook!

who is this hemaphrodite?
who let the dogs out?

ha ha ha.
I learnt the tomato addition from my aunt who owned a restaurant bukateria in Ojota.
You only need one ripe tomato or two,the taste is great.
Spinach,collard and turnip greens are great with egusi.
Throw those shrivelled up dried ugu in the garbage before you end up with  a shooting  diarrhoea .

No I don't know ofe owerri,I told you to begin dey look for Igbo wife,mashed potatoes and gravy with with a slice of roast beef will not leave you satisfied.
Unless you bring her to have a head start and begin reading and practising ahead of time so she doesn't start her own thread.

This is a nice thread.  Since momsie, sis nor Naija girlfriend are not in the horizon at this time, I once dabbled into egusi soup on the advice of the African market in my neck of the wood.  Need I say that it was a total disaster.  Please, lovely sisters post ogbono soup recipe also, and I'm going to give my Igbo soup another shot.

It looks like you're in the UK _{all those chester chester names}
I buy frozen,already cut collard and turnip greens and it does taste good (_{at least oga hasn't complained)}

what does spinach look like?
I know my aunt bought it for me a few months ago but i've forgotten the look. na wa o.

yes

you and my mom are relatives. . . so the lessons must be free. 
Thanks all the same.

@ IGBOWIFE /THREAD

the best answer so far is the one posted by my dear cousin naijacutee, she should just visit that attached linked and her problem will be half-solved

i visited the link and gosh, they had so many wonderful appetizing recipies

i had to forward the link to my box lol.

so igbowife, take a taxi to the link, it was actually made on this forum and its so educative

Ingredients

•   1 cup ogbono
•   Palm oil
•   Goat meat or beef, ponmo, oxtail (cook them till tender, I cook my meat separately till tender)
•   Stock fish (cook separately till tender), cook Oxtail till tender.
•   2 cups of hot water
•   Dried pepper
•   Dried fish
•   Bonga
•   Prawn crayfish
•   Crayfish (smaller shinning type)
•   Salt
•   1 or 2 maggi cube

Prep
In a separate pot, cook your goat meat or beef with salt until tender

•   Blend your dried ogbono until very smooth (do not add water)
•   Place your pot on fire and add some palm oil
•   Let the oil cook for few seconds and add your blended dried ogbono and stir
•   Add a cup of hot water and stir
•   Put in your cooked meat, dried fish, stock fish, bonga  (if you have them), and crayfish.
•   If too thick add a little more hot/warm water
•   Then add your pepper, and the blended prawn (the reddish bigger crayfish)
•   Add maggi and salt to taste
•   Cover and let it cook for about 30minutes.

If you want you can add ugu or little bitter leaf,  (I usually don't add vegetable)

Eat with hot pounded yam, eba of fufu


I have two ways of cooking my Ogbono, one I call Agbor style (because my mom does it like that)

Blend your ogbono in native flat mortar, add oil and blend till smooth and liquid-like
Note: if using blender, blend and pour in a dish and mix oil and use a spoon to stir until oil is finely mixed with the ogbono to make a smooth paste.

•   Cook your beef or goat meat until done/soft
•   Add pepper to the cooking meat, add your ogbono (which already has red oil in it) and stir
•   Add the remaining ingredients, ponmo, crayfish, cleaned dried fish, bonga, blended crayfish, salt and maggi
•   Let it cook for 30mins or less.

Add vegetable if you want.

Serve with your pyam or eba/fufu

just out of curiosity, what does spirogyra taste like?

silly you


who knows?

The best way to learn is to make love to your husband right there in the kitchen when he is cooking and you will learn ok

@Omoge:Your a wonderful woman,I envy your husband ooooo, with this kind of soup you take your time to teach other ladies in the house who don't know how to cook, na wa ooooo.

I wish I know your place I will just come and bless myself with Eba and your sweet soup. Or better still please tell me when your going home to Naija so I can pay a visit, just for the eating nothing more,I will even take permission from your husband.

I love women who knows how to get the heart of a man with food,the fortunate  man will just be experiencing his heaven here on earth.

Echidime,abeg carry me low o!.
na moon dust talk am,I was quoting him
You owe me an apology

I have been married to a Rivers man for 4 years, and I can cook almost all the nigerian dishes. You can look on the internet for recipes. But I feel that the best way to learn is to be in the kitchen when your husband is cooking. Or better still, get him to be with you in the kitchen and talk you through what you have to do. Nigerian food looks really difficult but it is actually really easy to cook. I learnt by cooking with my husband and watching him when he was cooking. I also have a yoruba friend who was born and raised in the UK and was not confident cooking Nigerian food (apart from Stew and Okra soup). We would pick two or three dishes, look up the recipes and try them out. When there is two of you it is a lot more fun! We used  to do this once a week. We managed to cook pepper soup, puff puff, egusi soup, ogbono soup, okra soup, coco yam soup, yam porridge, suya, vegetable soup, roasted yam and plantain, beans and so much more. Now I cook for my husband and his relatives as well as his friends which is a lot of fun.