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@ topic,its Τ̲̅ђe washing inn of somtin........

As in DOWNSTREAM WATER?

Madam bukatyne

You're needed here.
Come and explain the secret to us

I don't know wot makes their stew sweet but me don't really care coz I do my cooking, no reason to chop for buka...

Buka!just the mention of ur name!turns my taste bud into a salivating frenzy!

If you have kitchen utensils and you still eat in Buka that means you dont know how to cook. Most buka food enviroment are very dirty and unhealthy to eat.

It's rotten tomatoes, thts d secret. The tomatoes tht u and I wont buy in d market, tht's d one they buy nd it turned out to b a great ingredient. Try it nd see.

My kid brothers just named their dogs nando and dillish

this is what happens to men those who eat out

this is what i miss in yoruba. the food. they taste yummy.

most yoruba women now dont know how to cook ifokore, an ijebu food. iya will be wonderful. just joking. tuwo with gbegire. bad govt no good o.. o ma se.

Well, my own believe is that buka stew/soup is always sweet cos mostly, they mixed all sort of meat like intestines, beef, goat meat, fish, ponmo, etc in one soup; so couple with d person's skills-- there's no way such soup won't be sweet o... Hardly will u see anyone mix all those things at home. "Even for juju to work, the person too must have a good sense of cooking" lolz

labalaba:
Measurement and Buka? I don't think they measure anything oh

Yes they do. It is called eyeball measurement, where you can use experience to determine the ratio of tomato to Tatase to rodo and to alubosa in order to get a good result.

It's the mixture of orisirisi meat like shaki and d rest...d stew is yummy olobe lo loko

Revolva: i heard most mama put women also tie juju..oo o attract customers omo no wond er iya latifat canteen each ime i pass bye i must enter go buy food ....so tey e get one time i was broke...i nearly wash plate...for her...just to get a plate of amala and soup .....i was just asking her if she had any late for me to wash..in exchange of a plate of food ...but she later gave me sha...she told me her helpers have washed all the plates...

as i ate finish n i told her i will give her money tommorrow..she agrreed ..when i left i imagine me asking to was a plate.....for another person..na that d ay i know say jazz ivolve

guy na confirm hunger hold u.

Just light your faya wud, put palm nuts on faya, squiz them and add fresh cat fish and ingridents. Banga shup is redi.

I learnt some of them wash their private part and use the water to cook soup with it.

Iya Basira.... Style plus

Oh yes some p-juice almost everytime is washed into local but richly petronized mama puts...

labalaba: What is the secret to the best Buka stew? I have heard mixed reviews about MSG (Ajinomoto & Vedan) and Palm oil, but if you use Maggi or Knorr you already use MSG.

So it is really the Firewood? I think the Juju thing is just absurd...else the juju is made out of perfect seasoning .

http://www.9jafoodie.com/2011/03/stew-obe-ata/ : This is a great recipe I have tried over and over again in my kitchen and it never fails. But I still think a little something is missing.

All the great cooks and mamaput customers alike Oya add your jara

@ bolded the answer to that question is most likely yes. As a matter of fact there is a scientific explanation. Firewood contains phenolic compounds which are Incorporated into foods cooked with it. These compounds give foods a unique flavor and also serve as preservatives. That is why you observe that jolof rice cooked with firwood (party rice) always taste better. You will also observe that fish or meat products roasted over firewood (barbeque) also taste better than gas oven roasted. I am not sure if coal as the same properties but I suspect so. That is the little I know about the science of cooking with firewood. Feel free to research further. By the way nothing like Juju when it comes to stomach matters.

u are invited

They use over-riped,sometimes rotten tomatoes.

They dnt use that red pepper(ata rodo),they use that dry long red-brownish pepper with very little tomatoes.

They use both palm oil and groundnut oil.

They dnt use salt and if they do,they use little and lots of maggi

They use very reddish tin tomatoes.

They use firewood or charcoal.

They fry the stew very well and they dnt add the meat stock.

chreld_b:

@ bolded the answer to that question is most likely yes. As a matter of fact there is a scientific explanation. Firewood contains phenolic compounds which are Incorporated into foods cooked with it. These compounds give foods a unique flavor and also serve as preservatives. That is why you observe that jolof rice cooked with firwood (party rice) always taste better. You will also observe that fish or meat products roasted over firewood (barbeque) also taste better than gas oven roasted. I am not sure if coal as the same properties but I suspect so. That is the little I know about the science of cooking with firewood. Feel free to research further. By the way nothing like Juju when it comes to stomach matters.

I believe you are right.
I have an elderly aunt that uses firewood to cook and it is simply delicious and she doesnt add all these plenty plenty seasoning.Not because she cant afford gas and it's her house so she has a backyard kitchen.
Whenever am around,i must visit her.

Joavid: They use over-riped,sometimes rotten tomatoes.

They dnt use that red pepper(ata rodo),they use that dry long red-brownish pepper with very little tomatoes.

They use both palm oil and groundnut oil.

They dnt use salt and if they do,they use little and lots of maggi

They use very reddish tin tomatoes.

They use firewood or charcoal.

They fry the stew very well and they dnt add the meat stock.

So why can't budding wives and girl friends reproduce same results. Or is it a case of 'pls donot try this at home'. C'mon surely there must be more than meets the eye.

Could remember one of my uncles back then who would drive all the way from Ikeja to Surulere on a saturday morning like he had been on a diet all week and another top CEO who would have his smuggled to his guest house from across town to avoid the wonder. Both of course happily married.

My guess is that if the food tastes better than your mum's or wife's (of more than ten years) then you're done.

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So why can't budding wives and girl friends reproduce same results. Or is it a case of 'pls donot try this at home'. C'mon surely there must be more than meets the eye.

will u allow ur galfrnd/wife to use firewood in ur kitchen?

and for most women,the meat stock is very important to them.

Joavid:

will u allow ur galfrnd/wife to use firewood in ur kitchen?

and for most women,the meat stock is very important to them.

Hmm, my dear, you donot know what good food means to a man. If it is only the firewood that matters surely he will build a fire place in his bedroom. But...

I also think it could be a question of statistics as much as culinary skills that as a lady, if you put yourself out there your food could generate as much interest as the ace mamas. I've been to a couple of joints in Jos and Benin and I found the experience absolutely terrible so its obviously not the food (we all have different tastes) but the importunity: the cross roads of a hungry people without reasonable alternatives often at the wrong end of culinary maltreatment at home hence develop an overeaching excitement for alternatives outside that are barely better.

Thus if you took that 'home meal' that tastes ordinary and place it at that cross-road you could sooner become the next bukka-star. Hmm.

Op, no b juju, na ur laziness cos am!
As u no 1 cuk n u no get choiz!
Even if dem put 'gall' as bitter as it is inside fud for u, e go sweet for ya mout.

Blame others for my situation things

dukila: It's rotten tomatoes, thts d secret. The tomatoes tht u and I wont buy in d market, tht's d one they buy nd it turned out to b a great ingredient. Try it nd see.

You're absolutely right. i was told they buy the basket of rotten tomatoes usually kept under the tables in the market. i used to wonder why they didn't throw them away.

I wonder if KFC or McDonalds or Tastee Fried Chicken or any of the other successful fast foods chain are being accused of using juju. Our Mama Puts are our very own Naija fast food so I do not wonder at their success rather I wish to God that someone will come along and brand them the way KFC became a big brand.

End time things!