₦airaland Forum

mariahAngel:
I like Italian cuisine.
Their simple way of cooking and their use of mostly fresh (healthy) ingredients.
(Also, they don't use too many ingredients at a time)
Probably why they (mostly) have beautiful hair and skin, and they age well too.
Plus, they're hardly fat.

The only gripe I have with Italian cuisine is that is very-much is (all shades of) pasta and pizza so on that front it gets a bit monotonous but boy is their pasta sweet.

Honourable mentions to Yorkie-pud. (if you know, you know; can’t be arsed explaining it) & cranberry-sauce, pigs-in-blankets, Costco-cake (preferably vanilla-filled rather than bitty jam) Friday-night Chinese/fish and chips, Cajun fries, buffalo wings, Sunday roast, toast and Indonesian. A lot of these foods would go from 75 to 90/100 if duck fat was used more conventionally (and ukwa/okpa flour at all) but as they are they’re pretty sweet.

It goes without saying that between Igbo, Efik-Ibibio, Urhobo, Yoruba, Hausa and whatnot Nigeria has some fine delicacies (and in a way the general Nigerian cooking style may or may not have influenced the complex cooking styles of many other parts of the world) but let’s take a break from Naija-Naija business (if Peter Obi will allow us) and talk about cuisine from other parts of the world (and it is good to be a bit of a world-connoisseur and have an awareness of how it is outside your immediate zone, because human diversity is a wonderful thing). You can list as many or as few as you like but I’m just going to do my top-5.

1. Chiquito (I don’t know how I feel about Mexican food as a whole yet, as similar as the stews are, but Chiquito is one of the littest restaurants going)

2. Italian

3. Southern U.S. cuisine, especially the New Orleans/Louisville/Cajun/Floribbean kind

4. Indian

5. (joint-) Moroccan and Lebanese

Over to you guys.

Anyway, on the contrary ginger-beer is a beverage I adore that most people (or at least the average person) seem/s to have a slight distaste for. Ditto for mushrooms and all manner of seafood (I can’t get enough of mussels and shrimp; I don’t know what people’s issue is with them). People who don’t like mushroom in-particular really need to grow up.

Emeka71:
Red-oil rice is suffer-head.

Then you’re just going to have to get the cook to bleach it (if they’re down with the bleaching-process) and politely ask that the rice gets made like that from now on wherever palm oil has to enter it.

Cooking rice with palm oil and chicken simultaneously may or may not run but goose, beef, azu, cow, duck and turkey are far from the strangest mutual bedfellows, especially when the palm oil’s bleached. And if they’re not going to bleach it all the way, get them to use a mixture of red and groundnut oil. You’ll definitely notice a difference if you’re really not trying to get down with pure red-oil rice (for whatever reason).

Why does it look like it’s been snowing where you are, despite you being in Nigeria?

Every male over a certain age self-services, whether they’re married or not. Why can’t a woman?

I really ain’t one to gossip (certainly no more than Dot Cotton, God rest her soul) but in other news I hear Yul Edochie and Bobrisky have been banging.

Is it not okpa and akara?

Blunttruth:
The owner is the woman, it's her body. She gives out to who is in need of it. Either her husband or child.

Yup. God knows why this silly question has even been raised.

panpan:
- Starch
- Fufu
- Raw or partially cooked onions
- Pomo
- Intestine
- Lung
- Boiled fish
- Plantain and beans cooked together in the same pot
- Rat
- Frog
- Lizard
- Termites
- Worms

Who’s giving you lung, worms and rat to eat anyway?

Emeka71:
Rice cooked with red-oil.

An Igbo person hates rice cooked with mmanu-nni?

You Emekas disappoint me, you know.

Abolodje:
If you hate all this then tell me the naija foods you like.

She might prefer traditional things.

SmileDance:
Pounded yam
Greek yogurt
Cashew

Pounded yam/nni-ji, Greek yoghurt and cashews are heavenly manna, I’ll have you know. Everyone has their preferences but how can you not like them?

1. I don’t mind (but don’t particularly like, either) scrambled eggs/omelettes but absolutely hate boiled eggs (never actually eaten any but the smell tells me what I need to know). Yoruba people tend to be somewhat more fond than Igbos of adding boiled eggs directly to stews and moi-moi (although a lot of Igbos do that in moderation, as-well) and it just puts me off, no matter how dope the food otherwise is. I do wish people would reduce this habit/realise that not everyone likes boiled eggs (I certainly don’t).

2. Cucumber and pickles/gherkin/tartar(e)-sauce (the latter being the main reason I don’t particularly like Big Macs anymore; I only wilfully ate them when I was young and pickle-naive)

3. Lettuce

4. Mayonnaise (it’s quite nice with chips but generally I’d rather not)

5. ‘Wiener-dogs,’ if you know what I mean (hot dogs for me have to be made with proper meaty sausage, not tinned wieners, sorry)

6. Mustard

7. Marmite (like anyone who’s normal)

8. Sushi (it’s a fine food-concept but I don’t particularly rate it on a personal-tastebud level; not even Wagamama can make me like them and I adore just-about everything else from that restaurant)

9. Sliced ham (yeah, nah; good-ol. bacon will more than do)

10. Tinned tuna (actual tuna-fish is delicious but the canned stuff is just nasty)

11. Dill

12. Oat-fufu (yeah, no; just no)

13. Avocado (sorry boujee-broke millennials but no). I might try some Costco avocado oil when I can but the fruit itself is something I can live without.

14. Eggplant/eggplant-fufu

15. Brown bread

Anyone who’s read my posts knows that I’m not exactly the biggest fan of typical Yoruba soups (whereby I’m obviously not talking about the more nutritious hinterland/Ondo-leaning ones, which are much better) but efo’s a nice one that happens to be quite universal. And obviously you made it really well, GHM. Well done.

Nice.

gaby:
Neanderthals...

Technically, black people are the one human racial group who don’t have Neanderthal dna. Unlike white-dem and dat, black people are all-human

What kind of world is this?

Anyone who’s so-opportuned, by the way, *has* to try cooking either jollof rice or okra soup with pork/lamb and ose-Nsukka pepper or stew with duck, pork, curry leaves and nchuanwu (you can add the slightest touch of ground seeded uziza). You’ll be in for a treat, trust me.

omonnakoda:
It is bigger in Lagos(farming) than goats. There is a pig estate in Gberigbe and an even bigger one at Oke-Aro both in Lagos State. Restaurants buy more Hausa goats
I do not know anyone in southern Nigeria that actually farms the so called native goats on industrial scale.
There is huge demand for pork in Lagos State > As in Huge. DO not forget that Lagos has people from all over./ The Oke Aro one used to be massive I do not know what it looks like today but in SW Nigeria, Benue, Taraba pork demand and consumption is huge.

Maybe people need to invest a bit more in Mr and Mrs-Oink. (And on that note I’m going to have a bacon bap now.)

Cutehector:
I love pork.

So do I (the stock it produces for jollof rice can taste a little off without ose-Nsukka, so I’ve noticed, but generally it’s good meaty stuff) but I understand why there isn’t the biggest demand for it anywhere in Nigeria (I’m not even talking about northerners’/Muslims’ prohibitions against halal-meat). Nigeria’s a country that has more business with goats and birds. Lamb and pork are nice (I am often thinking in terms of jollof rice but these two meats are fire with with conventional okra soup of the more Igbotic/Ondo kind as well) but they’re not Naija’s priority at the moment.

Nigerians in Nigeria don’t tend to have the most time for bacon.

I’m too much of an all-time liker of food to answer that question but as far as snacks go I’ll choose okpa-Wa(a)wa/igba di uko. It’s very sweet and comes with all sorts of health-benefits.

Goose couscous.

I do love-me some meat pie but give me a donut.

gloryhomemaker:
His audacity is baffling.

I’ve literally just got back from a bizarre three-day ban for simply speaking the truth about something (you can’t make it up) so I’ve got to watch what I say about some of the people we have roaming this forum but I absolutely agree. I don’t know who dey-dash him such audacity but I’m just going to try and believe that he didn’t know you were married with kids.

In the meantime I guess I’ve got a metaphorical Ghana-must-go bag full of chin-chin and other December staples to unpack on here if I want to make it to Christmas without another pointless, random ban.

Listen, can one add okazi and uziza to this particular variant of egusi?