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MY KACHUMBARI RECIPE

November 28, 2016 No Comments

What’s Kachumbari?

Better known as salsa fresca or pico de gallo depending on where you grew up, we call it kachumbari in Kenya.It’s one of those dishes that can go with anything and just makes me happy. Once you combine it with more spices, you can make it to be your own or even add some meat and other ingredients to make a proper salad. Hope you get to love it as much as I do. For my kachumbari recipe, you will need

Ingredients

2 onions (red or white)
A couple of tomatoes
Raw chillies
1 lemon
Pinch of salt and more for the onions
A bunch of coriander

METHOD

Chop your onions into small pieces and put them in a bowl, pour some water to cover them and add in two tablespoons of salt. (This helps in removing the sharp taste of onions) and place them aside.
Slice up the tomatoes and place them in another bowl along with the chillies also chopped into small pieces.
Put a pinch of salt and mix them together.
After about ten minutes pour the onions into a sieve and run some water through them to rinse out the salt.
Put the onions in the bowl with the tomatoes and mix them up, at this point the colours already start making you smile.
Squeeze one lemon and mix it up again, then chop up the coriander and add that in too.
Now from this point, you can be done and place it the fridge to chill out or you can add some more stuff and make it your own.
I usually add some olive oil black pepper or even some grated carrots either way it will be delicious.

So that’s it my kachumbari recipe and for a quick tip, crush up an avocado mix it in and there you have some guacamole and eat with some chapati on the side, recipe here. Serve and enjoy, do try this out and tell me if you loved it, what do you call this where your from?

FOOD, HOME

MY SPICY BEANS ON TOAST RECIPE

November 22, 2016 32 Comments

I did not grow up having beans on toast every day, but when we had it, Kenylon beans were the ones I remember and were my best choice. I used to really love the tomato sauce in it, not too sweet but just right. That was until my sister decided to change it and I have been doing it this way ever since. The best part about this recipe is that you can get the ingredients anywhere and its very quick and easy to prepare if you don’t count chopping onions as a chore, then your sorted.This is my spicy beans on toast recipe, you will need;

1 or 2 of your favourite can of beans (depending on the number of people)
Spring onions (five is fine)
Olive oil
Salt
Cumin
Garam Masala
Garlic powder or a clove of garlic
A thumb of ginger
Coriander(optional)
Hot sauce(optional)

BLOGGING, HOME, LIFESTYLE

WHY I STARTED BLOGGING

November 18, 2016 No Comments

Why?

This is probably the most common question I kept on asking myself the first time I started my blog and the second time too, my answer was always the same, that I really wanted to and the first time I failed, I still kept on thinking about it and kept on having a drive to do it again, so I did. To be honest, I was scared and nervous, and kept on thinking what would I write about, or will I ever have any ideas to share and will anybody ever read my posts. But after a while I decided to go for it rather than sitting and always thinking (what if). This is why I started blogging.

HOME, LIFESTYLE

9 THINGS HAPPY PEOPLE DO

November 3, 2016 90 Comments

Happiness is always by choice, being disappointed and feeling low just because someone has done you wrong only results in hurting you even more and nobody else. So whenever you find yourself just being downright unhappy,try to do these for a month and you will change your life for the better. These are 9 things happy people do;

1.EXPRESS GRATITUDE

They don’t forget what they already have and are always grateful for it. Having a gratitude list every day is a good idea. Don’t let the things you want to distract you from what you already have.

2.SAVOR LIFES JOYS

They always enjoy each moment and cherish the precious memories made each and every day. Stop and smell the roses.

3.STOP OVER-THINKING

They relax and go with the flow, meditate where necessary and avoid stress. Thinking too much only complicates your life and creates a problem that wasn’t even there in the first place.