I love food, well cooked food and healthy meals. Sometimes, I want to indulge and eat Mama Sikira’s firewood cooked jollof rice and well fried stew with kpomo, asun and other ‘go-slow’ found in the pot (you know the type with vegetable oil on top, plenty spices and pepper) even though I don’t get to eat outside a lot but I do find myself longing for roadside food or another person’s cooking. I have always wanted to own a barbecue stand and make my own boli and roasted yam or roast corn with the kids around me, asking when the food will be ready. The smell of well spiced roasted chicken leaving my house to that of my neighbors and maybe the whole estate…..lol. I have had these thoughts for a long time but guess what peeps I have made my dreams come alive though it did come with a cost.
I recently got myself a small barbeque steamer from a Pakistani company at the Abuja Trade Fair and immediately I saw it, I just knew I needed it for the kind of foods I have been seeing in my dreams. The sales person, showed me how it works and I fell for its simplicity and less complexity and I took one home.
And so, I thought I could give myself a winning breakfast to celebrate the independence and I decided to put my barbeque steamer to use. I had some ripe plantains and some left over smoked fish stew. I decided to prepare roasted plantain and smoked fish stew.
Installing the BBQ Steamer was not difficult at all, I looked at the manual and in 2 minutes, I was done and smiling at myself.
I skinned the plantains and cut them.
Covered the pot and in about 15 minutes, it was almost ready to be eaten.
Warmed up the left over smoked fish stew, added some scent leaves from my garden and my breakfast was set.
I love that I won’t be frying anymore…..or maybe in a very long time. Roasting is the next big thing for me and my family.
Enjoy your weekend. Ciao!
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