Efor riro.

Let's sail AWAY. Redondo Beach, California

Catching the waves. Venice Beach California.

A fork on the beach.

Egusi with bitter leaf.

Ingredients-


Your choice of Beef, chicken or turkey (Prepped)

1/2 cup Egusi

Diced tomato

Dice onion Onion

Onion powder

Chipotle powder

Salt

Black pepper

Chopped garlic

Diced red bell pepper

Habanero or Scotch bonnet

Bitter leaf Soaked and drained)

Olive Oil

Palm Oil

Maggi (Optional)

Salt

1 cup water


Method-

Fry tomato, onion, garlic and peppers in mixture of Olive and or Palm oil for 2-3 minutes

Add tomato sauce and paste or blended peppers, habanero, onions and tomato.

Add your meat

Add onion and chipotle powder, salt, black pepper and or Maggi

Add 1 cup water or stock

Add soaked and drained bitter leaf

Adjust seasoning

Simmer cook for 10 - 15 minutes or till done

Guacamole Supreme

Ingredients-

2 large fresh Avocados
1/4 tsp cumin
1 tbs mix of chopped onion and red bell pepper
Salt and black pepper to taste
1 tsp lime

Method-


Cut open Avocado, scoop out mash in a bowl
Mix in lime, chopped red bell pepper and onion
Season with cumin, salt and black pepper
Serve with Melba toast

Shrimp Fetuccini

1 lb fettuccine (Boiled in salted water)
1 lb shrimp (Cleaned, deveined and boiled)
1 fresh tomato (Diced)
1 tbs diced onion
1 tsp chopped garlic
1 tbs chopped parsley
1 tsp shopped fresh basil
1 tbs tomato sauce
Salt and pepper to taste
3 tbs olive oil
1 tbs grated picorino or parmesan cheese


Slightly fry onion, garlic, tomato sauce and fresh tomato in olive oil for 2 minutes at low heat
Add boiled shrimp and boiled fettuccine
Toss together with chopped basil and cheese
Remove from heat and add mix in 1 tbs olive oil before serving

Eko Farmers Mart. Lagos, Nigeria

Yam, eggs and fried plantains.

Dog and fries

Shrimp and fish gumbo.

Ingredients-



1 lb fresh fish steaks
1 lb deveined large shrimp
3 tbs flour
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
1/4 chopped celery
1 tbs chopped green onion
2 tsp chopped garlic
2 tsp chopped parsley
1/4 cup diced fresh tomato
Cajun seasoning
Salt and black pepper to taste
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tbs butter


Method-

Fry onions and garlic in olive oil and butter
Add flour and cook till dark brown
Add diced tomato, parsley, green onion, celery and mix in gently
Add 3 cups of water or beef stock
Season with salt, black pepper and Cajun seasoning
let cook at ow heat for 5-8 minutes
Add shrimp and fish
Adjust seasoning and let simmer for ten minutes
let rest for 5-10 minutes before serving

The Steak. The Crab and The Corn @ Dockweiler Beach - Playa Del Rey, CA

Rice and stew with fried plantain

Eba with ogbono and stewed fried fish.

TNC.

The Colors On Broadway Ave.

The Lake @ Edgewater.

Jollof rice with stewed beef and fried plantain

Galveston, TX

Stewed turkey necks.

Ingredients-



1 lb turkey necks

1 tbs tomato paste

1/2 cup diced carrots

1/2 diced celery

2 tsp chopped garlic

1 tbs Italian seasoning

1 tbs flour

3 tbs olive oil

1 tbs chopped parsley

Salt and black pepper to taste


Method-

Fry flour in a pot with olive oil till slightly brown

Add turkey necks and the rest of the ingredients

Tate and adjust seasoning as needed

Cover and cook in a heated oven @ 400 degrees for 2 hrs or till tender.

BBQ chicken wings.

So, I drove to Ruddy's off I45 in Webster to get some BBQ sauce for my BBQ wings, the sauce is very good of course, the BBQ meats are great too, but definitely not the best around, it's a little too pricey too. Well, the place was packed as usual regardless.












Ingredients-

2 lbs chicken wings

Tony Chacheres Original Creole Seasoning (Or just salt)

Frying oil

BBQ sauce

Method-

Season and fry wings @ 375 degrees

Remove and drain when done

Toss fried chicken wings in a bowl with BBQ sauce

Let rest for 2-3 minutes before serving.

Breakfast Hash.

Ingredients-

Dice skinned potatoes

Diced cut of beef

Salt

Black pepper

Fresh Eggs



Method-

Season and grill diced potato and beef in a cast iron (Any kind of skillet or frying pan is OK) heated skillet

When done and crispy, make a little room in the middle of grilled ash and beef

Crack open 2 fresh eggs and gently drop in the middle

Place in a heated oven to cook eggs sunny side or as desired.

Crack t

Resilient plants of winter

Butter beans with smoked turkey legs.

This is strictly a crock pot affair

Ingredients-

1 lb butter beans

1 smoked turkey legs

Half cup chopped onions

1tspoon chopped garlic

3 tablespoon olive oil

Salt and black pepper to taste

Place everything in a crock pot and let cook at low heat for 4-5 hrs or till done.

Baked mixed bean soup and chicken.

Ingredients-

2 lb Mixed beans

1 whole chicken (Halfed)

Chopped celery

Chopped carrots

Chopped garlic

Chopped onions

1 inch strand lemon grass

Fajita seasoning

Cajun seasoning

Italian seasoning

Half cup diced tomato

Salt

Black pepper

2 tablespoon olive oil


Method-

Season chicken with Cajun and fajita seasoning and back in a heated oven till half way done. Remove and set aside. Also save drippings.


Saute chopped vegetables in a skillet with olive oil for 3-4 minutes and set aside.

Bring mix beans to a boil in salted water with the water just slightly above beans level.

Add the rest of the ingredients

Adjust seasoning

Cover and place in a heated oven and let bake for 2-3 hrs @ 400-430 degrees

Remove from oven and place halfed baked chicken in the middle of baked beans

Return to the oven and bake for another 45 minutes

Remove and let rest before serving.

Unauthorized Use of Photos

I'm so fed up cos this is really getting out of hand. I've pleaded with many folks especially many Nigerian businesses to quit using or if maybe even stealing my pictures . I'm a chef, a food photographer and I live off my work. I'm not making a living off your businesses or getting any kind of compensation for all the stolen and bastardized pictures. This is theft and dishonest business practice. Restaurants and other food businesses hire me to design menus and recipes for them and I don't know why it's too hard for these businesses to do same and pay a fee to promote their businesses instead of stealing and making a buck off other people's hard work.


For what it's worth, I spend countless hours and sometimes even days working on a single dish from coming up with ideas to doing groceries, designing the dish, cooking, plating and styling, taking pictures, editing and typing up recipes.

I do daylight photography so my pictures are natural and all the elements are out there in the open with no studio tricks and umbrella comforts and this is what many of my clients like about my work. I even deal with and keep up with the weather daily like the weatherman. I do enjoy what I do, but It is hard work just like the average joe's.

The link below is a good example. All the pictures are not only mine, they manipulated my name off the pictures. This is just too crooked and dishonest.

http://www.prepqueen.com/

http://nigeriancuisine.us/menu.html

Cokoyam with baked eggs.

Shrimp Paella With Fried Plantain.

Ingredients-

Deveined large shrimp -1lbs

Parboiled rice 1lbs

Turmeric -1 or 2 tsp

Achiote powder 1 or 2 tsp

Onions - Chopped

Fresh Tomato - Diced

Garlic - Chopped

Chipotle powder - 1 or 1/2 tsp

Italian Seasoning - 1tsp

Crushed chili pepper 1-2 tsp

Olive Oil - 4tbs

Butter - One leveled tbs

Salt

Black pepper

Water or stock



Method-

Heat up your olive oil and butter @ med heat

Add chopped onion, garlic, tomato, turmeric, celery, chipotle, achiote and let fry for 1 min

Add rice and water/chicken stock (measure your water just like regular boiled rice)

Add Italian seasoning, onion powder, salt and black pepper

Taste and adjust seasoning

Add shrimp

Place pot in the oven and let cook @ 350dgrs for 15 mins or till done

Smoked honey bacon on grilled scallops.

Jollof rice with fried plantain and stewed beef.