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Cookery Books: Afro Vegan by Zoe Alakija 📚
Used for our Christmas meal this year 🎄
Xmas Dinner 2022
I know I’m composing this post a few days late, on the morning of New Year’s Eve, 31st December 2022, but for my reference I do want a record of the food I cooked for this year’s Christmas dinner.
Most years I cook Christmas dinner around a specific theme (often a nationality) or from a particular (often new) cookery book. This year our meal was based on Afro Vegan: Family recipes from a British-Nigerian kitchen by Zoe Alakija.
Starters were
- Lebanese-Nigerian Roast Chickpea Shawarma
- Smoky Cashew and Beetroot Dip
and mains
- Classic Jollof Rice
- Groundnut Stew with Sweet Potato
- Efo Riro (Stewed Greens)
- Suya-Battered Vegetable Kebabs
- Eba
The only slight disappointment was the eba - small starchy balls of dough made from garri flour (cassava). I’d never cooked with the flour before and think I got the consistency wrong - too soft and sticky.
Cooking all that was a lot of work for a relaxed family meal for just the four of us. We certainly didn’t eat everything - leftovers were contributed to a much larger Boxing Day family meal at my brother-in-law’s farm.
This was the first time I’d cooked from Afro Vegan - I will certainly be trying out more recipes from it.
Murder on the Orient Express, 1974 - ★★★★
I also enjoyed Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 version but this more dramatic, star-studded production is a treat. Albert Finney really stands out as Poirot.
🔗 Gravestone-encircled ‘Hardy Tree’ falls in London
Couple of my photos from January 2020 📸
Xmas gift. I did.
Walking my in-laws’ dog at 3am this morning after a long and indulgent Boxing Day. Dog is the blur in a hi-vis jacket 🤷♂️
🎵 My Top weekly artists: Arte Dei Suonatori, Rachel Podger (18), Dry Cleaning (11), Kae Tempest (11), Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra (9) & Furtwängler, VPO (4) via tweekly.fm
🇲🇽 Tacos at Wahaca
Winter Wonderland Wheel, Cardiff
