cooking food

By West Africa Cooks, 25 January, 2014

It is more than a place to store, prepare and cook food. Your kitchen is the place for parties and socialising for breakfast, lunch and dinners. It's one of the two hardest-working interiors in the home. The other being the bathroom. So this spring's question "Is it time for new cupboards, appliances and food preparation gadgets so you can make the most of your home kitchen?"

By West Africa Cooks, 11 January, 2014

What Is Breadfruit And How Do You Cook It?

Bread Fruit:- Sierra Leone, Krio local food name is Bredfruit (Mende name is Belefu and Temne name is Ma-Kant-Ma-Potho) this is a starchy fruit, green on the outside, cream-white in the inside, usually boiled, roasted of fried, Its name is derived from the texture of the cooked fruit, which has a potato-like flavor, similar to freshly baked bread.* Mainly carbohydrate, very ripe breadfruit becomes sweet, as the starch converts to sugar.

By West Africa Cooks, 23 October, 2013

Lets face it cooking is sexy and the ladies in the 2013 final have the wow factor.

This year's finalists of the great BBC's Great British Bake Off are attractive, passionate and sexy women, well two of them are very much so.

By West Africa Cooks, 10 October, 2013

Ellen Gibson Wilson first encountered African food when she married a British man who had lived in Western Africa. "A West African Cook Book: Good Food From Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone" is an excellent cookbook, one of the best African cookbooks ever. By focusing on these four countries Ms. Wilson has produced a wonderful book, probably better than if she had tried to cover the entire continent (as many African cookbooks try to do).

By West Africa Cooks, 20 January, 2013

Books From Amazon Store

If you have written a West Africa cooking book and or an ebook like Classic African and The Taste of Africa please let us know so we can feature them here.

By Nadia, 6 July, 2011

Well, I do not intend to write about the laborious ways of cooking fufu or getting it right, we will leave that to one of the many West African Chefs that will grace our website in the next few months. I have never attempted to cook fufu but I have watched my mother get her back into it...and I did pass the water and the Guinness at the same time upon her request.

Fufu deserves a lot more than someone as lowly as me to write about. I wanted to give it the respect it deserved so I put some questions on Facebook and waited for the replies

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