Year: 2014

Honey mustard chicken roast

This is not your average chicken recipe. This is an awesomely delicious juicy recipe. You know those times when everyone is silent at the dinner table cause they’re too busy eating and eyeing the last piece of chicken? Or those times at family meetings when you’re cousin gets up to get more chicken while taking a bite of his drumstick with one hand and the other has a plate is full of food? — It’s this Chicken! But your cousin is probably just greedy (^_^)

Ice cream cake treat

Ice cream and icy treats are such a wonderful invention! Especially for a hot summer day, better than sliced bread in my book, and they keep getting better and better. There are so many inventive ways to make and have them. As the hot season is kicking in, here’s an awesome idea for you to surprise your family with.

Coconut pepper sauce

If you are tired of having chips and ketchup as the accompaniment to your fish, try this lovely sauce over a pan fried piece of fish fillet, with some rice and a side of fresh salad.

Anne: Light coconut curry chicken

Real, home made, mouthwatering goodness! It doesn’t get better than this. The best meals are the ones we make up on our own, following our instincts for flavour. You know why? Because nobody likes bad food. This is a must try recipe, check it out…

Anne: Interview

It’s guest post day! My neighbour Anne is an awesome cook. I discovered that on a random day. I dropped by and she was just about to eat, and she shared her lunch with me — don’t you just love it when that happens?! The spontaneous sharing of food I mean. It just warms the heart doesn’t it? Here is a little bit about her…

Potato salad with sweetcorn & peas

Sometimes making a meal is a bit like painting… or at least I think about it like I’m painting. When I think a recipe I imagine the colours served on a plate and are they working? Making this potato salad was very much like that.

Lamb and veggie roast

If you haven’t fired up your oven for a while, here are two very good reasons to!

Chicken & mushrooms in coconut cream

This was very delicious. In fact, so delicious that I completely forgot to take the final shot! It’s very simple and quick to make, good for a weekday meal. Enjoy!

Easy breakfast quiche

Crustless quiche! There’s a lot of chopping in the prep work but it is so worth it! If you have kids that are old enough I suggest getting them involved. Make it a nice saturday brunch in the garden…

Gatuiri tells us how she’s doing it all!

Ever heard of Leo Tunapika? Well, now you have, click to learn some more, you will not regret it!

Easy creamy mushroom sauce

You don’t always have to come up with a whole new dish. If you’re bored with what you’re cooking, switching out a few ingredients and adding an extra one can really refresh a dish, sometimes make it brand new. Check out how I refreshed this simple pasta dish…

Baked sausage and potatoes

You can never go wrong with these time saving one pot dinners! Even better is experimenting with your kids ideas, especially when they turn out so great!

Gassy beans no more! Maybe…

Ever wondered if all those tales about how to reduce gas in beans really work? I have, and the tales just keep getting stranger. So I did a bit of research, here is what I found,…

Creamy cauliflower potatoes

Been making an effort to serve whole meals, with all three parts, veggies, starch and protein. But potatoes with cauliflower on the side did not sound appetising. Too much white on the plate. So I mixed things up a bit…

Mushroom, cheese and basil omelet

Buttered mushrooms, laced with cheese, wrapped in egg, topped with avocado,… drool drool drooool!

Roasted butternut breakfast

Have you ever roasted butternut? No? you should. If you like them you’ll like them even more. If you don’t like them at all, you might change your mind. Here’s a recipe to get you started…

Banana brownie cake

Sometimes you feel like experimenting and everything around you just works in your favour. Like neighbours bringing you stuff to work with… This is a must try in your home by the way, most especially if you have kids!

A Gourmet Story

Hello foodies! Today we have a special treat from a very talented writer! This is the first guest author post and I am so pleased and honoured to have Njeri of #TheHouseOfOlang’ grace the pages of Pendo La Mama with this tantalising piece.

Easy sautéd mushrooms over linguine

For when you want savoury without the fuss! You will need to have some spaghetti sauce handy though, or my home made tomato paste which doubles as a spaghetti sauce. The store bought kind will do but nothing beats home made.

Roasted chicken with mixed roots

Delicious all in one recipe! Requires quite a bit of prep work in the beginning. Cutting, chopping etc. But once all that is done the rest is easy. Most of the cutting can be done ahead of time too.

Pizzafied eggplant

The herbed zucchini rounds inspired me. I started thinking about what else I could cut into rounds and sprinkle with yummy toppings and voila! — Pizzafied eggplant!

Herbed zucchini rounds

This is an awesome idea for turning a simple vegetable into a very tasty snack. Also makes a nice appetiser…

Green eggs and ham

I bet you’re wondering how I made those eggs green! (^_^) I was very simple actually…

Tomato chutney

I tried another chutney, this one much sweeter than the previous one and used more tomatoes like I wanted.

My guest post on a “A Better You!”

Woo hoo! My first guest post. And even better, at a really good blog I frequent myself.

Buttery carrot side

I find that the simplest and best recipes I learn of every now and then always come from the people around me. This one is an awesome side that I recently learned how to make from a dear friend. Enjoy!