Cooking a typical Swedish julbord for two on Julafton (Christmas Eve) which is when we actually celebrate Christmas here in Sweden. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas day as well. Note – My heart goes out to all those affected by the senseless bombings that took place on Christmas day in my native Nigeria.
I’ve spent the last two weeks offline a lot. On one hand, feverishly writing articles and trying to meet a few back-to-back deadlines before year’s end, but on the more important hand, hanging out with friends, trying different restaurants and cafes and fulfilling what I’d set out to do a lot more of this year – spend more quality time offline.
In honor of World Food Day (Oct. 16) and Blog Action Day which is focusing on “Food” this year, I wanted to quickly point you all to two awareness pieces. Interview with Free The Children I recently did an interview with Craig Kielburger, co-founder of the nonprofit Free The Children on what is truly going …
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It took me almost two years of living in Sweden to realize that I wasn’t raised on cream-based sauces. Over the last two weeks, I’ve been feverishly shopping for anything that could be used in a pot of African stew. I’ve traversed Stockholm hitting some of my pseudo-African/Ethnic joints to pick up yams, ripe plantains, …
Sweden celebrated National Cinnamon Bun Day today and we take it seriously.
I’m not a picky eater though I probably could benefit physically from being picky once in a while, but I digress. Being naturally muscular, my body tends to gravitate towards protein in all forms. I grew up on large tomato-onion omelettes spiced with curry powder, salt, thyme, red pepper, and white pepper and breakfast remains …