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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Romance Meets Life

Romance Meets Life

Jollof Rice With Gizzard and Spinach Sauce

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 03:02 PM PDT


I have shared another recipe for cooking jollof rice with Chicken broth here, but in this recipe, I used the knorr cubes in place of fresh stock for seasoning. As for the sauce, it was very yummy, take my word for it :)

Ingredients
3 cups of long-grain rice
1 pack of cleaned Chicken gizzards
3 ladles vegetable oil1 can tomato puree - small size
4 small fresh tomatoes, chopped
2 medium size onion, chopped
2 Teaspoon of dry pepper
2 Knorr Chicken cubes
1 pack of frozen spinach, defrosted
Salt and Spices to Taste


A - PARBOILING RICE

1. Set 5 cups of water to boil, or enough to cover your rice twice.
2. When it boils, pour the rice in and allow to boil again.
3. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 mins.
4. Remove from heat and pour the rice into a colander with small sized holes.
5. Turn the rice into a container filled with cold water, and sieve again.
6. Repeat this, rubbing the rice lightly between your fingers until it feels starch-free.

B. TOMATO SAUCE AND MAKING THE JOLLOF

1. Heat your vegetable oil in the pot you'll use for cooking the Jollof Rice. Add the chopped onions, tomatoes, pepper and puree, and stir all together.
2. Add the 2 knorr chicken cubes, salt and spices to taste. Stir for five minutes.
3. Add water and bring to a quick boil.
4. Add your parboiled rice and reduce heat to a simmer.
5. Check the rice every 5 - 10 mins to be sure the water is enough to that the rice is not too hard. If you need to, add water only in very small quantities.
6. When the rice is cooked - some know by sticking in a knife or listening to the bottom of the pot. If the knife is dry, or you can hear some pops from the pot, the rice is done - turn off the heat.


C. MAKING THE GIZZARD AND SPINACH SAUCE

1. Start by simmering the gizzard in half a cup of water. Add salt, one cube of maggi, and spices to taste. Cook for 10mins.
2. Chop the tomatoes and onions
3. Add the chopped tomatoes and onions to the cooking gizzard, and saute for another 5 mins, stirring at intervals.
4. I love vegetables and this time, I decided to add spinach to the sauce.
5. The sauce is almost ready. Check for salt and that you're OK with the taste. Reduce to lowest heat setting.


Dish your gizzard sauce, add a side of jollof and Bon Apetit!

Dear Myne - Do I Marry This Guy I'm Not Attracted To

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 02:43 PM PDT


Sometimes u don't even choose to be single...but u still are! Some women truly desire to be married and long and enjoy the male company - but rather than end up with the wrong person, let her stay patient and get it right. Or almost. I am ready for marriage and in my early 30s, but the only 2 men I have come very close to marrying have disappointed and I cannot kill myself.

The next person who's loving me like crazy has a 6 yr-old son, was deported from Spain 2 yrs ago and just told me he was one of the leaders of the Buccaneers in UniLag back then.

I was a choir leader in my chapel for 2 yrs back then, I hav spent my entire life studying and obtaining academic degrees to make my life and that of my family better - not to mention the unborn children. Do I marry this guy whom I'm neither attracted to in any way nor matches my background - all in the name of marriage? That's simply insanity.

Right?

Vacation Time - Regina Askia-Williams With Her Family at a Water Park

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 02:44 PM PDT


Regina Askia won the "Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria" in 1988, and was one of the most popular actresses in Nigeria in the late 90's and early 2000s. She relocated to the US after marrying Rudy Williams with whom she has two children. They were recently at the Wet n Wild Water Park, Florida, for their vacation and she shared some pictures on Facebook.

Funke Akindele Vs Kehinde Oloyede - Marriage is not Everything

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 09:05 AM PDT


A lot of talk will of course follow this news of Funke Akindele's separation from the husband after being married for just over a year. Some are already throwing blames even before any further details have been released, it's either Kehinde Oloyede was a womanizer or Funke may have thought her marriage was a movie romance script.


Now, I don't know about Funke and her husband, but this is what I will tell any one, married or unmarried who is scared when they hear news of marriage break-ups; DON'T BE SCARED.

Before marriage, look before you leap, and if you went in and start seeing something more than you, please consider whether there can be reconcilaition, if not, separation and divorce are great options for peace of mind and happiness. Marriage is not everything.

And yes, men hold the key to a marriage not women. God is love, the fulcrum of marriage is love, and it is men that got that charge in the bible, love your wives, as Christ loves the church! Whether she submits or not love her, and the more you love her, the more you will love her.

In addition to the love that God gives us for our spouses, I am also madam mills and boon, so women and men, romance your partners, inside the bedroom and outside, and you will testify. I wish everyone more love and happiness, marriage is to be enjoyed not endured :)

PSquare, Grace Ihejiamaizu - 2 Nigerians on the TFA Africa Prize Honorees List

Posted: 16 Jul 2013 09:05 AM PDT


The Future Awards Africa has unveiled the long list for the Young Person of the Year - The Africa Prize, and the winner of this award will be announced at the awards ceremony to hold in August 2013. Partnering with the African Union (AU) this year, the TFA panel selected outstanding youths doing great things all across Africa.

"As is the tradition, the nominees for Young Person of the Year – The Africa Prize, were drawn from a huge pool of talented trailblazers across Africa, who are making tremendous contributions around the globe," said Dr. Raymonde Agossou, Head, Division for Human Capacity and Youth Development, African Union Commission.

The honorees are as follows;

LUDWICK MARISHANE  – SOUTH AFRICA (22)


South Africa's youngest patent holder and serial inventor, Ludwick Marishane is the founder of DryBath, the world's only non-water based germicidal bath substitute lotion for the whole body which has sold 162 units as at 2012. He was rated as the best student entrepreneur in the world (Global Champion of the Global Student Entrepreneurs Awards 2011), one of the 12 winners of Google's annual Zeitgeist Young Minds Competition, and appeared on Huffington Post and Ted Talks in 2012.

WILLIAM KAMKWAMBA – MALAWI (25)


A student in the Dartmouth College class of 2014, William Kamkwamba is a Malawian inventor and author who rose to global fame when he built a windmill to power some electrical appliances at their family house back at the age of 14. In 2012, Kamkwamba published his autobiography, an inspirational book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope and a documentary about Kamkwamba, called William and the Windmill, won the Documentary Feature Grand Jury award at SXSW in 2013.

ASHISH J. THAKKAR - UGANDA (32)


Ashish J. Thakkar is the Managing Director of Mara Group, a conglomerate he founded at the age of 15 which includes IT, real estate, manufacturing companies, and more with operations in 26 countries, spanning four continents, and employing over 7,000 people worldwide.

SARAN KABA JONES - LIBERIA (31)


Saran Kaba Jones is a clean water advocate and social entrepreneur who founded FACE Africa to provide safe drinking water and empower women and girls in her home country of Liberia; FACE Africa had raised over $250,000 to this end and Jones was listed by the Guardian UK in 2013 as one of Africa's 25 Top Women Achievers alongside President Joyce Banda of Malawi and Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee.

MOCTAR DEMBÉLÉ – BURKINA FASO (22)


Moctar Dembélé, one half of the team of African students that invented The Faso Soap, together with his partner, (Gérard Niyondiko, from Burundi), he is the first  non-American born/citizen, to win the Global Science Venture Competition (GSVC) organized by the University of California Berkeley, USA for inventing the anti-malaria repellant soap.

GRACE IHEJIAMAIZU - NIGERIA (22)


Named as one of Google's 12 Brightest Young Minds in 2011, and by the US Government as 'International Exchange Alumni Member of the Month for September 2012', Grace Ihejiamaizu is an entrepreneur and global change-maker.  In 2010, she founded an after-school youth project, Raising Young Productive Entrepreneurs (RYPE) Initiative; in 2012, she started a Social Enterprise company called iKapture Networks and founded the fast-growing online platform, opportunitydesk.org.

PATRICK NGOWI - TANZANIA (28)


Following its nomination by Tanzania's leading consulting and auditing firm (KPMG) in 2012 as the fastest growing company in the country, Helvetic Solar and its founder, Patrick Ngowi have from then been featured in a number of national and international media including FORBES, Venture Africa, and most recently, he was invited to speak at the Africa Global Business Forum 2013 that was held in Dubai.

PETER OKOYE AND PAUL OKOYE (PSQUARE) – NIGERIA (31)


This inspiring twin brothers have been tagged one of the very best in African music. Signed to Akon's Konvict Musik, Psquare signed a record distribution deal with Universal Music Group in 2012, the same year they released their hugely successful remix singles/videos featuring global music giants, Akon "Chop My Money", and Rick Ross "Beautiful Onyinye Remix". The duo has just come off a massively successful African tour where they easily filled up stadia in Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Equatorial Guinea, Congo Brazzaville, and more.

FOGLABENCHI LILY HARITU – CAMEROON (27)


A finalist of the 2013 Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work, Foglabenchi Lily Haritu, is the youngest individual to reach the position of program supervisor in the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services. Haritu has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to reproductive and sexual health rights education and rights promotion particularly through her work with stationary and rural mobile clinics across Cameroon.

KARIUKI GATHITU – KENYA (27)


Kariuki Gathitu is an entrepreneur, and software developer who in 2010 turned down an offer to work for Google to instead developed a mobile payment management system called MPAYER. MPAYER has been widely acknowledged and received awards for innovation and recently won second position in a global competition held in South Africa called Dragons Den (2013) and was the best application in Africa; it came second in the World's 50 Top Startups Globally (2013), and in same year was named one of the Top Tech Startups You Need to Know in Africa by CNN.
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