I am sure we all know sandwiches have been around for yonks, but do we know who created them and when? The British would love to take the accolade…
This recipe is from natashaskitchen, she is on instagram and has a website, I love her easy to follow recipes that turn out lovely. This one is a winter…
There are so many stories about how the club sandwich originated, my favourite one is the one about Colonial times in Hindustan, when the cook was asked to produce…
We have been making different kinds of fish over the years, and some of the recipes are already on this website. This one is very special to me as…
This currently very trending recipe is called Chicken Malai Boti for a reason. Malai translates into cream in Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi but is also a term used to…
Accompaniments/ Snacks/ Starters
Keema and Alu bake – healthy cutlets/cutlass (Mince and Potato bake)
This is an amazing reproduction of one of our childhood favourites – Potato & Mince cutlets – in Kenya also known as bateta champs or cutlass), but with fewer…
Dahin bhallay (dahin vada, dahin bhalla, dahin vaday) are known by many names and the dish is very popular as a snack in a lot of countries like India,…
This is one of my most recent ‘acquisitions’! A very talented lady who is an amazing cook, served my lovely Pupho Maryam and ‘us’ as part of our recent…
This recipe is a cross between East and West brought to our palate by one of my mum’s friends in the UK. Every 27th night of Ramadan, aunty would…
Another of the lovely food memories from my younger days growing up in Mombasa. The joy of walking home from Mbheni Primary School with friends, passing by hawkers with Achaari,…
When we were growing up in Kenya, our mothers took pride in feeding us and our guests homemade snacks. Popat as my mum called these, were one of the…
Dry boondi (bundi) is readily available in Indian grocery stores and some supermarkets. …