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Rolex – Ugandan Street Food

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NY Style Bagels – Easy and Delicious Brunch Menu Item

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Thai Red Curry Meatballs – Perfect Weeknight Dinner

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Tamales Rojos De Pollo

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Laksa – Southeast Asian Coconut Curry Noodle Soup

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Mafe – West African Peanut Stew (Simple Recipe)

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Red Velvet White Chocolate Cookies

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Orange Cranberry Bundt Cake – Beautiful Dessert for the Holiday

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Charred Cabbage with Umami Brown Butter Sauce – The Only Way You’ll Want to Eat Cabbage

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Caramel Banana Cream Pie – The Perfect Dessert for Any Occasion

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Trini Buss Up Shut with More Tips and Tricks

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Ghanaian

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Short Rib Groundnut Soup – A Twist on a Ghanaian Classic

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Bofrot – A Ghanaian Doughnut You Can Eat For Breakfast

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Waakye – The Best Rice and Beans Dish

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Ghana’s Most Popular Condiment – Shito

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Jollof Rice

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Plantain and Bean Stew (with dry fish)

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Tatale and Aboboi (Plantain Pancakes and Bambara Beans)

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Plantain and Bean Stew – Red Red (simple recipe)

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Omo Tuo and Nkate Nkwan (Rice Balls and Groundnut Soup)

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Ghana Toffee

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NY Style Bagels – Easy and Delicious Brunch Menu Item

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Red Velvet White Chocolate Cookies

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Orange Cranberry Bundt Cake – Beautiful Dessert for the Holiday

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Caramel Banana Cream Pie – The Perfect Dessert for Any Occasion

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Chocolate Brownie Peppermint Cookies – Perfect Holiday Cookie

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Squash Loaf with Streusel Topping

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The Best Pumpkin Pie Recipe

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Classic Pecan Pie – Perfect for the Holidays

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Upside Down Peach Cake – Perfect Summer Dessert

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Classic Cherry Pie with Buttery Crust

Hi! I'm Nadia

Hi! I am Nadia and welcome to Travelandmunchies! I am a food blogger, food writer and recipe developer and Travelandmunchies is both creative outlet and a one of the best jobs I have ever had. Currently in Toronto, I love cooking, eating, and travelling and because I have no problem with cliches, I am blogging about it. I am just here to showcase recipes from around the world. I am Ghanaian so you will see a lot of Ghanaian recipes but I do my due diligence to research cuisines from different countries, make them, and share these recipes with you. Join me on the cooking journey as I make my way around the globe through cuisine,

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Today’s dishes. Nigeria vs Ghana! 🇳🇬🇬🇭

Nigerian egusi soup with pounded yam (1 and 2) vs Ghanaian kontomire stew + boiled plantain, yam, egg and avocado (3 and 4)

So many different ways you can modify these two dishes. The meat or fish in both of these may vary. I used smoked turkey as well as a variety of mushrooms for both of these. While cooking, I couldn’t help but notice how similar they are! The ratio of greens (kontomire, spinach or bitter leaf) to egusi (ground gourd/ melon seeds) is the biggest difference.

Have you had either of these before?

Today’s lunch time cooks! Homemade shrimp dumpli

Today’s lunch time cooks! Homemade shrimp dumplings. 🥟🥟

Served 2 ways. One is boiled dumplings with a thick Thai coconut red curry and second is pan fried with some chili crisps served with soy sauce and vinegar. Kept the filling super simple. Rough recipe below! Will probably write this one out and share with y’all in more detail 🙂

Dumpling dough:
250g flour
130ml water

Knead for 3 min, let sit covered for 15 minutes, knead again until smooth and let sit for 30min - 60min.

Shrimp filling
2 pounds shrimp, peeled, deveined and diced
1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1 teaspoon sesame oil
Kosher salt and freshly white pepper

Thai curry sauce
1 can coconut cream
2 tbsp of Thai red curry paste
2 tsp to fish sauce
1/4 tsp ground cardamom
1/2 chicken stock
Juice from 1/2 lime
Salt to taste (remember it reduced so season at the very end only if necessary)
Cilantro to serve

Finally a full afternoon with nothing but cooking!

Finally a full afternoon with nothing but cooking! Food inspired by @ottolenghi! Browsed through his new cook book Comfort and decided I was too lazy to follow a recipe but had definitely been inspired by the incredible book.

1. Yogurt base, caramelized onion and garlic cannellini beans and roasted harissa cherry tomatoes. Also made a small chopped salad of seasoned cucumber, olive and feta that I added underneath the heap of tomatoes.

2. Skillet of fennel, potato, garlic and shallots baked in chicken broth and topped with nduja butter shrimp and hot peppers!

3. Jalapeño and hot honey focaccia. Jalapeños were a very last minute added in so they are not folded through. Topped with @rosewoodwine hot honey.

Nothing more comforting than a whole roast herb an

Nothing more comforting than a whole roast herb and garlic chicken. I roasted the chicken over a pan of fingerling potatoes and butternut squash and used my @wusthof 🍁🍂🍗, Performer Hollow Edge Santoku and Performer Chef’s knife to whip up this delicious meal.

See the recipe below.
Recipe

Ingredients
3 1/2 - 4lb whole chicken, patted dry
Salt to taste
2-3 shallots, cut in half

Butter:
2 sticks unsalted butter softened or melted
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
6 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 tbsp oregano, finely chopped
1/2 tbsp marjoram, finely chopped
1/2 tbsp thyme, finely chopped
1/2 tbsp rosemary , finely chopped
3 tbsp parsley, finely chopped
1/2 tsp each salt and black pepper
2 teaspoons, lemon zest
1 tablespoon lemon juice

Under Chicken:
Fingerling potatoes, sliced
Butternut squash, diced to 2 cm cubes
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 teaspoon salt or more to taste
1-2 shallots, thinly sliced
Finely chopped parsley, to serve

Bake for 10 minutes at 425 the 1 hour and 15 - 20 minutes at 350.

Chana Madra! It’s a spiced yogurt based curry ch

Chana Madra! It’s a spiced yogurt based curry chickpea from Himachali Pradesh in Northen India. Quick and easy to make! Sour, flavourful and perfect when you are short on time (and if you are short on ingredients if you ignore the stocked spice rack you have to have for this). Went well with rice and I found I liked the sourness balanced out with the dried apricots! Similar to Dahi tadka recipes but this one’s got chickpeas which makes it a bit more substantial.

Mix with yogurt
1 1/2 cups chickpeas
1 1/2 cup yoghurt
2 tsp coriander powder
2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp cumin powder
1 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon

To simmer
2 tbsp ghee/oil of your choice
1 tsp cumin seeds
2 dry red chillies
1 split green chili
1/2 tsp group black pepper
2 green cardamom
2 cloves
pinch of asafoetida
2 dried apricot (chopped)
Water as needed
1/2 tsp sugar (optional)
salt to the taste
cilantro for garnish (optional)
1 tbsp rice flour (optional for thickening)
Basmati rice to serve

#chana #channa #chanamadra #indiancooking #indianrecipes #homecooking #quickrecipe

Something cozy for the fall! 🍂 It’s braising

Something cozy for the fall! 🍂 It’s braising season and this short rib ragu is so worth the effort. I love having it with rigatoni but some homemade gnocchi also goes well with this.

Short rib ragu
4 1/2 pounds beef short ribs
3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
3 large carrots, peeled and diced
1 very large yellow onion, finely diced
3 stalks celery, finely diced
1 head of garlic, finely chopped
1/4 cup tomato paste
1 cup red wine
10 sprigs fresh thyme
3 teaspoons dried rosemary
4 bay leaves
1 parmesan rind
1 cup crushed tomatoes
2 cups beef broth (plus if needed to submerge beef) (preferably no salt added or reduced salt)
salt and black pepper, to season

To finish
1/3 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup grated parmesan (to serve)
diced parsley (to serve)
cooked gnocchi or rigatoni

3 hours at 350 degrees

Quick and easy pantry meal. When I made this, I wa

Quick and easy pantry meal. When I made this, I wanted something quick but truly had NOTHING in my fridge. So this is canned white beans sautéed with garlic, olive oil, simmered in stock and seasoned with black pepper. It’s topped with parsley, paprika and homemade garlic crisps. Served it with Montreal bagels I had in my freezer + a side of some tinned fish: smoked trout pate (orange stuff) and cod pate (white stuff). Truly simple but so tasty!

All I can say with this one is yummmm! I love this

All I can say with this one is yummmm! I love this brown butter banana bread recipe so much and decided to make it into an upside down cake! It is simple, delicious and goes incredibly well with light whipped cream or perhaps vanilla ice-cream.

Ingredients

Brown butter banana bread/ cake
2/3 cup (150 grams) of unsalted butter
1 cup (190 grams) packed dark brown sugar (can reduce to 3/4 cups (145 grams) for slightly less sweet cake)
5 medium-large very ripe bananas
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon table salt or fine sea salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cardamom
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups (260 grams) all-purpose flour

Caramelized Banana Layer
3-4 bananas sliced in half lengthwise
1/3 cup (67 grams) brown sugar
1/4 cup (58 grams) unsalted butter
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt

10 inch cast iron. 350 degrees for 50 min - 1 hour.

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