Sunday 27 July 2014

Banana Pancakes...

My favourite pancakes are Banana Pancakes... They are absolutely mouth watering...

So to begin this fun & delicious recipe, the ingredients required are:

  • Self raising flour  533g (gives it the oomph it needs, but you could use plain flour but it'll be really thin)
  • Sugar (granulated and as much as you like)
  • 1 Egg (I'm not a fan of eggs so i only use one no matter the quantity of pancakes)
  • Semi skimmed milk
  • 2 Bananas (really ripe ones) 
  • Cinnamon 
  • Nutmeg 
  • Vanilla Flavouring 
  • Cooking oil
I know some people like to measure but I'm not a fan as I said before, so just make it according to what you think will be enough :)

So Cooking time: 

  1. Pour the self raising flour into a nice round bowl and add sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. 
  2. Mix it all together and you should be able to smell the cinnamon and nutmeg in the flour mixture. 
  3. Make a hole in the middle of the flour and break the egg and add milk until you get a nice thick consistency like the picture below. 
  4. Mix together until you get a nice thick consistency (don't add too much milk otherwise it'll become flat)
  5. Then add the Vanilla flavouring to the mixture 
  6. And then squeeze the bananas through your fingers (like mash potatoes). But I mashed mine up with a fork days ago and put it in the fridge so the bananas didn't go to waste. 
  7. And mix well. 
  8. Then add a bit of oil to the pan and heat up and begin the wonderful process of frying pancakes. 
  9. The pancakes will have holes in them indicating they are ready to be flipped.
533g of Flour 
Flour
Cinnamon & Nutmeg










Break Egg in middle 










Mixture Consistency

Semi skimmed milk
Heat oil 











Add Vanilla Flouring 











Add banana while oil is heating up
Final mixture 










8 pancakes

Pancake is ready to be flipped











Hope these pictures and the methods are clear enough... Enjoy Lovelies 

Yours truly, 
Your friendly neighbourhood Ladia..

Saturday 26 July 2014

The Cooking Begins.... Egg Sauce

The Easiest thing to do is the Egg Sauce.... Super easy, quick and most especially goes with almost anything (well within a reasonable parameter... Lol)...

So first off, Ingredients required: I don't really measure, I usually just cook and most times I cook the right amount... But if you really need measurements, Ill be happy to provide some :D


Chopped Tomatoes & Onions


  • Tomatoes 
  • Onions 
  • Eggs 
  • Rodo (Scotch Bonnet) (I prefer suya pepper, you could get that in Tesco)
  • Seasonings (Knorr, Paprika, White and Black Pepper and any other seasonings you like)
  • Cooking Oil
Method:
  1. Dice the tomatoes and Onions (any shape and size you want)
  2. Cook the tomatoes and onions until most of the water is dried up
  3. Then add the oil to the mixture and fry for a bit to give the tomatoes and onions some taste 
  4. This is now the time to add all your seasonings and taste before adding the eggs, make sure the amount of seasoning is enough to go round the eggs.
  5. Break the eggs into the mixture and stir continuously so it becomes scrambled
  6. Make sure eggs are properly cooked before serving 


End Result



Thats all there is to it really... So I hope everyone will try it and hopefully I haven't missed out anything.. But if I have please don't hesitate to let me know... 

And when next I cook, Ill take detailed pictures of every step so its a lot easier to cook... 

Enjoy!!!!

Yours truly, your friendly neighbourhood Ladia ;)
Your friendly neighbourhood Ladia :)

On to the next 1.....

So as for the nickname Ladia, that came about in my final years in secondary school abroad... Most times I think people had difficulty in pronouncing my name so one of my friends' came up with Ladia and then all of a sudden most people started calling me Ladia. I even started calling myself Ladia, keeping up with the trend... Lol...

Ladia has a nice ring to it, so decided to keep it... Nothing fancy about how it came about, it just did. But im glad it did....


This post is very short but just wanted to share Ladia's nickname...

Yours truly, your friendly neighbourhood Ladia


Thursday 24 July 2014

Intentions for my Blog....




  • Egg Sauce 
  • Fried Rice
  • Moi Moi 





It is going to be full of Nom Noms.. A whole load of it... Some of the stuff I've made and Restaurant reviews... Giving you all the juicy details about FOOD!!!!

I'm a serious Foodie, thats probably why I can't get the weight off, but work in progress....

Its so EXCITING

More to come :) (recipes will also be provided, upon request)

Love Love Love Ladia :D










Flattery... To some extent

Okay, first things first....

I'm sure everyone knows my name is Laide (for those of u who don't)... I was going through a friend of mine's blog Adetuke and just decided on the spot to create mine, Although I had been thinking of creating one for while, just didn't have the time and motivation to do so. But after reading her blog and seeing all the nice things she had to say, I said to myself 'mans gotta get that too'.... I refer to myself as mans (I have my sister to thank for that)... Lol


I am one of the ''Ibetas''... My sisters are just awesome awesome awesome.. I thank God for them, my other siblings and most especially my Parents everyday. But I gotta say, its awesome being a triplet... E.g. On a completely random stuvins, one evening, I was talking to one of my sisters and I asked her if she wanted to get me some water from the kitchen to drink, well obviously she said NO!!. Then to my surprise and utter amazement.. Lol.. she came back with a glass of water and I just couldn't stop smiling at her and telling her I love love love love u.


Anyhoo, back to seriousness :D..... I'm just rounding up my Masters degree in Human Resource Management and can't wait to jump straight into the so called working class folks (well, after NYSC of course... Lol..). 







Im not good at this sort of thing yet, but with time, ill definitely get the hang of it..

Yours Truly, your Friendly Neighbourhood Ladia (I will explain how that nickname came about :D)
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