Fish Peppersoup

“Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.”

       

  Let me tell you about my less than 200 calorie dinner; Tilapia pepper soup. I used the same ingredients I use in my previous pepper soup post. If you haven’t seen it, check Here. Anyways it was a quick dinner, put all the ingredients in the pan and waited for it to cook properly. Since fish doesn’t take long to cook at all, you want to make sure that the pepper soup itself is ready before even adding the fish because you don't want it overcooking and tearing up. All in all, it took me 13 minutes to make this delicious meal and it filled me up.

 

                                   

Thanksgiving Fete

"The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands"

I am super excited about having my first thankgiving gathering this year at my place. I'm not sure if it was laziness or lack of funds that prevented me in previous years but for whatever reason, I am ready for the challenge this year.

The menu is super exciting because I am cooking some dishes I am familiar with but also trying new recipes from my cookbook. We have Fried rice, Jollof rice, BBQ ribs, deviled eggs, roasted veggies, chicken casserole, pepper soup (posted recipes for these earlier) turkey gizzard mini kebabs, mini chicken drumsticks in 4 different flavors (bbq, buffalo, peppered and sweet chipotle). Also my friend Kemi will be making turkey, mashed potatoes, corn bread and caramel cake. My sister, the dessert person in the family will be making Pina Colada Cheesecake. That will definitely be something to try.

I'll make sure I post pictures and recipes :)

Nigerian Goat meat Peppersoup

                                                “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” 

                                                               ― George Bernard Shaw

First of all, Kudos to me to finally getting my pepper soup recipe right. I have tried everything from using meat stock as a base and just dumping the pepper soup spice in and some seasoning or just throwing everything tasteful in the pot and hoping it turns out right. Different people have different ways of making it but I wanted something with the most basic ingredients in my kitchen and finally I got it. 

Ingredients

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cube of maggi

1 table spoon dried/ground pepper.

1/2 onion chopped 

1 tbsp pepper soup spice

1 tbsp vegetable oil

1 tbsp curry

1 tbsp garlic powder

An assortment of goat meat (smoked meat, honey tripe, pomo, cow leg)

FYI, I have used this menu for chicken as well :)

Instructions

•  Rinse your choice of meat and clean it thoroughly. 
• Place in a pot and season with curry, salt, maggi, onions, garlic powder, vegetable oil and ground pepper and let it cook until tender. Different types of meat cook differently so you may need to remove the goat meat to let the tripe and cow leg cook longer.
• After everything is cooked thoroughly, add pepper soup spice and some more ground pepper if you like spicy food. Taste for spice and salt and add more as needed. Also you can add curry for color.