Author: Sophie

A food enthusiast and home cook celebrating the fusion of Ugandan food. Cooking and writing about it at akitcheninuganda.com

Cornmeal Nuggets

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First of all I wanna say the people who invented fried/garlic rice from left over rice were geniuses and I salute them. While developing this recipe, I contemplated on what to name it…Posho balls?- total confusion…Posho nuggets-still confused…Cornmeal balls-doesn’t sound right…Cornmeal nuggets-better. Before I give the recipe, I wanna  invite you to learn more about this posho here.

Now this ugali/posho is s kind of food that can be left over and reheating it can be a pain. This inconvenience made me think and realize I could pull a ‘fried/garlic rice’ ( I have no idea if such a statement exists!). I basically wanted to create a recipe out of this left over posho.

You will need:

Left over posho (hardened cornmeal)

1/2 C corn flour

1/4 C all purpose flour

2 eggs

1tsp garlic powder

1tsp red pepper(optional)

1tsp salt

1tsp onion powder

2C Cooking oil

Steps

  1. Cut the posho into cubes of about 1in.
  2. In a bowl, mix the corn flour, garlic powder, All Purpose flour, red pepper, salt and onion powder
  3. In a small cup, beat the eggs and add a pinch of salt
  4. Using a fork, dip the posho cubes in the beaten egg
  5. Coat them with the flour mixture
  6. Dip them in the egg again
  7. In a small pan, preheat the oil until it is hot enough.
  8. Put the cubes in the oil and let them fry until golden brown

Serve when cooled down. It goes really well with chilli sauce(my favorite!) or ketchup.

If you have more than enough posho, you can add more flour to the flour mixture and eggs to the egg mixture.

🙂

Sophie

DIY Polka Dot wall

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This is the time of the year when color is everywhere and I am so in the mood of color right now. This wall art was done after much desperation with what to do with our plain room wall. We(me and my sisters) had to come up with a way of making  it colorful without going against the rules. So for months we racked our brains until one day I discovered we could just cut circles of different shapes  out of cardboard and use water paint to paint them different popping colors and paste them on the wall. That is how easy and simple it is. The room is painted a cream water color so the colored circles blended perfectly. Since it worked perfectly for us, I couldn’t help but share a tutorial.

Materials:

  • Cardboard box (You might need more than one depending on how dotted you want your room to be. We dotted one side of the wall.)
  • Mold (you can use different sized caps of bottles and jars)
  • Pencil
  • Scissor
  • Water paint
  • Paintbrush
  • Tape

Steps:

  1. First of all make sure you have all the materials.
  2. Using a pencil and mold, draw circles in different sizes.
  3. After drawing enough circles start cutting out the circles while dividing and  stacking them according to their sizes.
  4. get out your paint and brush  and paint the stacks different colors. For example paint  the 2in. diameter circles a shade of peach, the 4in. diameter circles a shade of magenta and on and on.
  5. Let them dry at room temperature. This may take about thirty minutes.
  6. After they have completely dried, tape them at the back  and paste them on the wall beginning with the largest circles until the smallest.

It was a fun project an it satisfied my craving for painting. Let me know if you ever try it. Hope you have fun

🙂

Sophie

 

 

Pound Cake Experience

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First of all I wanna say the cake was delish! I had always heard about pound cakes but in my culinary class, we usually did the chiffon cake. It was an entirely exciting and major experiment for me and I am excited to announce that the cake came out perfectly (considering the fact that most of my experiments end up into disasters!) My dad couldn’t get over it(that’s how good it was!). I used the recipe here.

What have you tried lately?

🙂

Sophie