Tag: Experiments

DIY Braided Rug

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Braiding is a huge part of our lives considering the fact that at the age of five we girls had braids in our hair. Hair aside, this braided rug was a result of this inspiration which I came across from  A beautiful Mess.

 It was a little bit tricky but after getting a study of it I decided to come up with my version. I guess the hardest part was having to braid an almost endless rope and having to sew it all together.

I followed from step one to four and then changed it up a bit. Instead of gluing I opted for sewing the long rope together and it kept on expanding(if you look closely, you can see some yarn sticking out). It was supposed to be a round rag but it turned it some weird distorted form(I don’t know what happened. Really).Guess I am still learning. But it is uplifting to know that my first try turned up ok. Im gonna have to do more in the future so as to come up with perfect shapes and larger sizes.

What have you tried  so far?

Have a happy week.

🙂

Sophie

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.

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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