How to make Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil Salad. The salad is very simple to prepare.
4 ripe tomatoes
Salt
Pepper
8 Basil leaves
One large Mozzarella
Cut the tomatoes into small slices of about ¼ inches thick. Put inside a bowl, drain the tomato liquid then sprinkle lightly with salt.
Cut the mozzarella into 8 slices
Next layer the tomato slices, Basil leaves and mozzarella slices on a flat plate. Sprinkle salt and pepper. Drizzle with oil and serve.
Making your own popcorn at home is fast and easy. All you need is corn grains ( that can pop), butter or vegetable oil, sugar and a cooking pot that has a thick base.
Make sure you purchase popcorn grains. Not all corn grains are suitable for popcorn.
Put butter the size of a teaspoon into the cooking pot ,place it on a cooker and melt on medium heat.
Next, put in some popcorn grains and use a spoon to mix with the melted butter.
Cover the pot and wait for all the corn grains to pop.
Switch off the cooker, open the pot cover and add sugar to the popcorn and stir gently.
Popcorn is ready to be served.
Make sure you cover the pot while corn is looking otherwise the popcorn will fall to the ground.
Use low to medium heat to cook your popcorn otherwise it might get burnt.
After all the corn has popped, switch off the cooker before adding sugar and mixing with the popcorn. Otherwise the sugar will melt and then burn giving your popcorn a burnt taste.
Don’t put too many corn grains in the pot. The amount of grains you put should barely cover the base of the cooking pot
Mayonnaise is getting expensive these days. I know you have heard you can make it on your own at home. It is true, I have tried it and it worked.
Vegetable oil should be of good quality, canola oil, Avocado oil, soya oil and the normal vegetable oil will work.
The egg should be fresh and of good quality otherwise mayonnaise will not form. Note that it is the egg and oil that forms the mayonnaise. The rest ingredients are just to give taste/flavour and preserve.
Just a pinch of salt.
You can add sugar to taste.
2 teaspoons of either lemon or vinegar juice should do. It adds flavour and preserves the mayonnaise.
Any blender or mixer will do.
Put the egg, pinch of salt, two teaspoons of lemon or vinegar Into the blender jar and cover it.
Set the machine to the lowest setting then mix.
Next open the hole provided within the cover of the blender jar, switch on the blender then very slowly pour the vegetable oil into the jar as it mixes.
The sound of the blender will change when the mixture has thickened. That is your homemade mayonnaise.Switch off the blender. Store the mayonnaise in a bottled container and use within 24 hours.
[Optional] You can also add two or more teaspoons of sugar to the mayonnaise and mix for two seconds in the blender if you like.
Puff puff is a very popular snack and very easy to make.
Flour
Yeast
Sugar
Warm water
Salt ( optional)
Pepper/spicing (optional)
Vegetable oil
Frying pan
Cooker.
3 cups of flour will need ½ cup of sugar, one tablespoon of yeast, half teaspoon of salt and also half teaspoon of spicing.
Put about 3 cups of flour in a bowl. Add sugar, yeast and spicing. Mix the combination with warm water until a thick paste is produced. Cover it with foil paper and you can place it in a warm oven for about 30 minutes. After 30 minutes the mixture should have risen. Put a frying pan on the cooker and let it heat up the oil. With a scoop spoon or your hand, put small lumps of the flour mixture into the frying pan. Let them fry until their colour changes to brown red. There you are, you have just made your own delicious puff puff.
As a standard rule, the weight of gas your cylinder can hold should not be greater than the weight of the empty cylinder.
For example, if your gas cylinder weighs 12.5 kg when empty, then when filled with gas it should weigh 25 kg maximum.
If you have a cylinder that weighs 5 kg when empty then when full it should weigh a total of 10kg.
If you try to fill your cylinder beyond the recommended capacity, you risk cylinder explosion 💥 which can result to destruction and fatalities.
There are many ways to cook. Here is just some come Methods of cooking you should be familiar with.
This is a process of putting water to boil then adding the food to be cooked. Another way is to put the food in water and bring everything to a boil. Dried grains such as beans , rice can be cooked this way. And also meat too.
A process whereby the steam from boiling water is used to cook the food. The food being cooked is usually suspended above the pot of boiling water
A cooking method by which what is being cooked is continuously stirred using high heat. For instance, garri is cooked this way.
A process of cooking uncovered food by using dry heat in a confined environment with good air circulation. When the food is done it will appear crops and brown.
The process of cooking food in an enclosed space with moderate to high heat in the presence of moisture. Examples of food cooked this way are bread, cake, meat pie and so on.
A process of submerging food to be cooked in a lot of hot oil. The pan used is a deep one. When cooked the result is crisp, moist or dry, light brown coloured food.
A process of cooking food with just the right amount of oil and no water added. The pan used is a shallow one unlike the deep frying method