TASTY TRIX

This month's Creative Cooking Crew Challenge - hosted as ever by the lovely and talented Joan of Foodalogue and Lazaro of La...

For this soup, I took inspiration from mtuza wa samaki , an incredibly spicy Kenyan fish dish with onions, tomatoes, vinegar and a bunch ...

This month's edition of the 5 Star Makeover Challenge is a real doozy: Restaurant Wars. Two months ago, our hosts, Lazaro of L...

Remember when I told you about how the fabulicious Maya of Foodiva's Kitchen unexpectedly gifted me with fresh pandan leaves from Brune...

I cannot explain my peculiar affinity for West African food. Certainly nothing in my middle class meat-loaf-and-pork-chops middle-of-nowhere...

If you've followed this blog at all, you may be a bit surprised - or even, if you're vegetarian, disappointed - to see me writin...

It's all about the hot peppers ... ... and of course, the fish When Casey of  Eating,  Gardening, and Living in Bulgaria challenged...

When we moved into our current neighborhood, Poppa Trix and I were super excited to see that there was a Senegalese restaurant within walki...

Okay, so technically a "tagine" is a North African (usually Moroccan) dish that is cooked in a clay pot of the same name. I don...

Everything about maharagwe makes me happy. The spicy peppers make me euphoric, the red beans remind me of New Orleans, and the coconut tomat...

This is another one of those West African dishes that is so much more than the sum of its relatively few parts. The order in which the ingre...

You may have figured out by now that I'm a huge fan of African food. While I'm often cooking up spicy West African style dishes ...

My first exposure to African food was Ethiopian cuisine, and I was hooked from the first bite. This was many years ago, at the now-defunct...