These pancakes do not have refined flour or processed sugar. They are truly healthy. Measure two and a half cups of rolled oats. Blend them to make oat flour. Once you have the oat flour, add one cup milk. Add 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1 or 2 teaspoons…
Category: Breakfast
Happiness is Waffles
Happiness is creating Happiness is sharing the creation Happiness is eating the creation Waffles can be breakfast, served with syrup, butter, yoghurt, and/or fruits. It can be a snack like mandazi. It can be dessert, served with ice cream, chocolate syrup or berries. It can be savoury: waffles and fried chicken. Waffles are a happy…
Mahamris, Coconut Cardamom Doughnuts
History of mahamri This pastry has its origins along the East African Coast and is part of Swahili cuisine. It is believed that Swahili has been spoken along the East African Coast for a thousand years. Swahili culture is a mix of African and Arabic cultures, but also has influences from the Turkish Ottoman, Portuguese,…
Crepes (Kenyan Pancakes)
Sensual Cooking Not that kind of sensual. Sensual as in the senses. As in cooking while consciously or unconsciously engaging our physical senses. So much so that it becomes instinctive. For instance … Smell Do you recognize the smell of almost done cake and know when to start checking? When dry frying the chicken for…
Homemade Muesli and Granola Recipes
Typical Kenyan breakfast What was your daily breakfast growing up? Tea and bread were a constant in our home. Eggs if you had the time. And if we got fancy on the weekend, we would have sausages, or pancakes, or mahamris, or cornflakes or weetabix. Muesli and Granola I began to eat muesli and granola as…
Gluten-free Fluffy Pancakes
A moment on the lips … And the hips won’t lie. You have been warned … Peeking into Rita’s cupboards She has a variety of flours, all neatly labelled. There are containers with rice flour, cassava flour, coconut flour, arrow-root (taro) flour, buckwheat etc. She happily experiments and mixes them up—usually eyeballing it (anapima na…
Coconut Banana Muffins
The request More recipes that have coconut, banana and lemon or lime. These muffins were meant to have lemon icing to complete the trinity of tropical flavours. Sadly, lack of time happened. So instead of lemon glaze, I quickly cut up lemons as garnish. The source I found this recipe on Pinterest from a Spoonful…
Apple Crumble
Foods that make us happy Comfort food has the ability to wrap its aromas and mouth feels around you and give you little bursts of joy. Do you sometimes eat something and right there on your seat do a little happy dance usually with your shoulders? Emotional brain To start off, the smell when this…
Dutch Baby or Baked Pancake
Good morning. I’m reminiscing about our stay at Naishi Guest House in Lake Nakuru. It was a fun family vacation for my parents-in-law’s 40th anniversary. The husband got some amazing shots at sunrise. And about food matters, I finally got round to making a baked pancake a.k.dutch baby a.k.a German Pancake. It is really simple…
Lemon Pancakes
My husband is trying to get me to climb Mount Kenya. Again. It was a bucket-list item that I was quite happy I managed to accomplish and cross off. However, he loves that mountain and has climbed it twice already and is quite happy to go at it again. So we have been walking twice…
Cooking on Canvas 