About 9jafoodie

Nigeria born, African food blogger with relentless love for African cuisines. The ultimate dream is to make African food as modern mainstream as possible, while maintaining the traditional originality that make it so diverse

Boli and Epa Reimagined

Re-imagined Boli and Epa One of the most popular street foods in Nigeria has to be Boli and Epa, you can find the sellers at every street corner at all times of day. [...]

ThanksGiving in Nigeria

Nigerian Thanksgiving Recipe I honestly didn’t know thanksgiving was a thing in Nigeria until two years ago when Linda Ikeji posted pictures of numerous stars at their thanksgiving table. Even though I still [...]

Plantain Shell / Calabash

Plantain Calabash when I uploaded this Asun post, I had lots of inquiries about how the plantain shells were made.... I guess the plantain stole thunder from the Asun itself. Unfortunately [...]

Fresh Plantain Fufu

Fresh Plantain Fufu with Abak Atama I was very excited when Fadekemi hit me up on twitter with a fresh plantain fufu recipe; it's something that never crossed my mind prior. I set [...]

A Thousand Hills of Heaven

I had the pleasure of reviewing  an advanced copy of the new book  "A Thousand Hills of Heaven" by Josh Ruxin , it's a couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising [...]

Jollof Rice (Brown Rice)

Brown Rice Jollof with Plantain and Spicy Chicken Hello lovelies! I am really excited for this recipe, I am constantly trying to eat healthy and the more health food education I [...]