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My local Chinese takeaway has just lost a customer – My Chinese Crispy Sweet...
I am not a huge fan of Chinese takeaways to be honest. The grease, the salt, the sugar, and Lord knows what seasonings they use, plus some of their questionable hygiene standards just gives me the...
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Dooney’s Kitchen Live at Tribes Events – Holiday Inn Express, Stratford
I was invited to write for a new Events Magazine under their food column. It was quite an honour to be able to get my work out there to thousands of new readers. To take it a step further, I decided to...
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Ewedu Special
To a lot of people, especially Yoruba people, Ewedu is this simple vegetable that you prepare as an addendum to be eaten with stew. So its only function is to be the sticky addition to stew that you...
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May the real Efo Riro please stand up
A couple of weeks ago, I was amidst some friends and new people and the topic of food and cooking came up. I was not surprised when the conversation led to cheap pot shots about Yoruba women not...
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My Nigerian Dessert – Pap and Pineapple Brûlée
One of my last posts, I was regaling my distaste of garden eggs. I believe I HATE Ogi more than I hate Garden Eggs. Ugh!!! Ogi just never agreed with me for one second and my mother pressed on,...
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My 7 ingredient Zobo drink
Zobo, the popular refreshing drink made out of steeping mauve coloured dried leaves in warm water. The English, or do I say the Carribean name for Zobo is Sorrel. I never liked Zobo drink to be honest....
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Ojojo – water yam fritters
As you all probably know, I am proudly half Ijebu. Many of my food memories and experiences as a child came for the delicacies of the Ijebu people. My mother and her mother were very very close and I...
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My Spicy Kilishi and Suya Pizza – food fusion at its finest
Will it be unpatriotic of me to start with the sentence I find Italians totally fascinating? Honestly, I really do. My cousin Adun calls them White Nigerians and I laughingly agree. With keen...
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Egusi Ijebu
After a very busy Friday and Saturday, which I spent giving the whole place a good clean, Sunday evening came and I realised I had no food in my freezer for the week. The Horror!!!! No food in my...
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African Pear (Ube) Guacamole – a Nigerian twist on a Mexican dip
Guacamole is one of those foods that I have known about for ages but have never eaten. Despite having access to an abundance of avocado pears in Nigeria, I never attempted to make the stuff by myself....
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Bringing to you the many uses of Essential Oils by Honestly Organic Lifestyle
Have you looked on the packaging of your moisturising cream, mayonnaise, cleaning agent, face wash, spa products etc and saw two words – Essential Oils? I am sure you must have come across them many...
View ArticleCampaigning for Dooney’s Kitchen to WIN Food Blog of The Year
First of all, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone for the vote of confidence which got this blog nominated for food blog of the year. I started blogging in March and the response has been...
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From the people of Edo State – Black Soup
The beauty of being Nigerian amongst other things is the tons of relatives you have. Ask any Nigerian, we have enough relatives to fill a football field may times over. I guess it has to do with our...
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Ladies and gentlemen, I bring to you – Dunni’s Zobotini
I get food or in this case drink inspiration from unlikely places. This time, from Sex and The City. It is one of my favourite shows till date, and I can never get tired of watching re runs of it. If I...
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‘How to make Egusi into balls’– Lumpy Egusi Soup
I have written about Egusi twice now, but it is one of my favourite soups, so I make it a lot. I sometimes make it with two vegetables (recipe HERE), or I make it very luxurious by using a combination...
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Ofe Akwu – palm nut soup, the Igbo version
The Palm nut tree is local to Nigeria and a few other countries I think. My grandma used to tell me that it is the ever giving tree because all parts of the tree from the bark, to the leaves, to the...
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Zobo and Pineapple Ice Cream – homemeade
The inspiration for this came from work, or is the better sentence at work. First of all, I would like to say that I love Christmas. The child in me just can’t seem to grow up when it gets to this...
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Assorted Meat Peppersoup: Update
There are times when I deliberately switch things up when I am cooking so as not to get bored with my food. I got a text from someone who said her brother is down with the flu and he wants packs of...
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Party Jollof rice: Updated with extra hints, tips and pictures
Yesterday, I was going to visit a dear friend of mine, and I know that her son’s favourite food is Jollof rice. Aunty Dunni duties therefore dictate that I must bring along with me some Jollof rice for...
View ArticleDooney’s Kitchen Thanksgiving Special
Even though Thanksgiving is not celebrated where I live, I still participate in my own way. This year, I have lots of things to be thankful for. Too many to name, but one which ranks very high on the...
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