Saturday, July 6, 2013

Menu Idea - Moi-Moi Cooked With Sardines

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Moi-Moi can be a very versatile meal with various recipes and ways to prepare it that keeps it fresh and novel for the palate. The easiest way to switch things up is to diversify what is added to the beans mix - you can either use tomatoes or not, use palm oil or vegetable oil, and you can add crayfish or leave that out.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

DIY Cooking - Moi-Moi in a Plastic Drinking Cup

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I usually cook moi-moi with aluminuim foil paper but the last time I wanted to cook moi-moi, I realized we had run out and hadn't restocked. I had already put my beans flour into water and most of the other ingredients I needed to cook moi-moi were around me. Most importantly, I really wanted to eat moi-moi that day, not the next day or a week later after we had gone shopping.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Menu Idea - Moi Moi Cooked With Sliced Sausages

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This was one of the best moi moi I've made in a while. I think I'm really getting the hang of using beans flour to make moi-moi. Recipe coming soon.

Bon Apetit!

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

How to Make Moi-Moi and Corned Beef - Eat with Pap

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Moi-Moi is one of those meals I forget to cook because I think of it in my head as too difficult to prepare. This is because when growing up, and for a long time after that, we used fresh beans and had to clean it by hand before making moi-moi. When I tried that here the first time, it broke my blender, and since then, my wariness of moi-moi increased. I do cook it once in while a with bean flour, but either the taste doesn't come out the way I want it, or the texture is off.

My mom reminded me of the meal during her last visit, and at our visit to the African store, I bought a pack of the ground bean flour. This one had a recipe and method of preparation on the label and turned out to be the best moi-moi I had prepared in years. I've since bought several packs more of the same kind and moi-moi has more regularly been on the menu.