Alvine the foodie

Why this blog, why now?

Hello there and welcome to my yummy foodieverse! Hopefully, Prayerfully, you are NOT thinking here goes the 190488220^th food blog on the internet. Maybe it is, but one thing I have learned in my short (youngish) woman life is that when you have a passion, you have a voice. And if you live your passion loud enough, somebody will hear that voice. This blog is my attempt to step out of my comfort zone and let my voice be heard, whether it is by 5 people or 5,000 people. I honestly see this blog as a digital diary of my food experiments and experiences. I see it as a channel to share my acquired knowledge with other food enthusiasts like myself. I also see it as a platform to humbly contribute to promoting African food (though I will be sharing about other types of cuisines as well).  

I am a writer at heart who dabbles in storytelling. As much as we live in a fast-paced digital era where video content thrives much more than written content, I express myself best through writing, so I thought fitting to stick to blogging rather than YouTubing (though I am devout YouTube subscriber to many many channels!). However, I am also a visual learner, so my goal is to incorporate as much visuals as possible. I hope to get into as much detail as possible with the steps of the recipes both in writing and with pictures. For now there are just a few basic recipes, but more to come soon. I am trying to progressively add the recipes for all the meals I have shared so far on my social media.

To sum up, I see this blog as an outlet to share my deep passion for food and to nurture my creativity.

Thank you for stopping by for my blog launch. I have a lot of awesome stuff coming your way! Also, thank you for celebrating my birthday with me as I am launching this blog (obviously this only counts if you are reading this on the day of the blog launch).

The fine print

• A recipe post every Friday: the Friday recipe posts will highlight my experience with a recipe from my favorite food bloggers along with a step-by-step guide on recipes I will be trying from my favorite food bloggers or my own twists to existing recipes
• The spicy minute: every month, I will highlight a spice that can be found in my kitchen. I will briefly share what I know about the spice and how I include it in my cooking
• Restaurant reviews: I will start documenting and sharing my dining adventures trying various types of cuisine. I will also be recommending local African restaurants (DMV area).

STAY TUNED FOR ALL THE GOOD STUFF COMING!!! CHEERS!!!

This recipe was inspired by French chef I follow on Youtube. The ingredients steps are included in the video below. ENJOY!

INGREDIENTS

♡ Tomato sauce base

♡ About 2 lbs Potatoes

♡ Pre-cooked or canned beans

♡ 1 cup ground crayfish

♡ 1-2 cups vegetable broth or cooking stock

♡ Salt and spices to taste

DIRECTIONS

1. Tomato sauce base: unfortunately I didn’t capture the tomato sauce base ingredients for this recipe but any tomato sauce base should work. For this tomato sauce base, I used vegetable oil, onions, tomatoes, leek, and garlic. Diced the onions and put it in the hot vegetable oil with some salt. Then add the tomato-garlic-leek blend.

2. Once the tomato sauce is ready. Add your peeled and washed potatoes and stir.

3. Add vegetable broth/ cooking stock

4. About 20 minutes later, the potatoes should be cooked. But you don’t want to overcook them before adding the additional ingredients. Now you can add the beans and the crayfish.

5. Add this point you can add any additional spices of choice (bouillon cubes, salt, black or white pepper etc,) to your taste. Stir well, so that all the ingredients can really embrace each other (lol) and let it cook for another 5 to 8 minutes.

6. It’s ready. Enjoy!!!!