Shoo Fly Pie

So in all my restless jetlaggednes
 I decided I should bake a pie.
I googled best pie ever and found this you tube video.
It features a woman making Quaker shoo fly pie.
So I was like what the hell?
I could not find the turkey syrup called for in the recipe. Actually at first I had no idea what it was however a quick look at yahoo answers says that it is a sugar syrup used to glaze turkeys. At any rate they don't sell it in Rouses. Thankfully the thoughtful video mentioned that you can sub in half cornsyrup and half molasses.
The recipe makes two pies and I also made a home made pie crust to put it in.
It came out great a deep brown from the molasses, crunchy on top and gooey on bottom. YUM.

Nigerian Pepper soup

So before I went to Nigeria I started learning about local food.
One of the mainstay dishes is pepper soup.
While in Nigeria I ate exactly no pepper soup.
But now that I'm home I thought I would give it a shot.
 I found the recipe on the blog of a fellow traveler/cook.
I made it for dinner the day after I got back as a way of fighting off the jet lag.
It is actually a really simple dish tomato paste, fish, bell and chili peppers and some vegitable broth and onion.
There is no garlic in it which I thought was weird until I tasted it and realized that the garlic would not have gone well with the thyme.

 yumm! ya'll should try this it tastes pretty good.

Yogurt wrap

So I went to visit my parents in Nigeria.
It's a long story. Dad works there, if your reading this you either know the rest of it or don't really care.

So I was hoping one of the perks of the trip would be the chance to try new and exciting food.
Boy was I wrong. It turns out that we are allowed to eat two kinds of meal type 1 is the meal we prepare in our kitchen from imported or heavily disinfected food. Type two is the meal from the upscale Lagosian Restaurants on our approved list. The food at home is American 'cause that's where we're from and the approved places serve American, Asian or Indian food because that is the high status food here. This recipe is dedicated to anyone who ever tried to make a avoid eating leftovers by combining the first things they found in the fridge.

Use a frying pan to brown a flour tortilla
Coat one side of the tortilla in plain un-sweetened yogurt
add chopped up peices of cucumber and tomato
Sprinkle Tony Chacheres (or if you don't have that some salt and pepper.)
Roll the whole thing up and eat.

Special thanks to Janet my new big sister who disinfected, pealed and chopped all the veggies for this recipe. Janet I know you can cook if only we give you recipes so here you go.
: )

"Ultimate" Chocolate Chip Cookies

So I didn't have time to go shopping and I really was supposed to be writing a final paper but this recipe I cut from the back of a flour package was too good.

The first batch came out a little bit too hard but the second batch was all gooey and yummy.
I took them to Metro and they were a big hit.

The recipe is available here. Betty Crocker and Gold Medal flour will want you to sign up for emails but you can click out of that . The sight comes with a "how to" video just in case the two sentences of instructions are too complicated for you.