Ajuangs Kitchen

This is my first soup recipe... i adopted it from Sunny Anderson's Soup of Asparagus recipe. Decided to try a cream of carrot recipe instead because i love carrots. Saute garlic and red onions in butter, add carrots and season with salt and paper. Add chicken stock and boil till the carrots are soft. Take the mixture and blend. Transfer the blended mixture back to the stove and add sour cream and corn starch. I served on a plate and sprinkled paprika for some hot flavor.

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, baking powder and vanilla and mix. Add flour and milk and mix till smooth. Pour half of the mixture into a greased baking tin. Add cinnamon to the remaining mixture and mix. Add the remaining mixture to the baking tin and bake.

This is a good chicken wings recipe if you want to avoid using the oven. Place some oil in a skillet under medium heat and let both sides of the wings brown. Add a mixture of soy sauce, ginger and honey to the mix, reduce the heat and let simmer for about 20 minutes turning the chicken once or twice.

Stir fry calls for colorful vegetables and meat, playing around with different colored pepper gives it a good presentation. The vegetables i choose for my stir fry were red onions, green pepper and carrots. My secret to stir fry is mixing the soy sauce with honey and corn starch because it thickens the stew and tastes better. Once you throw in your vegetables and a mixture of your sauces and spices you have to be careful to stir it because the corn starch and the honey will make the sauce really stick to the pan if left unstirred. To make the egg fried rice i emptied the pan of the chicken and re-used the pan without cleaning it, i added vegetable oil and finely chopped onions. I then added rice (cooked) to the onions and mixed it. I pushed the rice to one side and added eggs to the empty side of the pan, I let the eggs cook until they were almost ready then mixed the rice and the eggs together.

I don't know why "they" named it banana bread because the recipe is similar to baking cake without milk. This is my go to recipe when i have more bananas than i can't eat coz they are too ripe and trying not to waste them. You pound the banana's in a mixing bowl, add melted butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and baking powder. After the mixture is stirred add the flour in two portions, stirring after each addition. I decided to add coconut shaving because i have so much of it laying around and banana and coconut felt like a good combination to me. I added an equivalent of half the amount of flour to the mixture. The result was pure genius, absolutely melts in your mouth, and the combination of flavors are meant to be. The thing to remember when using banana's in any baking recipe is to reduce the amount of sugar you use because the banana's themselves have a lot of natural sugar.

This simple recipe is done by first boiling the carrots till tender. Once the water is drained add orange juice, butter and sugar and let simmer for a few minutes, the result is orange-caramelized carrots.

This recipe is inspired by my favorite Chinese restaurant in Nairobi, they usually serve cucumbers and carrots soaked in sugar water as appetizers and each time i always eat my share and most of everyone else. Soak the carrots and the cucumber in sugar water for a few hours; then drain and add green pepper, onions and croutons to the salad and toss. To prepare the onions, soak them in a mixture of vinegar, oil, sugar, salt and grated ginger, feel free to sprinkle some of this mixture to your salad. To prepare the croutons, microwave a slice of whole wheat bread till dry then cut off the edges and cut the dry bread into small square shapes. The resulting salad is amazing.