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#throwbackthursday Some of my happiest moments in

#throwbackthursday

Some of my happiest moments in Ghana 🇬🇭 sitting with my dearest, darling mum, enjoying the sunshine, (you can only see her dress in the corner of the pic) having my hair braided, eating a big bowl of fresh fruit and looking forward to someone else making lunch for a change 😂

#homesweethome🇬🇭 #africa #ghana # Accra #takoradi #sunshine #aplaceinthesun #aplateinthesun #plattersinthesun #family #braids #loveghana #goodvibes #happydays #happy #feelgood #holiday #thegoodlife

Today is World Asanka Day and I'm celebrating Ghan

Today is World Asanka Day and I'm celebrating Ghana's 🇬🇭 gorgeous earthenware pot. This is our traditional mortar, for me, the best pestle and mortar, rustic in appearance with perfect ridges for grinding! Check out Second pic for ridges...

You can enjoy your meals from them, use for serving dishes, mains, sides, the lot. I love to display my spices in them for my spice workshops... they come in different sizes, the last time l was in Ghana, l saw the largest I've ever seen...about a foot wide 🤣 😂 so peeps, Happy Asanka Day 😃🇬🇭

#worldasankaday #culture #heritage #foodies #food #ghanaianfood #westafricanfood #apotoryiwa #yeba #versatile #westafrica #banplastics

We are in the Christmas season and celebrations ar

We are in the Christmas season and celebrations are beginning. The final word for the Guild photo challenge is *celebration*.

These are a couple of pics from last Christmas! My 'plantain mince pies' and 'three French hens' in the second pic.

Thank you Guild for a great time. I've enjoyed the challenge and loved all the delicious foodie pics shared by others 👏👏👏😀

So long ...

#theGFW2021
#30DaysDelicious
#celebration
#goodfood
#family
#birthdays
#weddings
#events
#weekendvibes
#bronya
#pattisloley

"You say potato, l say..." Today is the penultimat

"You say potato, l say..." Today is the penultimate day of the photo challenge by the Guild of Food Writers and the word is *potato*

I love Dauphinoise potatoes and all the fancy things you can make with this staple, but for me it's hard to beat a bowl of creamy mash. Its comfort levels are off the scale. Mashed with onion, butter and tinned evaporated milk and white pepper like my mum used to make.

I also love sweet potato and my favourite ways with it are griddling, making doughnuts or baking and stuffing with cream cheese as you can see in the pics.

#theGFW2021
#30DaysDelicious
#potato
#comfortfood
#herbymash
#mash
#pattisloley

Tea time is today's word for our photo challenge b

Tea time is today's word for our photo challenge by the Guild and I've gone for fresh mint tea. Really loving herb teas at the moment and mint is a real favourite and very calming. I look forward to it almost every morning.

My mum loved different teas from all over the world and afternoon tea was a real indulgence for her. Must go now, the kettle's just boiled... 🤣

#TheGFW2021
#30DaysDelicious
#Teatime
#pattisloley

What a fabulous Christmas shopping event last Thur

What a fabulous Christmas shopping event last Thursday @deborahfitz_interiors_ my sauces, syrups, peanut and pistachio brittle and pickled onions sold out 💯 💃💃

Thank you to everyone who came and shopped. Love all the feedback on my new plantain chocolate cake which also sold out 😀🥂

#christmasgift #christmasfood #homemade #pattisloley

Love seeing another staple popular in Africa on th

Love seeing another staple popular in Africa on the Guild's photo challenge. Today the word is corn, so I'm sharing a few pics.

Purple corn, which l know grows in other parts of the world but thrives in the Western region of Ghana! One of my favourite ways to enjoy it is to make Koko, a cornmeal porridge, served with a dusting of cocoa, cappuccino style. Corn fritters, corn in salads, saabu ( corn and peanuts steamed in corn leaves), grilled corn with spiced butter, dokun (a corn meal dumpling) l often slice using a cheese slicer and enjoy with fried or grilled fish. Grilled corn is a perfect snack seen on street corners in Ghana. I love to griddle mine after steaming.

#theGFW2021
#30DaysDelicious
#corn
#africanfood
#ghanaianfood
#mexicanfood
#latino
#pattisloley

Plantain is today's word for the Guild of Food Wri

Plantain is today's word for the Guild of Food Writers photo challenge, and how excited am l? I've 'worn the t-shirt and ate the stew' as they say.

My plantain cookbook, has 51 easy to follow and delicious recipes. It is easily the vegetable world's best kept secret and can be enjoyed from its green underripe stage right through to when it's black and overripe. My alternative Christmas cake, plantain and pear cake was featured on ITV's Lorraine last Christmas. For the recipe and video, the link is in the bio.

From snacks to salads, mains to desserts, plantain just keeps on giving. Fry, grill, roast, steam, poach, bake... fall in love with it and you can have an affair for a lifetime.

I look forward to running a plantain masterclass for the Guild in the new year.

#plantain #30DaysDelicious #theGFW2021 #kelewele #vegetarian #vegan #glutenfree #pattisloley #africa #ghana #westafricanfood #naijafood #ghanaianfood #delicious #creativity #melaninmagazine

Today's word for the Guild of Food Writers photo c

Today's word for the Guild of Food Writers photo challenge is brunch, and this is how l brunch! A quick look in the fridge, have eggs? Yes... and as l always batch cook my spicy tomato sauces, that and eggs are a perfect marriage in the kitchen. Quick, delicious and easy.

This is what l cooked for @lorraine on ITV for a Boxing Day brunch last Christmas.

Every country has an egg dish like the Mexican Huevos Rancheros and the Maghrebi dish Shakshouka. In Ghana this is ours. If you'd like to try this, link is in the bio as they say.

#theGFW2021
#30DaysDelicious
#brunch
#breakfast
#lunch
#eggs
#spicy
#tomato

Today's word for the Guild photo challenge is smor

Today's word for the Guild photo challenge is smorgasbord, which is a Scandinavian word for open face sandwiches and hors d'eouvres, served buffet style. No sandwiches in this pic though!

As a 16 year old, l spent a year in the United States as an Exchange Student on a program called AFS, where you lived with an American family and attended the last year of high school. My host family happened to be Danish American so smorgasbords were enjoyed often. Meatballs, Danish pastries, and sandwiches, and more. Truly delicious 😋. Pity l don't have one of their pics to share.

#30DaysDelicious
#theGFW2021
#smogasbord
#buffet
#pattisloley

Chicken liver soaked in brandy, spiced and wrapped

Chicken liver soaked in brandy, spiced and wrapped in bacon and then grilled, has got to be one of my favourite bites to eat. I remember one of my auntie's always making them for her dinner parties when l was about 9... and l got to taste a couple before she served them 😋

Canapes is today's word for the guild of food writer's photo challenge and how l wish l was enjoying these canapes now.

#30daysdelicious
#TheGFW2021
#canapes
#fingerfood
#fingerfoods
#starters
#pattisloley

Here's a delicious gingerbread and almond cake my

Here's a delicious gingerbread and almond cake my son lives to makes all the time. I love to eat it with grated white chocolate and a mug hot dark chocolate. mmm... so delicious. Today's word for the Guild of Food Writer's photo challenge is wheat and this is my offering 😀

#30daysdelicious
#theGFW2021
#wheat
#pattisloley
#cakes

It's day 18 for the Guild of Food Writer's photo c

It's day 18 for the Guild of Food Writer's photo challenge and the word is family time. For me family time is about indulgence, especially as l live in England now and visit my Ghanaian family when l can.

As they don't see me often, l get thoroughly spoilt on my visits. "What would Patti like to eat?" and as I'm not backwards in coming forwards, 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 l say things like "Ooo some lobster" and voila 😀...as you can see... 😋😋😋😋

As Ghana is situated along the Atlantic Ocean, seafood is ocean fresh and utterly delicious. Looking forward to more family time again soon.

Pandemic be gone!!!!!

#30DaysDelicious #theGFW2021 #familytime #seafood #pattisloley

I love seafood and especially sea bream, with cris

I love seafood and especially sea bream, with crispy skin. Today's word for the Guild's challenge is supper, and l LOVE a fish supper. Most evenings it's supper for me, something light and not too heavy. Here to go with the fish, I've got pickled onions with a homemade blend of chilli and tomato.

#30daysdelicious #TheGFW2021 #supper #fishsupper #pescatarians #pattisloley #midweeksupper

A tropical salad at midnight on a hot day in July,

A tropical salad at midnight on a hot day in July, a couple of years back, enjoying life with a bunch of great friends. It had a lovely international feel... Ghana, Malaysia, English, French, Caribbean, Italian, super! Photo taken by candlelight. It was amazing!!

We had black South African grapes, pomegranates, pineapple, papaya, mango all dusted with icing sugar 😋😋😋

You guessed it, the word for Guild of Food Writer's photo challenge is #midnight 😀

#30daysdelicious #theGFW2021 #fruitsalad #exotic #tropical #foodtastesbetterwithfriends #midnight #snack #midnightsnack

The word at the halfway point for the Guild of Foo

The word at the halfway point for the Guild of Food Writer's photo challenge is rice, and it has to be one of my favourite staples to cook. It is to Africa what potatoes are to the West. There is just no end to the flavour combinations when it comes to rice.

Jollof rice a signature dish is the jewel in our cooking pot and our answer to paella, biriyani, risotto and kedjeree to name a few rice dishes from around the world.

Along with Jollof rice, l share turmeric rice, hibiscus rice, rice cooked with garlic and cherry tomatoes, so they burst and flavour the rice and more.

#thGFW2021 #30daysdelicious
#rice #ghana🇬🇭 #westafrica #naijafood #senegalfood #gambianfood #jollofrice #cameroonianfood #liberianfood #africa

The word for the Guild of Food Writer's photo cha

The word for the Guild of Food Writer's photo challenge today is cassava, and this is a typical West African staple, so I've grown up with it. We boil, mash, roast and more. When l ask people if they've ever had cassava, they say no, so l ask if they've ever had tapioca... 'Oh yes' is the answer, so l say 'you've had cassava' 😀.

I have three pics here for you, a cassava cake with coconut and fennel, a delicious Brazilian recipe l came across ( will put recipe up on my website this week, link in bio) prawns coated in gari - toasted cassava grains and fishcakes also coated in crunchy gari. I love using it as a coating because it stays crunchy and doesn't soak up oil. The recipe for that and a few more are in my cookbook A Plate in the Sun, available on Amazon.

#theGFW2021 #30daysdelicious #cassava #bankye #westafricanfood #africanfood #ghana #brazil #pattisloley #vegan

Great guests, great food, great atmosphere all in

Great guests, great food, great atmosphere all in a day at the #NovelliAcademy 😀

#cookeryclasses #cookerycourses #teamnovelli #funday #spiceworksops #learnnewskills

Food tastes better with friends, always 😀! Toda

Food tastes better with friends, always 😀! Today's word for the Guild photo challenge is dinner and what an absolute blast we had dining in the garden! I did the cooking and it was deliciously African

#dinner #30daysdelicious #TheGFW2021 #goodfood #letseat #happydays #friendship #ghanaianfood #whatatreat

Everytime l go home to Ghana l go to a local spot,

Everytime l go home to Ghana l go to a local spot, where the meat is local of course, organic, tender and juicy. Today's word from the Guild of Food Writers photo challenge is #farmtofork.

This is beef suya with peanut and chilli sprinkle on the side and sliced onions... Yum!

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#30daysdelicious
#farmtofork
#beefsuya
#ghanaianfood
#organic

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