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Cornchaff is a Cameroonian meal from the Northwest and West regions of Cameroon which has gained popularity in the rest of the country.

It's a mixture of boiled corn and bean cooked in spices to give it a good aroma and taste. Here is my recipe for Cornchaff.

Cornchaff (Corn & Beans) Recipe | Cameroonian Food

Ingredients

Corn

Beans

Palm oil (red oil)

Maggi & salt

Rondel / Fullow

Green spices (optional)

Leeks / green onion

Onion

Ginger

Garlic

I used dry-ground ginger. If you are using fresh ginger then grind it alongside the rondelle and garlic.

Rondelle / Fullow

Cooking

- Boil the corn and beans. 

If the corn and beans are dry, soak them in water overnight in separate containers. Start by boiling the corn because it takes longer to cook than the beans. When the corn is almost ready add the beans and let them get done together.

For this recipe, I used parboiled dry corn so I did not need to boil the corn for long anymore. So I boiled my beans first and then added the corn when the beans were almost ready to make the corn soft. I soaked the corn first overnight as well as the beans. 

- While the corn and beans are getting ready, start preparing the ingredients. 

Slice the green spices, leeks and onion and set aside. Grind the ginger, garlic and rondel. It's best to use a grinding stone for that. 

- When the corn and beans are ready, take it away from the fire, strain it and rinse it several times to get rid of the cooking water.

Make sure you dispose of the water from the cooked beans and corn properly because it smells a lot. 

- Put the corn and beans back into the pot after rinsing and add water to the level of your mixture. Also add the ground ginger, garlic and rondel to it and let it boil.

- Fry the sliced ingredients in heated palm oil to raise the flavour from it and add to the boiling pot of corn and beans.

- Pour the fried ingredients into the pot after it starts boiling. Season with Maggi and salt then stir. 

- Let the Cornchaff boil till the flavours mix well.

- Serve.

Boiling beans

Adding corn to beans

When corn and beans were ready

After adding the ginger and other ground ingredients

After putting in the fried ingredients

Plums season makes me happy. Just like the mango season. lol. It feels great when your favourite fruit is in season. Just the sight of it makes you happy. 

There are different ways to prepare plums in Cameroon. But this is one of the easiest and you'll need just a few ingredients.

Cameroonian Fried Plums Recipe

Ingredients

Plums

Salt

Oil

Preparation

- Wash plums well and rinse. 

- Make cuts on the flesh using a knife. This helps remove water and sourness from the plums.

- Put them in a frying pan, and add salt and a little oil.

- Fry as you turn the sides from time to time. 

- Turn off the fire when all plums are completely soft. 

- Serve with bread, miondo, boboloh, or any tubers of your choice. I had mine with bread and it was delicious!

- Enjoy!

I hope you try out this recipe and enjoy this meal.

The Big Brother Naija reality show came to an end without me watching it on TV! I only followed the show on social media (Instagram) and I'm happy with the winner. In fact, the top two were fantastic. I hope this will help to show that good character can take you a long way. Dorathy survived many evictions because of her self confidence and Laycon just stayed so humble until the end. I really wish Dorathy had won but I have no problem that Laycon won. Good luck to them as they face life out of the house. 

Life after Big brother has been just calm as I was actually worried that someone else apart from my top two will win the money. I consulted Instagram a lot just to get updates on Big Brother Naija Lockdown and now that it's over, I now realize that the show really kept me on social media longer than usual. I got the best updates from Instagram accounts like @BlessingCEO & others. So I can say that I didn't miss out on the show that much. I need to get my TV cable situation fixed soon so that I can watch TV and feel human again. lol

I don't really miss TV but I feel the need to watch it, you know. I am so busy during the day that I don't get bored that easily. Well, except when I have no internet I get bored. But I just want the TV to be on so that while I work or cook or do other house chores I can entertain myself or catch up on shows I haven't seen in a while. I'm also feeling the need to get cable because of my one and a half-year-old daughter who wouldn't leave my side and definitely needs a distraction so that I can have a break from her from time to time. I love my baby girl so much but she is so glued to me that it's hard for me to work and go about my daily activities without her interrupting. I need to get the cable situation sorted out! God help me. 

This weekend I made and ate Khoki beans. It's a long-time-no-eat and I have been craving it for weeks. It took me almost a whole day to cook it but I enjoyed myself after that. I have a recipe of how to cook fluffy Khoki beans which you can read by clicking here. 

This makes me want to tell you that last week I ate quails for the first time and it was so good! We made it with spaghetti sauteed without tomatoes at home. You can check out the recipe by clicking here. It was delicious! It was also interesting to taste its small but very nourishing eggs too. I had some boiled and fried. lol. Just wanted to try different versions of it.

I have heard a lot of good things about quail and its eggs and it was good to finally have a taste of it. I love eating good food and I make the effort to cook well because of that. I don't want to deny myself the little pleasures of life like eating good food so I make the effort to make at least one meal I really feel like eating every week.

My weekend was filled with good food as well as the blackout we had on Saturday. It lasted from morning to 6pm! Can you imagine they took electricity just when I was setting up my computer to work? I was so furious but I had to calm down myself and make my day more useful by cooking and prepping the Okro soup I cooked on Sunday evening. I just got everything ready and put in the fridge with hopes that the electricity will return. I also had some clothes washed after that and did some little cleaning of the floor. I really tried because after that I was damn tired. 

The moment I thought I should rest a bit on my bed and scroll through my phone (social media, lol) to finish my remaining battery, that's when the lights came. I then felt like working again so I stayed up until almost midnight working and catching up so that I have less work on Sunday.

Sunday was eventually a more relaxed and calm day. We had some delicious fried plums in the morning, click here for the recipe. It rained in the afternoon and I had more time to create content for my Facebook page. I feel so good to have accomplished that and it makes me look forward to the new week on the optimistic side.

The day ended with us swallowing some okro soup with rice fufu. I have a quick recipe for okro soup. You can click here to see.

I hope your week went well.