Nice birthday cakes!

By Akwe Mabs

 Here is a collection of some birthday cakes/pictures from some of my family members. I didn't bake any of these but  they all look so lovely !

Nenge's 9th birthday cake

Shura's 10th birthday cake,

Baby Miley's 1st birthday cake

mom's birthday cake as she celebrates with her grandchildren in Douala

Ngems' birthday cake as she celebrates with kids 

Ngwi's 12th birthday cake 

George Jr's 3rd birthday cake

Pictures: courtesy of my sisters, Ngems, Ids and myself.
Thanks to Yvonne F. for baking most of these cakes.

Setting food on the table! Be stylish!

By Akwe Mabs

You will certainly agree with me that setting food on the dinning table is not simply a matter of taking the food from the pot/oven/grill to the table.

 It is an art in itself!

Many people are often  quickly drawn to a table when it is beautifully set! Making sure the cutlery, plates, paper-napkins, table mats, glasses, food dishes and trays  are in place, is therefore key to having a nice table setting. The arrangement of the different items, the lighting, candles, flowers and a few other table accessories  generally add style and beauty.

Therefore I suggest you take the time to set a beautiful, enticing and mouth-watering table for yourself, your family and /or friends whenever need be.

It's all in the art of it!

These pictures on this post, are courtesy of my big sister, Lynda.

Making a monthly meal plan!

By Akwe Mabs

Each month I draw up a meal plan. This usually is done after I must have been to the market and the grocery stores to buy all what I intend to use.  My shopping list is usually divided into different sections like meat, fish, vegetables , fruits, canned food, spices etc.

Most often my monthly meal plan helps me save time and money given that I can buy in bulk and would not have to run to the market all the time.

Figuring out what the family should eat throughout the month and drawing up the monthly menu also helps reduce the everyday stress sometimes associated  with planning meals on a  daily basis!
If you are looking for ways of how to go about this take a look at a sample of my monthly meal plan below. You could also find help here

 My sample FOOD MENU for a month 

                                                WEEK 1                            WEEK 2                              WEEK 3                            WEEK 4         

MONDAY	Egusi soup meat, plantains§ rice	Garri and okro	Chicken and fried potatoes	Cabbage and rice
TUESDAY	Vegetable and fufu  and  Rice	Pepersoup potatoes	Jellof rice and meat	Bean s and rice
WEDNESDAY	Garri and okro plus rice and meat	Spaghetti and sauce	Kwacoco bible Plus noodles	Spaghetti
THURSDAY	Beans and  boiled plantains and noodles	Puff puff and beans	Eru and garri with footcow	Garri and okro soup with foot cow
FRIDAY	Fried spaghetti	Porridge cocoyams	Dodo and beans	Liver sauce and dodo, macaroni
SATURDAY	Waterfufu and eru plus potato chips	Okongobong egusi Vegetable and rice plus foot cow	Egusi soup and rice plus meat	Ndole and plantains  Plus noodles
SUNDAY	Rice and stew with meat	macaroni	Fufu corn and vegetable	Puff and beans
Fruits	Banana and oranges and passion juice	Pawpaw and pineapple and mangoes	Oranges  and apples Mangoes	Banana and watermelons