Category: Oil & Spices
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How to Make the Perfect Nigerian Jollof Rice for the Holidays
Some days ago I watched a video of a Nigerian couple having their honeymoon in Dubai. They were exploring restaurants within the community, intent on finding something that felt Nigerian. And what did they find that assured them they were at the right place? Nigerian jollof rice. Nigerian jollof rice is more than a meal.…
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5 Proven Health Benefits of Onions
Are onions good for you? Scientific and nutritional research suggests so. Onions, ubiquitous in many cuisines across the world, add a range of nutrients to the body. Available in different shapes, colors, and maturity stages, onions add flavor to meals. For decades, humans have recognized onions for their blood regulation potential, their ability to reduce…
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Easy Nigerian Back-to-School Recipes for Busy Mums
Every new school term casts its fair share of demands on parents. Outside of sorting school fees and procuring learning materials, you have to sort a range of domestic tasks, including laundry, cooking, cleaning, and shopping. Imagine, for a moment, that in the chaos of planning for the school year, you could outsource your food…
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Exploring Garden Eggs: Types, Benefits, and How to Use Them
The first time I had garden eggs, I knew they bore no semblance to eggs. Not in shape, not in color, and certainly not in the flavor they add when eaten. At that time, I didn’t know that garden eggs came in different colors or that they were mostly round or oval. Like me, you…
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5 Foods to Avoid to Stay in Shape
Once you’ve learned the seven food classes to combine for a healthy diet, you should also know the foods to avoid to stay in shape. Your diet affects your body metabolism, your fitness, and your mental alertness. These spin off into other pivotal areas including your finances, your productivity (at work), your assimilation rate, and…
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Creating a Balanced Diet: The Seven Classes of Food to Know
If you’ve lingered long enough on X (formerly Twitter), you’d have seen at least one video of Aproko Doctor urging people to take water. Beyond the humour and bants, there’s a tendency for us to go through each day without consuming enough water. This is partly because we don’t always have access to clean water,…
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Weight Loss: Can Walking Help You Lose Weight?
I put on some unwanted weight at the end of 2023 (blame working from home 🙃), forcing me to hit the gym in 2024. My efforts were futile because all the gyms around me didn’t fit my budget. That reality left me with two options: live an exercise-starved life or pick an alternative way to…
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PricePally Food Creators: Food Content Creation through OmoyeCooks Eyes
Omoye Isabota, popularly known as OmoyeCooks, is a seasoned food lover and content creator. She has made over 2,000 food posts on Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube—three social media platforms where she routinely posts mouth-watering food recipes to thousands of her followers. Born out of the intense desire for culinary arts education, she launched the OmoyeCooks…
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PCOS diet: The best Nigerian food to manage PCOS
If you have polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)—the endocrine disorder that affects reproductive-age women—questions about weight, diet options, male-pattern hair growth, and irregular periods are going to be on your lips. They’re potential alerts to the disorder that affects one in six Nigerian women. PCOS treatment and diagnosis, however, are obscure and dynamic, with genes, family…
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Onion colors: 4 Types of onions in Nigeria and how to cook with them
“White onions,” “red onions,” and “yellow onions” are regular onion colors you’d see while shopping in local markets or online grocery stores like PricePally. Like many vegetables, onions come in different shapes, sizes, and colors with distinct flavors for specific dishes. Given the varieties, it’s easy to not know your onions (pun intended). But in…