WELL I WAS THINKN ABOUT MY GREAT GRAND MUM TODAY,SHE IS 106 TODAY AND I KIND OF MISSED HER COOKN.I LIVED WITH HER FOR 15YRS SOMEWHERE AROUND AKANRAN IN IBADAN,NIGERIA.REMEBERING HER 2DAY MADE ME GO DOWN MEMORY LANE,THE MEMORIES IS SO AMUSING,EVEN THOUGH I STILL FIND IT SO HARD TO BELIEVE SHES STILL AS STRONG AS A FIDDLE
ANYWAY, IM WONDERN IF ANYONE HERE LOVES LAFUN(AMALA) WITH BLANCHED BITTERLEAF SOUP,I LOVED IT SO MUCH THAT AT TIMES I EAT IT THRICE A DAY THEN, I WAS REALLY WHAT ILL CALL OMO ODO AGBA THEN,COS EVEN BEFORE I COULD THINK OF CLEANIN MY TEETH WITH ORIN OR PAKO IN THE MORNIN ,I WOULD HAVE BEEN SPOILT WITH ALAPA,ADUN,MOSA(DONT NO IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT THAT IS HERE)AND AWON,ALL NIGERIAN , SHLD I CALL IT SNACKS?I JUST ENJOYED EVERYBIT OF MY STAY WITH HER,TOO BAD I HAD TO LEAVE HER,ITS ALMOST 2YRS I SAW HER LAST ,I CALL HER IYA MI MEANIN MY MOTHER IN YORUBA LANGUAGE,SO FUNNY AND AT THE SAME TIME SADDENING,SHE BROUGHT ME UP,ANYTIME I REMEMBER HER I CANT HELP BUT SAY A PRAYER FOR HER AND I CRY AT TIMES.








SO DO U LIKE AMALA LAFUN OR NOT?

i luv it. it's got this sweet taste to it but i'm not dat much of a biter leaf fan. i love veggie soup though with different types of smoked fish, cow skin, locust bean, shredded beef.yummy!!

OMg! it was d same with me. i lived with my grandma for one year. i remember those aduns. some got this kinda beans in them. and mosa is the one with d sugar right? i luv it!!! the woman who sell it used to come to our house everyday. i was her best customer!!!

Is lafun white Amala?? Well, i thought i imagine there was something called lafun, i had it once, a very long time ago and never really liked it.

I love biter leaf soup though, Very scrumptious!!!

@DAMMYGURL : IT'S SO NICE TO KNOW THAT U LOVE THE FOOD TOO ,BUT DO U TRY THE BITTER LEAF WITH VEGGIE SOUP? YEAH MOSA COMES WITH SUGAR.DO U LIKE IT WHEN ITS HOT? HMMMM, NOTHIN TASTES BETTER LIKE IT!
@DESIREE : U ARE RIGHT, LAFUN IS WHITE AMALA BUT WHY DONT U LIKE IT? THE TASTE OR THE FACT THAT IT STAYS FOR A LONG TIME IN D STOMACH?IM GLAD U LIKE EFO EWURO.
AND SHE ALSO HAS THIS SPECIAL WAY OF PREPARIN HER LAFUN,SHE ADDS WATER 4RM THE SEIVED GROUNDED MAIZE TO IT, IN SHORT OMI ORI OGI, I DONT KNOW WHAT IT MAKES IT DO BUT IT TASTES REALLY NICE,U SHLD TRY THAT U KNOW.

yeeeeeee, my typee pf gurl, i also lived wid my great grand ma, gosh, from eko, to adun, toa ll dse local efo riro. to lafunnnnnnnn goshhhhhhhh gurllll i love u, thanks fro bringing back memoriessss

dolly -pee:


@DESIREE : U ARE RIGHT, LAFUN IS WHITE AMALA BUT WHY DONT U LIKE IT? THE TASTE OR THE FACT THAT IT STAYS FOR A LONG TIME IN D STOMACH?IM GLAD U LIKE EFO EWURO.

I think it more of the smell and the process of making it.

Ohhh mehn! I remember lafun.

I used to help my aunty to 'jo - sieve' the lafun. I loved it best with okoro tho. I preffered lafun to the black amala. THEN!.

ANyways, all this talk abt food is making me hungry for some of my aunty's meals.

@dolly pee. yea but i don't like bitter leaf dat much. i like the mosa hot but not too hot. it gets too crunchy when it's cold! gosh i miss it!!

@ HOT ANGEL ; LAFUN GOES WITH ANY SOUP 4RM ORUNLA, ILASA ,ILA,OGBONO ,ILA ALASEPO( MY SECOND BEST)I"VE EVEN TRIED IT WITH GBURE OBORO(GOES DOWN WELL)EVEN ATA DIDIN ELEGUSI ( THATS WHEN I GET SO BLINDED WITH HUNGER SHA O) GOES WITH ANYSOUP REALLY.

dolly pee,it is the you in you,that makes you the you,you are.very straight gal despite i dont fancy lafun most especially ewuro.

@dollypee
Waoh! one of my favourite meals is being analysed here, i think i need to vist this food section more often. Well i take lafun also but with "Gbegiri" soup,very delicious, it paves way for easy flowing for the lafun you dont have to swallow it with difficulty, it just flows in naturally.
We seem to share similar childhood backgrounds, i also stayed for some time with my grandma(near grave too). stayed in Oja Igbo the same street where the current blind Olubadan of Ibadan lives now.But u are a "cunk" omo odo agba. I also ate some yoruba snacks like adun, andthere is one called "hausa" or alausa" dont know the spelling.Spent most of the ileya festival with her. The last time she spoke to me, when she was given the phone she placed the phone upside down, so the mouthpeice was in her ear while the speaker in her mouth,it was so funny. I miss her too. here is a picture of my amala but this time with ewedu and some bush meat. Enjoy!!

;d

@ BABA IBADAN; U CAN SAY DAT AGAIN.INFACT IF U MUST NO I WAS BORN AN AJEBO,BUT HONESTLY I DONT FANCY BEING CALLED ONE,I RUB  MINES WITH PPLE FRM THE  GHETTO,MY CLOSEST FRIEND IS FRM D GHETTO,JUST LOVE D RUSTIC LIFE PLE LIFE IN D GHETTO,THO I DONT LOOK LIKE IM 4RM THERE BUT GHETTO IS IN MY BLOOD
DOES UR GRANDMA STILL LIVE AT OJA IGBO?I SPOKE TO MY GREAT GRANMA 2DAY TOO AND HER SPEECH WAS KIND OF LIKE SLURRED,WAS USN MY ORIKI TO KI MI,AND SHE WAS DOING DAT IN NINES AND TENS-SAYING SOME WORDS OF WISDOM ,IM YET TO GRASP D MEANIN OF ALL DAT,IM FEEL SO WORRIED BOUT HER.
ANYWAY DO U HAVE AN ORIKI? MINE IS AYINKE.

@dolly pee
Mine is AKANDE,i even like it better than my first name and she also "ki mi" anytime she calls. YEs she is still in Oja-Igbo waiting for death to come knocking . I was even told she has started some funny talks ( u know how old pple do when they are nearing grave). I am mixture of ajeboism and ajepakoism too. One thing i will never forget about those ibadan ghettos is the brown roofs (LOL). HAve u been to Mapo HAll, there u will get a better view of what am talking about.All the roofs are just brown!!

where do you live, i need you to make me that dish

@mubowa
GA,ATL.

IF I DONT NO WHERE MAPO HALL IS THEN WHATS D ESSENCE OF BEING 4RM IBADAN? ITS GOT A NEW LOOK NOW THOUGH,MY SIS TOLD ITS BEEN PAINTED AND D ROOF'S BEEN CHANGED,ILL ASK HER SOMETIME 2 SEND MII D PICTURE,2 SEE HOW IT LOOKED LIKE NOW.HAVE U EVER BEEN TO because FM?WORST FM EVER! MEN, DAT PLACE LOOKS LIKE AHORO AND DIRTY.I UNDERSTAND THEY SOON GONNA MOVE TO OLD IFE RD,THIER NEW SITE.

dolly -pee:

IF I DONT NO WHERE MAPO HALL IS THEN WHATS D ESSENCE OF BEING 4RM IBADAN? ITS GOT A NEW LOOK NOW THOUGH,MY SIS TOLD ITS BEEN PAINTED AND D ROOF'S BEEN CHANGED,ILL ASK HER SOMETIME 2 SEND MII D PICTURE,2 SEE HOW IT LOOKED LIKE NOW.HAVE U EVER BEEN TO because FM?WORST FM EVER! MEN, DAT PLACE LOOKS LIKE AHORO AND DIRTY.I UNDERSTAND THEY SOON GONNA MOVE TO OLD IFE RD,THIER NEW SITE.

Yeah the present state Governor (from ogbomosho) is doing the repairs.When u have the new picture pls send it to me. na because TV i don go to b4, one of my friends used to do his IT there never been to the FM. Almost everything about IB is dirty.

check out the travel section and view the Topic:Ibadan the most insulting city

okay, i will.

where ever u go, go gogo
whereever u see sisieko
do not say yes wen u eman to say no, babaibadan, hahaha

i rem d song so well @ aloib.song 4 d kids @ "JELEOSIMI".

@aloib and dollypee
I wanted to put that song in my profile earlier. Its indeed a local kindergaten poem. Takes me back memory lane

i swear, ibadan is still the best place ican live, if i'm gonna be based in naija, ibadan all the way o, babaibadan my bros finished in methodist 1997 and 1999, had two brothers make i sing ur school anthem

methodist grammer school bodija ibadan
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
up up we go up up we go methodist, up up we go, we shall not fall

blah blah blah,dats d song?

hahahah u wan make i sepe, lol, cant rememebr that side

the blah blah blah side is:
founding on the rock that cannot move

ehen, lol wat set were u

@aloib
I am one of the founding founders of the skool. Give names of your brothers i mite remember them or much more their nicknames if u know them
by the way can u prepare amala too?

hmm the halfcastes*( as naijas call them ) in methodist. yes o i can prepare o, even lafun, sha i'm off to bed

@ baba ibadan: how are u doing?i seem to be always loggn off whenever ure on.how is work?so u finished secondary schl long time ago?u must be an "ebgon" then,i finished bout four years ago.



@ aloib: are u also 4rm ibadan?

@dollypee
lets talk on your YIM