Tuesday, December 2, 2008

BARB-E-QUE

Cherie i know this is your element you know i mean eating the chicken not cooking it! There is this nice chicken at the food court it is served by the maroon diner not sure what its called but their chicken tastes goooooooodddddddd!like a mixture of yorghut(sp) with vinegar really nice.so i figured this would probably taste the same let me know how it goes.


BARBEQUE CHICKEN

Ingredients
· 3 to 4 pounds meaty chicken pieces (breasts, thighs, and drumsticks)
· 1-1/2 cups dry sherry
· 1 cup finely chopped onion
· 1/4 cup lemon juice
· 2 bay leaves
· 6 cloves garlic, minced
· 1 15-ounce can tomato puree
· 1/4 cup honey
· 3 tablespoons light-flavored molasses
· 1 teaspoon salt
· 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed
· 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper
· 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
· 2 tablespoons white vinegar
Directions

1. Place chicken in a plastic bag set in a shallow dish. For marinade, in a medium bowl stir together sherry, onion, lemon juice, bay leaves, and garlic. Pour over chicken; seal bag. Marinate in the refrigerator for 2 to 4 hours, turning bag occasionally. Drain chicken, reserving marinade. Cover and chill chicken until ready to grill.
2. For sauce, in a large saucepan combine the reserved marinade, the tomato puree, honey, molasses, salt, thyme, red pepper, and pepper. Bring to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, about 30 minutes or until reduced to 2 cups. Remove from heat; remove bay leaves. Stir in vinegar.
3. For a charcoal grill, arrange medium-hot coals around a drip pan. Test for medium heat above the pan. Place chicken pieces, bone sides down, on grill rack over drip pan. Cover and grill for 50 to 60 minutes or until tender and no longer pink, brushing with some of the sauce during the last 15 minutes of grilling. [For a gas grill, preheat grill. Reduce heat to medium. Adjust for indirect cooking. To serve, reheat and pass the remaining sauce with chicken.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

WATER PLANTS AND WEDDING BELLS



right now am going through an interior designing phase one that i hope doesnt end seeing as am enjoying it quite abit! look at these stunning pictures of attention to detail i am in ove with these!that sink got me thinking the amount of unsual pieces that we could use like pottery instead of sinks they are water tight right?it doesnt get any better than this if it does and you know where let me know.
am trying my hand at interior designing, landscape designing and wedding planning and the guinea pigs are my family and their property to be specific my father's house, my aunty's house and my cousins wedding. so far so good, i would like to think its because i dont have a time limit except for the wedding of course but the landscaping is developing well taking it one day at a time.
i can tell you the ability to be pleasantly surprised in this country is quite high my cousin decided that she was having an african themed wedding in terms of decor and so i suggested we use pots. in our pursuit of pots we actually ended up on Entebbe road around kajjansi we came upon the most beautiful pots and the guy was selling flowers, i was so happy to find hydrengaes i hope that is the spelling,water plants and minituare version of what would be imposing plants and he even knew the botanical names i was pleased all these achievements were at the road side of kajjansi,dust isnt that bad after all.
oh and about that yoga am still waiting for directions from Tandra or if anyone knows where else i would like to know because am spiralling out of control and when i do i willl hold everyone responsible.

Friday, November 7, 2008

garliky chicken easier

GARLIKY GRILLED CHICKEN.

· 3- to 3-1/2-lb. broiler-fryer chicken, halved
· 3 cloves garlic, quartered
· 2 tsp. salt
· 1/3 cup olive oil
· 1 lemon, cut into wedges
Directions
1. Slightly flatten the chicken halves and place them in a 3-quart rectangular baking dish. In a blender or food processor, blend or process the garlic and salt to make a paste. With blender or processor running, slowly add olive oil. Pour the oil mixture over chicken halves, turning chicken to coat both sides. Loosen breast skin and rub oil mixture under skin. Cover and refrigerate for 2 to 24 hours.
2. For a charcoal grill, arrange medium-hot coals around a drip pan. Test for medium heat above the pan. Place chicken, bone side down, on grill rack over drip pan. Cover and grill for 50 to 60 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink (180 degrees F). (For a gas grill, preheat grill. Reduce heat to medium. Adjust for indirect cooking. Grill as above.) Serve chicken with lemon wedges. Makes 4 servings.

i know i know after not posting for almost a month i have the courage to put up a recipe well i have an excuse i have been chasing the graduation list literally! its hard enough to enter makerere but guess what its even harder to leave! so bear with me am sorting out myself and to imagine that am struggling to get out and get in!wanen!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

YOU CANNOT GO WRONG WITH THIS, TRY IT!

SANDWICHES
Ingredients
Steak sandwich-apulian style
· 1 small eggplant
· 3/4 teaspoon salt
· 1 tablespoon olive oil
· 1 medium onion, chopped
· 4 cloves garlic, minced
· 8 ounces fresh, mild red cherry peppers or mild banana peppers, halved and stems and seeds removed
· 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
· 12 ounces beef flank steak or boneless beef sirloin steak, about 1 inch thick
· 2 teaspoons dried Italian seasoning, crushed
· 4 6-inch Italian sourdough rolls, split horizontally
· Olive oil (optional)
· Salad greens or romaine leaves
· 2 ounces shaved Parmesan cheese
· Fresh thyme sprigs (optional)
Directions
1. Trim ends off eggplant; discard. Cut eggplant lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices, discarding the outside "peel" slices. Spread the eggplant slices in a single layer on a baking sheet. Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon of the salt; cover and set aside for 30 minutes. Rinse eggplant; pat dry. Rub eggplant slices with half of the olive oil; set aside.
2. For pepper spread, in a large skillet heat remaining oil. Cook onion and garlic, uncovered, in hot oil over medium heat for 5 minutes or until onion turns golden, stirring often. Add the cherry or banana peppers, the balsamic vinegar, and the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Reduce heat; cover. Cook over low heat for 10 minutes or until mixture is soft, stirring occasionally. Remove pepper mixture from heat. Let cool.
3. In a food processor bowl or blender container cover and process or blend pepper mixture until nearly smooth. Set aside.
4. Score meat on both sides by making shallow diagonal cuts at 1-inch intervals in a diamond pattern. Season steak with salt and pepper, if desired. Rub steak on both sides with dried Italian seasoning.
5. Grill steak on rack of uncovered grill directly over medium coals for 18 to 22 minutes for medium doneness (160 degrees F), turning once. Grill eggplant slices for 6 to 8 minutes or until cooked through, turning once. Set aside. If desired, brush cut sides of Italian bread halves with olive oil. Grill bread, cut side down, for 1 to 2 minutes or until toasted.
6. To assemble, spread about 1 tablespoon pepper spread on bottom half of each Italian roll. Top with greens and eggplant slices. Slice steak across grain into very thin strips. Arrange sliced steak on eggplant slices. Add Parmesan, if desired. Lightly spread top halves of Italian rolls with remaining pepper spread. Serve open-face with top halves of rolls on the side. Garnish with sprigs of thyme, if desired. Makes 4 servings

ehhhhhhhhhhhh will be helping everyone that cannot cook aor loves cooking real easy stuff i tell you.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

just reading these scandals a thought crosses my mind okay for the nssf scandal to be precise what would i do if i had all that money at my disposal aaaahh 11 billion even if i spent 1 million a day i would be kay or if i decided to buy the bugatti veron at a million pounds i would still have enough to fuel it.or buy the four door bentley at almost 150,000 pounds or the merc mclaren i can already see it me the open road(mine most probably) and my bugatti veron or my four door bentley life would be the right word to some it up ........ah well since that wont be happening in the next five years(seems more achievable in 10) i choose to purge from memory!what do you do when you discover that your boyfriend has another child with another woman in between your 1 year old son and your other 2 weeks old baby?below the belt can no longer be used as measurement for such men seeing as it is not low enough,such is the dilema some people have got to face on the daily!so my love affair with rock is blooming we are working on it we talk frequently and do lunch daily we are trying to find a way to do dinner and late night calls,we are getting there.
checked my chinese horoscope says all the right things about me interesting i tell you.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

beautiful things.

I know, i know, i was wrong i always said Rock isnt for me!i will shamelessly admit it i was wrong.though i gotta blame it on the introduction we (me and rock)were not given a chance to get to know each other.i never really went for the rock nights (i pretended to religiously attend)for the music.i went because i was bored and couldnt stay in while my housemates enjoyed themselves, so i tagged along because i wouldnt kill me.
Rock and i were given another chance inform of "ROCK OBSSESED FRIENDS" in a certain room on campus Africa Hall D block, we camped many times to ensure we fulfilled our academic obligations through thourough reading enforced by frantic academics and mostly by a friend who saw to it that we read whether we liked it or not.still this was an introduction gone bad i just never got how they knew every lyric to every song at least for most of them.for one i could partially explain how she knew every lyric this was friendly enforcer, when we were in about s.2 and people owned music books she was a class apart she owned a music counter book yet her history book was a 200 page small picfare book,talk about priority. her lyrics were right i guess because they were from a pause and play era read cassette player a habit she carried to campus.
fastforward(august 2008)i got another chance to meet rock someone gave me c.ds rock,jazz.rnb,instrumentals whereas i was over the moon because of the rnb,jazz and instrumnetals i wasnt too thrilled about the rock c.d but i convinced myself that this half of the year i would be more open to anyform of education. decided to listen to it from work that meant total attention to rock since i dread the proceedings at work i had something to help me not pay attention to them.i must say it has been the start of hopefully a beautiful relationship that will last. right now am so loving beautiful disaster by kelly clarkson,........... wait for it,I LOVE THIS SONG!so i want to ask cloudy and all you rock lovers when did you know you and rock were going to have a beautiful relationship.does anyone have an il divo c.d i would like to borrow it.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

THAT MAN SHAGGY be's fine!we were in awe of the man he is simply hootttttt!!!!!!(dashes off too dip thy self in ice cold water)and he is a pretty good mover too.okay so matbe we didnt sit sit vip but then againn who gives a rats gundi about vip when Mr. lover lover himself was almost an arms stretch away from us, okay two arms, okay three you get the drift!Was broke as hell but knew there was no way under the sun i would miss the show so i begged my father for money and he was kind enough to give me it doesnt matter how much i paid what matters is that i was there!so we shoved and pushed got hit and robbed but it was worth it!if there is one thing the citzens of this town are good at its robbing people.during the shoving a guy snatches some chics bag and kicks it all the way to the back of the crowd she never got it!then some dodgy looking guy tries to squeeze past us oblivious of the space available but when he realised that he couldnt get anything he got mad and started abusing us,he then elbowed my friend's chin. And right there in the madness i spot duksey blasting away.that show was worth every little pennny okay not the passa passa part though but i enjoyed it.think am having a career change i want to be an international musician key word here is international!

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

LOVE IS NOT LOVE OR IS IT

I gotta admit, the writers block am sleeping with is not as good as the one Cherie is frolicking with.I cannot seem to write anything sensible! Cherie some on a quickie with your block? I thought i should share with you some of the things that make life for me worth living.Sometimes when there is every reason under the sun not to go on, not to believe that you are capable of loving and deserve to be loved, this poem manages to restore my faith in love.I first fell in love with it in my poetry class.It was love at first sight and it has been the most fulfilling love affair, this spark is not about to go out.For those that already have an affair with it, may the spark be rekindled and for those that will be reading it for the first time may you fall in love with it and have the love affair of your existence; complete with butterflies, shivers running down your spines,your heart racing fast beating loudly till it can be heard from a mile away.

SHAKESPEARS SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
With in his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.



William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

MY OTHER GIRLS AND A FASHION DESIGNER!

MOST LIKELY (PART TWO)
most likely to elope- my girl Patra also my sister her mind is wired differently from the rest of us.
most likely to elope with a white man- liz now this one knows what she wants in life and gets it love this girl
most likely to PEDDLE DRUGS-ME NOW I CAN NOT DIE POOR! MORALS OR NO MORALS I DONT CARE DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR ALL SORTS OF DESPERATE MEASURES
most likely to become rich and still be my friend i mean friend- tim
most likely to put my culinary skills to shame- brenda(got beautiful eyes)
most likely to join a bar brawl-Bianca ehhehh i got peeps like that they are crazy
most likely to appear in play boy- my sister this her second debut on my most likely posts.
my sisetr is daring her facebook picture is nude or something related to that. had said she would be rich without trying guess i didnt give her enough credit. she participated in a competion(fashion)MADUK LIVE and yeah she came in third.she wants to get into central saint martins one of the best fashion schools in the uk though entry is hard but in her style she believes why not her? my style why her? her answer because she is good! so now with that its safe to say MY SISTER WILL BE AN INTERNATIONAL FASHION DESIGNER!

Monday, July 21, 2008

unplugger! starting with me

mobile- still that ka 1 av had like for 4 years
car- at home too broke no fuel(donations are welcome)
hair- frustrating
father- stil in love with me
favourite thing- my dreams
favourite drink- mirinda orange(because of the chamuka cars)
where am i- office
i love-weddings
am- still the first born
in 10 years- interior designing.wedding planning and filthy rich
hanging out-too boke
i am not- waiting around am taking the first step.

okay i have this really cool money minting idea, i love weddings but mostly i love beautiful,inexpensive well organised weddings and i think the best way too have these is too get a wedding planner. i have never been one not a single wedding under my belt.but i figure some one has to give me the chance for me to bag at least one i plan to start next year in september or december still preparing financially and mentally. am getting an education too but while at it all those people that are not afraid of experimenting give me a call could start with yours.why am telling you free publicity of course.

Monday, July 14, 2008

LOVE SONGS AND BLONDE GIRLS.

this town seems to be under a heavy dosage of love.i woke up determnide to feed my starving soul of with the fulfillment t.v brings.Watch a few songs all were love songs in luganda thought nothing really as the videos went on love song after love song for an hour.But of all the songs i could remember these ones
Muzzude (meaning i have discovered her)-Henry Tigan now this guy is on a roll this year will be the year that made him and remade him even for those that cannot understand what he is saying this song sounds like a love song in Gujarati!
Nze naawe(me and you)-Vamposs and Benon another beautiful one like the video has maturity that was not evident in these two before even in the lyrics.
Feel me-Obsessions, cracks me up how the girls pronounce obsessions like it has a Y.This sounds like a grope me song! even Anfukula makes me thinks of groping nice hard male behinds.mubitte- Desire(this i love)
the blu3 song "strong woman" has a really nice video to be honest devoid of any shame i dont miss cindy in the group not hating or anything.Mya might not be able to sing(am sure she is better than i am)but i prefer her to Cindy she seems less blonde.

Friday, July 11, 2008

crazy pastors and even crazier fathers!

so my friend goes for counselling to this pastor he happens to be good(so am told)and so as they talk they end up discusssing her relationships and she tell him that her boyfriend is not "saved"(its in quotes because am still trying to discover what it truly means)so he tells her that she has to dump him because he is not good enough for her and that she will find some one who is saved. i was so mad because she was convinced that he was right(forgive my tenses)him being saved doesnt make him better her boyfriend happens to be a very goood man not once as he ever asked her to sleep with him respects her decision regarding waiting.and he is reliable she lives in what me and mr.man call the village deep almost next to kiigo prison but he makes sure he drops her at home safely even when she has not been with him the whole day and only needs a lift from him in his longterm plans she is number one he adores the road she walks on. i ahve heard of so many people who get married to what everyone believes is a saved man and he changes only to become worse than those unsaved alcohol taking wifebeating men and i thought he being the counselling pastor would encourage her to encourage him to get saved i was so pissed could have bitten off his head!(dips hhead in water to cool off)

in another unrelated post a friend of mine okay she used to work next to me until she got another job was arrested, her father had her arrested un believable i know.he had been telling the judge that his daughter is disrespectful doesnt like him despises him so surmons(sp) were being sent to her to appear before the judge but she had been signing for them as recieved and not honouring them so she was arrested and was in luzira for 3 weeks.we just got to know today.apparently, yes there is another story behind the one he told. Her father wants to marry another woman her mother passed away but he wants his daughter out of home so he can bring in the other woman comfortably. she insists she cannot leave home yet coz she just finished campus and also her mum built the house they live in so she doesnt see why she has to be thrown out on account of her father marrying another woman to which i agree totallyand also her father had been forging her signiture to show that she has recieved the surmons .well her brothers have decide to move her out of home they have agreed to foot the bills and also the case is in court but i thing is for sure the world is slowly losing it.

Monday, July 7, 2008

WRONG MARRIGES?

what do you do when you are told a friend or a semi friend(for lack of a better term)is getting married and deep down you she is making a mistake because the man is wants to get married to thinks she is a foosball, no he doesnt pass her around but treats her like she is an exercise bag.sad i tell you and mad cant seem to figure out what would make anyone stick with anyone thats beats them and treats them like he is doing them a favour by being in the relationship.Guess i will never find out since am not sticking around that long to find out.
in a completely different zone:i marvel at the courage of men. Just realised they dont know what league not in a bad way let me explain before you kill me!so the other day i escort a friend to the saloon okay didnt escort her just went to meet her there this said saloon is on dewinton so the guy starts askin my friend mbu "oyo ali single" meaning is she single my friend decides to keep the conversation alive says am not so he starts launching his manifesto as he does my eyebrows, "where do you do your hair from?" so i tell him from home he then tries convincing me to start doing it from his work place.so am amused obviously he proceeds to ask for my number i politely refuse so he asks me dont i want to recieve calls this amuses me considering the fact that i can hardly stand long calls more than 20mins and am already making excuses.later we are talking about this new development and she says men always think they can get any girl as long as he is given the chance and in most cases women know where to end and how far to venture.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

IF I WAS PRESIDENT

If there is anything i despise its people who think they are too busy or too important for lack of a better term to wait and use the toilet but find comfort inusing the street,pavements bushes basically open ground.
The other day i was on my way to work and this man shamelesly decided to open water on the nearby bush in broad day light.A side view of his gu thing visible to all who dared look and he on the other hand looked like he was buying kabalagala yes he looked that unbothered. Thought to my self if i was president i would be in my one car convoy on my way to work i would be living far from my work place not those things mbu working from home. I would be a master at butida complete with sigiri hardened mud bullets as i would be making my way to work i would be hitting those peoples heads with those mud bullets coutersy of my katida.
what else should i do when i become president any suggestions?

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

random dumplings........dnt ask what it means.

i am still recovering from the akon show my people ojone! akon simply outdid himself. The brother performed til i could nolonger take it i decided to walk out and leave him hanging the same way he had done when he didnt appear!as for the pushing i could feel my inside residents aka my insideds being evacuated people shoved and pushed and stepped not to mention robbed.at a point during the show one guy (must have been high on paraffin or somthing related) started pushing his way to the front regardless of the fact that there were children below 12 years infront of him the way this man pushed we all thought akon had called him for a duet then akon decided to throw his shirt into the crowd the same man ran from the front to the back stepping everyone in his path elbowing if such a word exists. And he didnt smell very nice quite pungent i must say. ever since i missed out on the UB40 show i vowed to never miss any shows and although some people made it their duty to rob us, grope us and elbow us i had fun so much fun i was so content that i went straight to bed all yall outside countries missed naye dont worry mbu warid wants to bring beyonce or something like that.wanen.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

UB40, Micheal Jackson and bloody retakes thats what my life has been reduced to!!!!!!!!

life is crazy there i was rejoicing that i had finished the cursed degree only for my lecture to harbour other thoughts i got a bloody retake!!!!!!!! now i have to hassle going to school while off campus i didnot even attend more than 30 lectures for my 3 years on the campus.And with the way things are going i seriously need prayers i have never appeared at school. before you pray for me i shall be praying for my self at this very juncture(when did you last see that word)was reading in the papers its posssible to have a gay baby by abusing acohol and cigarrette smoking even taking hormonal drugs that supress other hormones over others.i am sure you can totally tell i have writers block i know i know some of you are wondering how i could call me a writer this is the only place i have privileges that could mirror the writers club. me and a couple of friends were thinking there are some people in this country who need assistants that is people who would help them spend their excessive dimes we shall be called assistant financial spenders so all ye know any one of beyond comparable wealth without a spending agenda we do a great job they will be pleased they dont have to pay us to help them spend that money.now i must confess am not a ub40 fan but i am now with their coming came competiton incomparable word on the street is that utl will be bringing the man himself micheal jackson!i dont think you understand i have officially started saving those tickets could be like 500,000.you just never know who could be brought out of retirement Paula Abdul perhaps.wanen my peeps i have gone to enrich how am not yet sure.