Coconut Cupcakes

I have been into baking a lot lately, was concentrating on perfecting my banana bread and I have since received good reviews from different people. Baking is some form of art and I enjoy it and love trying out more of the different recipes out there.

Today I decided to go back to the cupcake baking and I tried out the coconut flavored cupcakes.

Here are the ingredients:

It took me less than 10minutes to mix up the ingredients and baked them for 20-25minutes.

Below are pics of a coconut flavored and frosted cupcake

Monday Myths: Passing the Salt Shaker

Growing up there were many actions our elders forbid us to do and these have been passed from generation to generation. Some of them are are norm but some people tend to question why they were and are there and always seem to brush them off. This could be merely be cause they didn't follow them and nothing happened to them so they see no need to follow what their elders taught them.

Some myths have been put in place because of ones culture,religion or upbringing. Some would say they were put in place so that people would not break rules,not make noise etc. In the following weeks I will dedicate Mondays to telling you about some of the myths I have heard or grew up with.

To kick off Monday Myths I will start off with the one that forbade people to pass the salt shaker from one person's hand to another while eating or cooking. Elders told us that to pass the salt shaker to someone you had to place the salt shaker on a flat surface somewhere reachable to the person asking for the salt shaker. If one passed salt directly into another persons hand this would mean they would not see eye to eye and forever hate/dislike each other.

Till now some people still practice it while other people at the mere thought of hating someone because you passed the salt shaker into their hands.

Green & Black

Had a Young Women's Meeting at the end of the month April and we all had to introduce ourselves and tell our favorite color. I jokingly said GREEN was my color for now but its coming to pass as the color that has caught my eye of late.

Anyhow some friends and I decided to go try out a Persian Restaurant and this is what I wore. Cazba is a Persian Restaurant located somewhere in North Vancouver. Place was packed but it was worth the wait.i

  I had Boned Chicken Kabab

Chelo Kabab Bhakiatri

Chenjeh Kabab

 The other pics show what the other diners and I tried the steak and enjoyed the burnt tomato.

The prices are affordable, ambiance is great and they have good customer service.

African Fusion

A friend was celebrating her birthday and we decided to celebrate it by going to enjoy some Kenyan food.(She's Kenyan too but hadn't visited Simba's Restaurant located in Vancouver downtown.

Happy Birthday Miss Kenya(beautiful smile)

(decided to wear my recent African attire)

It was kind of chilly hence me not removing my knee high jacket,also decided to pair my skirt with a different top instead of the matching top.Love the pink and green combinations on the skirt and the pleats too.

Day was kind of packed as we kicked it off by attending the mid morning church service, went to the Science World to watch the 3D Arabia movie. Lastly we met up with a bunch of other friends and we went to Simba's for dinner.

 We call it Sadza in Zimbabwe but in Kenya they call it Ugali

Chicken Kebobs, Rice and Salad

Enjoyed the food and enjoyed the live singing we had throughout the dinner. Tried out the Rose petal ice cream which does taste and smell like the rose too.

Fuschia & Purple

The sun is finally making a daily show now not sure if it will last long though with this Vancouver weather you can never be certain.Was hanging out wit my friend just doing some random window shopping and I bumped into these comfy fuschia pants at Zara.

 The pants are so comfy,no back pockets and the perfect size.got them at a really good price too.

Pants-Zara

Top-Dynamite

Shoes-Winners

Shrimp & Pork Chops

Didn't think I would say it out loud but the pork eating and barbecuing I had when I went back home for Christmas kindah affected me when I came back Vancouver. For the past four months I didn't have pork chops so last Friday I decided to go back and have my tasty meal. 

Grilled myself a tasty pork chop,coconut shrimp sauce, brown rice and tomato and red pepper salad. 

Enjoyed my colourful meal

I'm more of having a colorful meal as this just pushes me to try out what I'm looking at.I made sure I had everything of everything (my protein, carbohydrates and veggies).

Sunday Best

Weekend waas so relaxed after the Friday night sleepover. The gloomy weather on Sat didn't help that much so I pretty much spent the whole day indoors.Sunday was different altogether as it was a bit on the warm side .

 Sunday sermon was good too.Message was Stop Complaining and wait for God to work on his own time for He has bigger plans for us. Pastor went on to give an example of how he sent people to go see the promised Land but some came back complaining and those that did not complain were the ones who managed to set foot into the Promised Land and stay there. The land where there is Milk and Honey.

 Less complaining and more living each day and being Thankful for everything.

Dress & Shoes-Ross

Jacket-Guess