Redefining Yam and Eggs – Pancakes, Waffles & Toasties

Hello Tribe, Hello my people, Happy New Year. 2015 was so good for me and for Dooney’s Kitchen, too many blessings to count. I am looking forward to even more blessings and with you guys support and His Grace, they will surely roll in. 2015 was my dress rehearsal as a blogger. 2016, it is time for action. I hope you all had a good holiday and are looking forward to the new year with fervour and excitement.

Anyways, new year, new recipes to expect from Dooney’s Kitchen and this recipe delivers to a tee. The past few days, I have been entertaining friends, even as recent as yesterday, I had friends over with kids and my flat was buzzing and filled with chatter and laughter, which made me smile and be grateful. It gets really quiet sometimes with just my flatmate “Uncle Tom” and I, so yesterday was a really noisy day, but in a good way.

I always entertain with pounded yam, like it is my default starchy staple. From Pounded yam with Bitter Leaf Egusi, to Pounded Yam with Omebe – Black soup to Pounded Yam with Alhaja Modinat’s Buka Stew and Buka Ewedu yesterday, Le Kitchen was very busy. You can see all the dishes on the @dooneyskitchen Instagram page, including videos too. Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram, so you don’t miss out. In fact, I even pounded yam with a mortar and pestle yesterday because my friends dared me to, saying I did not know how to pound yam the traditional way, and I am just a modern cook with no local skills. That’s like waving a red flag in front of a bull. I brought out the mortar and pestle, and stuck my tongue out afterwards.

When your guest double dares you to pound yam manually because they think you can't, and can only rely on a food processor or a stand mixer. You roll your sleeves up and say in your face ?????. I only do this once a year to keep the skills fresh. Stretchy smooth pounded yam. Was it worth the effort, heck no. My mixer does the same work in 35 seconds and the pounded yam will be very hot sef. See you mortar and pestle in 2017

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Like, don’t try me o. Was it worth the effort, not really, did I prove a point? Heck yeah. Mortar and pestle have been stored away until 2017. I only pound yam once a year. hahahahahahahaha.

While I am the ultimate feeder when I entertain, despite my prodding to have more, have more, sometimes I am left with a little pounded yam, usually about a fist full that mostly gets binned, but you see yesterday I decided not to because you get many food programmes on TV during Christmas season showing you what to do with Christmas dinner leftovers and something caught my eye. What to do with leftover potato mash which is a common staple served with Turkey during Christmas and many homes just bin leftovers afterwards. What do you do with leftover potato mash, make potato pancakes of course. So, when I had leftover pounded yam yesterday, I looked at it and smiled coyly. I am going to redefine the classic Nigerian breakfast – Yam and Eggs.

We have been eating this combination for breakfast for goodness knows how long, so how about I try something else with the exact same ingredients. I swear when I was making this it was smelling like, you guessed it, yam and eggs. If you walked into the flat while I was making this, you would automatically assume I was cooking yam and eggs. So, imagine you announce to your family one morning that you are serving yam and eggs for breakfast and they get to the table and see pancakes or waffles or toasties. The looks on their faces would be priceless and if you have kids of school age, you will be the coolest mum in the school yard when your kids tell everyone they had yam and egg pancakes for breakfast, with photo evidence to prove it. This is so simple to make, it wouldn’t even take too much time out of your busy morning routine and even more special on weekends.

2015 was the year of The Akara Waffle and Akara Toasties. Soooooooo many of you tried it, Dooney’s Kitchen Social media pages and Facebook food groups were buzzing about it, I was getting tags from all over the world, and excited feedback. I hope I can get you excited about Yam Pancakes, Yam Waffles and Yam Toasties. I mean, look at that. Tell me you are not excited to try it…..

Let’s Cook.

Make your pancakes even more sweet by drizzling some honey all over them

Are you still a little dazed. Don’t worry, you can make these at home. Yam Toasties for 2016…….

Serve with a complementary boiled egg if you wish