Topic: NAIJA BOARD 2024/2025 CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR contest 2nd Edition! |Donor:🔥BC.Game - page 8. (Read 4913 times)

We can't guard against it; it's better to be helped than to steal images from the internet; presenting the method of preparation is what counts most. Similar to the pizza contest, what you do behind the scenes is nobody's business; just show the preparation procedure.

Yes, food aesthetics will be a big factor it an online contest.

Seasonal greetings to you all, wow! It is a thing of joy that i humblely joined this thread today and i must appreciate the effort of everyone that has been making thread push forward.
I so much cherish this contest because cooking is one the thing i do everyday of my endeavor as a bachelor I'm.
Even i didn't make it at first 5 in this contest i will never give up trying and i will happy that i participated also share my cooking skills or experience here. I wish you all merry Christmas and happy new in advance.🥀🍀🌴💐🌾🪴💥✨

Bachelor life turned me into a chef, and I will participate also in this, but this is exactly what I was thinking because cheating will be very easy. Christmas day is usually a very busy day of cooking. It will be easy for someone to claim the food made by their wives, girlfriends, or mothers as theirs. How can we guide against that?

Also, people will focus more on the aesthetics of the food, how the food looks, than the taste, and since there will be no way to taste everyone's meal, winning will be based on aesthetics and presentation.

I just hope it does not end up being a battle of Jollof and Fried rice. 

If you ask me, I’ll say cooking isn’t so different from art, come on it’s all about creativity, putting some creative skills to come up with something spontaneous.
Cooking and Art shares a very common thing, which is creativity. The same way that an artist uses a combination of colours, shapes and textures to come up with an adorable masterpiece, that’s exactly how a cook also comes up with a combination of flavours, ingredients, sometimes colours and techniques to come up with an irresistible result and work of art.

Hmm... I am salivating already. I will gladly be part of this contest to show you that I am a good local chef of Nigeria delicious jollof rice. This is a good contest and it makes remember back when I was in college, that we do have Home Economics cook praticals. After cooking, the teacher will move round from table to table tasting and giving marks. It's quite unfortunate that some jollof rice will look very yummy but not delicious. 

Bad for you guys nobody is going to taste the best jollof rice in Africa prepared by the Sherrif! I think efforts, ingredients and table settings are going to be some of the deciding factors - this is only a speculations as OP is yet to explain anything about that.

Don't give it to your Girlfriends/wives to help you cook, this is one of the most consumed food in an average Nigerian home and it easy to cook and also it costs less than $20 to prepare a pot. Don't cheat, be authentic guys.

This is a welcome development to our very own local board and I think it's going to be very interesting since our able moderate have declared interest of participation, can't wait to see y'all showcase your cooking skills.
 I wish it were a physical context and I'll be among the judges to taste the foods, too bad the judges of this context won't have the opportunity to taste but judge with their eyes and according to how participants carry out laid down instructions/criteria for winning, goodluck to all the participants anyways, especially you Mr Moderator can't wait to see what you're cooking. 😊

This Is a big support from you, with your contributions to this contest this will go a long way and will attract more participants to join.

Seasons greetings to you @mia Chloe!! merry Xmass and a prosperous new year in advance. Indeed the second round of the contents is here again as we did last year.  I thought you almost forgot to host it again, I was even thinking about it before I saw this thread and am glad about it . I respect you for the effort you are putting to make the Naigeria local board an active one, especially during festive period like this. We are delighted to participate in the contest  to make it a success. Once again happy Xmas to all Nigerians local board members.


I just wish the  foods will be tested by the judges.  How sweet and nice some food may look but may not be tasty as they look or appear and may even be the winner. Or vise versa  hahaha .

Nice initiative OP, I can finally put my jollof rice cooking skills to work. I will be participating and shipping in 50 merits to the merit pool.


I checked the link and the steps are way too outdated and complicated for a beginner, preparing jollof rice with that method requires a non-stick pot and a foil so the bottom and the top get dried evenly without getting burnt at the bottom. You can use these simple steps.

https://youtu.be/kkq47Zz0hTI?si=PNO3B3Czg8bu9XmI

Indeed a welcomes development to be how we can cruise along the Christmas holiday season.
You know, I just imagine how splendid this project contest is going to spice the season for us all 😁.
Thanks Op for being this creative.

To be frank, this idea make sense and from the looks, e don begin dey showcase our LB to the general platform and reputable members here. Contest like this go help us show our strength in various capacities as good cook so that we go dey flow along make nobody feel left behind. This na opportunity to showcase Nigeria and Africa delicacies to the world.

Already reputable members wey dey this platform don begin talk about their experiences with African delicious food which I so much cherish. I believe say this development now don put our LB in limelight for this platform.

Mia Chloe weldone for this good contest, you don really do well to bring up something like this here and this don really attract the attention of reputable members of the platform to our local board.

This one na opportunity for me to make reservations o.

This contest make brain as it go drag plenti attention from reputable members put inside out LB onto good reason. Make I quickly reserve this kitchen space for my Naija dish wey I go soon present. This initiative in other ways go help showcase to the community and promote our different palatable mouth watering African cuisines way plenty of them never know about.

Merry Christmas my people.

It's a very nice idea to host this competition mostly as we have other kinds of competitions ongoing on this forum during this yuletide season as well.
There's been art contest, pizza day contest, pumpkin carving contest and now we have Naija African food contest.
Great initiative indeed and this shows our dedication to the forum and to our country. Naija no dey carry last o! More power to your elbows!

Thanks for your support
Thanks also 1miau for your support

Nice pick pooya87 .
Thyme gives the jollof a natural flavour and scent. Most times though you can add it directly to the rice most people often add it via the parboiled protein (either fish, beef , turkey , chicken etc...) the more familiar you are with the dish the more get to know a couple of spices. Looking forward to your dish.

Bitcointalk needs more food related topics, contests or otherwise. It is just fantastic to learn about all these dishes. I'll chip in for some merits to the winners as well.

Initially I thought I could make this myself but I checked out the recipe in the link below found on google and I don't think I can get some of the ingredients like Nigerian stock or even thyme, and even if I could it sounds complex specially since I only dabbed into cooking and I suck at anything that needs mixing. Cooking rice and stew separately and serving them that way is fine
https://www.seriouseats.com/nigerian-jollof-rice-recipe-6741471

So I thought I should just share a tiny thought I had about lack of Tahdig (tah means bottom, dig means pan). Tahdig is the crispy rice (or anything you put) at the bottom of the pan. But it is an art to get it just right.
For example in this recipe, step 6 is lacking that Tahdig step, and it is also using the wrong pan for it; non-stick pans work best to get the best Tahdig. The same site has some info on that:
https://www.seriouseats.com/tahdig-persian-crunchy-rice-7187445
I didn't like all the pictures there so here is a google search link with some better looking pictures:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%D8%AA%D9%87+%D8%AF%DB%8C%DA%AF+%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%A7+%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%88&udm=2

I used لوبیا پلو (means green-bean rice) as the search query because it also uses tomato[paste] so it looks similar to the dish in OP, visually speaking.

I suggest giving it a try and enjoy the result...

I think you participated in the last contest last year though the theme was an art contest. Anyways I have two proposals in mind for the voting to ensure transparency. Either way the best will be contemplated on and used.

Nice one phil here in Nigeria we usually call it white rice and stew and ("some of us dey even call am stew rice ")

I will be doing a beef stew. With tomatoes carrots celery beef onions.

Since I am a diabetic I will serve it on various beds of

two for non diabetic carbs are higher

pasta
rice


two for diabetic carbs are lower.

riced cauliflower
diced squash.

Wow, this is a good one. Last year I was not part of the Xmas art contest, and this year I might try to see what I can come up with this time. Maybe a nice locally made dish—the festive period will give a lot of time and chance to prepare that.

It is good to see this kind of thread.

You mean Jollof Rice? I like to specifically call it Nigerian Jollof. White people that even taste it are not disappointed at all.

Let us not make mistake in the food we are mentioning. You mean Pounded Yam and Egusi soap. It's really a nice food.