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Ili ji-eating New Yam my family style (Birthday Post)
Fluffy yoghurt pancakes
September 16, 2013British Hot Wings
September 27, 2013
Today 23rd September is my birthday yay! I turned 16! and nothing you think or say in your mind will change that :-P.
Sunday was my family New yam eating day and what better way to celebrate than with family. It’s a tradition common among Ibo people especially Anambra state. It’s called Ili ji which means eating New Yam officially. In Nnewi it’s a big celebration, because it’s celebrating the years harvest.
Organised by my oldest Aunt here in Lagos, we gather together around this time every year, thank God for life, love, family and food then deal with the different versions of yam Lol!. It’s the one time we can all sit as a family, catch up on each other because most times that might be the only time we get to see one another, you know how Lagos is!
We had so much to eat, l had a take-away bag of soup, chicken, fish and a few other things that I can neither disclose nor display pictures of for security reasons ;-).
Enjoy this picture loaded post!
My Beau and I
Official ceremony opener- Oji na Ose Orji
Ji mmili oku
Pounded yam and Egusi
Roasted yam served with Utazi leaf, palm oil and Upkaka
Barbecued fish
Barbecued chicken
Ofe Nsala
Hot dogs for kids
Burger for kids
Too overwhelmed to title it 🙂
Asun
Abacha (African salad)
Naturally there was palm wine
And other kinds of wine
The clan
Cute little Chineme trying to blow bubbles
Dami & Bobo
Sunday was also a cousins birthday
Birthday girl
Beauriful cousins- Peju, Ngozi, Chioma and Joy
Beau and Chika
More Beauriful cousins- Beau, Chinelo, Obinna and Chika
Ah! Sister, longtime no see!
Kano Mummy, flew in from Abuja to be with us! :-).
Later that day I hosted some house fellowship members.
Peppered turkey wings – recipe on Friday :-).
Caramel popcorn http://wp.me/p3Bd7A-cs
Chocolate brownie cupcakes-recipe coming soon 🙂
Tropical Chapman- recipe not coming soon :-p
Chocolate chip ice-cream- recipe definitely coming soon 😀
What I did on my special day after struggling to upload this post several times…naturally chopped and almost quenched! :-).
And then I rewarded myself with this winner!
From us with love!
Join me on Friday for this weeks recipe!
Azu :-).
13 Comments
Na wa o!! Azuka, with this post you succeeded in making me very, very, VERY hungry!!! I am sitting here wishing I could just grab some of that food through the screen. Beautiful, yummy-looking delicacies, and even more beautiful people with beautiful smiles… I can see that you all had a blast. There is truly nothing better than spending time with family. I also enjoyed seeing the lovely food you prepared for your house fellowship members – I’m sure they always look forward to visiting your house. Your birthday meal looks delicious too – well-deserved! Lovely post.
Awww…Ogo thanks! Won’t be a bad idea if we could all gather next year by God’s grace, it really was great seeing everyone! Dalu nne! Your comment means alot!
Aww lovely post. Happy belated birthday to you and to Chioma- God bless! Loved the pics- good looking ppl and ugh the food!!! everything looks so good!!! and looks like you all had a great time. lol at chopped and almost quenched. Hey! birthday comes once in a year-this entire post put a big smile on my face!….that poor charred animal woulda scared me though 🙁 or at least made me have vegetarian thoughts (well, just for that day).
Thanks Love! We did have a great time…as for the poor delicious goat….the asun was irresistible :-).
pls can ur family be gracious enough to adopt me? i will be good, i promise. thanks in advance
Lol! Haba you already a friend of the family! Lol! How can’t we adopt you!
Heheeehe!! Zuzu ohhh! I can’t believe all that cooking and eating went on in one house and in one day! AWESOME!! Nice to have family members who still do tradition. I wish I had some of that Asun though! One of ur recepies I’m most definately going to try would be the moi-moi!! Well done Zuzu.
Thanks so much sweety! Erm….we didn’t eat it all, we had loads of take away afterwards lol! But it was fun! And let me know how the moi-moi goes… :-).
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Thanks Curtis!
Are you taking new family memebers? I am from Anambra too close to Nnewi, pls adopt me plzzzzzz. lol
Lol!
Hi Meme, you certainly fit my family profile, you’re funny and obviously like food! Adopting you is easy just that your immediate family won’t allow it, Lol! Glad to have you in blog family, almost the same thing! 🙂