Learn Ghana Twi Language - Parts of the body

 Do you want to travel to Ghana or do you want to learn the Twi language ? Learning a new language is simple if you learn the basics. Today we are going to learn parts of the body in Twi language.

1. Head                 ----Etire
2. Face                  ----Anim
3. Hair                 -----Nwi
4. Forehead         -----Moma
5. Eye                  -----Ani
6. Nose               ------ Ehwene
7. Ear                 ------Aso
8. Cheek            -------Afono
9. Mouth           ------- Ano
10. Teeth             --------Ese
11. Tongue          --------Tekyerema
12. Chin             ---------Abodwee
13. Neck             ---------Ekon
14. Hand            ---------Nsa
15. Shoulder      --------Abatire
16. Stomach     --------- Yafunu
17. Leg             ----------Enan

How to prepare cornflakes with dry powdered milk

Corn flakes can be eaten with liquid milk or dry powdered milk depending on what is available in your kitchen. Many people have the idea that cornflakes are only eaten with liquid milk but that is not true. Today we are going to learn how to prepare cornflakes using dry powdered milk. 

Ingredients.

Cornflakes

Dry powdered milk

Sugar

Water

Method for preparing cornflakes

1. Warm water at 35 or 40 C° (2 glass)

2. Pour the warm water into a bowl

3. Scoop 4 or 5 teaspoon of the dry powdered milk & add sugar to taste.

4. Pour your cornflakes into a new bowl and add the new warm liquid milk onto your cornflakes. 

5. Enjoy it.

Catarrh or common cold home remedy

One of the most frustrating sickness in the world is catarrh or common cold. Catarrh normally go away in the morning and come back in the evening to visit you when you wanted to sleep. Common cold can be cure naturally with lemon 🍋 or lime & ginger 

1. Boil water with ginger and chopped lemon. 

2. Remove it from the fire 🔥 when start boiling for about 10 minutes.

3. Pour the boiled mixture into a big bowl. 

4. Begin to inhale the vapour (best results if yourself covered with big cloth or bedsheet.) 

5.  Warm 1glass of water & add half lemon juice to it.

6. Drink it and repeat it every day . (Drink it on empty stomach) 

Home remedy for fever

Almost everybody has experienced fever once in his or her life. Body temperature rising, feeling cold and lost of appetite is a common sign of fever. Fever is very stressful if you get it. This natural home remedy can cure or give you some relief if indeed it is fever. 

Ingredients

1. Bay leaf (normally used as spice)

2. Rosemary ( normally used as spice)

Method

1. Boil clean drinkable water (1 glass)

2 Put 2 bay leaf, 1 baby teaspoon of rosemary into the glass.

3. Pour the boiled water into the glass

4. Let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes.

5 Drink only the water in the glass and leave the bay leaf & the rosemary in the glass ( let it cool down to be warm before drinking) 

How to make meat pie

Meat pie is very popular but everyone has a way of making it. This my method is very simple. 

Pie ingredients

1. All purpose flour 1 kg

2. Butter (350g)

3. Salt

4. Nutmeg

5 mixed vegetables with can or baked fish. Chop onion added.

Pie Method 

1. Mix flour, salt, nutmeg & butter together.

2. Add little water if necessary.

3. Roll it and mold it as desired.

4. Preheat oven and bake it . 

5. Remove it and enjoy it with natural fruit 

For more information watch it on my YouTube channel @sarfobaffoe

How to make Chips or Chin chin

Chips or Chin chin is very popular among Ghanaian and Nigerian. It's very simple to make. 

Ingredients:

1. All purpose flour (plain flour) 1kg

2. Butter (200)

3. Water. 

4. Salt.

5. Nutmeg (optional) 

6.Oil

Method:

1. Mix flour, salt, & butter together

2. Add little water to form dough

3. Roll it & cut it into small pieces

5. Heat the oil on medium heat.

6. Fry it on medium heat ( not too hot or too cold). 

7. Remove it when crispy 

How to make jollof Rice

Jollof Rice is a mixture of rice, vegetables and fish or meat or chicken, all cooked together in a gradual process. It's very popular around the world but each country has different ways of cooking it with different recipe. 

Ingredients: 

1.rice . (2 cups)

2.tomato paste (concentrate)

3.pepper, onion, garlic, ginger

4. Green beans, green pepper

5.fresh chicken 🐔

6. Oil, salt.

Method for preparing jollof Rice:

1. Cook and fry the chicken. Remove it from the oil. (add blended onion, garlic, ginger & salt to cook the chicken before frying).

2. Fry chop onion in the oil used for fry the chicken.

3. Add blended pepper, garlic, onion & ginger to the frying chopped onion.

4.Add half cup of tomato paste to the frying ingredients.

5. After cooking for 10 to 13 minutes, add two cups of the rice and water. Stir it and cover it. Add salt to taste. (Cook it on medium heat)

6. Add the green beans and the green pepper. Lower the heat again and add little water if necessary.

7. When soft, serve while hot with the fried chicken. 

For more information, watch it on my YouTube channel @sarfobaffoe .

How to make Ghana Masa food

Ghana masa is very popular among koko porridge lovers. Masa is simply made of one main ingredients call fermented corn dough (fermented corn dough used for making banku ). It originated from the northern part of Ghana. Though masa is not popular nowadays in the big cities but it is still popular in small cities and Zongo. 

Ingredients needed;

1. Corn dough (used for making banku)

2. Sugar (add only like sugar)

3.Water

4.oil

Method for making masa

A. Scop 1 ladle of the corn dough into a bowl.

B. Add little water, little sugar and stir until you get "Not too thick" nor "Not too light" texture 

C. Heat the oil on medium heat

D. Fry it ( don't let the oil be too hot before frying)

E. Remove it from the oil when golden brown.

F. Serve it hot with koko porridge 

Smoked mackerel recipe at home

Mackerel is an oily fish and love in many homes. This is how to smoke or bake mackerel in an oven. Things needed for roasting mackerel :

Mackerel - 3 pieces

Oven :

Fresh water. 

Method; 

Wash the mackerel.

Switch on the oven

Put the 3 pieces of the mackerel on the tray.

Bake it in the oven at 257 degree Celsius for one hour.

For more practical lesson, please watch video on how to smoke mackerel on my YouTube channel @sarfobaffoe. 

How to make gari Eto ( ɛtɔ )

Gari eto is a Ghanaian local food which is mostly eaten when there is a shortage of foods in the house or some people eat it when they feel the urge to eat it. Gari eto is basically made of ; 

Gari

Palm oil

Onion

Momoni

Salt

Avocado 

Pepper

Water

Method for making Gari Eto:

1. Use your hands to splash water on half cup of the gari to be moist. Use your hand or spoon to stir it. Don't had too much water to it. We still want it to be like gravels. 

2. Grind or blend the pepper, onion, salt and the roasted momoni. ( You can exclude the momoni if you don't have it.)

3. Fry slice onion and momoni inside the palm oil. 

4. Mix the moist gari with the blended mixture (pepper, onion, salt, roasted momoni).

5. Add the heated palm oil with the fried onions & momoni on the mixed gari . 

6. Slice avocado, chop onion and fresh tomatoes and put it on the mixed gari Eto.

7. Say your prayers and enjoy your gari Eto.

For more practicals on how to make gari eto , l have made video about it on YouTube and this is the link to it. https://youtu.be/7KplqJxVqvs

Thank you. 

Momoni fish recipe

Momoni is the local name for fermented fish in Ghana. Basically you can use any fish to make momon. The difference between momoni and koobi is that, momoni is fermented in air tight container with salt but koobi is not processed in that way. 

Method for making momoni : 

1. wash your fish and cut it into small pieces of your choice.

2. Put them into a plastic or glass container.

3. Add enough salt .

4. Cover it and leave it to ferment for 4 days.

5. Remove it from the container and dry it for 3 or 4 days. 

(For more practical lesson, watch the video of making momoni on my YouTube channel @sarfo baffoe )

How to make Abunabunu kontomire soup

Abunabunu soup is a Ghanaian soup which originated from the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. There are two types of Abunabunu soup. The first one is made of dried fish, snails and mushroom. The second one is mostly made of bush meat with dear or grass cutter or antelope toilet. 

Ingredients for making Abunabunu type 1.

1. Smoked cat fish, Salmon, Tilapia

2. Koobi or salted fish

3. Mushroom

4. Kontomire (cocoyam leaves )

5. Pepper

6. Turkey berry

7. Salt

Method of preparing Abunabunu

Method 1

Cook the kontomire, pepper and the turkey berry

Method 2

Chop 1 big Onion, 2 garlic and use it to steam the fish. Add salt to taste, add 3 fresh tomatoes

Method 3

Blend the cooked kontomire, pepper and the turkey berry.

Method 4

Add the blended mixture to the steaming smoked fishes

Method 5

Let it boil for about 30 minutes and serve with fufu

For more practical way of preparing this soup, kindly visit  my YouTube channel @ Sarfo Baffoe to watch the video.

How to make lemon deodorant and use it effectively to avoid armpit odours

When you have no choice in life but only lemon 🍋, just use it as a deodorant and life will give you good smell. The most effective, natural and affordable deodorant is a lemon or lime juice. 

Many deodorant that we see around shops have some artificial chemicals that may be harmful to the body. If you use lemon or lime juice as deodorant, you are saving your body from unwanted chemicals. 

In order to use lemon juice as deodorant effectively......

1.Slice a lemon or lime into two

2. Squize the juice into a cup

3. Strain it and remove the seeds.

4. Pour it into a spray bottle

5. Put it or preserve it in the fridge.

Now How To Apply The Lemon juice effectively

Some people apply lemon juice in their armpits 10 or 5 minutes by before they bath and this is not going to be effective or serve as Deodorant. 

This is the correct method of applying lemon or lime juice in your armpit to avoid odours. 

Bath first, after bathing apply the lemon juice in your armpit and then go do your daily hustle job. In the evening time, smell your armpit to see if there is any odour. You can also apply it in the evening after bathing and go to bed if you are a married person. 

Only apply the lemon juice after bathing 

How to make shito at home

Shito is a Ghanaian pepper sauce used for eating different types of food like rice, Waakye, kenkey, banku, garri, etc. Shito originated from the GA people of Accra. Black pepper is another name for shito. 

Ingredients for making shito

Chili powder

Shrimps powder

Dried fish powder

Onion

Garlic

Ginger

Salt

Cooking oil

Tin tomato paste (3tsp)

Method of preparing shito

1.Blend 3 big onion, 1 bulb garlic, 1 big ginger (add little water to help the blender to blend it)

2. Pour the blended mixture into a cooking pot and let it dehydrate for about 20 to 30 minutes.

3. Put different cooking pot on fire and pour about 2 cup of the cooking vegetable oil into the pot. Let the oil temperature rises to 80 -100 °C

4. Add the dehydrated blended mixture into the hot oil. Let it cook for 10 minutes.

5. Add 4 tea spoon of the tomato paste and let it cook for another 10 minutes.

6. Add 4 tea spoon of the powder pepper and let it cook for another 10 minutes.

7.Add 5 tea spoon of shrimp powder, 4 tea spoon of fish powder and stir it. 

8. Reduce the temperature and let it cook till it becomes black while continue stirring it occasionally.

9. When the shito is ready, let it cool down until the next day.

10. For more practical experience in making shito, please kindly visit my YouTube channel @ Sarfo Baffoe   

How to start poultry farming step by step

Poultry farming is easy and simple if you follow the rules and guidelines. Poultry farming is only risky business if you try to use short cut. One of the businesses that can make you rich within a short poultry years is poultry farming business. I want to share with you on how you can start your own poultry farming business or things you need to consider before starting. 

1. Goal

Let it be your number one goal if you really want to venture into the poultry farming business. Without setting a goal to achieve something, it's impossible to see it in reality.

2. Research

If you don't know what you are doing, it's called gambling but if you have well knowledge about what you are doing and the likely outcome of it, it's called an investment. Before starting anything, whether business, marriage, eating, selling, friendships etc, you have to do research. Ask Google, read from books, watch videos, visit Farms, ask experienced people in the field about the poultry farm  business you want to start.

3. Land

After doing your research, you need land. You have to consider buying land for the poultry farming business. It's advisable to buy one acre of land if you can not buy 2 or 3 or 4 acres of lands. The land should be close to a big city or one hour drive to a big city. Buying land at a nearby village close to the big city can be little bit affordable. Also when buying the land, it should be little bit away from residential area to avoid misunderstandings between you and the people in the community

4. Borehole

You are going to need water to build the structures and also to feed your birds. Poultry drink a lot of water and therefore it's advisable to dig a borehole. 

5. Structures

How many birds do you want to start with ? 80 by 40 ft rectangular shape structure can accommodate 2000 birds. 40 by 40 takes 1000 birds. 20 by 20 feet can take 500 day old chicks.  After building the structure for the birds, you would need a structure for your worker, for storing maize and where to mix their feeds etc. 

6. Equipments

The next thing to consider buying is poultry equipments. You are going to need drinkers, feeders, brooders, wheelbarrow, shovel, boots, basins, water storage tanks etc

7. Feeding

Feeding is another crucial aspect of poultry farming business. In fact 60 -80% is going to go into feeding your poultry. You need to consider your financial status before starting the poultry farming business. Chick mash is given to day old chicks for the first 2 weeks. You can mix your own poultry feed from 2 weeks going if you have the right knowledge about it. 

8. Financing

Never quit your job that gives you cash flow. Poultry farming is capital intensive so please never stop the job that brings in the cash flow. If you don't have any cash flow, it's advisable to have one before starting the poultry farming business.

Thanks and you can watch practical video on my YouTube channel @ Sarfo Baffoe

How to manage your money tips

 Managing Your Money

I  work very hard but I don't know where all the MONEY goes !  Sometimes too I hear people saying that witches have taken their money and then begin to accuse innocent people. Solomon said that “for lack of knowledge my people perish “. You may have flourished business running but without managing the MONEY you get from the business wisely, you may have to close your company sooner or later. If we talk about MONEY management, we are simply talking about how you Spend and how you Invest. Money management is a strategic technique to make money yield an interest output value for any amount spent. Spending MONEY to satisfy a strong desire, yearning or craving  for needless things is a natural human phenomenon. Having an idea or knowledge about MONEY management can help you to reduce the amount that you spend on items that add no important value to your living standards, long-term portfolios and assets. Make sure that  every financial transaction you make is worth the expense.

Here are some steps to take to manage your finances properly.

• Understand your current financial situation

• Set personal priorities and financial goal

• Create and stick to a budget

• Establish an emergency fund

• Save for retirement

• Pay off debt

• Give yourself a limit for unbudgeted spending

• Track your spending

• Save up for a big purchases

• Invest wisely 

• Create more passive income to diversify your source of income

General Disease control practice in poultry farming

      General Disease Control Practices

The following can only be used as guidelines for disease control, for proper disease diagnosis and treatment, consult a Veterinarian. 

• Don’t overcrowd birds

• Feed must be of good quality

• Adequate ventilation

• Give clean water

• Keep the poultry house clean

• Don’t mix young and older birds

• Dispose off dead birds quickly and isolate sick ones.

• Provide disinfectant at the entrance of the poultry house

• Antibiotics should never be used to replace good management and should be used on prescription by a veterinarian.

 

  Signs Of ILL Health

• Dullness

• Reduced feed intake

• Reduced water intake

• Low egg production

• Reduced growth rate

• Rough coat

Analysis of low  daily growth

• Poor feed quality

• Too much feed restriction

• Too hot or cold temperature

• A poor start

• Genetics

• Diseases and health problem

Days Of The Weeks In Twi - Learn Twi Language

We have seven days in the week in the Ghanaian calendar.  The days of the week start from Sunday to Saturday. As a new beginner, you may find it difficult in pronouncing the days of the week in Twi. The Twi alphabet pronunciation is almost similar to that of English alphabet pronunciation.

1. SUNDAY                   KWASIADA 

2. MONDAY                 EDWOADA

3. TUESDAY                   EBENADA

4. WEDNESDAY          WUKUADA

5. THURSDAY              YAWOADA

6. FRIDAY                     EFIADA

7. SATURDAY              MEMENEDA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-L5G85AZyg 

You can learn the pronunciation of the days of the week in Twi by following the YouTube link above

11 Steps To Manage Your Money To Achieve Financial Freedom

 I  work very hard but I don't know where all the MONEY goes !  Sometimes too I hear people saying that witches have taken their money and then begin to accuse innocent people. Solomon said that “for lack of knowledge my people perish “. You may have flourished business running but without managing the MONEY you get from the business wisely, you may have to close your company sooner or later. If we talk about MONEY management, we are simply talking about how you Spend and how you Invest. Money management is a strategic technique to make money yield an interest output value for any amount spent. Spending MONEY to satisfy a strong desire, yearning or craving  for needless things is a natural human phenomenon. Having an idea or knowledge about MONEY management can help you to reduce the amount that you spend on items that add no important value to your living standards, long-term portfolios and assets. Make sure that  every financial transaction you make is worth the expense.

Here are some steps to take to manage your finance properly.

• Understand your current financial situation

• Set personal priorities and financial goal

• Create and stick to a budget

• Establish an emergency fund

• Save for retirement

• Pay off debt

• Give yourself a limit for unbudgeted spending

• Track your spending

• Save up for a big purchases

• Invest wisely 

• Create more passive income to diversify your source of income

How to make sugar bread at home easy

 Some commercial sugar bread are stretchy and chewy. Softness is their attitude . But the unfortunate part is, chemicals are used to make it soft, stretchy and chewy in large quantity for commercial purposes and these chemicals may have implications on your health. So l have done research on how to make sugar bread without extra artificial chemicals. To start your  homemade sugar bread, your needed ingredients are:

1.Flour - 400 g
2. Butter- 2tsp
3.Yeast - 2tsp
4.Salt- ¼
5.Orange juice - 3tsp
6.Nutmeg - ½ tsp
Warm water ( use common sense)
7.Sugar - 5 tsp
8.vanila extract

Method 1
Put the yeast into have glass of warm water with little sugar and whisk it. Put it aside for 5-10 minutes.

Method 2
Put the flour, butter, salt, sugar and the nutmeg into a small basin bowl and mix altogether with your available tools, hand or mixer.

Method 3
Add the orange juice to the flour mixture and mix it. Add the vanilla extract, Followed by the yeast dissolved in the warm water. Add little warm water if necessary.

Method 4
Knead your dough for about 5 -10 minutes.

Method 5
Put the dough into a bowl and cover it. Use brush to spread some little oil into the bowl before putting the dough into it to avoid being sticky. Leave it for about 1 hour in a warm place till it doubles in size.

Method 6
Remove the dough from the bowl after it has doubled in size. Knead it again for about 3 minutes. Use roller to spread the dough and fold it put it into the aluminium baking bowl. Spread some little oil into the aluminium baking bowl before you put the dough into it. Cover it for another one hour for it to proof again.

Method 7
Pre -heat  the oven at 180 °. Put the dough into the oven and lower the temperature to 160°. Your Ghana / Nigeria Agege bread recipe is ready. Enjoy it and have a blessed day with Almighty GOD'S blessings. Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.

You can search for Sarfo Baffoe on YouTube to watch the video on this.