https://youtu.be/rf5Vna_sPhs
Waxing off his potential hit single released last friday; Teehigh premieres the official video for ‘Zero Smello’ which features Davido. The official video was directed by Adasa Cookey for Squareball Films & sees Teehigh & Davido portray a fun packed & catchy visual.’Zero Smello’ was produced by SPELLZ
Tuesday, 12 April 2016
Tonye Cole covers April Edition of Forbes Africa
The April edition of Forbes Africabusiness magazine features Tonye Cole, Co-founder and Group Executive Director ofSahara Group (a leading privately owned Power, Energy, Gas and Infrastructure Conglomerate established in 1996).
In the exclusive interview with Forbes Africa Correspondent for West Africa,Peace Hyde, Tonye Cole shares his journey overcoming bankruptcy as a young man to establishing the Sahara Group.
According to Tonye Cole, ‘Failure teaches you a lot. If you are an entrepreneur, you are going to have bad days and if you are a successful entrepreneur, you are going to have even more bad days. It is important to remember the value of relationships and never give up’.
Watch the behind-the-scene shots of the interview below…
https://youtu.be/5aBZjzO-2xw
BACON TIME
It’s bacon time again! I don’t know why but I’ve been getting a lot of bacon questions in my email recently, so thought I’d address a few issues I haven’t before. Of course, I’ve long commented on the fact that curing your own bacon is no more difficult than marinating a steak. Mix all the ingredients together and put them in a plastic bag with the meat. Use the recipe below. The aromatics, the bay leaves and everything else below can be considered optional.
But there are other strategies. You could make a brine if you feel more comfortable with that. For those of you concerned about reaching the right salt and pink salt levels, you could use a technique called equilibrium brining, which I first read about in Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine. To do this, combine the weight of the meat and the weight of the water, then add 2% of that weight in salt, and 0.25% pink salt, in addition to aromatics. This can cure from seven days up to twenty-one days (and maybe longer). This way you will never have bacon that’s too salty, since 2% is what you’re striving for. It also gives you great flexibility on how long you cure (say you’re traveling or something comes up the day you intended to cook it).
The most common question I get is, “My bacon is too salty, what can i do?”
Answer: Slice as usual, cover the slices or lardons in water and bring to a simmer. Drain the water and continue cooking.
If, before you smoke or roast it, you fear that it might be too salty. Cut a piece from the center of the bacon, cook it and taste it. If it’s too salty, submerge the belly in water for 8 to 24 hours. Then proceed with the smoking or roasting.
The recipe below is a concise primer and step-by-step for curing your own bacon. Follow it and you should have perfect, delicious home-cured bacon every time.
Home-Cured Bacon
(adapted from Charcuterie)
- Five pounds of fresh pork belly (skin on), from your grocery store, the pork guy at your farmers market, or from a local butcher shop
- Buy a box of 2-gallon zip-top bags if you don’t have a container big enough to hold the belly.
Mix the following together in a small bowl:
- 2 ounces (1/4 cup Morton or Diamond Crystal coarse kosher) salt
- 2 teaspoons pink curing salt #1 (I use this DQ Cure from Butcher-Packer, $2)
- 4 tablespoons coarsely ground black pepper
- 4 bay leaves, crumbled
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1/4 cup brown sugar or honey or maple syrup
- 5 cloves of garlic, smashed with the flat side of a chef’s knife
- 2 tablespoons juniper berries, lightly crushed (optional)
- 5 to 10 sprigs fresh thyme (optional)
- Put your belly in the zip-top bag or on a sheet tray or in a plastic container. Rub the salt and spice mixture all over the belly. Close the bag or cover it with plastic wrap, and stick it in the refrigerator for seven days (get your hands in there and give the spices another good rubbing around midway through).
- After seven days, take it out of the fridge, rinse off all the seasonings under cold water and pat it dry.
- Put it on a sheet tray and put it in the oven (put it on a rack on a sheet tray if you have one) and turn the oven on to 200 degrees F./ 93 degrees C. (if you want to preheat the oven, that’s fine, too). Leave it in the oven for 90 minutes (or, if you want to measure the internal temperature, until it reaches 150 degrees F./66 degrees C.).
- Let it cool and refrigerate it until you’re ready to cook it. But I know. You won’t be able to wait. So cut off a piece and cook it. Taste it, savor it. Congratulations! It’s bacon!
Notes: If you don’t have five pounds of belly, either guesstimate salt based on the above or use the equilibrium technique I mentioned.
Pink curing salt means “sodium nitrite,” not Himalayan pink salt. It’s what’s responsible for the bright color and piquant bacony flavor. You don’t have to use it, but your bacon will turn brown/gray when cooked (you’re cooking it well done, after all), and will taste like pleasantly seasoned spare ribs, porky rather than bacony.
If you have a smoker or a grill, you can smoke the bacon (strictly speaking, it needs to have the pink salt in the cure if you’re going to smoke because, in rare instances, botulism bacteria from spores on the garlic could grow; pink salt eliminates this possibility; but I never worry about this, you’re going to cook it again in any case).
You can also, instead of roasting it or smoking, hang it to dry, in the manner of pancetta.
Queen Tiwa! Tiwa Savage Rocks Pink ‘Agbada’ Outfit With Yellow Embroidery In New Video (Photo)
Tiwa Savage took to her Instagram page to share this shot from a video set for one of the songs off her IamRED album which was released recently.
The singer is spotted in an ‘Agbada’ outfit that we love so much as she takes her place as queen beside fellow mavin act, Dr. Sid who appears to play king in the new video. She shared the photo with the caption:
Due to popular demand can you guess my next Video/Single??? This should be pretty easy lol …. I am so excited about this one. I have goosebumps sef. We had an amazing time on set and I have so many people to thank. Shoutout to @tiannahsplacempire for giving me this look literally at the last minute. I have many more shout outs but will do so once the video is out. Be expectant because something is about to happen #RED #IamRED #WorldWidePromo #WeDoThis #SavageSoldiers
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Rayce’s record label responds to Oritsefemi’s threat
Reactions continue to trail the Instagram rant by Oritsefemi, in which he accused fast rising act, Rayce of copyright theft and gave him 24 hours to stop using the MSN Gang logo on his platforms or face the consequences.
Rayce’s record label ‘Jebon Records’, in a statement sent to THENETNG, have responded to Oritsefemi’s claims and threat.
According to Ebony Black, who is the Label Manager to Jebon Records: ‘Rayce doesn’t have any issue with Oritsefemi. Before we signed Rayce, he’s already chosen the likes ofDanku who is the former manager to Oritsefemi and the sole owner of MSN GANG to be his current manager so as a matter of fact Rayce is currently making use of JEBON RECORDS / MSN GANG Platform and Not MSN.G as claimed by Oritsefemi, so if at all there is any unsettled issue between you and your former manager (Danku) please you better direct your threat to him and stop threatening Rayce our artist take note’.
Oritsefemi has since deleted his posts on Instagram and declined to comment further on the issue.
How Did Selena Gomez Fit Herself Into This Dress??!
She paused to take some pictures. She showed off her amazing figure.
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Afia Schwarzenneger ‘Slaps’ Second Lady
Outspoken radio and TV presenter Valentina Agyeiwaa, known in showbiz as Afia Schwarzenneger, has condemned the statement made by the Second lady, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur when donated five sets of computers to the school, describing it as “very embarrassing to the nation”. She expressed disappointment in the second lady for insulting and embarrassing the headmistress of Kukurantumi Presby Primary School in the Eastern Region.
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