John Legend - All Of Me

LASGIDI COOK 4

This oil-based pasta sauce is sweet and salty from the raisins and olive tapenade, and contains everything from onions and garlic to nuts and a big handful of parsley. I think I once had something similar at a fancy restaurant. Plus, it’s an easy dish to make for potluck dinners.

• For one bag of pasta (about 6-8 servings):
• 500 g bag of pasta (spirals are good)
• 2 purple onions, chopped
• 6-8 garlic cloves, crushed
• 6 T tomato paste
• 2 T black olive tapenade(puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, anchovies and olive oil).
• 1/4-1/2 c olive oil
• 3/4 c chopped parsley
• 1/2 c pine nuts
• 1/2 c almonds
• 1 c white raisins, chopped
• salt
• pepper

Prepare the pasta according to the instructions on the package.

Meanwhile, start frying the chopped onions in the olive oil (you can do this in the pot in which you cooked the pasta, in order to cut down on dishes). Once they become translucent, add the garlic as well as the raisins, and let fry another minute.

 Mix in the tomato paste and the olive tapenade (you could also just add extra salt in place of the olives, and add some chopped olives at the end instead), and turn off the flame.

In a small frying pan, toast the nuts and the almonds over a medium flame, watching intently and stirring frequently so that they don’t burn — the pine nuts should “sweat,” while both nuts will turn a light brown. Don’t let them blacken — burnt nuts are no fun.

Mix the pasta into the onion-tomato mix, and add the parsley and the toasted nuts.

Personally
Ill per boil the pasta and then heat the oil, fry the onions and garlic for some mins, include the tomato paste, add seasoning, the raisins and nuts and olive tapenade and allow to simmer. Drain the pasta and include in the sauce pot and allow to cook. 


GBAM its done.

JONATHAN VISTS THE CRASH SITE

President Goodluck Jonathan, today visited the location of the Dana air plane crash. He was moved to tears and promised to launch a probe.

The President said he will make sure this incident does not repeat itself.

This is the first time he has made an emotional appearance and he was almost on time too. He should do this more often.

PLANE CRASH IN LAGOS

 A plane owned by Dana airlines crashed into Iju- Agege residential area of Lagos, setting ablaze some of the buildings around it.  The plane was flown from Abuja carrying about 153 passengers on board.

As at now the aviation officials are yet to ascertain the number of causalities and survivors. I wonder what our emergency officials are doing.

Let's not forget Saturday’s incident in Ghana when a cargo plane crash-landed in the capital Accra, hitting a bus full of passengers and killing ten of them.  Also the Bauchi church bombing... Its worrying.

BREAKING NEWS

PLANE CRASH: TEN DEAD IN GHANA

The Boeing 727 had flown in from Lagos, Nigeria when it smashed the runway barriers at Accra's Kotoka International airport.

The cargo plane went off the runway, broke the barriers and ran into a minivan on the road. Ten people were crushed to death. The injured four-man aircrew jumped to safety and were rushed to hospital.


Ghana's vice president John Dramani Mahama ordered aviation officials to launch an investigation.

This is really sad.

UNILAG STUDENTS PROTEST NAME CHANGE

As part of the celebations of Democracy day, on the 29th of May, 2012, President Goodluck Jonathan announced the University of Lagos will now be recognised as Mashood Abiola University. I was near by when the angry students took to the street to protest against the sudden name change. They mounted road blocks, causing vehicles to divert towards other routes. On Wednesday they took to the third mainland bridge and held commuters to a standstill for several hours before the appropriate officials got involved and diverted traffic towards other routes. The protest has been on for about 3days. Presently the school has shut-down activities for two weeks in a bid to contain the situation.

The timing and manner in which Jona acted caused an uproar. The Senate was not contacted nor aware of the name change. The University just lost it's VC and had activites scheduled this week for his burial(Tuesday- Thursday). We have lots of major pressing issues but his focus is else where obviously. I sympathize with the students and as an alumni of UNILAG now MAUL, I'm certainly not amused. No thanks to Jona.

Wizkid and Ice-prince Nominated for BET awards 2012

Both acts were nominated in the ’Best International Act: Africa’ category.


Last year, D’banj and 2face both received a joint award prize in the same category.


Asa, Nneka, 9ice and the duo of P-Square are some Nigerian artists that have picked the award for the African category in recent years.


The 2012 edition of the award will hold at the historic Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday July 1.


Hollywood actor, Samuel .L. Jackson will be hosting the event.


Leading the pack of A-list nominations for Black Entertainment award for 2012 is Kanye West with 7 nominations, with Mr and Mrs Carter; Beyonce and Jay getting 6 and 5 nominations respectively.


Live performances during the award ceremony will be by Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj


Below is a list of all the categories


Best International Act: Africa
Camp Mulla (Kenya)
Ice Prince (Nigeria)
Lira (South Africa)
Mokobe (Mali)
Sarkodie (Ghana)
Wizkid (Nigeria)


Best International Act: UK
Estelle
Labrinth
Emeli Sande
Sway
Wretch 32


Best Female R&B Artist


Marsha Ambrosius
Beyonce
Mary J. Blige
Melanie Fiona
Rihanna


Best Male R&B Artist
Chris Brown
Bruno Mars
Miguel
Trey Songz
Usher


Best Group
Bad Meets Evil
Diddy-Dirty Money
Maybach Music Group
Mindless Behavior
The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West)


Best Collaboration
Beyonce f/ J. Cole – “Party”
Big Sean f/ Kanye West & Roscoe Dash – “Marvin & Chardonnay”
DJ Khaled f/ Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne – “I’m On One”
Drake f/ Lil Wayne & Tyga – “The Motto”
The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) f/ Otis Redding – “Otis”
Wale f/ Miguel – “Lotus Flower Bomb”
Best Male Hip Hop Artist
Big Sean
Drake
J. Cole
Lil Wayne
Rick Ross
Young Jeezy


Best Female Hip Hop Artist
Diamond
Nicki Minaj
Brianna Perry
Trina


Video of the Year
Beyonce – “Countdown”
Beyonce – “Love On Top”
The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) – “N***as in Paris”
The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) f/ Otis Redding – “Otis”
Usher – “Climax”


Video Director of the Year
Beyonce & Alan Ferguson
Benny Boom
Chris Brown & Godfrey Tabarez
Kanye West
Hype Williams
Best New Artist
A$AP Rocky
Big Sean
Diggy
Future
Meek Mill


Best Gospel
Yolanda Adams
Kim Burrell
James Fortune & FIYA
Fred Hammond
Trin-I-Tee 5:7


Best Actress
Angela Bassett
Viola Davis
Taraji P. Henson
Regina King
Zoe Saldana


Best Actor
Don Cheadle
Common
Idris Elba
Kevin Hart
Denzel Washington


YoungStars Award
Astro
Diggy
Jacob Latimore
Keke Palmer
Willow Smith


Best Movie
Good Deeds
Jumping The Broom
Laugh At My Pain
Red Tails
The Help
Subway Sportswoman of the Year
Skylar Diggins
Brittney Griner
Candace Parker
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Subway Sportsman of the Year
Carmelo Anthony
Kobe Bryant
Victor Cruz
Kevin Durant
LeBron James


Coca-Cola Viewer’s Choice Award
Beyonce – “Love On Top”
Chris Brown – “Turn Up the Music”
Drake f/ Lil Wayne & Tyga – “The Motto”
Mindless Behavior – “Hello”
The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) f/ Otis Redding – “Otis”
Wale f/ Miguel – “Lotus Flower Bomb”
Centric Award
Common
Estelle
Robert Glasper
Robin Thicke
Tyrese