Dele Oloruntoba

That is right. As soon as I knew that Sanya was interested, I asked one of my uncles to find out more about his family. (By the way I call him Baba Yinka, and not Sanya). Baba Yinka simply means, Yinka's father. It is part of our culture to call your husband by the name of the first child of a marriage).

Unlike him, I lost my mother at an early age and did not have the privilege to confide in her like other girls of my age. But my uncle did a good job. I was not only ready but eager to be married into the Oloruntoba family.

After our marriage, I continued my work as a school teacher. By mutual consent, we limited the number of our children to four when the vogue in Nigeria then was to have many more. Our family have been blessed with Yinka, Yemisi, Yetunde, and Olubunmi. This website tells you about them and the families they too have built up. We have a page for each of them with interesting family pictures. When the children became adolescents, I

resigned my teaching appointment so that I could have more time for the family. I started a supermarket business which has now grown to include a wholesale distributive outlet.

I like cooking and prepare the meals for the whole family every day. Nigerian women, like their counterparts all over the world, know the fact that the road to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Mothers therefore have the duty of teaching their daughters good-cooking as part of the preparations for marriage.

We have a page in the Interests section devoted to Nigerian recipes, particularly our family favourite dishes. I will try to give you as many of our favourites as possible. Selected past issues of my recipes are in the Nigerian Recipes Archive.

If you have a recipe you want to share with us and others, please send it to us by email. We will acknowledge it and post it in a new update.

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