Dinner

To begin

Suya-spiced short rib, pickled red onion
Puff-puff with a pepper honey

The table

Jollof rice with smoked chicken
Egusi with pounded yam
Roast chicken with thyme and lemon
Greens with palm oil and crayfish

To finish

Coconut cake
Chin chin, and a great deal of it

Ask Ifeoma about anything at all — three of us cook without dairy and nobody has to explain themselves tonight.

Cooked by Ngozi, who has been practising since June