Baking TurnUp In The Kitchen ~ Nigerian Cuisine

So, since I've been missing in action for the past two years or so, I thought I'd update what I've been baking with some of my friends. Here are the products of our fun in the kitchen. Enjoy!
1) Cake with some nice vanilla icing for Sandra on her birthday.

2) Meat pies made with butter vs shortening

3) Some good 'ol puffpuff made by Ayo

4) Home made pizza

5) Actually made this bread one Friday during Surgery rotation. 

6) Good 'ol cornbread. Made the ones in the cupcake for when I'm on the go.

7) Introducing Emy's handiwork! Perfect for our girls' night.

and Sele's birthday cake!

8) So we found that link and made our very own Easter bunny cake! Artwork by Emy of course!

9) Oatmeal cookies with some craisins. Great source of fibre and was my breakfast for a short while.

 10) Meat pies made with a little too much shortening. The crust was super-crusty, but honestly, the best crust I've had. Emy was on that minced turkey level, so we made both. 

That's all folks!

Short Hand or social network language?

Honestly, I don't even know where to start from. I'm not an English teacher, but for some reason it just bothers me. The fact that half of the sentences I see in conversations or posts on facebook, blackberry messenger, twitter, etc, are just written the way the person would pronounce them, with no thought about the spelling whatsoever. The one I saw today didn't even seem to make sense. Since when is "makes" spelled "mex"??? The other one I saw the other day was "litu". You can guess that it stands for the word, little. I understand that typographical errors occur, but this is an entirely different thing going on here. The one I just don't understand is that even when the original word is only three letters long, it'll still be changed to something else. I know I've seen "wu" before, instead of who.

Okay, I'm going to chill, it's not like I can really do anything about it. I just wish people will at least type a full "Happy birthday" to a friend instead of hbd. I think they deserve more than three letters for a wish.