Our cookbook of the week is Chop Chop by Ozoz Sokoh, a Nigerian food writer and educator based in Mississauga, Ont.

Jump to the recipes: Nigerian salad with homemade salad cream, beef suya (nutty spiced beef skewers) and Nigerian fried rice.

Sixteen years after Ozoz Sokoh started her blog, Kitchen Butterfly, she’s still as intrigued as ever about food. “It’s really anchored me. It’s given me hope, courage, joy,” says the Nigerian food writer and educator from her home in Mississauga, Ont. “Every day, I still have lists of things I want to make, cook, eat, research. I’m grateful that I found my thing. My one thing — or many things — but food is definitely at the core of it.”