 Very good morning to you. Welcome back. Welcome back to entrepreneurship Tuesday It's all about good music and getting informed while at it So head on to our Facebook Facebook page at Y2-5-4 channel and we are asking which business Do you think is just a waste of time and will make losses or zero profits anyway? So I need to hear what you have to say. I just need to hear your experiences I just need to hear your thoughts. At Michela Shirai's where you can find me across all my social media platform at Y2-5-4 channel Is where you can find us. So this time this particular conversation I'm going to have with a very young beautiful, gorgeous, younger lady And she's already a chef at a very young age. I'm not sure if she's allowing She will allow me to mention her age, but it's okay. So she goes by the name Naima Ashley and she's a chef. Hi Naima. Hi Michelle. How you doing? I'm well. Introduce yourself. Hi people. My name is Ashley Naima. I'm a chef. I'm a student chef at Amoselli Institute in Thika. Yeah, so basically I'm a chef. All right. So all gorgeousness, all beauty and she is a business owner. Tell us about where did the love of, first, are you in a culinary school? Let's start there. Yes. Okay. Which year? I'm in my second quarter. Okay. Yeah. I'm at Amoselli School in Thika. Yeah. All right. So at what point did you decide like now I'm just going to go out there and start my own business? I can tell it's been a passion of hard for a long time. There's a point in life when I had to go back to my village. Like I went to stay with my grandma and this is where things got really interesting because she'd wake me up like wake up, young girls are waking up, you wake up, you clean the house, make breakfast. As a woman you need to cook, you need to be good in the kitchen. So my grandma would train me like if it's lunch she'd call me like you know the, what do you call it? It's on my way to, then she sits me there, she's like watch how I'm going to cook. And then from there I grew interest a lot, but the time I was in class six I could make you like really good pilau. And then for a while I got, I got focused on school. Then when I finished my high school back in 2019, I was just bored in the house, nothing to do. I decided to cook like, I decided to be serious about it. So I took a book, crotch down a few things I needed to start with. Yeah that's just how it began. I had passion, I really wanted to do fashion, but when I told my dad I want to go to a fashion school he said no, you have to go cook first. Yeah. So you've been to school for two years and now you've started your own business, right? I'm still in school. Still in school, okay. See you corrected. So people can find you online, where can people find you online? Let's start there. On Instagram and when do I know, when you're on Instagram, yes. Alright so for being in school and I'm so sure it's not the mandatory for you to just put yourself out there. I've seen I've also worked for other numerous companies, restaurants that is and I've seen also like in a situation whereby you had to reinvent a whole menu that is. I saw that on your buy. So how's that experience for you? It was, it is not, it's not a light thing. To meet a client's perspective of food that they really want and want to enjoy really have to be creative. That's why I say to be a chef is just the same thing as being an artist because as a chef you create a masterpiece and this masterpiece is not something done in a day. It's done after years and years of experimentation through different dynamics of interactions. So when it comes to creating a menu first have to decide where your heart lies. I love Mexican cuisines so much. So when I went to school. What's your one of your favorite Mexican cuisine? I love taco rinds. So when I went to school my teacher told us practical Wednesday we're having a meal. You're preparing a menu for yourself. So when you're given a question you're told prepare a four packs meal for people. In this meal you have to have a starter, a main meal, a dessert and a tea item. And when choosing each has to be of its own flavor but they all have to come together. You get like if you're having a sweet starter then your dessert should be sour. If you're having a hot starter then your dessert should be cold. I'm so sure guys back at home you'll get to see this because we'll get visuals, pictures and samples of what she's talking about and I like to find out right. So during this time of COVID-19 the restaurants are not open and so how do you get to offer your services to people that actually love your food? Basically I'm a call away. Freelancing? Yes I'm freelancing. You can or you just place a call and your order depends. I can cook it from my house or I can cook it at your house depending. I charge 450 a plate and if it's more than 10 people I charge a thousand a plate since it's going to be what do we call it? The price is for every kind of meal of just the price. Is it for any kind of meal like I am going to ask for as a client? Okay I've never got clients who want let's say a Mexican meal. All clients I get basically want lunch or party you know. Go to Americanian food. Yeah alright. So maybe we could go through some of your cousins made by Ashley. So what's the name of your I'm so sure that there's a name for the company or something. Abangome. Repeat that again. Abangome. Okay that's the name you go by by social media? Yeah. Okay so maybe you could tell us. This is just at home. I was making breakfast on a Sunday. These are rice balls. These are meat pies. These are omelette bread and these are cheesy, cheesy, cheesy bakes. So how long does it take to make rice balls? How long does it take to make that? 8 minutes. Okay okay. You just make rice and then you make them into balls, beat eggs, put them in eggs, make some crumbs, dip in the crumbs, the pie and that's it. Girl you know your work. Okay so let's look at this. This is batonette squash with bread. This is batonette. Malengue. Yes you just boil it, blend it, add an onion, salt that's it. I would love to try that. I would really love to try that. The fact that you have a show like a live show of just me cooking. Next round we'll definitely do that. So then we have this chicken in batonette. I love nuts. I love the cayenne nuts. Okay it looks really nice. Still when I like to have this for a plate, it still goes for 450. Very affordable, very affordable. Okay so look at the other pictures. Okay then what do we call this looking yummy meal? These are meatballs and spaghetti. Oh why? So simple. This is a kids menu. Your kids don't have to eat rice all the time. You can make some nice spaghetti for them and meatballs. Meatballs are like 10 minutes. So especially during this time where people are just relaxing back at home and you can just venture into different exploring different kind of meals. So maybe you can give us your social media handles and oh I love pie. No this is cinnamon pancakes. Oh sorry. They are very nice. This is cinnamon pancakes with vanilla. I'm already feeling hungry. I'm already feeling hungry I should. Alright so where can you guys spend your social media again? At Muendo and Nehima. My account was hacked. I should have talked to that guy. Yeah but don't worry we have the contracts so we'll just call Samuel and we'll book you up. So probably you could give your current social account so that people can reach out to you. Sure my account and Instagram is at Muendo and Nehima. Yeah I only have Instagram and WhatsApp. It's understandable. We're all going online. It's all about online right now. Businesses are just going online. So guys back at home make sure you reach out to Nehima Ashley and get all this cuisine at a very much affordable prices considering how yummy they are and I'm already hungry already. So we'll be ending this right now with Aisha. I'm feeling so short right? I don't know what happened there. Sorry Nehima. Anyway it was a very short interview. Next time we'll have a longer conversation pertaining your cuisines and people can reach out to you. Make sure you do so. So right now we'll be heading to the social media conversation where we ask your question and we'll have to find out more about your feedback and what you have to say. So be right back with that.