was pretty young the first time I cooked ….which was jollof rice and it was a disaster

Hahh!
Read some funny comments here. Lol
My 1st experience was with beans. What can I say, da beans was almost ready, da palm oil was lubricating properly and it didn't look half-bad though as I sank my teeth into the meal, enjoying the fruit of my labour!

this is from a friend of mine.
The first time she cooked,it was jollof rice.she  put the rice on fire as usual but the rice was white and as we all know,jollof rice is red.she thought of what she could put in the rice to make it red and there goes the palm oil into the rice.There!jollof rice don do.

My brother and i were home and hungry (i was 13), there was no meat (mum went for shopping) but there was smoked fish (eja kika). So i decided to cook smoked fish stew. i boiled some fresh pepper and added shredded smoked fish (instead of whole or halves). The stew "resembled" fried stew that is normally used to eat bread or yam. My mum had to cook proper stew and my stew (surprisingly, it was delicious) was eaten with bread or yam.
Another cooking experience from childhood: My brother and i were home and hungry (always hungry), so i decided to cook. I sliced onion, big bell pepper, ata rodo, and tomatoes. Poured some vegetable oil in the the frying pan and added all the sliced ingredients with spices. I covered the frying pan and turned down the heat (to the lowest), went to the sitting room and forgot about the stew. By the time i remembered, the sliced ingredients had turned into fried stew (i accidentally discovered a great recipe) and it tasted so good that my brother kept asking for a remake every weekend.