Which Kitchen Rituals Did You Learn From Your Mother?

If you over salt your soup, drop about 3 peeled potatoes into it and boil. The potatoes will soak up the excess salt.

My mother taught me not to depend too much on electronic gadgets in the kitchen, she said it taste better without gadgets. Till today, i still find it hard to use a cake mixer and i bake all the time, i always feel the cake does not come out as well, so i mix manually

Don't cover your ewedu/okro or any other draw soup while on fire, it will boil/spill over.

After having boiled our yam, don't leave it too long inside water to soak as it becomes too soft.

Wash your vegetables before cutting so it doesn't lose its nutrients if you do it vice versa.

Don't talk while stiring food or serving  it (esp if its meant for others and you)  so droplets won't fall in.

Don't enter the kitchen with chewing stick in your mouth.
    Will go and think, then come back with more

Well, she doesn't trust any plate that's washed by another person.

So she rinses vigorously again, and i'm like ''but I just washed it!

And she goes: Don't poison me with your wishy-washy kind of washing, when dem born you sef!

But i'm married now! yet she won't burge.

most of ds thins are superstitous bt u dare not argue wt mum, she'l say dont talk 2 any one when cutting bitter leaf from its tree so dt it dont get 2 bitter or dt stff abt talking while removn d feather of a chicken  and lot more al i can say 4rm ds is trying 2 make us hygenic bc atimes when u talk esp while cookn some saliva might get into what u're doin thereby contaminating it.They hv dr reasons bt most are traditns laid down by sources dy demselves dont know,if u ask dm why or d motive bhnd what dy say or do dy dont know just be ready 4 a season of lecture. lastly hv u seen or heard of dustin or clapn your hands after squeezn your maggi? i love u all, just continue 2 b obedient and dont argue or else you wont have meat 4 your meal

how to wash my hands inside d soup after adding salt and maggi

 To not cover ewedu/okro when warming, otherwise it wud lose the sliminess

To put a knife upside down behind the pot when cooking moi moi.

To cover the pot tightly when cooking beans so it gets done on time.

To start scrubbin beans soaked in water early enough as it gets done faster.

Pepper ground with OLO tastes sweeter than than the one with ERO

To do HA HA Ha on the gizzard in the chicken before cutting it.

To tell the ELERO to put less water when grindin the beans when it is for AKARA.

Making pap without cooking it on fire required special skill and patience.

I also learnt a few things from my popsey. His own type of cooking is the sharp sharp style and they taste horrible. Sprinkle a little garri in the water on fire to make it boil faster. At the end of the day eba will have lumps and the colour will be light. YUCK. You also need to see his watery vegetables with too much pepper, the types that will make you shit.

coverin yam with nylon so that there will be enough heat to coook it well.thought it was compulsory

if you are frying 10 pieces of meat,

when you put salt in the meat, taste 1,
if you put maggi, taste another 1,
if you feel say the meat neva done, taste 1,
when you dey fry, taste another 1


  so that buy the time you finish cooking, only one piece of meat go remain for your husband, 

if your husband misbehaves, taste the last one so that he will wak without mean

@blandish bad kitchen habit your learnt dia are u sure it your mama dat tot u dis or u learn dem on your own???

wrong thread,

She won't even allow me go close to that place.

With four sisters, i always dread that place call kitchen.

Now is really affecting me. cos i cant cook one nice meal.

koolchicco,

can one use dried bitter leaf for bitterleaf soup? will it still taste great?

my mom would say the secret of a less sleepy soup is buying light palm oil not the thick sleepy ones