The First Time You Cooked?

 ;Dafter my first disasterous attempt and some other consecutive ones , i learnt the skills of preparing good food, even if i haven't heard of the menu before, just teach me once or better still give me the cookery book, and am good to go!

well for the weekend, i spent limited time cooking and more time shoppin and window-shopping! i looooooooveeeeee shoppppppppping!

  yes o , there are two method i learnt, the rush hour own ( u cook in college or 4 ur belle only), and the one you cook when you are expecting visitors:

Rush hour method;

i am going to cut the chase here, depends on the protein u are using; ( excluding fresh fish at this stage)make sure u get it cleaned,spiced and boiling,
some "soak" the ogbono powder(watever you want to call it) in palm oil and some in hot water,

mine was a disaster. i wanted to cook beans, and my mum warned me then not too, but i was too sturbon to listen. the beans burnts, half way, i riggled my way through but the beans didnt get cooked weel , ita was hard, but i still ate a good part of it, because it was my own doing. Men my stomach was hard after i ate the beans.

But now am a very good cook.

@herdey2tu

sorry men I've been off nairaland, my company blocked the website because I infected everyone with the website and 'em they just blocked it.

I'm in another office where the ISP is completely different

Thanks for the tip

@sweetberry

Just pullin ya legs

@HERDEY2TU

abeg na office politics jare, all this ladies wey get beef amongst themselves na them get the wahala!

reporting themselves that everyone browses nairaland.

U know ladies na!


so that's it

so what did u eat for breakfast?

@Elgaxton

So what did you have for break fast? Abi na what would you or are you having or have had for lunch?

i will probably have a fruits and boiled plaintain with vegetables

  for real, am really trying to place myself on a diet! no be my fault

  not fat , but full, just want to return to a size 8. am current rocking on a Size 10.

But i eat well o, just want to cut down on my carbohydrate intake!

irony indeed o.


girl, same predicament. i mean i used to be totally comfy with my size, but when u live in a society where scrawny ass lepa girls that are size 0 are parading all about u, wetin u go do now? i thot being a size 10 was perfect until i came to yankee o!

at the end of the day, its all about being healthy and comfortable in ur own skin. i add on weight quick so i've cut out my consumption of meat, and i stick to fish. i've also discovered that not munching at night helps a whole lot. i used to eat a lot of junk food late at night because i had trouble sleeping early, so i'm learning not to wander into the kitchen after 6pm. hard to do but with time, u'll get used to it and its worth it. because when you eat so late, the food doesn't digest properly and by the time u sleep, its all being turned into fat. not good at all!

my apologies for digressing o, eyin peoples!

I remembeer years back my younger brother cooked beans. We all were hungry and where waiting. No food at home. Next thing I tasted the beans it was drawing.He mistakenly put ogbono instead of crayfish.

i am sorry! but not a laughing matter. i have never found myself in cooking before,so the first time of my cooking was on fish. i never knew on how to cook that soup. i just boiled water without salt,onions, in fact all the requirements. then i too the soup to my elder sisters to join me eat.they laughed at me saying no oil !! white soup !! no test !! nothing nothing. i fell some how on that day. please, there is a needs to start practicing at early stage. 

When i cooked beans 4 d first time somethin hilarious happened. Up until then,everytin was goin fine,i'd boiled the beans wit d pressure pot,stewed it,etc. Then,i reached up 4 d grinded crayfish and put some inside. I tasted it,there was no change,so i said,hey,what the heck and turned d whole container in. I let it simmer for a few mins,then i turned off d flame and left. Half an hour later,my mum opened d pot 2 serve the food. Then she yelled and was like,holy shit! Esosa,get in here now. So i went in(along wit errybody else)and asked her what's up. She put the spoon in the pot and brot it out. Wait 4 it,wait 4 it. . . . d damn beans was drawing like ogbono soup! My mum was like what did u put in2 this? All d years of my life i've never seen anytin like this! I kept protesting my innocence,and mum threw d whole pot away. The next morning,i was stil tryin 2 undastand what happned. Stil havent figured it out? You knw grinded ogbono and grinded crayfish look alike. It turned out that i'd emptied a whole container of ogbono into d beans.