The First Time You Cooked?

omoge, hmm u know say if i was a man, i for don snatch u up since. girl, u just have it going on o. lucky say u sabi cook. i go eventually buy all those things sha. when one is a student and moves around a lot, person no get time to dey buy all those things. but ima definitely follow my mama's advice and stock up on them pretty soon. she will be proud!  so make una let me rest o

@debojyde.  yeeeeparipa! u want to kill yourself with palm oil calories?

My first time cooking turned out to be my last for over 4 years. I recently started cooking again. Well this was in boarding school(command secondary school ibadan), i had sneaked some rice and decided to cook it with electric stove i also sneaked into school. While boiling it, i decided to go fetch water since there was finally water coming out of the freaking tap, by the time i got back there where seniors and people pouring water on the locker(thank God i used someone else's locker, i would have burned my provisions lol). Cut long story short, the electric cooker cooked the rice, burnt it and the locker i put the electric cooker on top. Anyho  when asked if i knew who did that, i am sad to say i denied knowing who cooked there to avoid punishment.

@babyosisi

To cook Jollof Rice in the oven is easy and even better. The rice will almost always come out crisp.

Use your regular big pot (Preferably - Agbari Ojukwu)

When the rice is half way done and you've added all the condiments,
Preheat your oven to 350 - 375
let it boil a little longer until you can just peep the top of the rice like its about done soaking up the water
(For best result use low heat to cook the rice)
Take it off and put it in the oven
For extra garnish, put in a couple of bay leaves.

Check it at regular intervals, say every 20 mins until its done.


I think that should help you get started. If you messed up the first time, try again. adjusting as necessary (which is the true Nigeria way)

oh i see, sorry i got  you wrong before @ Babyosisi 

oven for Jrice?  well when i no longer have stove i will try the oven style. for now, it's stove for Jollof rice. i make Jollof rice once in a while (special events or when i have 2 hours for it).

am good with rice and stew, and the usual boil rice, put oil, pepper and onion, salt and tomatoes.

Soul muah muah sister  . I'm lucky i don't move because i like my place and got classmates as roomies .

burning pomo once used to be a regular past time.

Jollof rice is best when its slightly burnt, my brother accidentally "discovered" that the day he forgot the jollof rice on the fire.

 

1st time i cooked. . . .  a culinary disaster!

it was supposed to be stew but it ended being more like bar beach water!

lol
it wasn't really my first but i remember vividly what happened.
i was really eager to please my mum and to at least show i could cook, that i told her not to bother but allow me cook jollof rice.
i had put the whole ingrdients in left for the salt, i felt the salt can and it was empty, so i poured what i thought was salt into it not knowing it was sugar.
having tasted the food and not feeling the salt in it i kept adding, not being very satisfied i left it with the thought that whoever needed more salt would just add.
and a most unfortunate thing then was my dad was adviced by a doctor not to take sugar at all.
men was it bad, that's an understatement.
so u can imagine what happened for yourself
 

Hilarious! Mummy couldn't do  it alone, she needed somebody to assist her attend to some unexpected guests.  I had to bail her out with garri (eba),  just imagine the kind of olumo rock we presented to the guests as Eba, ha ha ha,

Lmfao well my eba is good now beco i make it on the stove with the fire still on

mine wasnt too disastrous i only added too much salt to the rice.since then i learnt never to use spoon in measuring the salt i put in food.my hand measures better.solids took me tru hell while i learnt to make them.god,several i made were full of lumps.thanks to my patient folks.they ate my mess each time i made them but bet u am now a pro

ok ma, we don hear u o. advice taken. psych!

don't blame the man.
One can only eat so much burnt offering

omoge what is this fatal attraction between you and paw paw?
he needs some hot grits and a wok to get him off you

the experience the first day i cooked kind of funny.any way it was actually beans,and you know sometimes mothers add garri to soupe as tickner,my mum dose it,so i did in the beans when i have added so much water to it and it refuses get tick.every body at home where confuse most expecially when the whole beans was covered with garri.at the end it was thrown away.

I nearly killed everybody. People that ate the food were just running to-and fro to the rest room for like 2 hours,  fighting to take turns in the rest room. It was hilarious but crazy for them,  i was thus banned from the kitchen