The first i faced the responsibilty of making lunch was in my late Uncles house in Port harcourt...I went for the summer holidays and the excitement was too much for me....Though he was married, i planned to cook all his favourite dishes so that he would love me more...LOL
One day after severals days of preaching that i could do it, the wife went to the Market and bought things for me to make stew.......I didnt want anyone around me while cooking....LOL
After i made the stew it was tasteless so i added plenty sugar in it, I made rice and also added sugar and then served lunch....LOL
Everyone had a funny look on their face, i no send, I ate and went into my holiday room to do stuff but after two hours the stew in the pot started foaming and was spoilt immediately......I had to confess that i added Sugar in the food....My two elders borthers were there that day, come and see laugh...
After i made the stew it was tasteless so i added plenty sugar in it, I made rice and also added sugar and then served lunch....LOL
Everyone had a funny look on their face, i no send, I ate and went into my holiday room to do stuff but after two hours the stew in the pot started foaming and was spoilt immediately......I had to confess that i added Sugar in the food....My two elders borthers were there that day, come and see laugh...
It was so embarrassing for me and when i returned to Lagos my Papa made it a point of duty to teach me how to cook...LOL
What is your story....
I prepared okro stew. Okro go maiduguri and water pass onitsha and proteins dey float
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DeleteI learnt how to cook really early as the first daughter and my mum loves cooking,so I am always in the kitchen with her.The only food I didn't prepare was Amala because of the continuous turning to avoid lumps and I never expected anyone would ask me to prepare that.
ReplyDeleteDuring GCE,I stayed at my family friends house because it was closer to my center,one day the woman called me to make Amala before they got back for six people inclusive of me....I started sweating because I have never made for a person let alone 6 but I was always present whenever I mum made it.
I put all I saw into practice and the Amala came out well and I was so proud of myself.
Ah Stella you wan open old wounds oh.
DeleteI sha collect beating for my own.
Cooking is kinda a gift you know...
I've seen a lot of people go through rigorous process just to learn how to cook and still not become a skilled cook. Who don Sabi don Sabi.
Good afternoon fam🤗❤️
Stella, yours would have been a shock to me if I didn't know that some people add sugar to their beans, beans o. Hmmm but the stew own still surprise me Sha.
ReplyDeleteThe first meal I prepared was rice mixed with palm oil and it was just okay.
I have a friend who work with white then
DeleteShe told me she do Add sugar in stew and they all eat it ooo
Then me Self never Sabi cook
The first time I was Boling rice I come begin turning am up and down
My father started laughing at me I just came bk from village then..
Now I be PRO for cooking o👍
Hello iya Boys
Chika, 😂😂😂😂. You add sugar to your rice too?
DeleteAhhhh,@ BBC I did not Add Sugar to My Rice ooo🤣🤣🤣
DeleteI said I was turning the Rice Up and down when Boiling it
You dey Find My Trouble ba🤸🤸🤸🤣🤣🤣
Hello iya Boys
No vex! 😂🌹
DeleteI started cooking when my elder sis gained admission...
ReplyDeleteMy mum doesn't like waste so most of the time, she instructed me on what and what to do next
For example, If I want to make Stew, she ll prep the ingredients, all I needed to do was to add and stir...
I can stir for Africa 😁
The first time i made semo, it was a total disaster, the koko inside big like egg and undone
I didn't know how to cook until I got to the university. Strange as it seems now but that was it. My parents were separated when I was in my lower primary, and my dad refused to allow my mum to take my brother and I along. He was always traveling at that time because of his kind of job. He left us at the mercy of our very good neighbour who were more like a family. We were of different tribe and geo political zone of the country but the woman and her family took us as one of theirs. That was then when our political class in Nigeria hasn't divided the country along ethnic and religious line. My dad used to drop money with the woman for our keep each time he was out of town. When I got to the university, I made 2 new friends and we were taking turns to cook. When it was my turn, I was foot dragging but my friends didn't know why. When it was obvious that I couldn't hide. I had to open up to them by telling them my story. Those my friends were the ones that taught me how to cook. By the time my parents reconciled and my mum came back, I was already on top of my my game😀
ReplyDeleteI am sorry, but your dad sounds quite wicked. Just to punish your mum, he denied her custody and left his children with neigbours. That's mean!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteI hope he is a better man now shaaaaa, and I hope he treated/treats your mum way better now.
My first was semo🤣🤣 Omo stone no strong pass am and na for husband house I cook this yeye semo 🤣🤣
ReplyDeleteE no good make person no get mama
Bur all thanks to my darling hubby
Na this man teach me and other soup too
Wao! Your husband is a good man.
DeleteI learnt how cook from a very young age. You can't live with my mum and not know how to cook.
ReplyDeleteI never had any disaster cooking 😁.
The first meal I was left to cook was "ikokore".It came out nice.
ReplyDeleteI made the ikokore for 10pple,my guardian was very happy,mama was bragging "Omo mi losé ikokore yen".Since dat day 😂 I knew I am a "born cook".😁😂😂
Sup Logàn ,are u from Ijebu?Been awhile I ate the food. I Feel like eating it now 😊
DeleteI was 4years and after I was ok with the food given to me, so in order not for the left over in my place to get spoilt, I place the place on the fire to warm the food , I didn't know I am not supposed to put plastic plates on fire. I almost burn the whole building.
ReplyDeleteThe second time I cooked rice , I didn't add water, I just poured raw rice on an empty pot and place it on fire......them nearly use Cain tear my bum bum that day.
Ah ah🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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DeleteMy first meal I prepared was moi moi i forgot to add oil and salt in it, I was very happy that I prepared dinner that day every body left the whole pot of moi moi for me, my mum was the one that encouraged me to keep trying that we all make mistakes and it's okay to try again..
ReplyDelete😂😂🤣🤣🤣 left the whole pot of moi moi for me
DeleteSaint very funny anyday I want to cook moi moi that memory always pops up..😃😃
Delete@Pure I just fainted. The major problem was the no salt added to the Moi
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Omo, na egusi soup I cook o. It was burnt and salty. My mum smiles and told me it was good except for the salt. Sweet mum. If you see my sister laugh me ehn. Chai! Another time, I cooked jollof rice. I didn't know you will still put pepper after using ton tomatoes 😂😂😂
ReplyDeleteStella, you mean you added plenty sugar inside stew? This is quite funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣. The very first thing I learnt how to do in my mother's kitchen was how to boil water and make eba. The first eba I made had koko in it & it was also too soft. Lol.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful memories. Mine was ewedu alasepo, .ewedu ,oil, pepper and all the ingredients went their seperate way. My late father red eyes said it all.
ReplyDeleteEwedu alasepo bawo? Thought na ila alasepo I always hear of. Never knew there's ewedu alasepo again o
DeleteOshodi there's ewedu alsepo, very sweet
DeleteOshodi try ewedu alsepo with pomno and Titus white fish,infact you leak your five fingers
DeleteI knew how to cook then... in my head. Never tried cooking cos I was over pampered. Stayed with my elder sis in school. So the first time I stayed alone was Nysc. Nai chef Fidel begin her career😑
ReplyDeleteWhether it was the olodos I was hanging with o, all of them liked the rubbish I was cooking. Na so body come dey sweet me. I start to dey cook upandan! One day I say lemme cook my very tasty egusi soup🤦
Na so I dey bleach the oil. I dey bleach the oillllll... Na so oil catch fire. My complete shock and fear😂😂... Nai my mumu friend ask me "what should we do?"... Fidelia say "pour water"🤣🤣
Hey!!! The goat now carried big cup of water and poured on it. Jesus! E be like game of throne dragon fire. Dracarys!!! see fire! We ran out, everybody in the lodge ran inside to quench fire. Shockingly the big fire went out by itself. I will never forget that foolish day😂
But now I'm a pro sha🤤
Trutru u and your friends were olodo rabata in cooking nonsense 🤣🤣🤣u dey pour water inside hot oil,una wan burn hotel?🤣🤣🤣very funny you dear
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DeleteFidel why......
Serious olodo rabata
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DeleteFidel you na cruiser😂😂
DeleteCan’t remember the first time I cooked
ReplyDeleteOne of those things that just happened
Ah Stella you wan open old wounds oh.
ReplyDeleteI sha collect beating for my own.
Cooking is kinda a gift you know...
I've seen a lot of people go through rigorous process just to learn how to cook and still not become a skilled cook. Who don Sabi don Sabi.
Good afternoon fam🤗❤️
Salty eh, very very salty!
ReplyDeleteI made egusi soup and was trying to impress my mum, I na carried all the salt and stock cubes in Nigeria and threw inside.🤣🤣🤣
That day one of my aunt came around I and bragged to her that I cooked soup o, she was like hey onyi, you are now a big girl, so you can cook soup, she said I should make garri
She didn't laugh at me or anything, she just told me to go easy on seasoning next time
No comment from my mother but I understand her facial expressions very well🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh nice they didn't make jest of you, at least it encourages you to do better next time.
DeleteMine was coconut rice. I sliced the coconut in big sizes into the rice and added raw tomatoes 😆
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 your own na rice with coconut slices and raw tomatoes
Delete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 your own na rice with coconut slices and raw tomatoes
DeleteYepa say what oshodi 🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteMine was moi moi. I added dawadawa (iru ) … moi moi refused to cake. Everyone drank moi moi that evening.
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 God abeg this is funny
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DeleteYeeeeeeabeg🤣🤣🤣
DeleteMy mum travelled at the time. She knew I couldn't make much, she had prepared stuff for us in the fridge, ours is to make rice and eba, just for 2days. I use to see my friends cook so it was an opportunity to put my skills in pot🤣. I told my brother not to worry that we'd not make eba that I can cook jollof rice, he was happy.
ReplyDeleteI made jollof, concoction pepper soup. The rice no gree dry. My brother use love chop am.😁
😂😂😂😂 you created a new recipe now. You try
Delete🤣phoenix yes o..
DeletePhoenix lol that she created a new what?
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You try na Emerald
DeleteMine was porridge beans, and it came out very dry, like no single water inside the beans.
ReplyDeleteWhen I went to Fashola Cantering School
ReplyDeleteInstructor was teaching Us how to make jolloff Spaghetti
Nah so the Man come Add Sugar inside ooo
Me wan no like Sugar
That was how I shouted and carry My bag go house say I no learn again oo
Jolloff Spaghetti I dey cook come add Stock meat water he go sweet Wella..
Hello iya Boys
Mine was fried rice o.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what made me bragged to my then boyfriend that I can cook very well, then I've never cooked fried rice physically but I've cooked it plenty times in my head, so it's time for me to showcase my skills.
It was his birthday, he invited some of his friends and told them I'll be cooking for everyone, chai the rice was like eba thats mixed with vegetables, if it's only that sebi they'll be compensated with the taste,I added plenty nutmeg and Maggi , in short the rice was shop and die, I think the relationship died on the spot that day, I was embarrassed, nobody could eat the nonsense I cooked not even me the cooker ayeraye, since then I always have panic attack anytime I'm to cook for plenty people
This story reminds me of the fried rice I cooked few days ago🤣🤣
DeleteGrowing up,, We had this neighbour, same age and first daughter like Myself. Her Mum taught her quite early how to cook and she became the envy of all girls in the compound then cos this girl go cook and every where go dey ta San San( Sweet aroma) Me self come decide say I mus learn how to cook . Omo na almost burnt rice I dey serve till I perfected in that game o😂. Look at Us today 😁 Anything rice, I be Pro✌🏻🤸🏻
ReplyDeleteI started cooking when i was still in secondary school, i am always in the kitchen with my mum and that made me a pro, i can't remember ever cooking a disaster.
ReplyDeleteBut my elder sis does not like cooking at all, I could remember when we were younger and my mum told her to cook okro soup, my sis cook the soup put leaves without washing out the bitterness she thought it was ugu leaves, the soup was so bitter ehn, nobody could eat it. She still does not like cooking till date but can cook fried n jollof rice well and a pro in every other house chores. Thank God her husband sabi cook.
Started cooking very very early.Cant remember if I made any goofs.
ReplyDeleteStella I love Saturday in house gist.. keep up the good work
ReplyDeleteLMAO, I can't forget my first time cooking too, i made porridge yam and in my joy of first time cooking i used every ingredient I can lay my hands on, curry, thyme, chicken, goat and fish spice +maggi and salt. Lol even myself can't eat it.... Side eyes to the visitors we had that day
ReplyDeleteMine was pepper soup on Xmas Eve, the scent ehn na helele when I served my dad & mum the supposed pepper soup na my papa 1st shout my mum just told me you see that soup make sure you finish am before day go break. Me wey 1st hate pepper soup to this day sef
ReplyDeleteI started cooking at 7 to 8 year,I remembered I cooking for my elder brother that died 20 something years ago,then I was 8,I love cooking alot
ReplyDeleteGood evening beautiful people,my day was blessed and hectic.
ReplyDeleteI was Ten years when i started cooking for the family as the first daughter and one day my mum came back from shop selling this soup ingredients and she so tired ask me to do the cooking which was vegetables soup which came out well and I was given a big meat by my uncle's that came visiting .
ReplyDeleteSince then I became the madam of the kitchen.