The Diary Game for 9/08/2024|| Going to the Market and preparing cucumber stew

Hello, Steemians from all over the world. Greetings to you all. I trust you all feel blessed and super fantastic. Today is Friday and a beautiful sunny day as well. I trust you all had a beautiful day just as the day is beautiful.
I'm delighted to share with you all about my day. Please read on.

MORNING
It was 5 am and I woke up to the call of my church member calling to remind me that it's time for my sister's devotion. It's always a time we meet outside our hostel to worship God. I groggily picked the call as my eyes were still so heavy with sleep. I didn't sleep early last night, I actually read into the night and when I slept it was already 3 am in the morning.
I picked the call and promised to attend, but then I slept off again. But at some point, I woke up shocked to see that time had gone. I still dressed up and joined them outside.
It was a wonderful time worshiping God.
I returned and continued sleeping because I was so damn still feeling sleepy.
But when it was past 7 am I had to wake up.

My roommate mentioned going to the park to get the things waybilled to her and also buy some stuff since the park was close to the market.

I took Garri with milk and groceries

So we prepared and went to the market.
It was a very big market and we had to ask around to find the line that was selling some things we needed.

My only regret is that all through the tour round the market, I forgot to take pictures of the market.
I saw beautiful and attractive dresses, shoes but I just had to focus on what I wanted to buy as I didn't have enough money for other things.

After buying what we needed, we took the things that were waybilled and went home. It was already afternoon now.

AFTERNOON
I got home so exhausted, no doubt going to market and purchasing things is always stressful.
Carrying the load to our hostel was 0000⁰ in the right place.

After the packing, we decided to cook. What we planned to cook was rice and cucumber stew. Cucumber stew is one delicious stew made with cucumber that I have come to love so much.
So we started with preparing the ingredients needed for the food.
The following ingredients were used;

Cucumber 2 big sizes
Groundnut oil
Tomato paste
Fresh fish
Onion
Maggi
Pepper
Curry
Thyme
Crayfish
Salt
Rice

PROCEDURE

I first started by cooking my white rice while preparing things for the stew.
I poured my rice into a clean pot, added water and parboiled.

After it boiled very well, I brought down the pot, washed and filtered out the water.
Then I placed it on the stove again, added water and cooked till it was soft.

Preparation Of The Stew
Since it's a cucumber stew, I started by peeling off the back of my cucumber.
When I was done peeling, I opened it by dividing and removed the seeds inside as it is not needed for the stew.

Then I cut it into several sizes for easy grating.
Using a grater, I grated my cucumber into a clean bowl. After grating everything, I filtered out the water and kept the succulent side separately.

I had already prepared my fish by steaming it, therefore I placed my dry pot on the fire to fry the stew.
When the pot was dried, I added my groundnut oil, and allowed it to get hot

When it was hot, I added my salt and onion and my tomato paste and fried it.

When it was well fried I poured in my cucumber chaff which I had filtered out water.
I stirred and fried it while adding other things like maggi, pepper, crayfish, curry, and thyme. I also added the cucumber water I kept aside to increase the stew.
Then I allowed it to cook and boil for a few minutes.
After a while I stirred it and brought it down, and my stew was ready.

EVENING

It was already evening by the time I finished cooking.
And so I dished out the food and ate till my satisfaction.

The rice and cucumber stew

The next thing I did was to rest as I was tired from all the stress of the day.
I laid on my bed and picked my phone to surf the internet and my different social media handles.
I went through some pictures on my phone.
Thereafter, I decided to write about my day.
And also practiced my violin for the day.

Practicing

This was how I spent my day, I trust you enjoyed going through my day

Thank you very much for reading.

I invite my friends @missyleo, @goodybest, @pandora2010 and @saintkelvin17 to join me in this game.

ALLL PICTURES FROM MY PHONE