Thediarygame for 1/8/2024|| A day in my life as a chef, experiencing 8hours marathon cook

On this faithful Thursday, I decided to stock up my freezer with food for the week as I knew I will not be chance to cook everyday at home.

I decided to stock up the freezer with natural drinks, soup and stew.

I went to the market the previous day to buy ingredients I will need for my cooking. Despite the prices of things in the market, I stick to my market list.

The things I cooked on this day

• Pancake
• Zobo drink
• Tiger nut drink
• Soy milk drink
• Stew
• White rice
• Ketchup
• Plantain chips

I had a kitchen assistants and of course my partner assisted me while my in-law was with baby, therefore, my support team was intact and ready for the marathon cook. So let's me tell you how it was.

First; Pancakes

I started with preparing pancakes for breakfast, my in-law had an appointment in the morning and so I decided to prepare a pancake so he and baby will take breakfast.

Breakfast

For the pancake, I used flour, batter, milk, sugar onion, pepper etc to prepare. I did not join them in this breakfast because I don't eat fatty foods.

Second; soy milk

I already soaked soy beans, date and Tiger nut in water over night. So I washed the soybeans off and blended it using my blender, then sieved it, separating the chaff from the milk.

After that, I cooked it in low heat for about 20 minutes and boom my soy milk was ready to refrigerate.

washed	blend	seive

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Tigernut	Coconut	Date

Fourth; Zobo drink

I washed zobo ingredients and boiled them in an appropriate volume of water. Then I prepared for sweetner to sweetened my drink.

After cooking the zobo for about 40 minutes, I sieved the drink from the chaff and keep it aside to cool, while I prepared the ingredients for sweetening. I washed and peeled pineapple and ginger for blending and added dates seed to it.

And all my drinks were ready to be chilled. Then I proceeded to cooking stew. I used snake gourd plant to make my stew. I will write the step by step tutorial soon on my blog.

I had my ingredients prepared and set aside for cooking

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Finally, I prepared ketchup and fried plantain chips, I did this as a lesson course for engagement challenge contest for teaching team. I never did it before, it was my first time and I enjoyed my first experience of learning this recipe.

This week course was really great as I was happy to try new thing and the result was supper amazing. You can read about how I prepared it here SEC-S19 / W4 | Mise en place, Types of Roux and Mother Sauces.

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So finally after spending about 8 hours marathon in the kitchen cooking all this, i decided to give myself a chilled break. Earlier that morning my friend called me that she will be preparing one of the special African dish, that is cocoyam so she invited me to come have a taste of that special meal.

I promise to visit her but due to the busy schedule of mine, I couldn't but I find out time on that thursday to visit her. I went there with some of the drinks I made for her kids.

She served me the delicious soup and cocoyam Poundo but my tummy was full already so I decided to take the food home. My baby had some fun time with her kids, she played at length and then we went back home happily and refreshed.

It was really an adventure day in my kitchen. I was tired but didn't really felt it because I had a good supporting team who worked with me in the kitchen.

Thank you for reading my dairy