My Diary Game. How I Spent My Day Preparing Melon soup on 18/03/22 by ityfrank

Hello, fellow steemians, it's my pleasure to share with you how I spent my day and Friday preparing melon soup. I will be sharing with you the basic steps I used in making my melon soup.

I woke up Friday morning, the 18th of March, 2022, read my morning devotional then said my prayers. I went and checked on my snail farm: removed the leftover food and replaced them with new ones. When I was done, I wrote down the few things I neede to buy to prepare the melon soup and then I left for the market.

When I got back, I had a little breakfast before going straight to preparing the condiments for the soup.
The basic condiments I used are salt, Maggie, crayfish, stock fish, meat/ and or fish, waterleaf ( you can use bitter leaf instead or both), palm oil, onions, pepper and of course, melon.

How I prepared the Ingredients:

First, I washed the perewinkles by putting them in a small pot, added a little water and shook it thoroughly. This way all the sand on the shell and inside the shelves checked out. I repeated that till the water was clean. I added a little salt and boiled it, washed it again and set it aside. Then I mixed the melon with a little water in a bowl, stirred it till it turned into a paste as shown in the bottom centre picture. I did that so that the melon will not form clumps in the soup. I washed the water leaves repeatedly till the water was clean and cut them. Then I washed my stock fish too.

The Cooking

First, I boiled the stock and added a little salt. I made sure I boiled it for a long time so that the bones will get soft and can be eaten too...I love stock fish because of the nice aroma is brings to the soup and because no part of it is lost, not even the bones!
When they were soft, and the aroma was everywhere, I added meats and kpomo (some call it kanda), perewinkle, salt, Maggie, onions and pepper. I make sure the salt and Maggie are a little above what is needed for meat; but lower than what is needed for entire soup. (I do this to make sure that the meat remains tasty after the soup is ready).
Next, I added the water leaves with the onions and covered the pot. When it's cooked for about three minutes, I added the melon paste, stirred it well, then allowed it to simmer for about five minutes. I added a little water to give me the right thickness, I tested it to make sure salt and other spices were in the right proportion. Then lastly, I added my crayfish to the top and cover it without stirring. This way, the aroma of the crayshish comes out real good. Then I stir it, and allow it to simmer for a while and my melon soup was ready!
I packed them in small plates and allow them to cool so I can put them in my fridge. With this now, I'll be free from cooking soup for a long time.
Do come and join me...smiles.

You can eat it with any swallow at all, garri, fufu, Semovita or pounded yam.
I sat down and enjoyed my meal as I was quite hungry. After that I observed. Long siesta.
When I woke up, I did some writings till it till is was around 3:30pm, and I left for my class.

There, while teaching my boys, Etieno, their neighbour I had prepared for WAEC and JAMB came visiting. She had had admission to study Medicine in the University of Nsukka, and she is waiting for the next school session to begine. As you can see, She was shy and wouldn't poss well for the picture.
The lesson lasted for two hours and I left for my snooker spot. I was lucky today or should I say,I tey as improving at my shots as I won three very strong players back to back!
The fourth person was equally strong, but I nearly won if not for a fatal mistake I made and he capitalizer on it and won me. Well, it was already past 10 pm so I called it a day and went home.
I got home around to 11pm.

I made a light dinner of indomie and ate. I lay down on my bed and reminesse of my day. I was grateful to God for a fulfilled day.
Thank you for reading through.

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