"HWC Contest Week #79: Food Diary Game - Week - by @missyleo [4/09/2024]

Warm greetings my dearly beloved steemians across the globe, it's a wonderful thing to be here with you all, inorder to participate in this amazing food contest. Since I can not do without food that's why I always want to aligned with wherever there's a mentioned of food...🤣.

Before I begin to tell you what I prepared today, I will first of all give a shout-out to my dear admin @jyoti-thelight for always organizing this amazing contest for people like me, thank you ma'am.

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In my post today I will be showing you how I managed 700 naira which is about 2.6 steem in the present Steem price now, to cook a very decision okro and melon soup.

I will start by letting you know the ingredients I purchased from the nearby shop and the ones I had at home.

The ingredients I purchased for my soup

• Okro

• Melon

• Periwinkle

• Cow skin (kpomo)

• Red oil

• Salt to taste

• Seasoning cube

• Crayfish

• Dried fish

• Asuza leaf

• Fresh pepper

• Onions

Below are the ingredients I bought:

The rest of the items were already at home so that made it easy for me to prepare my meal with ease with that little amount of money

Ingredients	amount in NGN	amount in stm
Okro	200NGN	0.77steem
Cow skin	200 NGN	0.77 steem
Periwinkle	100NGN	0.28steem
Fresh pepper	100 NGN	0.38steem
Azusa leaf	100NGN	0.38steem
Total	700NGN	2.69steem

Method of preparation

I washed my cowskin (kpomo) and dried fish into the cooking pot, I added fresh pepper that I've pounded and set aside, I also added, seasoning cube, onions salt for taste then I stirred it very well and put it on fire.

While it was on fire, I switched into other activities, washing and slicing of Okro and I also sliced the Asuza leaf, not too tiny and set them aside, I washed the periwinkle, pounded the crayfish and set aside and I soaked the melon in a quantity of water and set aside too.

All ingredients well prepared

When the kpomo and fish was done on the fire, I put the pot down, then I placed a frying pan on fire, added a little quantity of red oil to heat.

The pot of fish and kpomo

Frying the melon

After the oil has heated I put sliced onions in the oil before I pour in the melon and then fried it gradually till it becomes dried.

Then I added my sliced Okro and fried it together too, when it was well done, I poured it into the cooking pot and I added a little amount of water.

Putting the periwinkle into the pot

I also added the rest of the other ingredients ranging from. Crayfish, seasoning cube, and pepper.

Outing the sliced Okro

I allowed the food to steam for about 15 minutes after adding the water. When it has boiled well I then added the sliced Asuza leaf as the last ingredient in the soup , I stirred it well.

Putting the Asuza leaf into the pot

After putting the leaf I allowed it to simmer for about 5 to 7 minutes, then I put it down from the fire. My meal was now ready.

I boiled water to prepare garri and use in eating the soup.

The soul is ready

After preparing the garri and I dished out the soup to the portion I will eat.

Food is ready

Why I love this soup

I love this Okro and melon soup because it has been the soup I used to cooked often when I was in school, it was a rich man food (you should know what I mean by rich man food🤣).

Thanks for reading my post so patiently.
I wish to invite my friends to take part in the contest
@patjewell @lhorgic and @xkool24

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