Weekly Contest 08 || The Diary Game || Preparing Melon And Okra Soup With Sea Food Ingredients

Greetings to you all dear steemians in the Steem Kids and Parents Community, it is my pleasure to participate in this beautiful contest in the organize by @m-fdo.

Morning

The weekend is always a good time for busy workers and other private executives to lighten their stress and widen out in their friendship by attending occassions and spend quality time with their loved ones. For some it is the day's to look after them selves physically and health-wise.

I woke up sound and healthy and after a brief exercise, I tidy up the house and wash some clothes. After I was done with that, I decided to prepare something and eat, but what will I eat now is the next question that came to mind, so I decided going to Itam Market to see what I can buy. Since my phone was down with no electricity to charge it, I then took it to a friend's shop along the road to the market and left it with him to help me charge it till I return from the market.

After/Evening

I got to the market and walk around observing the items without knowing what to actually buy. At a point I pause and ask myself again, what will I really buy? One thought came to mind, buy the cat fish and prepare perper soup. Then another thought came, cook melon soup with sea fish! Then I have an idea, so I settled for melon and Okra with sea food ingredient, I then began buying the ingredients.

When I returned home and drop the items, I went back to pick my phone which have gotten some power by now. At this point, join me as I take you on the cooking ride of melon and Okra Soup.

These are the prepared ingredients use for the soup which I have prepared one after the other.

Slice Okra

Dried catfish

Osisa leaf (Spice leaf)

Slice Onion

pepper

Pomo and remove periwinkle

Sea Snail

Palm Oil

baby Snail/limicolaria agratima

Crayfish

Periwinkle

Melon

spices - Maggi and salt

Cooking Time
After I have finished preparing all these ingredients, it is no time to cook.

First and foremost I dry cook the baby snail to dry off the liquid it produce and then rewashed it off before putting it in to the pot for the soup.

Then I spiced up other sea ingredients together for some minute to properly cook, baking sure that it is well seasoned to taste.

Then I pour in the melon and stere it to mixed with the sea ingredients and then cover the pot and cook it for 10 minutes so that the melon will be done and become sticky to the sea ingredients

After that I pour in the palm oil and strere it to mixed and then cover it for some minutes again to cook well with the other ingredients.

Then I put the crayfish and mixed it up and then add some quantity of water since it is now thicker as the melon gets done.

Then the next to follow is the Okra. I pour it in and mixed it up and allow it to cook for few minutes so that it do not get over done.

The last ingredient to enter the pot is the spice leaf.

I pour it in and stere it to mixed. By now the aroma is everywhere, then I add a bit of palm oil again and stere it. At this point it is ready for consumption.

Done cooking and time to eat

It is true that whatever that have the beginning will always have it's end. The Melon and Okra Soup with seafood ingredients is ready and looking very delicious and inviting with an irresistible aroma.

I boil water and prepare the eba/garry to swallow with. You can choose to use semovita or Fufu.

The prepare garri

This is the end product

I then balance myself on the chair in the dinning and began to do justice to the Melon and okra soup with garri. In fact after I had finished eating, I couldn't get up from the seat, I was over satisfied! Then I finally gets up and drag myself to the bathroom and treat myself to a cool bath.

That has been my cooking spree and how I spent my day, thanks for following me along in the process.

Thank you for stopping by my blog. Have a nice day.

25% to	@null
10% to	Steem Kids
Photographer	@oasiskp
Location	Uyo, Akwa Ibom
Device	Huawei Y19

I want to invite @bela90 @manuelhooks and @simonnwigwe @udyliciouz to take part in the contest