🔸Daily Menu Delicacies Week No. 54. date (22-01-2025) // Cooking 🍈 Melon Soup(egusi)

Good day my amiable steemians. Greetings to everyone here and to the entire Steemit community.
So today, something intriguing happened so I thought it wise to share with this great community

INTRODUCTION

I never knew I had a hidden potential until it was triggered out of me today. I stay with my sister at where I am receiving schooling, she is a working class woman. I don't know what happened this morning which made her leave to work very early. On a normal day, she will wake up and make food before leaving to work, but today was an exception.

• my sister left to work without even telling me, so on waking up to check my phone I saw her text that I should go to the market and get food stuffs and make food. At first I thought it was a joke so I quickly went to the kitchen to check if there was no food, to my greatest surprise nothing was seen. It was here that I realized I wasn't dreaming at all. I had to smile and look at the text for a while before making up my mind. So I decided to do as she instruction which led me to the preparation of this delicious melon soup which if you're a Nigerian you will testify to the taste of this particular dish.

PROCEDURES

First, I had to call her to give me a list of what I will be buying for the intended soup I am about to prepare of which she complied to.
After getting the list from her, I found my way to the market, got the necessary food stuffs that collided to what I want to prepare then I returned back home.

LIST OF ITEMS

1. Melon
2. Meat
3. Fish
4. Cow skin
5. Periwinkle
6. Red oil
7. Pepper and crayfish
8. Seasonings
9. Adusa leaf

THE COOKING PROCESS

I started by washing all the necessary washable items like the meat, fish, cow skin, fresh pepper and my adusa leaf. I further sliced adusa leaf to my desired size of which I almost got myself injured because of lack of expertise.

After getting everything set, I made my melon to be in solution with a little quantity of water of which I allowed it to remain for a while for proper absorption.

THE COOKING PROPER

I start by adding a rhythmic quantity of oil to my pot and exposed it to fire. After undergoing heating for a while, I went in with my moisturized melon solution and fried it to a molten form. At this state my melon was ready for the main deal.

• I was pleasured to have a great steemian friend of mine present while preparing the soup and he contributed in making the time fun and atmosphere friendly in person of @basil20.

Though he was making gest of me by taking silly pictures telling me he was going to laugh at me later.

I added two cups of water to pot and allowed it to boil with the melon.

After that I added my steamed meat, fish and cow skin to the pot and allowed it to boil for a while.

Then I went in with my properly washed periwinkle and allowed it to boil for a while too.

After that, I went in with my seasonings (i.e; salt and Mr chef cubes), crayfish and pepper, I allowed it to boil for a while. Then finally, I added my sliced adusa leafs to the pot and stir for everything to be evenly distributed. At this juncture, my melon soup is ready for consumption 😋😋

CONCLUSION

Sometimes you have to allow yourself to try making out something even with the believe that u can't do it. Just kill the thought and make a first move then you will realize that the tough task u were not able to accomplish in your head can be defeated with ease in the physical world.

So I am still waiting for my sister to come back and recognize me with a Guinness record as the best chef. I will love to relate her comments with us when she comes back to consume the food 😂😂

Thank u for your time, with love from @spektro223🦅. I'm inviting @ninapenda, @dwings and @goodybest.

Cc,
@Steemit-ironchef