Hello steemians,
Good evening to my entire steemit friend. I trust your day went well today. It was a very busy Saturday and Sunday for me with so much house chores and cooking to do.

We know how busy Saturdays can be, a responsible person who works during the weekdays should clean up his or her house on Saturday. We had a lot of chores to do and had to wake up early to get on with it.

Here is my #diarygame entry for Saturday 21st of May, 2022, I had a very busy day and had to make my post today.

MORNING

I woke up by 6am, said my prayers and stepped out of the room to get started with cleaning the house. I had some signs of cramps the previous day and it became intense but I still tried to do the little I could do.

I cleaned up the bathroom and toilets, swept the room, washed my clothes and then I had my bath. At this point I was very tired. I went to the kitchen to make some tea for myself which I had with some biscuit. That wasn’t really what we were supposed to have for breakfast but because it wasn’t coming fast and I was furiously hungry, I had to make do with that as an appetizer while I waited for the breakfast.

Me after taking my bath

I had gone to lie down in my room because the cramps were becoming unbearable when my friend brought in my breakfast, pap and akara. I smiled because I was served breakfast in bed although it was almost past breakfast time due to the busy morning we had with the house chores.

I won’t deny the fact that I was actually enjoying the relaxation I was getting as a result of the cramps. I didn’t do anything again after I had my bath; I relaxed in my room and watched some interesting movies on Netflix.

I didn’t know that my friends were reserving the preparation of dinner for me.

AFTERNOON

I remained in my room till 3pm when mummy came back from the market with so much food stuffs to arrange.

Like I said earlier, Saturday are very busy days, mummy usually go to the market to get food stuffs. She does so because she probably wouldn’t have time within the week to go to market due to work and we must eat every day. So she uses that as an opportunity to stock the house with food stuffs needed.

She had left for the market in the morning and came back at 3pm. I arranged the food stuffs and wanted to zoom out of the kitchen when she called out my name and said that I should prepare the soup. I started preparation for the soup with the help of my friends though.

EVENING

I made Oha soup, it is a native soup in igbo land and sometimes, it can be very difficult to prepare. I tried my best in preparing the food early so that mummy can eat because she didn’t eat before going to the market.

While I was still preparing the soup, daddy walked in with 2 large catfish. I almost fainted. I am the person in the kitchen and I will have to finish preparing the soup and commence with the preparation of the catfish immediately.

I actually do love cooking and it really didn’t seem like much work to me even though my friends wanted it to be a whole work load on me because I didn’t help them in the morning, I still enjoyed myself.

You know I wouldn’t finish this post without adding the tutorial to my catfish recipe here. I always have my steemit friends and students at heart each time I am preparing anytime special.

HOW TO PREPARE CATFISH.

INGREDIENTS

Fresh catfish
Yam
Utazi leaves
Scent leaves
Fresh pepper
Onion
Pepper soup spices
Maggi
Salt

Now let’s cook

STEP ONE

I washed the fish with boiling water and put it in a clean pot, added some chopped onions, the pepper soup spices, grinded fresh pepper, maggi, salt and the yam. Note that it wasn’t yet on the fire at this point.

STEP TWO

I made sure that everything needed to prepare the fish was introduced into the pot at the same time except the leaves then I added water and put it on fire. The fish doesn’t take time to cook so you don’t need to let it on fire for long. Once the yams are cooked, the fish is ready.

STEP THREE

When the yam was cooked I added the scent leaves and utazi leaves. Utazi leaves are bitter, it added little bitter taste to the fish, the fish can be very sweet and needs a little of that bitter taste so that one can enjoy it.

STEP FOUR

Stir the fish gently; you don’t want the fish to pieces so you have to do it gently. Your food is ready at this point to be served. You can serve the fish with rice, agidi or yam or even eat it alone.

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I served the fish to daddy without the yams because he just finished eating the garri and oha soup and just wanted to have the fish as snack while he sipped some wine.

I gave every other person their fish and add mine with the yam, of course I needed to eat so that I can replenish the strength I had lost while cooking all those in the kitchen.

I finished cooking everything and got so exhausted such that all I did was to eat, shower and sleep. I couldn’t even handle my phone talk more of making a post.

CONCLUSION

I hope you find my post very interesting. Let me know if the tutorial was helpful and if you will try it out, I will be waiting in the comment section.

Thanks for visiting my post

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