I could remember when I was very young, at primary school then, my class teacher teach us to always eat protein from the plant and from the animal at a time so as to grow well, as a kid, I told my mum when I reached home and she didn't say anything, she only said okay. We can find protein from the plants like Beans and Soya beans, I don't know if there are more grain foods but the ones that I know and popular in Nigeria is Soya beans and beans. It's of recent I even know Soya beans, how to bring out milk from Soya beans, the popular ones that I know is the normal beans that gets soft after cooking for like thirty minutes or more, depends on how hard or solf the beans is.
I have what my teacher told me in mind up till now, so I always make sure that I eat protein from the plants and animals at a time, for instance if I would eat beans, I would make sure I eat beans with fish or have milk beside me, drink in like water when eating beans and it goes well, it's a perfect combination but I know that I still need Carbohydrates to give me power when it produce glucose in digestion after eating and we can find carbohydrates in foods like Yam, Rice, Cassava yam, bread, noodles, spaghetti 馃崫 noodles, etc. These are the goods that are popular here in Nigeria but I prefer eating rice if I want to eat Carbohydrate.
Today think I should eat something that combine Carbohydrates and protein, so I cook Rice and beans with egg. To cook that combination, it's a step by step process, not what can be done at once. The first thing that I did is light the cooking stove, add some water in the pot and wait till it boil, then I sliced onion inside the boiling water to make the food smell nice and fine, onion brings out the aroma in foods. I picked out the dirt inside the beans and rinsed it and poured it inside the boiling water and closed for ten minutes, then I added rice after ten minutes. Reason why added rice later is because Rice doesn't take time to cook like beans, so I've calculated the time.
After another ten minutes, I checked and it's already ready to eat, so I later boiled egg and cooked a little stew that would be enough for me to eat the rice and beans. So that's how I prepared Carbohydrate together with protein (from plant) and protein from the animal (eggs).
