It was a cold Friday Evening, the rain was heavy and everyone was home. We were all glued to the Television set as our favorite program on African Magic, "The Johnsons" was being aired. My parents were not around as they had traveled to our hometown for holiday.
We had been watching Television and playing video games all day. We totally forgot we had not eaten. My friend David was around and my cousin Prince.
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David said he was hungry, Prince replied him "You can enter the kitchen and prepare dinner". Laughed so hard that tears filled my eyes. David was not a great cook. Prince asked me what was so funny, I replied him "it's like you want to sleep in the toilet". Prince laughed and said "you can't be serious man", I replied "I'm serious". David looked at us and shook his head. David was in his late twenties. He was tall, dark and brown eyed young man. He was smart and intelligent but when it came to cooking he was bad at it. I remember one time he cooked rice, it was so terrible that even his dog rejected the food.
I looked at the wall clock and it was about 8pm, then I asked the boys "what are we going to eat?". They looked and me and echoed "we don't know". David said I should do the cooking since I was the better cook. At that moment I was filled with pride and I said they will have to pay me for the delicious meal they are about to eat. I started boasting of how I cooked and my parents always said I could open a restaurant. Well, it was not so, I was just trying to banter the boys.
I asked the boys what they would love to have for dinner.They agreed that since the weather was cold we should have chicken pepper soup with rice, that it will help warm us up a little. Well that was simple to prepare. I took off to the night market to get a live chicken. They boys asked why I didn't want to use the frozen chicken in the refrigerator. I laughed at them and said "that why Am I the chef here"馃槅. Basically frozen chicken doesn't taste well when used to prepare chicken pepper.
I got to the market bought all what I needed to prepare dinner.
I got back home, rang the doorbell and I was shocked at who opened the door. It was my Mum.I asked her what she was doing here, they still had two more days at the resort. She informed me that a client scheduled a meeting for the next, apparently she has been trying to close a deal with the client for a couple of months now. She did not want to miss this opportunity.
She said "I'm hungry and I heard you are making chicken pepper soup for dinner", I smiled and said yes. She wasn't worried because at least I was a good cook.
As I walked past David and Prince, I said to them "come and learn how to cook". They were busy with their phones and totally ignored me. I was literally getting under their skins馃槈.
While the rice was boiling, I prepared the chicken and waited a little while before I started preparing the pepper soup. I added all the ingredients and cooked the chicken. My phone rang and I picked up the call.
I returned to the kitchen some minutes later and I wanted to add a pinch of salt to the chicken pepper soup and the container of salt slipped from my hand and fell inside the pepper soup pot.I couldn't believe what had just happened I had just ruined dinner馃槯. In order to remedy the situation I added for water to the chicken pepper soup, that even made it worse.
I dished the meal and served it. I told my parents and the boys that I had something I wanted to tell them what had happened. I told them and mum said "what a mistake". They boys laughed and made jokes,calling me the salt man馃様. Everyone stood up from the table and mum said she would make stew with the chicken.
I felt bad and I realized I made an expensive mistake.
I told mum I was never cooking again. She smiled and said "it's just a mistake, you will do better next time". I smiled and those words brought a great relief to me.
