Hello everyone
How are you all doing? Happy weekend to everyone here and I hope your week was splendid? For me, my week has been an awesome one, filled with many amazing people around me, the one I enjoyed most was the holidays and I'm sure must of you enjoyed the holidays too, for those in Nigeria of course.
I want to appreciate the @ladiesofhive community for always coming up with amazing topics and for also giving the ladies here the opportunity to engage in their weekly contest. Thanks to everyone here who in one way or the other has supported me to grow my account. For this week's contest, we have been given two options to either pick one topic or to write on both, but my answer will go to question one which say:
If you plan to grow a vegetable garden, what is your favorite vegetable to grow and what dishes do you use if for? Feel free to include a special recipe using that vegetable!
I'm not a garden fan because I don't know how to plant or to grow things in the garden, when I see people growing things at the garden I get so happy seeing the kind of things they do with their hands, I also get happy seeing the beautiful natures in the garden. Let me say the reason I don't know how to plant things at the garden is because my family don't do garden work, but I don't have to blame them for that. Since I love to see the beautiful nature at the garden I'm supposed to have interest in it which I actually do.
This topic has made me to think deep that growing a garden for myself wouldn't be a bad idea, it will make me to have the nature's work close to me, or what do you guys think?馃 And I know most of my friends will help me out with everything I need to know about it.
If I'm to grow a vegetable in a garden, it will be pumpkin leaf also known as Ugu in my side. Pumpkin leaf is used to cook vegetable soup and I really love to eat vegetable soup. It's very easy to cook and amongst other soups, vegetable soup is very fast to cook and some of the recipes I use in making my delicious vegetable soup include;
Like I said earlier that vegetable soup is the easiest and fastest soup to prepare, all you need to do is to boil your meat after you might have washed and spicing it.
wash your vegetable and then chop it to the size you desire, I like cutting my own into small sizes to make it look beautiful when cooking it. You're meant to wash both the pumpkin leaf and water leaf and the both should be kept in a separate plate.
once the meat is ready, bring it down then add red oil in a clean pot so you can fry your onion. Add your dry fish and crayfish after frying your onion, Also add your boiled meat and periwinkle to it and then stir it for some minutes.
add your salt and Maggie to the pot and stir again
add your water leaf to it, stir and cover for few minutes before adding your pumpkin leaf. The pumpkin leaf is the last thing you will be adding because it takes just a little minutes to get soft and you don't want it to get too soft.
stir and wait for some minutes before bringing it down from the fire.
Like I said, it's very easy to cook and I hope with this little explanation, you will be able to come out with something good if you want to try it at home for yourself.
The third picture was taken with my smartphone.
This is my entry to ladies of hive contest, I will like to invite @prechidi and
@nkemakonam89 to participate here