Weekly Contest - Best Diary Game 20/7/2024/I Missed My Mother

It's been almost two months and I've not seen my mother so I decided to visit her for the weekend. I was so happy to see her when I arrived home on Friday night.

MY SATURDAY MORNING

My Saturday was engaging. I woke up early and clean the whole house. After cleaning I helped my mum boil her bathing water and told her that we needed to go the shop early so I can sew a dress for myself.

My mum is seamstress and I grew up helping her sew clothes in her shop which made me know how to sew. My sister often calls me a jack of all trade because I can sew cloth and plait hair but my favourite skill is make-up💄

We prepared, had our breakfast and went to the shop. On arrival at the shop, I went to check and buy the fabric which I would use to sew my dress.

MY MIDDAY

I started sewing my 👗. Being that I'm not a professional seamstress, it took me almost the whole day to finish one dress. My steps in sewing included:

Step one: Cutting. I would have said measuring first but I already have my measurement so I went straight to cutting the material to my desired shape and style.

Step two: I joined the black materials first.

Step three: I joined the pink material and attached it to the black fabric.

Step four: I tried my dress on after finishing.

By the time I finished sewing it was about 4pm in Nigerian time. My mum went to the market for food stuffs. When she return we headed home.

MY EVENING

I had to prepare dinner. I was going to cook vegetable soup known as "Edikangikong" in my language with a tripod and firewood. It has been a while since I cooked with firewood but with my mum, she believes that "food cooked with firewood is the sweetest."

The ingredients I used were:

1. Fluted pumpkin leaf.
2. Water leaf.
3. Meat.
4. Stockfish.
5. Pepper.
6. Crayfish.
7. Onions.
8. Maggi.
9. Salt.
10. Palm oil.

STEPS IN PREPARATION

Step one: I washed the meat and stockfish into the pot and sliced onions into it with seasoning cubes and salt.

Step two: I picked, washed and cut the pumpkin leaves and onions.

Step three: I picked, washed and cut the water leaves and small onions.

Step four: I pounded pepper and crayfish together.

And everything is ready for cooking.

COOKING STEPS

1. I boiled water and made garri first.
2. I seasoned the meat and stockfish together.
3. I poured the water leaf into the pot after the meat is well cooked.
4. I added my pounded crayfish and pepper, maggi, salt and oil.
5. I added my pumpkin leaf last and stir together and took down the pot. And the food was ready.

I dished and ate with my mum. I was happy spending time with my mum after a long while. I missed her gist and we had enough gist before going to sleep.

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Thanks for reading my post.