If you get close to me, you will realise that I rarely cook. In fact, you would begin to think I don't know how to cook because I rarely enter the kitchen to cook, but instead I choose to eat out most of the time. It is not my fault. I am like this because I see cooking as time-consuming and stressful and would mostly prefer to pay for the food I eat so far I don't have to go through the stress of cooking or putting in that much time in the kitchen.
Yesterday was one of those days I chose to enter the kitchen to cook instead of going out to buy food the usual way. This is because I looked into my pocket and figured that there is no way I would be able to have a good saving culture if my income is so low and yet I eat out a lot. At the same time, it is not that I do not know how to cook.
A broke man do not have a choice
As the title said, I didn't have a choice. Either I manage the little money left or I perish, I perish by eating outside and finding how I would survive there after. I had to be wise in my decisions and looked at whether I had something really urgent to do before making any decision that I would end up regretting.
You definitely knew my choice
Not that I even had a choice; if I were fully funded, cooking would not be an option. It will always order the food and pick it up at my doorstep or go out and buy the food.
So what I decided to cook was quite easy, which was white rice and stew. It is always my first option if I plan cooking. Although it used to be beans, somehow I have grown lazy in cooking beans because I have to pick out the dirt in the beans before I can cook it.
How I like cooking my meal
One of the first things I like doing before making my stew is to have my eggs boiled already. I like it when I make my stew alongside my eggs in it. It would make the egg get soaked in the stew and give it a sweet taste while eating it.
Who loves crayfish here? I do; I love it like my life depends on it. I put it almost everywhere, including in my beans. So there was no way my stew would not get some bits of cray cray!
Also, I love ponmo (cow skin) a lot, especially in my stew. So I do make sure that my stew does not mean having sliced ponmo in it. It adds a nice feel when eating the meal.
After all the ingredients have been mixed and poured into the fire, that is how it looked in the pot. My eggs are looking juicy, and my ponmo has soaked in some juice from the stew. What was left was to place it on a plate of rice, which we have in the image below.
Here is my meal looking take away! I enjoyed it. The only thing I didn't like was that the stew quickly finished and I would have to make another soon.