I was wondering why I still had soup in my plate when my eba finished. I guess it was because I wanted to finish the remaining garri in the bowl, but I remembered I'm trying to fight big tummy.🤦♀️ I just jejely licked the remaining soup.
This soup was sweeter than I imagined, and to think that I was making shakara to eat it since I got back home this afternoon.
By the way, this soup is my mum's emergency soup. Yesterday when I got back home, she said, "Onyeka I made Egusi soup with plenty of stock fish. Dried fish is finished and there is no leaf inside it." Me, the girl that loves plenty orishirishi inside my soup said she should not worry.
Today as I got back, I had plans for convocation rice and was keeping my humble belly for it, only for rain to step in and laziness followed afterward. I kukuma memove* wakar (outing) cloth and wear house cloth to swallow eba because, house jollof rice is not party jollof and if it's not party jollof today, we do swallow✌😁😉.
As I baked the eba and courteously left a little in the bowl, my mind was still wanting me to swallow more. That's the only reason me of all people will remain sweet soup.
Usually, we only see very organised and good looking food on the internet, even those of us that are not into catering. So just before I finished my mother's sweet emergency egusi soup that is sweeter than most of those well packaged soup on the internet, I decided to take a picture of my semi empty plate that is unmatched and not in a tray. I decided to take it to let you know that its okay to be yourself. It's okay to display the imperfect because you are not perfect.
Our mothers made and still make special and sumptuous delicacies with what they have in the house without breaking a bank and we grew up enjoying it, but just because we saw someone in a Chinese restaurant taking a pic of food they might not have even paid for with their money, we feel ashamed to show that we blow* eba with soup that has no meat in it😂.
My dear social media people, be yourself o! Don't let all this perfections you see online choke you to your end.
Enuf said! Let me go and stretch my leg and sleep well so that the food will enter everywhere in my body (according to my little cousin).🤣🤣🤣🤣
I sha used roasted fish to eat laslas😋.
Ala O. Wilcox
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