Sunday rice is religion around these parts, Another of those hand me down we haven't been able to transcend, Why rice? Why not swallow?, it is the food,it is th expected, the norm and now it has been capitalised on as the stew which follows as tradition have now made tomatoes and pepper expensive,
We use tomatoes, bell peppers and habanero to make stew buy meat boil the stock, go outside ground the tomatoes, boil it into a thickened paste, fry add your stock and that is stew. In the morning you add ugwu and food is ready?
We use tomatoes, bell peppers and habanero to make stew buy meat boil the stock, go outside ground the tomatoes, boil it into a thickened paste, fry add your stock and that is stew. In the morning you add ugwu and food is ready?
Picture every family spending over 2 thousand naira just to buy just tomatoes and pepper for stew every saturday.
Well what is the price of tomatoes today 5 piece of tomatoes is sold for 500 naira why? We are used to it? Err, the farms are unsafe, bandit, price of fuel, Well just you buy it, and it is not it, not sweet,
Why not mix vegetables
They are faster to grow spinach on a fertile land can be harvested in 2 weeks with hydroponics even faster
So why must you buy tomatoes when you can switch to vegetables and fish.
A copious mix of vegetablea ia more nutritioua and pocket friendly
Ugwu plus green plus scent leaf and waterleaf
Greens, and scent leaf
Water leaf plus ugwu plus iyana ipaja leaf
Ugwu plus green plus scent leaf and waterleaf
Greens, and scent leaf
Water leaf plus ugwu plus iyana ipaja leaf
Yakwa plus green
Add smoked fish and locust bean to really bring our the falvour, in truth Rice is sweeter with vegetable soup
Economically it make more sense as spinach of 500 naira is already enough to cook with ad cant be compared with tomatoes of equal price which isnonly one of many.
Economically it make more sense as spinach of 500 naira is already enough to cook with ad cant be compared with tomatoes of equal price which isnonly one of many.
No need to buy additional pepper and another pepper and onions then pay for grounding which is now 500 naira due to the cost of fuel
Then buy meat which is another wrong, expensive, when you can close it with spinach Water leaf spinach and fish. You could dice cucumbers and carrot to make it plenty and richer..
You could even make a local salad of
Cucumbers and ugwu sauce ir make a quick soup of pumpkin, okra and bone marrows.
Vegetables are better in every way.
Say goodbye to those expensive tomatoes, when have the option of mixing vegetables and enjoy your sunday again.
Buy wheat at 2500 naira a painter mix the milling with cocoyam and make home made Yakisoba or just grind the flour fine and really eat good swallow instead of rice, but if it has to be a sunday rice, steep it all that green, You are better off mixing vegetables for stew than buying tomatoes...
Buy wheat at 2500 naira a painter mix the milling with cocoyam and make home made Yakisoba or just grind the flour fine and really eat good swallow instead of rice, but if it has to be a sunday rice, steep it all that green, You are better off mixing vegetables for stew than buying tomatoes...
and pepper
and grounding.
And it is still small..
not anymore
fuck tomato we moving on
On to that green song
And on and on,....
Yeah yeaaa..
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