So after watching my aunty cook Nigerian fried rice with salad countless of times, I decided to try it out myself😊. I was so excited with the thought of it, and so immediately I went to the market bought all the ingredients I needed, I bought cabbage, carrot, mayonnaise, bell pepper, green beans, sweet corn, and all the spices I needed for the rice. Excited as I was I came back from the market with a feeling of accomplishment.
Without wasting time, I started preparing the vegetables, I chopped the carrots into cubes, slice the cabbage, chopped the green beans and bell pepper and did all the necessary things. I then went ahead to parboile the rice. After I was done parboiling, I put the rice back in the pot, and I added all the ingredients. When it was then time for me to put the most important thing, which is the fried rice spice, Lo and behold, it was not fried rice spice that I got from the market, I mistakenly got another spice. I froze for almost some minute. When I then realize what had just happen and the disaster this was going to cause me, i started panicking. "What I'm I going to do at this late hour, some of the shops around me are closed", i asked no one in particular. Without much thinking, I dashed out of the house into the late night in search of fried rice spice
I went from shop to shop in search of the spice to no avail, I even had to trek to long distance to look for the spice but i couldn't find it. When I thought that my search was over, boom something awful happen. I finally saw a shop that had the spice, after buying the spice, I went back home to continue from where I stopped only for me to open the spice to discover that it had expired since July. I was so heartbroken and at the same time annoyed, immediately I bundled myself back to the woman's shop to return her fake product. Initially I thought might not return my money to me because I had open the spice, but she return it and even apologise that she was not aware that the spice had expired. Immediately she apologise, all the anger I came with vanished, I smiled and left her shop. I continued my search for the spice, after spending almost an hour searching, the stars decided to smile at me, I saw a shop that sold the spice. Without wasting time I paid for the spice and went back home. Hungry and tired as I was, i continued with my cooking, this time the enthusiasm was not there.
After doing all the necessary, the rice was finally ready, it did not come out as I had anticipated and the spice I bought did not give me the desired colour I wanted, but because I was too hungry to pay attention to those things I ate without a care in the world, at least this was my first time of attempting, it must not necessarily come out well😁
