My heart pops when I see people mentioning some kinds of meal or delicacies as their favourite food and I get dazzle at how people have such great passion for food especially out of their local foods. Like all these international menus and at the description of these meals, even you as well knows it's worth having them as a favorite food.
My favourite food has been the one I have always journey with right from childhood and the reason why it remains my favourite food is really simple but may be kind of weird if I must say.
Though my tribe doesn't really have lots of delicacies like that but out of the few we have, I still have two meals that I enjoy the most and they remain my favourites if you really wanna have me on a treat.
That is Jollof rice and chicken OR Vegetable soup with Amala (Yam flour swallow).
The main reason why I love these two meals is not really special though and I can just say maybe the popular saying keeps working for me that "first appearance matters". When you try a meal or anything for the first time, how delicious or interesting that thing is makes you cling onto it till the very end cos you had a superb experience with it.
I can say I have tasted so many Jollof rice and no matter what, Jollof rice can never go wrong TOTALLY coupled with the chicken beside or overlapping on it, the wrongs are set right.
But when you see me with vegetable soup, the most special one and not the usual urgency soup. All these vegetable soup with plenty lives (proteins) of both assorted and beef meat in crumbs and a whole cut, fishes of both dried and fresh (the fresh fish been fried and diced into it), with thick cow skin (ponmo) been diced into it as well, followed by snails, shrimps that has been unshelled as well as grinded crayfish. Let the Amala now be an averagely soft Amala that walks through smoothly alongside the vegetable soup that is not perfectly a dry one...... Let's leave the whole imaginary land and focus
I personally love this Amala and efo riro (Vegetable soup) because it's my local food and there's this balanced nutrition it serves as of which I get my complete diet from rather than saying I ate this and that just to meet up with some nutrients I've not been taking. My mum was a great cook and eating this meal prepared by her caused me to love it more than I can explain. That feelings came through till date and my love for this food never fades.
The feeling that comes along with this particular meal is royal and there is a personal confidence that's follows therein while having it. Until you embark on the journey, the feelings feels unnecessary to you.
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