Story Time! Yay! I'm always
excited when telling stories, cos I really don't talk much in person and this
is an avenue for me to tell as much stories I have locked up in my head! :)
BOTTOM POT is the sweetest
part of every cooked food. Lol, let me break it down for you, take Jollof Rice for
example, after adding all the ingredients you're expected to stir with a wooden
spoon, no matter how often you stir, some of the ingredients are often
concentrated in the bottom pot. It's just how it is and you can really do
nothing about it!
Don't get me wrong, bottom
pot is not the burnt black scraps of food in a pot. Nope, not that. It's the layer of food just above the burnt
part. It has a smokey flavor coupled with an overflowing concentration of
ingredients. That's why it tastes so sweeeeeeeeet!
My childhood was a very interesting one. I
grew up with both older and younger sisters! My mom will force both me and my
two sisters to stay in the kitchen with her, we'll assist her in chopping,
slicing, dicing and sorts. That's where I learnt my onion slicing game! Of
course we got chunks of fish and meats as motivation, and we'll all do the
tasting tasting together!
When food is ready, and my
mom finishes dishing the food to everyone, me and my elder sister will start hanging
around the kitchen with spoons in our hands to scrape the hell out of the pot.
My mom noticed initially and told us to stay off but, We kent naa! Stay off
bottom pot?? Ko possibu ma. We got punished a time or two but we still
didn't change.
Later, my mom started pouring water into the
pot to stop our scraping. She said scraping pot is a sign of poverty and we're
not servants. In my mind, I was like..Haba!
Mommy, is not poverty anything. Food is Food. -_- she convinced my elder
sister sha, and she stopped. This made me two times happier! No more
competition for bottom pot and I can have the whole pot to myself! What could
be more satisfying? LOL
Although, I have overgrown
that habit but sometimes, the child in me still craves bottom pot. Some foods
with delicious
bottom pot are : Jollof rice, Beans, Yam, Sweet potato and Plantain
Pottages, to mention but a few. So when next you see a child scraping pot, just
minimize scolding and collect the child's spoon and assist him/her in scraping!
If you don't take care of them, who will?
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