Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 79: The right food for the right moment.

Hello 👋 fellow Steemians, my wonderful readers! and the entire "Steem4nigeria Community", I hope you’re all doing really great. Today, I came across this "week's acceleration contest, I won't want to miss it because i have a whole lot of experiences i want to talk about. It's something we all have experience at some point in life“food cravings!”* But before i proceed, Have you ever suddenly felt that urge to eat a particular meal with no excuses to alter your cravings, no matter what? Well for me, I have, and lately in the days, my craving has been taking over my thoughts and guess what? It’s okra soup!

My Most Craved Food "Okra Soup"

• Have you ever craved for a particular kind of food in a season? What was the name of the food? Tell us a little bit about the food.

Just Lately, I have all been craving for okra soup 🍲 so much that I want to eat it almost every day. It do feels insane, right? But indeed that’s the truth. If I could always have it as my day breakfast, lunch, and as well dinner, I wouldn't mind at all. Though this might be really funny as it sound, but then that thought of slimy, delicious soup with a warm eba or fufu keeps me really happy anyways.

• Well for those who might not know the soup 🍲 I'm talking about, okra soup is a known and popular Nigerian dish made with okra (a green vegetable), aa well your palm oil, spices, and sometimes meat or fish is required.
  Though it has a pattern of cooking though not specific but just depending on how you want the taste, It is loved for its genuine slimy texture, which really helps it go down smoothly when eaten with swallow foods like our garri, semovita, or fufu. It is also very nutritious, more rich in vitamins, and good for our digestion.

I really don’t know why I've always crave it so much recently, but whenever I see okra soup, OMG 😳 I just want to dive in and enjoy it outstanding taste. Maybe my body really needs the nutrients, or perhaps I think 🤔 it’s just my taste buds playing tricks on me sha!

• Name 3 weird food combo you have done and tell us how they tasted. For example I combined spaghetti and biscuit one time.. hahaha

Guys you wouldn't want to hear this but anyways I want to share it. Sometimes, when we are very much hungry or just feeling adventurous, we might mix two foods that people have never combined and would never think of combining. I sincerely have tried some weird food combos, and ohh trust me, some were somehow delicious, while others were just... well, really strange.

Okra Soup and Carrots

• This very one was one of my strangest experiments ever. Not like it was my thought 🤔 entirely but a friend of mine who sometime last year was working on her project at Final level, her experiment was trying carrot 🥕 to see how good it can reduce the level of sugar in our body and how fast it could be. She had chopped the carrots and grind it to be in form of Garri, made an okra soup 🍲 just as our normal soup. The task was simple, she taste my sugar level before eating, I now have to squeeze the carrot like I'm eating eba with my okra soup, I first imagined how it would taste before trying it. The result?
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The combo was a little crunchy because of the carrots, but surprisingly to me, it was not bad! The sweetness of the carrots balanced out the flavor of the okra soup. and after eating and waiting for like 4 minutes, she test my sugar level again and behold it reduces to prove that carrot 🥕 works well in reducing sugar level in our body.

Noodles and Sipping Garri

• One sunny day like that while still a teenage boy, I had noodles, and at the same time, I wanted to drink garri reasons is because the noodles won't satisfy my hunger. Instead of me finishing one before the other, I then decided to take a spoon of noodles and sip garri in between.

Hello 🤗 are you there!!! hah It was a strange feeling—hot noodles with a cold, grainy garri in my mouth—but it didn’t taste too bad though but just strange to the taste of foods I've eaten before. I wouldn’t say it was great either, but it was manageable just because of hunger 😕.

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Sipping Garri with Stew

• Ouh 🤣 dah! This was the craziest food combination I have ever tried. I would say my teenage age was insane with horrible food combos.
  Normally we know that garri is paired with sugar, milk, or groundnuts, but me with my imaginary thought of how stews blend with rice, one day, I had only stew and garri.

I decided to poured water into my garri, and then scooped some stew and pour it too into the same plate, ouh 🤣 my goodness! the stew float 😁 and I was not bothered because my concern was how delicious it'll be compared to rice and I take a sip of it. The taste? MADOO! (meaning so unbelievable!). It was so oily, spicy, and totally unexpected. The stew i poured made the garri taste savory, but it was definitely not something I would ever think of trying again no matter what. it took me grace to finished it because of the scared for my mom if she knew I throw it away.

• what inspired your food combo? And what was the effect to your body?

Most of times, my food experiments are really inspired by hunger, as well curiosity, and lack of options. Sometimes, when I don’t really have enough ingredients or when I just feel like trying something new out of curiosity, I mix foods that seem really strange. Some turn out good, while others do make me question my decisions in the first place.

• As for the effects of these foods on my body, none of these food combos made me sick after eating them. In fact, some were more surprisingly enjoyable and the okra and carrots was really instrumental for my health care.
  
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  The okra soup with carrots was also quite nutritious, and my body felt so good after eating it. However, sipping garri with stew was definitely not a good idea because the oil from the stew made my taste feel a little heavy afterward. Noodles with sipping garri? Well let’s just say it was an experience I won’t forget!

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Conclusion

Food cravings are definitely natural, and sometimes, our love for food do leads us to weird experiments. Whether it’s by uncontrollable love or a strange food combinations, but one thing is certain—I love food, and I enjoy trying new things as well.

Well I do wonder 🤔 @bessie2023, @jasga and @nsisong2022 Have you sometimes had a weird food craving or a strange food combination? If yes, I would really love to hear about it! If course Life is too short not to enjoy the little things—even if it means dipping garri in stew! Hahaha!

        "Thanks for Reading"