Creativewriting:My Low Budget Catfish soup(16-08-2025)

Hello besties, how are you doing? It's @gracewealth01 and I'm here with a blog about how I made a low key catfish soup, stay with me let me take you through the process. Some days ago while still at my mom's place, basically I'm from a riverine area and most people who are from there or are familiar with the activities of the riverine area knows that fishing is one of the famous activities there.

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Another thing is, their women goes into fish trading as a means of earning a living. Amongst those women is my mom and on that day, she returned from the waterside with a big catfish and she was particular about gifting me the fish to use it for whatever purpose I wanted because according to her, I have not eaten a good fish in a long while. Sharply, I set up a place and my brother helped me to slaughter the fish while I boiled water for washing the fish.

^{slaughtering the fish}

I took over from my brother when he was done slaughtering the fish, I used the water I boiled to wash the fish. I scrubbed it with salt and lime, allowed it to simmer and rinsed it off after five minutes. I sprinkled lemon juice on it, added seasonings and cooked it. When it was half done, I added perewinkle to the pot and cooked for some minutes. I added just a little water and when it was perfectly cooked, I added more water in quantity I wanted for the soup.

^{added perewinkle when it was half done}

In the rural areas, buying of food items is not rampant because majority of the inhabitants are farmers even though some are peasant mainly for household consumption. Most of the ingredients I used were from my mother's farm like the lime,and vegetable, the oil is produced from our mill etc. I added crayfish to the pot, oil and vegetable lastly. I stirred and brought down the pot from fire, funny enough I used the fireplace to cook. That's the only approved method my mom knows of

^{my low budget catfish soup is ready}

I dished the soup for everyone and took the bigger portion, I went into the kitchen and cut a small portion of fufu while my siblings went for the bigger portion. We ate and my last born washed the dirty plates after everyone were done eating. That's how I prepared a low budget catfish soup, thanks besties for reading, hope to see you on the next one.