Let's talk about soups

Introduction

Greetings to every member of this group, how have you all been? It's good to be here today and ill be participating in this contest on soups by @crismenia. I'll be talking about my favourite soups, I hope you will learn something from me today. I'm @deatinedhanik from Nigeria.

Do you consider yourself a soup lover? On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you like it?

I do not consider myself a soup person as I can stay days and weeks without eating soup. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate my love for soup 4 percent. Rather than eat soup, I would go for something like rice, beans, plantain, etc. I only eat soup when there are no other options or in a situation I had stayed long without it, and once in a while, I then feel like eating it.

I rate my love for soup 4 percent

Do you prefer it prepared on the stovetop or on the stove? Tell us your reasons.

I prefer my soup prepared on the stove. Before preparing my soup on the stove, I must have prepared all ingredients so the soup doesn't burn. Now preparing my ingredients on the stove makes it cook well and all the ingredients gets absorbed and the taste comes it scrumptious.

On the stove/gas

What's your favorite soup?

My favourite soup is called Afang soup in my native dialect. Afang is called wild spinach or okazi leaf in English. It is prepared using water leaf and you can put in different chewables like snail, cowskin, meat etc. It is usually very delicious and this is my favourite soup.

The afang leaf

Water leaf used in preparing it

My afang soup and swallow to go with it

At what event, celebration or circumstance is a soup a MUST...!!!

Soup is a must in some events or celebrations. Example in traditional marriage, soup is a must. Different kinds of soups are presented for the visitors and the inlaws to eat.

Soup is also a must in some burial events especially if the deceased was an old person. Also, in other traditional festivities, traditional soups are presented.

With or without lemon? Tell us your reasons.

Soup is prepared without lemon in my place. That's because lemon changes the taste of the soup. Instead of adding lemon to soups, it's added to tea which is taken mostly on the morning and which is very good for the body. Besides, adding lemon to soups especially when the soup is on fire or hot will render the contents of the lemon invalid.

Tell me the vegetable that can't be missed and which one you don't like?

Everyone have their likes and dislikes of vegetables. One of the vegetable I can't miss is the one I stated above, wild spinach or okazi and locally known as afang. I also love okra prepared freshly. These are my two favourite vegetables which I can't miss.

Okra

Okra soup

The vegetable I don't like or which isn't my favourite is bitterleaf. This isn't because if the taste which can be washed out, but it isn't just my favourite. Tho I still eat it once in a while due to the nutritional value it gives the body.

Bitterleaf

Bitterleaf is hand washed to remove the bitterness before cooking

Describe your ideal soup to us.

My ideal soup is a freshly cooked soup where the vegetable used is still freshly cooked and brought down from the fire so that the ingredients are still intact. My ideal soup must contain things of nutritional value to me and must be freshly cooked. It must contain fish which gives protein and calcium, might contain meat, snails, periwinkle etc. My ideal soup must not be salty and finally must have a colourful face.

My ideal soup must be freshly cooked

I'm calling on @ninapenda
@ruthjoe
@eveetim to join this contest.