Nigerian traditional food

Nigerian traditional food

Nigeria has such a variety of people and cultures that it is difficult to pick one national dish. Each area has its own regional favorite that depends on customs, tradition, and religion. For us our major foods are Fried Plantain this is the American name for it, but in Africa, they call it Dodo you can eat in the morning with eggs or for lunch or dinner, it is so good. In addition, there is Jaloff rice this is white rice that is turn in to red rice. Pounded Yam is another traditional dish that we eat. All of this food are eating on a daily bases in the Nigeria family they are also eating at all Nigerian party and weddings. There are so many types of food that we eat, there chicken and beef we call Beef “Meat “they fry the beef strips and eat it like that.

My favorite time to eat our traditional food is when we have Traditional Weddings. This Engagement ceremony is a time of festivity and fun. Friends and relatives drink colas and eat nuts. On the night of the wedding, there is a grand party. Traditional music and food are inseparable part of Nigerian Wedding Traditions. We do not leave until 4 am or until everyone leaves and the party starters at 3 pm. The White Wedding is a day or two later after you have the traditional wedding, the food is never ending here you are there to give thanks to the bride and the broom and so they give back by feeding you. We there are so many dishes: Jaloff Rice, Red Stew and Rice, Fried Plantain, Egusi Soup, Moi-Moi, Pepper Soup, all sorts of flavored and cooked goat, beef and chicken meat, fufu aka semo aka farina, vegetable soup, akra, okra soup, oxtail, and so on. Popular fruits are oranges, melons, grapefruits, limes, mangoes, bananas, and pineapples. We love fruit, you will most see bananas in our house because we can eat it with almost all of our traditional stews. When I went to Nigeria, I found out that food is the most important thing in that world. They will offer you food even if you are visiting just for a minute you well eat. I love all of the traditional food that we have we do eat them all year round. I cannot wait until we go to another wedding because it is all about family and food. I put some ingredient down and some names of your food.

Dodo (Fried Plantains)

Plantains are slightly larger than bananas and can be found in most supermarkets. When ripe, their skins are yellowish green or yellow (or black if extremely ripe) Plantains do not taste sweet, like yellow bananas.

Ingredients

• 4 ripe plantains, peeled and sliced
• Vegetable oil, for frying
• Salt, to taste

Procedure

1. Heat oil in a large frying pan.
2. Place the sliced plantains in the frying pan and fry, turning as needed, until golden brown.
3. Drain on paper towels.
4. Season with salt and serve hot or warm.

Iyan (Pounded Yam)

African yams are not readily available elsewhere in the world, so regular yams may be substituted.

Ingredients

• 4 yams, peeled (canned yams may be substituted, if necessary)
• Water
• Salt, to taste

Procedure

1. Rinse the yams in water and slice them into chunks. Place chunks in a large pot or saucepan. If substituting canned yams, pour the contents of the can into a saucepan, but do not add additional water.
2. Bring to a boil and cook, uncovered, about 20 minutes (10 minutes for canned yams), or until soft enough that a fork is easily inserted.
3. Drain the yams and place them into a blender (or mash by hand). Blend until smooth.
4. Season with salt and serve with soup or stew.

My Community is School

My community is School

My Child School is a community, because there are families that comes together to support our kids in the school. We do fundraiser and yard sales and other thing that can help us get closer to the families and the kids. People are the ones that holds the group together they will meet at school so they can talk to other companies and parent to find out what they can do to provide the best education for the kids. They are interested in the kid and they are interested in families that need they help with anything, they are trying to get computers and new books and get a new school built so they can put kids in smaller classes so they can get the attention that they need from the teacher. They value the kids and the community and the learning development in the school. There are some problems that are keeping them from doing the things that they want to do and need for the school, it is money. Money is what makes thing happen if we can get the money that we need for the school then the kids education can expand to a better learning.
Fitting in this community we share a lot of views in issues with the school, we love the kids and we love helping other that need it the most. I myself would like to be a teacher and then I will claim up that letter so I can get on the school board. Just working with the kids gives me that excitement of wanting to help change the education for our kid. The group is working as one to do what we have to do to make our community better for our kids.

The Wallet/Purse Identity

My wallet tells my life, it gives the time line of what I did when I was in high school up to now. On the right side, it shows you some of my highs school memoirs, the basketball team class pictures my track pictures and some of my high school homies. There a copy of my high school diploma a Minnie size, and there are my military ID and driver license and a second ID both from Texas. On the left is my pictures of my kids and my husband, my insures card. Mostly everything I got in my purse/wallet is my life, I know it is bad to have everything in it but I need it. I love gum so I have at least four pack of gum in my pure at all time. I have hand sanitize, Small packs of tissue and perfume, lip-gloss and my eyeliner and my comb.

My husband thinks my purse is a hot mess he always complains that he cannot find anything in there. I know I can find what every I put in there it might take a while but I will find it. I do say that my purse tell my identity because of everything I do have in there, I try to have everything just in case we go somewhere just out of the blue I will have everything in there . I love to change my purse when every I change my outfit but I do keep the same wallet because it is too much thing to put every time i change my purse. Do not know what I will do without my purse if I was to lose it my important things that need to say at home in my purse. I am trying to learn that I do not need the entire world In my purse.

What assumption can someone make about me? People can make a lot of assumption about me when they are look in my purse and my wallet. They will be some good thing and bad things like I do I cumulate a lot of junk, and I am not a clean person. That I do value life as a person, and that I do love my family and friends a lot. That I am a military wife and that we love to travel do to some of the toll ways and airline tickets that are left in my purse and a small map. That I am a young black woman that is very independent and that I love to take care of my family. If all that they had to go on is my wallet/purse to tell how I am, they will miss a lot about me. I am a clean person I do care what people think about me. I feel that everything in my life is mostly in my purse but I keep it for good reasons. I do not work, just go to school when every I can get a chance I am a very smart and outgoing person. I have two sisters and one brother I know I do not have a picture of them but I do love them, I just do not see them that much. I have 4 nephews and a niece have not somethem in a long time. Just because all of my identity is in my purse, it does not tell people what in my heart.