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Hope the new year is coming on well with us in the community and that we are all enjoying the dry season as there is not much to be done on the farm. This is usually a time of rest for most farmers around here, and except for some gardening work, there is completely no ploughing or sowing to be done.
Instead we rest and enjoy our harvested foods. While the town is complaining of hunger, we have something to eat.

Here is a picture from one of the days we were harvesting these beans on the farm. My brother was still strong and happily working before he took ill afterwards.

I'm glad that his health has improved and we are out of the hospital now. He was on admission prior to this time, but he is being treated as an outpatient now.

While we were at home yesterday and out of idleness since I was too tired to sew, I found myself trying out some of our local dishes for myself and family.

There are various delicacies you can prepare with beans, and having cooked and eaten beans and plantains several times, I wanted to try something new.

It was my first time making bean soup. I have eaten this in a friend's house before now and have enjoyed the local dish; hence I decided to give it a try to prepare it in my own home.
Nothing wrong in trying local dishes, especially one rich in protein.

For this soup you don't need many ingredients or spices for this. So long as you get this primary list, we are good to go.

Beans, grains
Smoked fish (preferably meat or chicken)
Locust beans
Seasonings
pepper and onions
Palm oil.

First I started by peeling my beans and removing the back peels, washing them clean of fur, and pouring them in a pot to cook.

Here I added a little onion and spring onion, as I would appreciate the taste in it. This is allowed to cook and get well softened.

Once this is well cooked and well softened, I added some chicken broth I had already prepared.

Next, my spices and seasonings went in, then I lightly fried some blended Scotch bonnet in palm oil and added that to my soup.

This was allowed to cook and blend into each other well.
Before I prepared some cornmeal to go with the bean soup, of course we got to eat some food gotten right from our field to the dinner table.

Some of my country people here must be familiar with this but I'm not sure if all the tribes around here eat this soup; I have only come to learn about this, and being someone who loves to explore taste, I can tell you that I really enjoyed this. It is equally a good thing that we can prepare several types of nutritional meals using these staple crops.

Which kind of local dishes have you come across before and come to like?

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My first time preparing some Beans soup of our beans Harvest. From the field to the dinner table.

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