Congratulations to the winner 🥳...

So this contest took me down memory lane when I was craving Pounded Yam with Egusi Soup and anything I crave, I must eat. Pounded yam is a local delicacy amongst Nigerians, it is made by literally pounding boiled yam with Mortal and Pestle for quite a while till its stretchy and there are specific yams for pounding as the more starchy ones are being used.

After pounding the Yam to the desired stretchiness and smoothness, it can be eaten with any of the local Nigerian soup.

You see, pounded yam is not something you wake up to go make as it takes a lot of strength and energy to get a smooth and fluffy pounded yam but thanks to technology, one no longer has to go through the rigors of pounding as we now have an electric food processor that can process the yam even better than the mortal and pestle used for pounding locally.

On this particular day, I already made my soup but before I could process the yam the electricity went out. I did not panic as I have a generator and thought when plan A fails, plan B to the rescue. When the yam got ready, I went out to turn on the generator manually by dragging the generator rope so it sends command to produce electricity to power the house. It is a manual generator.

During the process of dragging the rope aggressively for the Generator to pick faster, the rope got cut and I wanted to cry. It was almost late at night and I can't get any technician to replace the rope and I could not do it myself.

What to do?
I had a delicacy to devour and I wasn't holding back as I decided to go the old fashioned way. I brought out my Mortal and Pestle I haven't used in a while, washed it and started pounding with all my might.

I managed to get the yam a bit stretchy and smooth so I removed it as I was already exhausted. All the hype I had for the food vanished as I did not enjoy the food much, I was too exhausted to even eat.