My first cooking experience as a child.

While my brother and I were still very young, we'd stay with mum in the kitchen in the evening after we're back from school, we'd help with the little things we could do, at times, we'd go to play. But I could remember this very day was a Saturday afternoon,we told mum we'd like to cook spaghetti,she said we were still young that we'd cook nonsense,me being the persistent one told her I wanted to cook,then she agreed.

She noticed how eager I was to cook so she warned us ahead that if we cooked nonsense we'd eat all ourselves and I agreed,we promised her we'd do well and told her her to just wait while we perform wonders in the kitchen.

We got to the kitchen I acted as the lead,took the spaghetti from the cupboard,we were confused at first but I assured my brother we'd do it. I told him to put water in the pot then lit the stove,we had issues with lighting the matches but we did it,we were happy we were getting there.

Now back to the spaghetti,my brother wanted to cut it to put inside the boiling water but I told him it's not done that way. I told him mum do rinse spaghetti when she wants to cook it 🙆 ,he disagreed,he said he has seen mum different times cook spaghetti without rinsing it. I wanted to ask mum but on the second thought I assured myself we'd do it without mum's help,then my brother agreed.

We emptied the whole spaghetti inside water and started rinsing it like it were rice 😅😅,my brother warned not to empty the whole sachet but I told him we'd cook it well and it'll be delicious and he'd be the one to eat the smaller portion. We continued rinsing and rinsing but the spaghetti water kept being milky 🥺.

Then we both agreed to pour it inside the boiling water,now our cooking has started,if anyone saw me that day in the kitchen,the person would think I could really cook😅😅. We added vegetable oil, seasoning cubes and salt,my brother told me to put locust beans to make it scent nicely,I was like 'whoa' you have sense,nice idea😅. We have to convince mum we were good cooks,we added locust beans and we were grinning from ear to ear thinking we were doing the right thing.

I kept looking at the picture of spaghetti on the sachet,I said to my brother that once we're done, it'd look exactly like that,he also agreed seeing what we've done so far.

We opened the pot and noticed it was burning,we stirred it and to our surprise it wasn't looking like what we expected,but we still had hope, assuring ourselves it'd be delicious bringing out our tongues 😂😋😋. After some minutes,our spaghetti was ready and we were happy it didn't really get burnt,we dished it.

We ran to the sitting room laughing like we just won money,mum was also smiling,the smile on her face disappeared after she saw the dished spaghetti my brother was holding and she laughed hard asking is that not locust beans? Inside spaghetti?🙆😅

We both answered yes and thinking I was wise I added that we rinsed the spaghetti very well,she continued laughing hard,then she proceeded to tasting the food. One could tell from the look on her face that we cooked nonsense,she told us to forget about dinner. We were still happy we'd eat and our enjoy our food not until we tasted it and it was nonsense.

I told my brother it was because of him we cooked nonsense,he asked how? He advised we put locust beans but no the food was nonsense,we begged mum to allow us eat dinner but she didn't answer,she told us to eat it that it won't kill us.

After dad came he apologized on our behalf and we ate dinner since then mum made it compulsory for us to stay with her in the kitchen.

And thanks to mum because today we're better cooks than you can imagine.